“Chance favors the prepared mind.“ – Louis Pasteur

"Body on your seat, mind in your body, mind in relaxation." – Patrul Rinpoche

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.” – Plato

“Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” – Virginia Satir

I tell my youngest brother I need at least 2 hugs from him every day, or else I'll die...those are usually the only hugs I get. Thank goodness for him.

“In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.” – Sogyal Rinpoche

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” – Sophocles

“Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone.” - Gertrude B. Stein

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy – because we will always want to have something else or something more.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast

“Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.” – Shunryu Suzuki

“Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.” – Sun Tzu

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

Oh yeah. Definitely gonna make 35K in the next hour.

This is great.

“Don’t get it right, just get it written.” – James Thurber

“The best index to a person’s character is: a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good and b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.” – Abigail Van Buren

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” - Alice Walker

“I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” – Martha Washington