“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale

A Thousand Kisses Deep
 

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi

“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."― Bell Hooks


“Dream of me," he said.
Dream of you? I'm doing that while I'm awake.”― Erin McCahan


“If you think I'm happy when you're not around, it's because I'm thinking of you.”
― Jamie McGuire

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”

"Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain."
~Diane De Pointiers

"Dwell in possibility."
— Emily Dickinson

"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."
— John Johnson

"There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world." Tori Amos

Quotes, Poems & Sayings...
 

"Making Contact"

I believe the greatest gift I conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made.

~Virginia Satir

Hereafter...in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.


~Shakespeare

"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it."
~Leo F. Buscaglia

Do not live on the reflections of yourself in the eyes of others. Dare to be yourself.

(Inspired by a quote from Anaïs Nin)

You have the power to reshape and redefine any experience, no matter how devastating it seems. Look at your experience, and ask "How can I use this for my own growth?"

~Iyanla Vanzant


Pausing is a good thing. Everything has to stop at some time in order to keep going. To stop, to rest, or to pause means to do nothing. It means no thinking! No moving! No decisions! What a blessing it is to have the ability to stop and gain strength before moving forward.

~~Iyanla Vanzant