Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. – Louisa May Alcott –

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau –  

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – …

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money. – Shakti Gawain –

You are intuitive. You were born with this ability, this sense of intuition.  It is your birthright, just like your ability to see, hear, and feel. Just like any of the other senses, there may be a child here or there that is born with this sense in deficit, just as from time to time …

Your calling is your calling – YOUR calling. It is the what of your why.  It is the heart-song of your unique concert. It is not universal, though it may have universal consequences – or – the output of your calling may ring true to the many.  But the calling is unique.   [continued below picture] …

Look at your hands. Go ahead, hold them out in front of you, and take a good long, look at them. These hands do a lot. Think about what these hands do for you during the course of a day. The value of these hands in your life is immense. Now picture the most precious …

How many times has someone given you a compliment and you have responded with a rebuke? Tell the truth. How many times do people try to give something to you and you respond with anger, pain, or self-effacement?   [continued below picture] Responding to gifts from others in these ways is entirely too common. If you …

Jefferson once wrote that all people have the right to pursue happiness. True happiness is a state of being that most of us wish to attain. Joy is an emotion, and while it feels that it stems from happiness, it can also be a stepping stone to that sometimes elusive state. Like any other emotion, …

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt