Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.   -Leo Buscaglia

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world your best and it may never be enough;
Give the world your best anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

- Mother Theresa

Happy is the person who finds wisdom and gains understanding.
She offers you life in her right hand, and riches and honor in her left.
- Proverbs 3:13,16

Many are the plans in a man’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
~ Proverbs 19:21

Who are you NOT to be brilliant, successful and wealthy?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate;
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It’s our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

But what you want to be asking yourself is, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are each born to manifest the glory of God that is within each of us.

Remember, as you let your own light shine, you unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Give the gift of true freedom to every one you know, by being your most brilliant self each and every moment.

~adapted from Marianne Williamson, A Course in Miracles

“Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you – wherever you go.”

~ Joshua 1:9

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

~ Jeremiah 29:11