No Medicine Like Hope

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow."--Orison Swett Marden

Dreams Will Come True

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."--Woodrow T. Wilson

Another Fresh New Year

"Another fresh new year is here
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright New Year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!"-- William Arthur Ward

The Real Spirit of Christmas

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.—Calvin Coolidge

The Human Dream

"Is there some meaning to this life?
What purpose lies behind the strife?
Whence do we come, where are we bound?
The cold questions echo and resound.
Through each day, each lonely night
we long to find the splendid light
that will cast a revelatory beam
upon the meaning of the human dream."--Dean Koontz

Quiet Moments for Reflection

"Give yourself space by spending time in nature, taking an hour or day off, enjoying quiet moments for reflection. Take time to smell the roses. Breathe in the wonder of life and its bounty. Open so your deeper awareness and imagination can percolate through mundane thoughts and activities. Let go of both resistance and force to allow yourself to connect more deeply to life."—John and Patrice Robson www.higherawareness.com

Miracles Happen

"When you are aware that you are the force that is life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and true love is possible."--Don Miguel Ruiz

The True Spirit

"We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind."--Henry Ward Beecher