Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart. - Unknown

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions. - Rainer Maria Rilke

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas Père

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. - Unknown

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices. -St. Teresa of Avila

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. -Corazon Aquino

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen. -Ralph Marston

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. -Barbara Johnson

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile. - Unknown

It seems as if we’re all burying our heads when it comes to climate change, knowing something needs immediately, but not making a big enough effort to make a real difference. Bolivia stands out from the pack.

Bolivia is to become the first country in the world to give nature comprehensive legal rights in an effort to halt climate change and the exploitation of the natural world, and to improve quality of life for the Bolivian people.

Developed by grassroots social groups and agreed by politicians, the Law of Mother Earth recognises the rights of all living things, giving the natural world equal status to human beings.

Once fully approved, the legislation will provide the Earth with rights to: life and regeneration; biodiversity and freedom from genetic modification; pure water; clean air; naturally balanced systems; restoration from the effects of human activity; and freedom from contamination.

The legislation is based on broader principles of living in harmony with the Earth and prioritising the “collective good.” At its heart is an understanding that the Earth is sacred, which arises from the indigenous Andean worldview of ‘Pachamama’ (meaning Mother Earth) as a living being.

Read more at Positive News.

President Evo Morales, voiced a commitment to the initiative at the World People’s Conference on Climate change, held in Bolivia in April 2010.

We love hearing from you at Only Positive News. This morning we received another positive news websites called Airprayers.com.

They seem to still be setting up shop but their opening story caught my eye. It’s about Water.org, an organization with smart solutions to a big problem.

Remember these facts when you’re showering this morning.

If you knew that 3.5 million people a year died from water related disease – every 20 seconds a child dies, or that 884 million people lack access to clean water, would you care?

We found this to be so alarming that we wanted to highlight an amazing non-profit group Water.org – founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, who to date have transformed hundreds of communitues in Africa, South Asia, and Central America by providing access to safe water and sanitation. Even with a celebrity co-founder in Damon, who’s been know to tout his charity on the popular hit series Entourage, Water.org could use everyones power to spread the word and donate.

Read more at Airprayers.com.

Watch full interview with Matt Damon on the water crisis.

Sure, I’ll create a post based entirely on the fact that I’m hungry…why not? And who can complain about breakfast? It’s a fun meal, starting your day off just right, dependable, quiet, subtle and enriching. Go breakfast!

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one’s husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
Anne Spencer

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
Edgar Watson Howe

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther

Bill Clinton’s foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
Pat Buchanan

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
Clement Freud

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It’s the same with baseball statistics.
Bill James

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert

Breakfast Pizza - Click on image for recipe!

Altercations and communication deadlocks can be extremely frustrating. Sometimes it seems that you can have the same issue, over and over again, with the same individual…for years! What can you do that changes the tide?

Have you ever apologized when you didn’t feel apologetic? Not an easy task, I know. But as it’s often been said, “Would you rather be right or happy?” Apologizing is often an easy way to open communication back up and let the healing begin, regardless of whether you’re deeply feeling it or not.

Or what if you’re really angry at someone’s behavior? Just as a challenge to yourself, try to say the opposite of what you’d like to say. Don’t think of it as a lie; think of it as a method to find a small thread of what you do like and simply mentioning it. (”I really like how you speak your mind!”) Again, you’ll be surprised at the results. You turned your standard behavior on its head!

Don’t like that neighbor of yours, who seems highly inconsiderate, try smiling (even if they don’t smile in response) in passing.

It doesn’t have to feel great; it’s just a method to break your standard response and see the results.

In short, it opens up your mind!

Not to worry. One of our readers made a great suggestion yesterday for a Mother’s Day gift that keeps giving. (Or keep this in mind for any upcoming birthday, etc.)

Thanks to the World of Child blog and our readers:

Say “Thank You” with a special e-card. Let mom know how much she means to you by sending her one of our $15 e-cards. Cards are delivered automatically on Mother’s Day, and 100% of proceeds go directly to a program of your choice supporting children in need.

Click on image below for e-card suggestions:

[Thanks to Only Positive News reader James for sending us this inspiring story! We're always grateful for suggestions such as these, so keep 'em coming!]

Claire Lomas approaches the London Marathon finishing line in her ReWalk bionic suit. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

A paralysed woman has become the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic suit.

Claire Lomas finished the London Marathon 16 days after the race began. The 32-year-old said she was “over the moon” as she completed the 26.2-mile route, which she started on 22 April with 36,000 other participants.

The former chiropractor was in tears as she became the first person to complete any marathon using a bionic ReWalk suit at 12.50pm on Tuesday.

Hundreds lined the streets as she made her final steps to complete the race. Three mounted members of the Household Cavalry gave her a guard of honour as she crossed the finishing line on the Mall.

A spokeswoman for the mounted regiment said the riders were there to give Lomas “extra support because she is passionate about horses”.

Read more about this inspiring first!

“Live in the moment.”

And in a perfect Zen-like world, that’s all we’d do. But is living in the past always such a bad thing? Of course, when you’re reliving past pain and anger repeatedly, that certainly isn’t so helpful. But perhaps there’s a way to bring the beauty of your personal past into your very real now.

What if you allowed your child-like self to come to life today? She could play, wander aimlessly and be dazzled by shiny objects. He might be more open to new ideas and to allowing more fun in.

What if you let your teenage self romp around for a bit? She could stomp when angry or he could play music really loud, just to annoy others.

What if you could bring back a feeling from the past? Some eras seem as if they were touched by magic. Could you bring some of that to life today by envisioning it, feeling it?

What if you could revisit a moment in your past and change the ending? We’ve all dreamed of it but did you know that even playing it out in your head can be vastly therapeutic? Win when you lost. Speak your mind when you were left speechless. Kiss him when you were too afraid.

The past is not to be avoided completely. It contains the building blocks of who we are now. All those different phases had a great degree of importance. Use your past instead of letting it use you!

There’s something particularly inspiring when a young person saves the day. It gives us a glimpse into his or her burgeoning character and makes us feel confident that soon enough, we’ll have a full-fledged adult capable of changing the world.

More than two dozen horses are alive thanks to the efforts of a courageous 15-year-old who sprang into action when she saw flames in the stables.

“I started off by just putting their halters on and pulling them out by twos, but then the fire started getting quicker so I just started wrapping their ropes around their necks and just tying them around my arms and pulling them out,” Madison Wallraf recalled.

The Wednesday evening fire at the M&R Overlook Farms in suburban McHenry, Illinois raged for about two hours.

With no hydrants, water had to be trucked in to fight the blaze that consumed the 25,000 square-foot metal barn.

Wallraf described how she crawled through the aisle to rescue the frantic horses as flames flanked her and smoke filled the space to about three feet off the floor.

“I got kicked in the shoulder by one of the horses in there and I got knocked down a few times, but my adrenaline was so high at the time that it didn’t phase me,” said the 4-foot, 10-inch teen.

Ultimately, 16 horses died. Three more escaped.

An aerial search Thursday morning using thermal imaging was called off by midday, and it’s hoped the horses will return.

“We know they’re out in the woods, we just dont’ know where,” said McHenry Township Fire District Chief Tony Huemann.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Source: KSBY.com

Starlight, star bright. First star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might have this wish I wish tonight.

Wishes are intrinsically tied into hope and ritual. Let’s make many wishes today, shall we? For the good of us and the world.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
Charlie Byrd

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rather

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
David Seabury

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.
Wild Bill Hickok

All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Sophocles

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Anna Pavlova

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
Corin Nemec

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel