If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

MIRACLES

1.     After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

2.     Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. ~David Ben-Gurion

3.     Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. ~Henry Miller

4.     Before you were conceived I wanted you

Before you were born I loved you

Before you were here an hour I would die for you

This is the miracle of life. ~Maureen Hawkins

5.     Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other`s eyes for an instant? ~Henry David Thoreau

6.     Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand. ~Sue Patton Thoele

7.     Don't believe in miracles, depend on them. ~Laurence J. Peter

8.     Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles. ~Edwin Louis Cole

9.     For every mountain there is a miracle. ~Robert H. Schuller

10.   God continues to work miracles in my life. ~Willie Aames

11.   Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. ~Samuel Smiles

12.   I am realistic, I expect miracles. ~Wayne Dyer

13.   I am the miracle. ~Buddha

14.   I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. ~Mother Teresa

15.   I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. ~Peggy Noonan

16.   In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ~Charles Lindbergh

17.   Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. ~Bob Richards

18.   It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~Albert Einstein

19.   Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. ~Marguerite De Valois

20.   Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. ~Jean Anouilh

21.   Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. ~C.S. Lewis

22.   Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. ~Saint Augustine

23.   Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. ~C. S. Lewis

24.   Miracles happen to those who believe in them. ~Bernard Berenson

25.   Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. ~Marianne Williamson

26.   Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. ~Willa Cather

27.   Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. ~George Bernard Shaw

28.   Out of difficulties grow miracles. ~Jean de la Bruyere

29.   Out of difficulties grow miracles. ~Jean de la Bruyère

30.   The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn`t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. ~Pablo Casals

31.   The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. ~Willa Cather

32.   The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. ~G. K. Chesterton

33.   There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~Albert Einstein

34.   To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. ~Walt Whitman

35.   You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It`s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. ~Paulo Coelho