Choose

"We can not choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."  - Epictetus -

Disturb

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."  - Epictetus -

Waterfall

"A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path."  - Author unknown -

Civil

"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none."  - Benjamin Franklin -

Beginner's mind

"A beginner's mind takes you where you need to go" - a traditional Zen saying -

God

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness, but the name for God is compassion." - Meister Eckhart -

Family

"All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy -

Fall

"When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You can't plan that kind of falling. When you abandon yourself utterly to life, the river will flow, and the log jam will free. Impossible is another word for grace. Who would've thought it, life takes another turn, and you are gathered up into a whole different way of seeing and being." - Roger Housden -