"Give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

~Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

Lifes timing is always on time never late
 

Regardless what you may know, believe or have experienced in the name of love, loving you is an essential ingredient for experiencing and expressing love to others. Loving you means holding yourself with unconditional positive regard. It means giving yourself the time and space to make poor choices and bad decisions, knowing that you are learning and growing through it all. When you love on you, when you trust you, when you honor you, you set the standard for how others will love you. ~-Iyanla Vanzant



‎"When you love on you, when you trust you, when you honor you, you set the standard for how others will love you." -Iyanla Vanzant

"Don't waste your time.
Don't waste your money.
Don't waste your love , on mediocrity." -Keys to Happiness

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -R. Buckminster Fuller

"A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive it without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich and mighty that he can get along without it, and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. A smiles creates a happienss in a home, fosters goodwill in business and is the countersign in friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give." -Author Unknown

Always expect the best. No matter what you have experienced before, expect the best where you are and from whom you are within the moment. Refuse to thread your future through your past! Live the moment in the moment without carrying a heap of baggage into the possibilities of the moment.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” Kahlil Gibran

Edited to add that a good friend of mine posted this on her Facebook and I thought is it was beautiful :)

"When you have the choice whether to right or be kind...choose to be kind." Wayne Dyer

PS...thanks C- for posting this :)

Last but not least...

"When we care too much about the opinions of others we willingly become their prisoners."

Unknown

***awww that is Very endearing... Thank you for sharing scubadyke! :)

"A bell is not a bell until you ring it;
A song is not a song until you sing it.
Love in your heart is not put their to stay;
Love is not love until you give it away." - Oscar Hammerstein II

Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it.
~H. Lawrence

Why! all delights are vain, but that most vain
Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain:
As, painfully to pore upon a book
To seek the light of truth, while truth the while
Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.
Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

Shakespear - Love's Labor's Lost

"Escóndeme en tus brazos
por esta noche sola,
mientras la lluvia rompe
contra el mar y la tierra
su boca innumerable."
~ Pablo Neruda

*love*

"Courage isnt a brlliant dash;
A daring deed in a moment's flash;
It isn't an instantaneous thing
Born of despair with a sudden spring.
But it's something deep in the soul of man
That is working always to serve some plan."

- Edgar A. Guest

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens up your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." - Neil Gaiman

"The trouble with letting people know where you stand is that you become a stationary target." - Marlys Huffman

"Don't just stand there - undo something!!!" - Author Unknown

"Yesterday is a tree with great spreading branches, and I [sit] low in its shade, remembering." -Pablo Neruda