"Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves."

Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911-1978
American Senator and Vice President

"You can select [friends] at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time."

-- George Matthew Adams

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

Carlos Castaneda, 1925-1998
Peruvian-born Author

Instead of telling the world
What it is supposed to do,
Why don't you immediately do it yourself?
In this way, I assure you,
Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.

Sri Chinmoy
Indian Philosopher and Teacher

"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends...To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives."

-- T.S. Eliot

God, give me eyes
That cannot see as the world sees
But as You see.
I don't want to see the strange looks
But what is in the heart.
I don't want to see the ugliness displayed
But the beauty that hides within.
Let me see as You see.

Barbara Aldrich
American Mother, Teacher and Poet

JAMAICA, RICH AND KIND

I watched your kind hands--
A glorious and golden mango bunch
Weigh down
To a tiny tot;
Your reggae
Sing to us
Slowly
Often, in patois, of course
The pride of your people.
Guard for us precious possessions of your past--Your out-of-many-one smile, your Marcus Garvey, your Blue-Mountain coffee.

--Glasceta Honeyghan

"Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being... Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual."
-- David Steindl-Rast

"Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth. If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, if you are willing to peel away the layers of not-self you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think." -- Meredith
Jordan

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

Deepak Chopra

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

Dr. Wayne Dyer
American Author and Inspirational Speaker