Life isn't always about searching

so you can find,

but at times it's about being still

so that you can receive.

TRENT SHELTON

The first step is you have to say that you can.

WILL SMITH

There are things I can't force.

I must adjust.

There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

C. M. WARD

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding more good things.

One at a time.

Just let your pile of good things grow.

UNKNOWN

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you? 

Why are you beset with gloom? 

Just 'cause I walk as if I have oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like suns and like moons,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hope springing high,

Still I rise.

Did you want to see me broken? 

Bowed head and lowered eyes? 

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my sassiness upset you? 

Don't take it so hard

Just 'cause I laugh as if I have gold mines

Diggin' in my own backyard.

You can shoot me with your words,

You can cut me with your lies,

You can kill me with your hatefulness,

But just like life, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness offend you? 

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance as if I have diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs? 

Out of the huts of history's shame

I rise

Up from a past rooted in pain

I rise

A black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling, I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak miraculously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the hope and the dream of the slave.

And so, naturally,

There I go rising.

MAYA ANGELOU

Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

SHEENA IYENGAR

Stay close to anything that makes you glad
you are alive.

UNKNOWN

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

MARY ENGLEBREIT

The best way to get rid of pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

CAMILLE PISSARRO

Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened.

PROVERB

One of the most courageous decisions you will ever make is to finally let go of whatever is hurting your heart and soul.

BRIGITTE NICOLE

Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.

UNKNOWN

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, “I will try again tomorrow.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER

Time is like a river.

You cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again.

Enjoy every moment of life.

If it’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure.

What about the spectrum of colors in between?

SARA EVANS

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

HENRY FORD

书是随时携带的花园

shū shì suí shí xié dài de huā yuán

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

ANCIENT CHINESE SAYING

Hey Jude, don't make it bad 

Take a sad song and make it better

PAUL McCARTNEY

Like Wildflowers;

You must allow yourself to grow

in all the places people never

thought you would.

E.V.

A bad attitude is like a flat tyre.

You can't go anywhere

until you change it.

UNKNOWN

Every little thing is gonna be alright.

Bob Marley

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert Schuller

The best way to predict the future
 is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Even the darkest night will end
and the sun will rise.

VICTOR HUGO

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

CAMPBELL

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

STEVE JOBS

Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach

All great achievements require time.

MAYA ANGELOU

It will work, if you forget

all the reasons it won't.

PAULO COELHO

(Author of 'The Alchemist')