"Parenting doesn’t have to be full of complex rules & strategies. It can be so simple and enjoyable if we cut out all the complications & just focus on loving this amazing little person."
-www.loveparenting.org

‎"Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries." 
-Astrid Alauda

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”

C. Joybell C.

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”

C. Joybell C.

“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!”

C. Joybell C.

"Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. This will miraculously transform your whole life." - Eckhart Tolle

“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”

― Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending

“Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” 
― Leonardo da Vinci

"Love what is ahead by loving what has come before." -Yogi Bhajan.

A kind word is like a Spring day. - Russian Proverb

Worry is a misuse of imagination.  ~Dan Zadra

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.  ~Don Herold

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”  ― Jodi Picoult

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”  ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

It is a great injustice

and a monumental

act of cruelty

for any religion

to make someone fear God.

-Hafiz

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~ Albert Einstein

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
~ Sydney J. Harris

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama