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• As soon as we wish to be happier, we are no longer happy ~ Walter Landon

• There is no enlightenment outside of daily life ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

• Realize that this very body, with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive  ~ Pema Chodron

• This moment is successful because it exists ~ Benjamin Dean

• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind ~ Dr Seuss

• The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be ~ Socrates

• Love is, above all, the gift of oneself ~Jean Anouilh

• You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smilingly, non apologetically – to say ‘no’ to other things.  And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside.  The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good’  ~Stephen Covey

• Truest life is when we are in dreams awake ~Thoreau

• The world is wide, & I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum ~ Frances Willard

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts ~ Samuel Johnson

• Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character & character fixes our destiny~Tryon Edwards

• Be yourself, everyone else is taken ~ Oscar Wilde

• Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music ~ Angela Monet

• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ~ Albert Camus

• All thought is formative; all thought has its effect in our lives ~ Myrtle Filmore

• But we need a teaching that addresses the lives we actually live. We do need to handle money. We are in relationships. We do need to eat more than once a day. The problem isn’t eating or sex or money; it’s that we don’t know how to use these energies: Larry Rosenberg

• Will localizes us; thought universalizes us ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

• There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces.  Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will.  ~Kuan Yin

• If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher ~ Pema Chodron

The above quotes are from a large collection which I have accumulated over the years; they are in no particular order nor grouped in any way.  I trust some will resonate with you and that you gain from them, as I have If you like the page please ‘share it’ with others but above all ……. enjoy