Life is Beautiful

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.- Helen Keller

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson 

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James 

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie 

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius 

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack 

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller 

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein 

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver

Life has loveliness to sell,
all beautiful and splendid things,
blue waves whitened on a cliff,
soaring fire that sways and sings,
and children's faces looking up,
holding wonder like a cup.
- Sara Teasdale

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle 

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
-Thich Nhat Hanh 

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank 

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank 

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- Helen Keller 

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beauty does not live out there; the beauty's in my eyes.

Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.

There is beauty and serenity in the eye of the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See beauty in the familiar.

I choose to enjoy people as I enjoy a rainbow or a butterfly -
they are most beautiful when they are free.
- Jonathan Lockwood HuIe