Bee Free Yoga

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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

-Henry David Thoreau

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“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power but because of its persistence.”

-Jim Watkins

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“Everyday is a new opportunity to begin again.  Every day is your birthday.”

-Desmond Tutu

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“ Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames"

-Rumi

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“ Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads. The wind is passing by."

-Christina Rossetti

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“Emptiness, which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness, is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”

-Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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“For fast acting relief, try slowing down.”

-Lily Tomlin

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“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

-Oscar Wilde

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“I recommend that for now you give up hope of achieving utter certainty, and instead celebrate the refined pleasures of nuanced, complicated truth.”

-Rob Brezny

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“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable.  But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… to be alive is to be vulnerable.”

-Madeleine L’Engle

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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

-Anais Nin

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“When the objects we use every day and the surroundings we live in have become in themselves a work of art, then we shall be able to say that we have achieved a balanced life.”

-Bruno Munari

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“Personality begins where comparison ends.”

-Karl Lagerfeld

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“Does this path have a heart?  If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t it is of no use.”

-Carlos Casteneda

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“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.”

-Dale Carnegie

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“Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The moment one gives attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”

-Henry Miller

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“The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.”

-Russel M. Nelson

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“You cannot be grateful and bitter.  You cannot be grateful and unhappy.  You cannot be grateful and without hope.  You cannot be grateful and unloving.  So just be grateful.”

-Anonymous

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“Without ashes to rise from a phoenix would just be a bird, getting up.”

-Schmidt from New Girl

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“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”

-Lily Tomlin

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“I’ve decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.”

-Anne Lamott

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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.  Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

-Marie Curie

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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

-Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Don’t ask what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

-Howard Thurman

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“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.  In fact, your heart is made to break: it’s purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders.”

-Andrew Harvey

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“The biggest obstacle I ever faced was my own limited perception of myself.”

-RuPaul

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“When something feels off, it is.”

-Abraham Hicks

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“The words you speak become the house you live in.”

-Hafiz

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

-Rumi

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“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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“One regret, dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed, is that I did not kiss you enough.”

-Hafiz

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“It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself...  I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”

-Rupi Kaur

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“Make no mistake about it -- enlightenment is a destructive process.  It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.  Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.  It’s seeing through the facade of pretense.  It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked and the self-same well from which your laughter rises is oftentimes filled with your tears.”

-Kahlil Gibran

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; It is easy in solitude to live after our own.  But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Between stimulus and response, there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

-Victor Frankl

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“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

-Guillaume Apollinaire

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“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.  I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.  This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Know that you’re going to get there.  And that your purpose is coming to find you.  When you come from that place of ease and flow and expectancy, it makes the journey much more fun.  And it’s a place where synchronicity can better find you.”

-Greg Newton

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“Whenever something doesn’t work out the way you thought it would, instead of thinking that something went wrong.  See it as something that went unexpectedly right, but for reasons that are not yet apparent.”

-Mike Dooley

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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

-Alice Walker

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“If you seek some special life outside daily activities, that is like brushing aside waves to look for water.”

-Wu-chun

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“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”

-Jim Carrey

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“Be yourself.  Life is precious just as it is.  All the elements for your happiness are already there.  There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle.  Just be.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Happiness is a place between too little and too much.”

-Finnish proverb

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“‘No’ is a complete sentence.”

-Anne Lamott

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“Joy exists only in self-acceptance.  Seek perfect acceptance, not a perfect life.”

-Anonymous

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“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with the spring.”

-George Santayana