Integrity

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ... Abraham Lincoln

Everything you say and do is a reflection on the inner you.

Happiness is only a by product of successful living. ... Dr Austen Fox Riggs

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. ... Carl Shurz

Integrity is one of several paths; it distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never get lost.

It's not so much what we do, but how we do it that really matters.

Life's evening will take its character from the day that proceeded it. ... Shuttleworth

The race for quality has no finish line.

Love

Faith goes up the stairs that love has made and looks out of the windows which hope has opened. ... Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In loving, you lean on someone to hold them up. Rod McKuen

Love is the only true freedom. It lets us cast off our false exteriors and be our real selves. Susan Polis Schutz in "Yours If You Ask" (Quotation used with permission of Blue Mountain Arts)

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. Victor Hogo

Love is the dove of peace that soars on the wings of the morning to greater spiritual heights.

Loving-kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. The Talmud

The heart has its own memory, like the mind, and in it are enshrined the precious keepsakes into which is wrought the giver's loving thought. Longfellow

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of a love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. Sir James Barrie

Two shall be born, the whole wide world apart
And bend each wandering step to this one end
That, one day, out of darkness, they shall meet and read life's meaning in each other's eyes.
Susan Spalding

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ... Henry Drummond

Opportunity

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ... Aldous Huxley

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart ... pursue those.

There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Peace

Autumn ... the year's last, loveliest smile. ... Bryant

Each one must make a quiet place
Within his heart, where he can go
To find himself, and for a space
Drink deeply where still waters flow.
Inga Gilson Caldwell

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop. Kahlil Gibran

If eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. Chinese Proverb

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumines his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. ... Street

Of all the generations born to this earth since foreverness began — of all the generations yet to be born until foreverness ends — we alone, in this fleeting fragment of time, are alive here and now.

Peace flows from the sky through the air to me.

The fluffy pearl clouds move from one pine tree to another high above the rocky mountains.

The birds' singing brings me out of my trance to remind me of life and who I am.

I am a very tiny, tiny part of the world. A part that is lucky enough to be able to touch the beauty of nature.
Susan Polis Schutz in "Peace Flows From The Sky" (Quotations used with permission of Blue Mountain Arts)

The tints of autumn — a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, Frost. ... John Greenleaf Whittier

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity. Oscar Wilde

When we pause to watch the golden sun fall asleep in the dusk, we inherit some of its serenity.

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