20130114-135816.jpg “Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.” – Peace Pilgrim

Everything we give comes back to us. So much depends on our own attitude.

20130114-135816.jpgTrust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock

Trust in your own intuition. Ask for guidance if needed, but the answers lie within each of us.

20130114-135816.jpg “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

When we focus on something and believe in it, we help to create it and make it real.

20130114-135816.jpg “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is impossible to find it elsewhere.” – Agnes

The happiness that we seek can only be found from within, anything else would be, at best, temporary joy.

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson

Without forgiveness we cannot ever heal the world’s wounds.

20130114-135816.jpg“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo da Vinci

The power to control the thoughts in our own mind is the greatest lesson of the spiritual masters.

20130114-135816.jpg“God didn’t have time to make a nobody, only a somebody. I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.” – Mary Kay Ash

All of us have unique talents and gifts to share with the world, waiting for us to bring them forth.

20130114-135816.jpg“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” – Mark Victor Hansen

There is never a perfect time to do anything. There are always obstacles and considerations involved. With that being said, there is nothing to gain by putting things off.

20130114-135816.jpg“From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.” – Unknown

Isn’t this beautiful? The merging of two energies create another unique and more powerful energy.

20130114-135816.jpg“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Mary Kay Ash

Our belief system leads the way for our abilities to follow.

20130114-135816.jpg“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is something that we must always work on and consider, if we want to be happy.

20130114-135816.jpg“The life and love we create is the life and love we live.” – Leo Buscaglia

We all have the power to change our lives physically, mentally, and emotionally.

20130114-135816.jpg “When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” – Pablo Picasso

When we encourage our children to do their best and let them know that we are there for them and believe in them, it gives them a wonderful sense of security and perhaps the courage to take more chances.

20130114-135816.jpg“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” – Anonymous

By telling ourselves that we “Cannot” do something because we are NOT this, that, or the other, is what really holds us back.

20130114-135816.jpg“Ultimately, each of us must develop within ourselves the capacity to make our way through the darkness without any companions, maps or guide.” – Osho

We all need to find the strength from the God Source within us to learn and develop on our own. No one else can do it for us.

20130114-135816.jpg “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent van Gogh

The great art of loving is something we must learn to paint and weave throughout our entire lives.

The Coffee Prophet“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

To accomplish our goals we must fully dedicate ourselves to them; by totally believing in them and working actively towards them.

The Coffee Prophet“People deal too much with the negative…with what is wrong.  Why not try to see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom.”  Thich Nhat Hanh

By focusing on the negative we create more negative.  Try to focus on the positive things in every situation!

The Coffee Prophet“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” – James Matthew Barrie

The more joy we bring into the world for others, the more joy we have in our own lives.

The Coffee Prophet“Real love has no conditions attached. You just love! You may not choose to be in relations with a person, but you love them anyway.” – The Coffee Prophet