“Before you conquer the most brutal battles in the land, learn to conquer your mind first. The mind is a powerful force that can position you to be triumphant. Create a positive thinking pattern. Think as if you have never lost any battle in this world.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Only those who are eager to get lost in the wilderness of life’s beauty can find a meaningful life.”
“What changes life is never planned, and that is the true beauty of existence.”
Source: The Art of Connection: Rediscovering Ourselves Through Life’s Unpredictability
“Sometimes to escape the noise of haunting memories, you need your best friends hand in your own, to help erase the sound and fill you with a sense of peace, even if it’s temporary.”
Source: Escape the Doubt
“When you want to see great art look deep into nature. You will see the grass, clouds, plants, flowers, trees, mountains, valleys, rivers and the seas. You will see art that will leave you speechless! And this art is created by nature.”
“You cannot mourn the life
you haven't live yet,
only one that has already gone.
You will never know the meadows
you could grow, if you are fixated
on the ashes of a garden you never had.”
Source: Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light
“Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still as a meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in on the people there and the wind moving among them as if they were only tall blades of grass.”
Source: The Cricket in Times Square
“What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear."
"What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. "Waltzing with the butterflies," she answered before thinking.”
Source: What Would Jane Austen Do?
“Walking through a meadow calling the plants by name is like entering a room of friends instead of strangers.”
Source: Mapping the Farm
“While it is relatively easy to recognize the perennial grasses and seed-eating sparrows as characteristic of meadows, the ecosystems exist in their fullest sense underground. What we see aboveground is only the outer margin of an ecosystem that explodes in intricacy and life below.”
Source: Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World