Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

- Chinese Proverb

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

- Harper Lee

The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you’re the pilot.

- Michael Altshuler

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong, because someday in your life, you will have been all of these.

- George Washington Carver

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Practice aggressive goodness.

- Joyce Meyer

Search for contentment in each person you meet.

- Steve Maraboli

In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow.

- Louise Driscoll

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

- Havelock Ellis

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

- Amelia Earhart

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

- W. Clement Stone

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

- John Muir

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

- Guillaume Apollinaire

Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

- Anthony Robbins

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

- Eckhart Tolle

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.

- Patrick Stump

Write it so that people can hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to their heart.

- Maya Angelou

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

- Harvey Fierstein

A sign of inner peace is frequent episodes of appreciation, feelings of connectedness with others & nature along with attacks of smiling through the eyes from the heart.

- Mildred Lisette Norman

Everything changes once we identify being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

- Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert)

We need to give each other space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

- Max de Pree

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

- Carlos Santana

I do not understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

- Anne Lamott