“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “I think we must develop basic good human qualities—warmth, kindness, compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama\"

“Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.” ~ Richard Bach

 "Nobody buys a farm based on whether they think it's going to rain next year.  They buy it because they think it's a good investment over 10 to 20 years.  Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value."

"If you aren't willing to own a stock for 10 years, don't even think about owning for ten minutes."
••Warren Buffett

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. ~ Deepak Chopra

 Pure You

"You are a current in the river of Divine Flow. Love created you,
Grace sculpted your face in gold.
You cannot earn your place here. You belong.
— With every breath you belong."
~ Hiro Boga

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“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to, and reasons to stay.” ~ Dalai

 So many gods

So many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind
While just the art of being kind
is all this sad world needs.
I am the voice of the voiceless
Through me the mute shall speak
'til the deaf world's ear
be made to hear
the cry of the wordless weak.
From lab, from cage, from kennel,
from slaughterhouses, comes the wail
of my tortured kin
who proclaim the sin
of the mighty against the frail.
For LOVE is the true religion!
And love is the law sublime
And all that is wrought
where love is not
will die with the touch of time.
And I am my brother's keeper
And I will fight his fight
and speak the word
for beast and bird
til the world shall set things right.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox