Coach Kenji

Encourage

"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." - Elizabeth Harrison

Friendship

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Donna Roberts

To be fully ALIVE

"To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words." - Joanna Macy

Night Cream

"Much to our chagrin "All things pass" and change is inevitable, no matter how much night cream we smear on our faces. "Patience attains all that it strives for." - St. Teresa of Avila (with commentary by PseudoMonk)

Giving Up

"Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom." - Sogyal Rinpoche from Glimpse After Glimpse

Laughter

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." -E. E. Cummings

Love of one's country?

"The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the border?" - Pablo Casals

The Light

"How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened." - Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky - Love Poems from God

Serenity

"Practicing Serenity: We often urge ourselves to hurry up when there's no good reason for it. At such times, all we really do is create needless tension and anxiety." - From TodaysGift@Hazelden.info

Happiness?

"Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind." -Alice Meynell