"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

"The only people who see the whole picture, are the ones who step out of the frame." - Salman Rushdie

“Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!” Og Mandino

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." - Kahlil Gibran

"Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious." - Walt Whitman

"If you want to be happy, BE." - Leo Tolstoy

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943.

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"If enlightenment is not where you are standing, where will you look?" - Zen Saying

“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.” - Basho

Security is not having money; it's knowing you can do without it. - re quoted from Susan Jeffers Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway who sources it to some old B grade movie.

"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound" - Zen saying

“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.” - Chaim Potok

A monk that was traveling to meet Nansen, met the master cutting weeds with a sickle along the road. He asked about the way to Nansen, and was shown the WAY. Not knowing it was Nansen, the monk asked, “What is the way to Nansen?” Nansen raised the sickle, saying, “I bought this sickle for thirty cents.” The monk said, “I did not ask about the sickle, I asked the way to Nansen.” Nansen answered, “I use it to full enjoyment.” - Zen Mondo

To a real warrior, power perceived may be power achieved.-

“It's the little things we do and say that mean so much as we go our way. One kindly deed can lift a load, from weary shoulders on the road.”
- Willa Hoey

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” - Paulo Coelho

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.” - Charlie Parker

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dwyer

"All it takes is all you got." -Marc Davis

"Meandering leads to perfection." - Lao Tzu