Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy....
- Dale Carnegie

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed....

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
 by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
 So throw off the bowlines.
 Sail away from the safe harbor.
 Catch the trade winds in your sails.
 Explore. Dream. Discover.
   - Mark Twain

"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right."
- Max Lucado

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
- John F. Kennedy

Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."

Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

We are what we believe we are.

  - C. S. Lewis

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

  - Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Touch those things and make them bloom...

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
  - Thich Nhat Hanh

"Every wall is a door."

"Every wall is a door."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- Winston Churchill

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C. S. Lewis

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are only two ways to live your life....

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

"As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What we think, we become.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts, we make the world.

- The Buddha

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
- Anaïs Nin

"The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God."
  – C.S. Lewis

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh