'Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean--the ocean of the soul.  How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?' -Rumi

'For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.' -Rumi

'Dwell in possibility.' -Emily Dickinson

'How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!' -Emily Dickinson

'That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.' -Madeline L’Engle

'Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.' -Elie Wiesel

'In my life there is an infinite supply of love, it is in exhaustible, I can never use it all in this lifetime so I don't have to be sparing with it!' -Louise Hay

'When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.' -Peace Pilgrim

'If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.' -Peace Pilgrim

'Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation.' -Stephen C. Paul

'The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.' -Swami Rama 

'He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.' -Marcus Aurelius 

'If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.' -Dale Carnegie 

'You cannot perceive beauty, but with a serene mind.' -Henry David Thoreau 

'Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.' -Seneca Proverb 

'While it is faith that makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy.' -Evan H. Hopkins 

'You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.'  -Buddha 

'Kindness in words creates confidence, Kindness in thinking creates profoundness, Kindness in giving creates love.' -Lao Tse 

'The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware - joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.' -Henry Miller 

'The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do. ' -James Barrie 

'May you be truly blessed to always glitter with a radiance that shines from deep within you.' -Barbara Becker Holstein 

'Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.' -D. Diderot 

'Worry not that no one knows of you; seek instead to be worth knowing.' -Confucius 

'Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.' -Emmanuel Swedenborg 

'Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.' -Leo Buscaglia 

'To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.' -David Viscott 

'Where there is love there is no darkness.' -Burundi Proverb 

'You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.' -Buckminster Fuller 

'We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.' -Anonymous 

'Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.' -Anonymous

'People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.' -Salma Hayek