Looking out the Window

"Oh mom...thank you for all your love and laughs. My world wouldn't be the same without you and your support and our talks. I think it's such a gift for both of us that we are on our passionate life's journey together. It's also quite a gift that we truly get one another and have this amazing zest and passion for our lives. If people could only see what we see when we look out the window

:-)."

Holly Nakashima

Pursue

"Let us, then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Henry Longfellow

Hope

"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these--that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

C. Hoppe

God is my Lighthouse

"God is my lighthouse. He guides my life through each phase, each difficulty, and each treasured moment."

M. Swain

Your Heart

"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."

Proverbs 23:7

Morning Dew

"The spur of delight comes in small ways."

Robert L. Stevenson

Inspiration

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration. I don't think you can go wrong."

Ella Fitzgerald

Kindness

"Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." G. Sand

Life

"Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can choose to see life as ever widening. To choose the things we wnat to do, to take the wisdom we have learned and create somehting beautiful."

Liz Carpenter

Hero

"You are the hero of your own story." Mary McCarthy

Possibilities

"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do."

William Ellery Channing

Your Right

"If you think you can or think you can't, your right." Henry Ford

Crossroads

"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength." Hasidic Saying

Desire

"If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire." Simone Weil

Know What You Want

"Everything is in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step towards getting it." Mae West

Splendid Torch

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the next generations." George Shaw

Inner Wisdom

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Count Your Blessings

"Count your blessings. Once your realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward to the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence." Og Mandino

Tranquility

"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built." James Allen

Spirituality

"As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand." Bruce Lee

Suddenly

"Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten--a thrill of returning to thought; and somewhere the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew that "w-a-t-e-r" meant that wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, it gave it light, hope, joy, set it free." Helen Keller

Wisdom

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference."

Attitude

"God often comforts us, not by changing the circumstances of our lives, but by changing our attitude toward them." S.H.B. Materman

Dreams

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." Langston Hughes

Adventure

"You must face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you...life is either a darting adventure or nothing." Helen Keller

Miracles

"There are only two ways to live life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein

Plan

"There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together." Annie Keary

What Lies Within

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Emerson

The Power of Prayer

"The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence." Charles Haanel

Greatness

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

Mother Teresa

Holy Ground

Have you ever been to your sacred Holy Ground?

Have you ever sat in that quiet Holy Seat?

Have you ever felt that inner light of love fall across
your Holy Inner Being?