Marla K. Ruhana, LMSW, INC--Psychotherapist

Marla K. Ruhana 

Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds-Einstein

Life is too short and too wonderful to waste time doing things you really don't want to be doing. ~Bruce Isaacs

The first step in the journey is to lose your way. ~Galway Kinnell

Your heart often knows things before your mind does. ~Polly Adler

Hope comes furnished with light and heat. ~Don Ward

We all have many gifts that we've never opened.  It's time to open some of yours.  Find your wings!  ~Dan Zadra

The purpose of life is to discover your gift.  The meaning of life is giving your gift away.  ~David Viscot

tFew things can make us crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give-Unknown

We have only to experience something once to know of its absence in our lives-and its possibility-Unknown

High standards are realistic goals; perfectionism is self abuse-Georgia O'Keeffe

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof-Unknown

Give the world the best you have and best will come back to you-unknown

Go to the edge of the light you see-Mary Manin-Morrisey

Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking-JC Watts

Never met anyone anywhere who could outsmart honesty-Abe Lincoln

At the end of a matter ask, "What will I learn from this to make me better?"-unknown

Love has nothing to do with what you're expecting to get-only with what you're expecting to give, which is everything-Katherine Hepburn

A Friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails-unknown

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. G. K. Chesterton

Continue to be who you are...to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Maya Angelou

A Joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart-Maya Angelou

The healthy personality is one who not only plays but who takes his play seriously-William C. Menninger, MD

Don't blow out my candle just to make yours burn brighter-unknown

As you think, so you act, as you act, so you become-unknown

There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well. Dr. Joyce Brothers

People often claim that a particular behavior is "natural" and "biologic" when they don't want to change it. Harriet Lerner

If the second marriage is a success the first one really isn't a failure. Mignon McLaughlin

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills

Throughout our lives, we are brought in contact with spiritual advisors; the trick is not in meeting them, but recognizing them when we do. Erica Jong

Just being born made you worthy! Oprah Winfrey

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. Joan Baez

Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live. Nancy Moser

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Anne Morrow Lindbergh:

When you love someone, you do not love him or her in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. ---Gifts From the Sea(Pantheon)
 
 
ANYWAY 
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
 
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
 
If you are successful, you will win false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.
 
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.
 
What you spend years building someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway.
 
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
 
The good you do today people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway.
 
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you've got anyway.
 
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.

Kent M. Keith-Hawaii, Former President of Chaminade University

Always keep people in your life who charge your battery...not drain it!!!

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
(Coco Chanel)

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind-Ted Giesel aka: Dr. Seuss

The rules of a relationship are determined by the party of least concerned.

Don't wrap your emotional life around the weaknesses of others-Covey

Be where you are. Otherwise you will miss your life.
Buddha

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

The stuff that wears on your nerves polishes your soul.
Sharon Valleau

If you can't get out of it, you might as well get into it. 

Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein 

There are two ways to live life-one as if nothing is a miracle and one as if everything is.
Albert Einstein 

Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. 

How we spend our day is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre' Gide

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

We only have this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.
Marie B. Ray

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those who sang best.
John James Audubon (1785-1851)

Intelligence is just a tool, it doesn't make you any better
Carol Nine

When you give, you begin to live, you get the world
Dave Matthews