The Universe Is Smiling: STOP!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

 A: "Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."

- William Shenstone

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the only one that gets burned.

- Buddha

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape hundred days of sorrow."

- Chinese Proverb    

The Universe Is Smiling: Dreaming

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be."

- Joy Page 

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

- Dr. Seuss

The Universe Is Smiling: Our Beloved Nature

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

- John Muir

The Universe Is Smiling: Astonishment

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible."

- Eugene Ionesco

"Astonishment is the root of philosophy."

- Paul Tillich

The Universe Is Smiling: Age Lessons

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Age considers; youth ventures."

 -Rabindranath Tagore

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

- Robert Frost

The Universe Is Smiling: Simple and Clear

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

- Leonardo DaVinci

"Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature."

- Thomas Kempis 

The Universe Is Smiling: Let's Expand Our Horizons!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

  - Konrad Adenauer

"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change."

- Maya Angelou