Family

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. -Barbara Bush

Faith

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. -Paula Abdul

Experience

To know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. -Mao Zedong

Education

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -Sydney J. Harris

Dreams

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Trust

Trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, It's made all the difference. -Steve Jobs

Magic

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Shade

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. -Jane Austen

The Voice of Nature

‘Here I am within you.’ That is the silent voice, the voice of nature, which speaks to everyone who will listen. -Walter Russell

Nature of Things

For in the true nature of things, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. -Martin Luther

Apple Pie

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -Carl Sagan

From Within

The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards. -H. P. Blavatsky

Pretending

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut

Helping

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace

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

Stop

Stop. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Still that voice in your head. -Barbara Kingsolver

Failure

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan

Still

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. -Lao Tzu

Young

It takes a long time to become young. -Pablo Picasso

Old Age

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. -Francis Bacon

Everything

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. -Dan Millman

All That Matters

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. -Kris Kristofferson

Serendipity

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open. -Jose Manuel Barroso

Music

Music can change the world because it can change people. -Bono

Kin

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -William Shakespeare

Someone Else

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. -Kurt Cobain

Barriers

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. -Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Work

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. -Confucius

Happy

You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, but you can be happy if you've a mind to. -Roger Miller

Caring

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair, who can tolerate not knowing, not healing, not curing, that is a friend who cares. -Henri Nouwen