A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Each of is unique and irreplaceable. There is only one of us all of time. We are on this earth, partnered always by unseen forces that would guide us and guard us as we journey into the unknown. No one else can take our journey for us. Two people setting off side by side will still encounter different sights, different wonders. The openness to being is all the openness we are required to have each day. We start today, and tomorrow we start again, and the day after we start again, as we will the day after that. In this way, and no other, does our journey come to us. We begin. The rest unfolds through us.

There is only one journey: going inside yourself.

If all difficulties were known at the onset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

The journey is filled with ups and downs. Don't confuse the two as ever being everlasting. Get up everyday and apply yourself, be authentic, trust your instincts and know that the more you apply yourself the better you get day by day. The day you are waiting for is the day you want to give up, that is when you MUST keep going. That's the barrier between normal and greatness.

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.

I release into the universe my trust that my journey in life and all who walk my path with me are there by divine design. Therefore, I trust that along this path, others will always be there for me, even when I cannot see them waiting for me. And I open myself to be of service to those who may provide me the gift of empowerment.

Remember that art is process. The process is supposed to be fun. For our purposes, "the journey is always the only arrival" may be interpeted to mean that our creative work is actually our creativity itself at play in the field of time. At the heart of this play is the mystery of joy.

It all starts with a choice that is consistent with our journey in life — with who we really are. Each of us is given a multitude of gifts at birth. We all possess extraordinary talents and capabilities. There are no exceptions. Our gifts are unique to us.

Our first choice is to live our life as our authentic self, as the person we really are deep down inside. When we do that, we can access a grand library of all that is possible for us—the journeys through life that are right for us. This allows us to make choices that flow from who we are and what we can be. That’s when life works. That’s when a positive outlook can make all the difference in the world.

Don’t try to paddle up raging rapids, then give up on positive thought because it doesn’t seem to be working for you. First, discover who you really are, so you can make choices that will align you with the current on a smooth river. Go with the flow of your unique life and you’ll get in the zone of fulfillment. It all starts with a choice. Now might be a good time to make that choice.

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences — and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.