Kathzoofus

From Rockpeople by Joel Carter : "Taking your chances with the wind means you have to be prepared for the parts of you that are blown away, as well as those that are uncovered."

From the book "Things Trees Know" by Douglas Wood : "Reach down as well as up. No roots, no branches."

Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -Unknown

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." - Dale Carnegie

“If you do not change directions, you may end up where you are heading." -Lao-Tzu

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret." - Tony Robbins

Called or not called, God will be there. -Engraved in stone over the front door of Carl Jung

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. -Unknown

"Excellence can be obtained if you: ...care more than others think is wise; ...risk more than others think is safe; ...dream more than others think is practical; ...expect more than others think is possible." - author unknown

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

"Don't ask about caste or riches but instead ask about conduct. Look at the flames of a fire. Where do they come from? From a piece of wood—and it doesn't matter what wood. In the same way, a wise person can come from wood of any sort. It is through firmness and restraint and a sense of truth that one becomes noble, not through caste." -Sutta Nipata

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." ~Les Brown

"Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there." ~author unknown

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"Stress is inner biofeedback, signaling you that frequencies are fighting within your system. The purpose of stress isn't to hurt you, but to let you know it's time to go back to the heart and start loving." ~Sara Paddison

"I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized." ~Stephen Covey

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~Rumi

Perhaps a human being does not die until he no longer sees anything but the past and the present moment. - Leo Baeck, "The Pharisees"

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ~Denis Waitley