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Abundance 

“Where your attention goes, your energy flows  - Law of Attraction  Read more

 

Action

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts  - Aristotle  Read more

 

Adversity

“Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”  - Garth Brooks  Read more

 

 

Ageing

 “Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.” - Marilyn Ferguson  Read more

 

Attitude

 “Beyond familiar…just past fear…that’s where life expands.” - Unknown  Read more

 

Beliefs  

“They can because they think they can.” - Unknown  Read more

 

Carpe Diem

“Enjoy yourself.  It's later than you think  - Chinese Proverb  Read more

 

Change

“It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory  - Dr. W. Edwards Deming  Read more

 

Compassion

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”  - Frederick Buechner  Read more

 

Confidence

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”  - Sally Field  Read more

 

Conscious Creation

 “Conscious Creation is the act of consciously applying the laws of the Universe in order to CREATE our ideal life  - Anisa Avens  Read more

 

Courage

“Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace  - Amelia Earhart  Read more

 

Dandelion 

“If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that.   But they are everywhere and don’t need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity.” - Robert Fulgham  Read more

 

Despair

“Without hope there is only despair.  Without love there is only hatred.” - World Peace Newsletter  Read more

 

Detachment 

“In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it  - Deepak Chopra  Read more

 

Earth

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.”  - Mahatma Gandhi  Read more

 

Earth Stewardship

“The ecological disintegration that is occurring in the environment around us is echoed in the inner landscape of the soul  - Denise Linn  Read more

 

Education

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”  - Bill Beattie  Read more

 

Fair Trade

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level --I mean the wages of decent living  - Franklin Delano Roosevelt  Read more

 

Forgiveness 

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist  - Golda Meir  Read more

 

Freedom 

“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage  - Thucydides  Read more

 

Gardening

“The spirit of the elders has spoken.  Just as we use the land to heal ourselves, we must in return heal the land…”  - Native American saying  Read more

 

Gardening For The Soul

“Ours is one of the first cultures to turn away from the Earth’s wisdom  - David Abram  Read more

 

Garlic 

“Fight mouthwash…eat garlic.” - Lloyd J. Harris  Read more

 

Gratitude 

“The best way to start and end the day is to give thanks for being alive  - Unknown  Read more

 

Guilt 

“Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving  - Erma Bombeck  Read more

 

Happiness

 “Happiness is the single commodity not produced by the free-market economy  - Wayne Muller  Read more

 

Healthy Selfishness

“To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love – because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not love himself, cannot value anything or anyone.” - Ayn Rand  Read more

 

Healing 

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t

you – all the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.”  - Rachel Naomi

Remen  Read more

 

Hope

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at

all.”  - Dale Carnegie  Read more

 

Inner Peace 

“Without peace of mind, life is just a shadow of its possibilities.” - Jean Borysenko  Read more

 

Interpersonal Communication  

“There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing  - John Dewey  Read more

 

Joy 

“Enjoy life!  This is not a dress rehearsal.”- Unknown  Read more

 

Kindness 

“Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” - Unknown  Read more

 

Laughter

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”  - Lord Byron  Read more

 

Law Of Attraction

“You are a creator; you create with your every thought. You often create by default, for you

are getting what you are giving your attention to wanted or unwanted but you know by how it feels if what you are getting (creating) is what you are wanting or if it is not what you are wanting.”  - Abraham-Hicks  Read more

 

Listening 

“To often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear…all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” - Leo Buscaglia  Read more

 

Motivation

“When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly- Edward Teller  Read more

 

Nature

“The elders were wise.  They knew that man’s heart away from nature, becomes hard – they

knew that lack of respect for growing living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too."  - Unknown  Read more

 

Non-violence

“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of

 non-violent means to combat evil and advance the good.”  - A. J. Muste  Read more

 

Onion

"If you hear an onion ring, answer it."  - Anonymous  Read more

 

Opportunity

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."  - Orison Swett Marden  Read more

 

Organic Food

“We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet's atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble  - David Suzuki  Read more

 

Organic Gardening

“Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will they realize that you cannot eat money.” - Cree proverb  Read more

 

Patience

“Patience is the greatest of all virtues  - Cato the Elder  Read more

 

Peace 

“Problems are the doorway to which we walk to peace.” - Unknown  Read more

 

Perception 

“The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”- Paul Watzlawick  Read more

 

Perseverance 

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” - Harriet Beecher Stowe  Read more

 

Philosophy 

“Don’t look back unless you intend to go that way.”-  Marc Holm  Read more

 

Prejudice

“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.” - Ambrose Bierce  Read more

 

Racism

“If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.”  - Marian Wright Edelman  Read more

 

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

“Most of us are familiar with recycle and reusing, but how often do we think of the third R - REDUCE? 'Reduce' is probably the most important of the three R’s because, if we reduced, it would limit the need to recycle and reuse  - Catherine Pulsifer  Read more

 

Resentment 

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die  - Malachy McCourt Read more

 

Sacred Space

“Sacred space starts in our hearts  - Unknown  Read more

 

Self-appreciation

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."   - Mother Teresa  Read more

 

Self-confidence 

“Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.” - Unknown  Read more

 

Self-esteem 

“When we look for the good in others, we discover the best in ourselves.” - Martin Walsh  Read more

 

Self-love 

“It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility

- Alan Cohen  Read more

 

Self-respect

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs  - Joan Didion  Read more

 

Simplicity 

“Live simply that others may simply live.” - Gandhi  Read more

 

Solitude

“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude  - Henry David

Thoreau  Read more

 

Spirituality 

“God’s in his heaven, and all’s right with the world.” - Sherry Maddox  Read more

 

Stress 

"Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days, that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine."  - William Feather  Read more

 

Water 

“Don’t empty the water jar until the rain falls.” - Philippine proverb  Read more

 

Wisdom

“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”  - Hellen Keller  Read more

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