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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.  We grow old by deserting our ideals.  Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.  ~Samuel Ullman

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.  ~Douglas MacArthur
 

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.  ~John Barrymore
 

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?  ~Satchel Paige
 

Everyone is the age of their heart.  ~Guatemalan Proverb
 

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.  ~Judith Regan
 

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
 

Does age poison us, or do we poison age?  ~Astrid Alauda
 

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.  ~Martin Buxbaum
 

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~Henry David Thoreau
 

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.  ~Author Unknown
 

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.  ~Kahlil Gibran
 

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.  ~Chinese Proverb
 

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.  ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.  ~Grey Livingston
 

Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? ~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
 

Beauty is the promise of happiness.  ~Stendhal

 

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
 

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.  ~Walt Whitman
 

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.  ~Nate Dircks
 

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem.  Most things are judged by their jackets.  ~Baltasar Gracian
 

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.  ~Daniel Webster
 

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.  ~Madeleine L'Engle
 

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.  ~Jean Rostand Bucella
 

The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life.  "Why," I answered without a thought, "now."  ~David Grayson
 

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.  ~John Fischer
 

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.  ~Marty
 

Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude.  ~Grey Livingston
 

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.  ~Rosalind Russell
 

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.  ~Raymond Hull
 

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.  ~James Matthew Barrie
 

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland
 

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
 

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.  ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
 

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.  ~Shirley MacLaine
 

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  ~Confucius
 

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.  ~Shakti Gawain
 

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.  ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.  ~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774
 

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.  Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.  ~Oscar Wilde
 

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  ~Dr. Seuss
 

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.  ~D.H. Lawrence
 

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.  ~Eric Hoffer
 

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.  ~Desiderius Erasmus
 

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.  ~Julius Charles Hare
 

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.  ~André Berthiaume, Contretemps
 

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.  ~Honoré de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne," La Maison Nucingen, 1838
 

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.  ~Samuel Johnson
 

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny.  The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.  ~Irene C. Kassorla
 

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche
 

You were born an original.  Don't die a copy.  ~John Mason
 

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.  ~Andre Gide
 

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
 

Individualism is rather like innocence:  There must be something unconscious about it.  ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954
 

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.  ~Charles R. Brown
 

If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance.  ~Andrea Boydston
 

MEDITATION 101 - Inhale, and God approaches you.  Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you.  Exhale, and you approach God.  Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.  ~Krishnamacharya
 

Smile, breathe and go slowly.  ~Thich Nhat Hanh
 

Breath is Spirit.  The act of breathing is Living.  ~Author Unknown
 

For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.  ~Sanskrit Proverb
 

Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within.  ~Author Unknown
 

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart:  I am, I am, I am.  ~Sylvia Plath
 

Freedom is strangely ephemeral.  It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.  ~William E. Simon
 

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.  ~Swedish Proverb
 

Breathe.  Let go.  And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.  ~Oprah Winfrey
 

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.  The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.  ~Harold Wilson
 

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit
 

It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory.  ~W. Edwards Deming
 

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.  ~Anatole France
 

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.  ~Victor Frankl
 

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.  But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it.  Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.  ~Shunryu Suzuki
 

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.  ~Henry Miller
 

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.  ~Robert C. Gallagher
 

When you are through changing, you are through.  ~Bruce Barton
 

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith
 

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.  ~Confucius
 

Change always comes bearing gifts.  ~Price Pritchett
 

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.  ~Ellen Glasgow
 

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.  ~Laurens van der Post
 

Growth is the only evidence of life.  ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864
 

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.  ~Irene Peter
 

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.  ~William Blake
 

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation:  If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.  ~Author Unknown
 

Stubborness does have its helpful features.  You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.  ~Glen Beaman
 

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.  ~Author Unknown
 

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt
 

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.  ~Sally Field
 

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.  ~Author Unknown
 

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.  ~David Brinkley
 

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.  ~Author Unknown
 

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.  ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive
 

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.  ~W.C. Fields
 

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.  ~Henry Ford
 

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.  ~Allen H. Neuharth
 

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.  ~Vincent Van Gogh
 

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know.  Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.  ~Buckminster Fuller
 

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy Wasserstein
 

Success comes in cans, not cant's.  ~Author Unknown
 

Put your future in good hands - your own.  ~Author Unknown
 

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!  I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.  ~John Bunyan
 

I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.  ~Lauren Bacall
 

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.  ~Author Unknown
 

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.  ~Peter T. Mcintyre
 

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.  ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969
 

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.  ~Richard Bach, Illusions
 

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  ~Michael Jordan
 

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  ~Edmund Hillary
 

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.  ~Mark Twain
 

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.  ~Bruce Barton
 

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.  Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.  ~Sydney Smith
 

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.  ~Mary Kay Ash
 

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.  ~Norman Vincent Peale
 

Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown.  ~Author Unknown
 

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.  ~Michel de Montaigne
 

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.  ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970
 

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.  ~Cecil Selig
 

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.  ~Les Brown
 

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.~Dr. Seuss
 

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ~Sophia Loren
 

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.  ~Christian Bovee
 

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
 

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.  ~Henrik Ibsen
 

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.  ~Ellen Goodman
 

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate.  It was not a matter of bad or good luck.  When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.  ~Anaïs Nin
 

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.  ~Ram Dass
 

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
 

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.  ~Michel de Montaigne
 

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.  ~Andrew Carnegie
 

Don't let anyone steal your dream.  It's your dream, not theirs.  ~Dan Zadra
 

If I am not for myself, who will be?  ~Pirke Avoth
 

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.  ~Charles Dickens
 

Self-love seems so often unrequited.  ~Anthony Powell
 

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
 

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
 

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.  ~John Powell
 

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.  ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971
 

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.  ~Epicurus
 

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.  ~Nicholas de Chamfort
 

Pay no attention to what the critics say.  A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.  ~Jean Sibelius
 

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.  ~African Proverb
 

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.  ~Thomas à Kempis
 

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.  ~André Dubus
 

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.  ~Olin Miller
 

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.  ~Sonya Friedman
 

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt
 

I have no special talents.  I am only passionately curious.  ~Albert Einstein
 

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.  ~S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind
 

The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Curiosity has its own reason for existing.  One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.  ~Albert Einstein
 

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.  ~James Stephens, The Crock of Gold
 

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.  ~Arnold Edinborough
 

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
 

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.  ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz
 

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.  ~Ralph W. Sockman
 

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.  ~Bishop Mandell Creighton
 

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten.  Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.  ~W.H. Auden
 

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.  ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows
 

One man's daydreaming is another man's day.  ~Grey Livingston
 

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.  ~X-Files
 

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.  ~Marsha Norman
 

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
 

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.  ~Jim Rohn
 

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.  ~Claude Debussy
 

Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy.  ~Jareb Teague
 

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.  ~Dale Carnegie
 

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.  ~Jules Renard
 

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.  ~Author Unknown
 

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is
 

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.  ~Simone de Beauvoir
 

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.  ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
 

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.  ~Moshe Dayan
 

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.  ~Author Unknown
 

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?  ~Francis Wright, 1828
 

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.  ~Albert Camus
 

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future.  And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.  ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957
 

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.  ~Destin Figuier
 

The future is always beginning now.  ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving
 

If you want to be happy, be.  ~Leo Tolstoy
 

And in today already walks tomorrow.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.  ~Robert Anthony
 

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

What a wonderful life I've had!  I only wish I'd realized it sooner.  ~Colette
 

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.  ~H. Jackson Browne
 

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.  ~St. Augustine
 

Pleasure is spread through the earth. In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~William Wordsworth, 1806
 

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
 

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt
 

Happiness is a direction, not a place.  ~Sydney J. Harris
 

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.  ~Author Unknown
 

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  ~Dalai Lama
 

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.  ~Author Unknown
 

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.  ~Lady Blessington
 

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.  ~Author Unknown
 

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.  ~Immanuel Kant
 

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.  ~Doug Larson
 

Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.  ~Author Unknown
 

Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.  ~Author Unknown
 

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.  ~Seneca
 

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.  ~Mother Teresa
 

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.  ~Thornton Wilder
 

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.  ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
 

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.  ~Anton Chekhov
 

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.  ~Douglas Jerrold
 

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.  ~Don Herold
 

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.  ~Taisen Deshimaru
 

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.  ~Werner Erhard
 

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.  ~William R. Inge
 

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.  ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
 

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.  ~Mahatma Gandhi
 

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.  ~Guilaume Apollinaire
 

Some pursue happiness, others create it.  ~Author Unknown
 

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.  ~Epictetus
 

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.  ~Charles Kingsley
 

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.  ~Mildred Barthel
 

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
 

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.  ~Robert S. Lynd
 

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:  if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.  ~C.P. Snow
 

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.  ~Author Unknown
 

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.  The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.  ~Mark Twain
 

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.  ~Mahatma Gandhi
 

Warning:  Humor may be hazardous to your illness.  ~Ellie Katz
 

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.  ~Arland Ussher
 

Many a true word is spoken in jest.  ~English Proverb
 

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.  ~Frank A. Clark
 

Above all else: go out with a sense of humor.  It is needed armor.  Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.  ~Hugh Sidey
 

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.  ~Max Eastman
 

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.  ~Henry Ward Beecher
 

There is more logic in humor than in anything else.  Because, you see, humor is truth.  ~Victor Borge, London Times, 3 January 1984
 

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.  ~Michael Burke
 

Trust yourself.  You know more than you think you do.  ~Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, 1977
 

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.  ~John Sterling
 

Instinct is untaught ability.  ~Bain
 

Trust your hunches.  They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.  ~Joyce Brothers
 

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.  ~Florence Scovel Shinn
 

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. ~William Cowper
 

Instinct is the nose of the mind.  ~Madame De Girardin
 

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.  ~Stanley Baldwin
 

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.  ~Jean Houston
 

Mirth is God's medicine.  Everybody ought to bathe in it.  ~Henry Ward Beecher
 

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.  ~Author Unknown
 

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.  ~e.e. cummings
 

Laughter is an instant vacation.  ~Milton Berle
 

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.  ~Nate Dircks

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.  ~John Fischer

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.  ~David Carradine

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.  ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

  

 

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I’ve designed RubyShuze for anyone who wants to explore their inner life but isn't entirely sure where to begin.  You want real change but you're a little unclear on how to go about it. You want to create a better life for yourself but you're feeling a little stuck. I've been purposeful in not adding any "hype" to RubyShuze; just simple, practical tools to help you get to where you want to go. Is it time to begin the process - and bring the change you seek? I sure hope so, you deserve to have the life you want! Namaste, Layne.

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Building Solid Self-Esteem

A true sense of who you are is the only thing that is standing between you and everything you want. Very few people grew up without adopting a distorted version of themselves. The truth of who we are (for most of us anyway) was altered in some way. RubyShuze will help you set the record straight; and with this new level of understanding you will be able to absorb the lessons in all other topic areas with greater ease. Do yourself a favor and put ME! first on your list (just a little irony for you) and learn how to allow every good thing into your life.

 

 

Creating Unconditional Love for You and Everyone Else

We are love. We come from love. To give and receive love is our Natural State. Most of us have gathered a ridiculous amount of mis-information about love and it’s now time to get to the truth of it. You deserve all that you can possibly imagine and it’s yours for the taking (and giving). When you learn how to allow it in; by being who you truly are, your life will change in wonderful ways.

 

 

Developing Phenomenal Health and Well Being

We are inundated with so much gobbley gook regarding possible health issues; it’s a wonder we want to get up in the morning. Truth is our bodies are virtual “health factories” and we would benefit greatly from letting them do what they were designed to do; keep us strong and vibrant until we choose otherwise. Shake the old beliefs and allow your body to do what it wants to do.

 

 

Opening Up to Crazy Good Money and Financial Security

The desire for money so often receives the “tsk tsk” response, as if wanting to create creature comforts was a bad thing. Let’s get real here; we are spiritual beings in PHYSCIAL bodies, living in a PHYSICAL world; food, shelter, clothing and a means of transportation are the least of what we need to navigate our world. Wanting to be comfortable and safe is also a completely natural desire. Most people have an great deal of baggage around their desire for money and it’s all based on old (and irrelevant) beliefs. Let’s get rid of the old beliefs and free you up for what money represents in our culture; CHOICE; in fact that could be a great first exercise; try replacing the word Money with Choice. Just that little shift already puts you into a greater state of allowing.

 

  
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