There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

Rajneesh

 

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day.

Alice Morse Earle

 

 

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

Janis Joplin

 

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Erma Bombeck

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

 

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

Michelle Obama

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Wade Boggs

 

 

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

H. P. Blavatsky

 

The Eyes are the window to your soul.

William Shakespeare

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

 

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

 

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

Pope Francis

 

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

Luther Standing Bear

 

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.

Confucius

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Elizabeth Bibesco

 

 

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

Howard W. Hunter

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

 

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

Robert A. Heinlein

Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!

John Assaraf

 

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

John F. Kennedy

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Marilyn Monroe

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

 

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

George Bernard Shaw

 

 

 

 

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

 

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan Watts

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Victor Hugo

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

Bill Meyer

Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.

Paul Brunton

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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

William Makepeace Thackeray

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

Gautama Buddha

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg

 

 

Good news from heaven the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Martin Luther

 

 

Children reinvent your world for you.

Susan Sarandon

 

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

Eda LeShan

Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.

Paul Brunton

 

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

Gautama Buddha

 

 

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Vincent Van Gogh

Today is the first and last day of forever.

Stephenie Meyer

 

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.

Alice Bailey

 

The sky is not the limit. Your mind is.

Marilyn Monroe

 

 

 

Every child begins the world again.

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

 

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Music is the highest, most powerful, most overriding, of all the arts. In the presence of music, all the other arts take on the character of the music, not vice versa, and is capable of, and can produce in us, the finest, most delicate of possible human reactions.

Mark Anstendig