"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
"We can't do much about our appearance, but we have total control over the kind of person we become." ~Unknown
"Our outer world is the product of our inner dialogue. By knowing and accepting this, our journey through life becomes easier, because we are creating our own experiences." ~Unknown
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." ~Francois Mauriac
"Mothering myself has become a way of listening to my deepest needs, and of responding to them while I respond to my inner child. ~Melanie Burns
"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see." ~Nikos Kazantzakis
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." ~Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
"Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them." ~Unknown
"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is." ~Hermann Hesse
"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day." ~Unknown
"Love is the anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath." ~Emily Dickinson
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face....You must do the thing you cannot do." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"Almost all of our unhappiness is the result of comparing ourselves to others." ~Unknown
"The people on our planet are not standing in a single file. Look closely. Everyone is really standing in a circle, holding hands. Whatever you give to the person standing next to you, it eventually comes back to you." ~Unknown
"There is no companion so companionable as solitude" ~Thoreau
"After all, it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life." ~Evelyn Underhill
"The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstances, the person who didn't have a chance." ~Merle Shain
"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them." ~Sylvia Plath
"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever." ~Henry van Dyke
"Problems won't go away if you ignore them, but they won't seem so significant if you change your perspective about them." ~Unknown
"It's never to late to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot
"When we truely care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be toward others." ~Eda LeShan
"The great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man." ~Unknown
"Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want." ~Sue Bender
"I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful." ~Unknown
"The body must be nourished, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We're spiritually starved in this culture - not underfed, but undernourished." ~Carol Horning
"It's only when we truly know and undersatnd that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." ~Herm Albright