"You will find life a whole lot easier
if you can keep in mind
that most people are just trying to do the best they can..." - Jen Gray

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony. - William Henry Channing

It’s a lifetime’s journey to relate honestly to the immediacy of our experience and to respect ourselves enough not to judge it.

-Pema Chödrön, 

"You do not have to be good...You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." - Mary Oliver

The Seven Advices of Rumi

In generosity and helping others be like a river. 
In compassion and grace be like the sun. 
In concealing others’ faults be like the night. 
In anger and fury be like the dead.
In modesty and humility be like the earth.
In tolerance be like the sea.
Either exist as you are or be as you look.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy. - Norman Vincent Peale

"Instructions for living a life. 
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
-Mary Oliver