What You Wear Can Reflect Your Personality, Your Hopes, Your Aspirations

 

Each seed is a marvel, for each can create a new life, an independent form that grows, nourishes, and survives because that is its purpose. Like these seeds, we must grow, must nourish our hearts and minds, and we must endeavor to survive the outer world — drawing from our strength within. As I began working with these marvels of nature, they inspired me with their seeming virtues and traits. Fanciful, perhaps, but by working with the seeds I've gained a greater appreciation not only of nature but of myself. And so my natural jewelry creations came to be named. ~ Debbie

 

Abundance Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ Matthew xii. 34

 

Appreciation Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~ Voltaire

 

Balance Fortunate is the one who takes exactly the right measure of oneself, and holds a just balance between what can be acquired and what can be used. ~ Peter Mere Latham

 

Commitment Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans. ~ Peter F. Drucker

 

Compassion If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ The Dalai Lama (b.1935)

 

Contentment Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. ~ Anonymous

 

Continuity That which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. ~ John Dryden

 

Courage Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~ Anais Nin

 

Determination Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. ~ Henry Van Dyke

 

Empathy Taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. ~ Homer

 

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

 

Faithfulness True happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~ Helen Keller

 

Forbearance Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Generosity Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

 

Grace Grace is the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. ~ William Hazlitt

 

Harmony He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. ~ Marcus Aurelius

 

Honor Act well your part; there all honor lies. ~ Alexander Pope

 

Hope There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen

 

Humility Humility, like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. ~ Henry David Thoreau

 

Individuality The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. ~ Joseph Campbell

 

Integrity Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right ~ George Eliot

 

Joy There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. ~ Sister Mary Rose McGeady

 

Kindness Kind words are worth much and they cost little. ~ Proverb

 

Love Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~ Michael Leunig

 

Modesty Conceit spoils the finest genius. ~ Louisa May Alcott

 

Optimism Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ~ Maria Robinson

 

Perseverance Champions keep playing until they get it right. ~ Billie Jean King

 

Preservation The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. ~ Rachel Carson

 

Protection I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. ~ Abraham Lincoln

 

Purity The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. ~ Lord Edward Coke

 

Resilience Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius

 

Respect Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. ~ Goethe

 

Responsibility It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. ~ Moliere

 

Simplicity Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. ~ Descartes

 

Solitude In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. ~ Laurence Sterne

 

Stability A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. ~ Wayne Dyer

 

Stewardship Caretaking is much more than a job - it is an attitude, an ethic, a way of relating to all of life, and a way of living in harmony with the earth. ~ Glen Horton II

 

Tenderness A soft answer turns away wrath ~ Proverb

 

Tranquility That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. ~ Mevlana Rumi

 

Trust Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. ~ Arthur Ashe

 

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