Transform

Hermann Hesse

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

From Siddhartha

Something

Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

“It's impossible to be involved in all situations, but there's no excuse not to be involved in something, somewhere, somehow, with someone. Make an ounce of difference.”

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Care

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better. It's not. - Dr.Seuss

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Sustainability

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

Kevin McCloud

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Earth Day

The sun shines not on us but in us.

-John Muir

Source: "Mountain Thoughts", written by Muir during the 1870s, were collected by Linnie Marsh Wolfe and published in John of the Mountains (1938).

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Nature

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

-Mark Udall

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Trust

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

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Light

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“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
― Brené Brown

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Lust

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In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Tori Amos

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Beauty

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

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Music

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Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
― Hunter S. Thompson

Zen

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Life

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In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away

- shing xiong

Love

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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

Life

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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nature

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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Stillness

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 "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness

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"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." - Marlene Dietrich

Letting Go

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One of the most rewarding moments in life is when you finally find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.

Forgiveness

"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me." - Sara Paddison

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Change

“You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.”
― Jay Asher

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Love

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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

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Miracles

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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

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Happiness

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” 

― Dalai Lama XIV

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Be who you are not who you think you are

“You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living 1

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