All Is A Miracle

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Let Our Own Lights Shine

“We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning 'of the spirit' or 'inspired.' It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.” 

-Marianne Williamson

SF Is An Experience In Living

"No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living"

-William Saroyan

Illuminate the World

“The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.” 

-James Arthur Baldwin

Color and I Are One

“Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.”

-Paul Klee

Dance On The Edges Of Time

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." 

-Rabindranath Tagore

Make Friends With Ourselves

“It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.”

-Unknown

Thought Is The Blossom

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it” 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paint The World With Your Own Hue

“Life is a train of moods, like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.” 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Call Me A Chameleon

"It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon." 

 -Meat Loaf

Inside Of Us

"Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us." 

-Alan Cohen

Every Heart Sings

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

-Plato

Art Is Never Finished

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

-Leonardo da Vinci

Be Yourself

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

-Oscar Wilde

Triumph Over It

"The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it."

- Augustus William Hare

Dream You Can

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Touch The Sky

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

-Jalal ad-Din Rumi

The Eyes

"The eyes have one language everywhere."

-George Herbert

Pick More Daisies

“If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.”

-Nadine Stair

Light Within

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Fill it With Sunshine

“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words and kind deeds”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Emotional Reaction Is All That Matters

“I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing...the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.”

-John Coltrane

Music Cleanses The Understanding

"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself."

-Henry Ward Beecher

In Each Other All Along

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

-Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Forgivness Is Letting Go Of The Past

"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions."

–Gerald Jampolsky

Fly Towards A Secret Sky

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

-Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Bloom Like Flowers

“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Everyone Becomes A Poet

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

-Plato

Music Is Love

“Music is love in search of a word.”

-Sidonie Gabrielle

Each Of Us Is Born With A Box Of Matches Inside Us

"Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches."

— Laura Esquivel