We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad. 
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure

"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary."
Peter Minard

"Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible."
-- Mohandas Gandhi 

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.” 
-Mother Theresa-

“The wind lashes the surface of the sea and makes it rough and turbulent,
but in the deep there is calm.”
~ Cardinal Basil Hume

"...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known,
which is the prison of past conditioning.
And in our willingness to step into the unknown,
the field of all possibilities,
we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe."
-From the Chopra Center's Spiritual Law of the Day

"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life."
Jack Kerouac
 

~Happiness comes when you take every situation as a blessing,
no matter how difficult it seems.~