Uplifting quotes & Inspiring Thoughts

?You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.?
―John Green,

?Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.?
―Shel Silverstein

I hope this isn't too long... An inspiring poem. One of my favorites!

On Finding a Turtle Shell in Daniel Boone National Forest

BY JEFF WORLEY
This one got tired
of lugging his fortress
wherever he went,
was done with duck and cover
at every explosion
through rustling leaves
of fox and dog and skunk.
Said au revoir to the ritual
of pulling himself together?

I imagine him waiting
for the cover of darkness
to let down his hinged drawbridge.
He wanted, after so many
protracted years of caution,
to dance naked and nimble
as a flame under the moon?
even if dancing just once
was all that the teeth
of the forest would allow.

?You are not a drop in the ocean, you are an entire ocean in a drop.?
?Jalal ad-Din Rumi

?When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.?
― Helen Keller

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.?
―Friedrich Nietzsche

That's got to be one of my favourites.

In gratitude, you find bliss.

In bliss, you find peace.

In peace, you find silence.

In silence, you find god.

And in god, you find everything else.

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live."― Dalai Lama XIV

?What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.?
― J.D. Salinger,

?If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.?
-Yogi Bhajan