Barbara Ann Kipfer Quotes

A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

Happiness need not be analyzed.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.