Snips

The power of patience is that it is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. By patience, we do not mean enduring - grin and bear it. In any situation, instead of reacting suddenly, we could chew it, smell it, look at it, and open ourselves to seeing what's there. The opposite of patience is aggression - the desire to jump and move, to push against our lives, to try to fill up space. The journey of patience involves relaxing, opening to what's happening, experiencing a sense of wonder.
Pema Chödrön

"Our inability to see beauty doesn’t suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty."
Rabbi Harold Kushner

"The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing."
John Muir

It's a beautiful thing when you come to realize it -- no one can lay any limitations or parameters or restrictions on you because they cannot control the vibrations that you offer. But what you're doing is, you're saying, "They're limiting me," and what's actually happening is you're limiting yourself by saying that they're limiting you. Where if you can dream it and imagine it and envision it and come to believe it, the Universe will deliver it around you.
Abraham-Hicks

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
J. Allen Boone, Kinship With All Life