Our real power doesn't come from what we have. It comes from what we give. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

Happy Holidays

The holiday season--the period of time from Thanksgiving until New Year, including such festivals as Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself. ~ Michael Staley

Be yourself, no matter what they say. ~ Sting

for real

real bravery is believing in yourself in spite of the past.

real strength is finding peace during adversity.

real love is giving unconditionally.

© 2009 - 2016 Thomas Hillman, from Mere Words Evoke, poetic expressions 

Everything starts with love.

Suppose that everyone in the world practiced universal love, so that everyone loved every other person as much as he loves himself. Then the world would enjoy peace and good order. ~ Mo Tzu, Chinese Buddhist

If the sun refused to shine, I would still be lovin’ you. ~ Led Zeppelin

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. ~ Wayne Dyer

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Stay on course, don't you stray, peace and love is the way.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. ~ John Lennon

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

we are one

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold—brothers who know now they are truly brothers. ~ Archibald MacLeish

All you need is love. ~ John Lennon

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. ~ Maya Angelou

Soar like an eagle, may your life be a journey of wonder and awe.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams. ~ Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory

‘nuff said. Jerry Garcia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBlXEGLXlV0

yes.

Be kind, for everyone you know is fighting a hard battle. ~ Plato

When the wind blows the trees go with the flow.

Life is like a bowl of ice cream, enjoy it before it melts away. ~ Thomas Hillman

If you judge people you have no time to love them. ~ Mother Teresa

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Just do it.

Gratitude for our blessings is important, and if you look around at your own life, you'll find many, many reasons for gratitude.

Love this, too funny...

Forrest Gump: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.


John Lennon: No possessions?


Forrest Gump: And in China, they never go to church.


John Lennon: No religion, too?


Dick Cavett: Oh. Hard to imagine.


John Lennon: Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.

~ Forrest, Forrest Gump

I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is. ~ Forrest, Forrest Gump

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~ Rumi

Happy to be here. Happy to be alive.

today.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time, makes planning my day difficult. ~ E. B. White

I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is. ~ Forrest, Forrest Gump

Too many blessings, too little appreciation, the breath of life is a gift— inhale thankfulness, exhale love.

be love.

Be kind. 

Commit random acts of kindness. 

Pay it forward. 

Give and receive. 

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

It's all about love. 

Be love.

yes, you.

Love is the greatest force. May the force be with you.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ~ Jerry Garcia

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. ~ Buddha

Are you waiting on the world to change?

Our souls traverse spaces in Life which are not measured by Time, that invention of man. ~ Kahlil Gibran

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. ~ Leo Buscaglia

Simply, the thing I am shall make me live! ~ William Shakespeare

Repeat three times: Good things are coming my way today.

Gonna love you ‘til the stars fall from the sky. ~ The Doors