Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill

You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Beyond Your Worries

Master of My Emotions

Worry, Frustration and Resentment

Fear of Suffering
      

Appreciate the Abundance You Still Have

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure
that you are always blessed in abundance.
- Joel Osteen

Comparisons are odious.
- Old English Saying
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Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
- Douglas Horton

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: We have Already Arrived

Comparison - Cause of Unhappiness

Appreciating Our Lives

Rejoice for What You Have
   

Let Caring and Integrity Define Your Very Being

Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime -
to set an example -
and when he is dead,
to be an inspiration for history.
- William McKinley

You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Today's affirmation:
I choose to live a life of gratitude and joy,
inspiring others to follow my example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Intentional Living

How To Know What To Do

Who You Are

Honor
      

Play full-out and enjoy all of Life

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

Play full-out and enjoy all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Think Big, Act Big

Become a Seeker

Don't Wait!

My thoughts on "safety" versus living full-out
      

Received but Not Heard

There are many answers you have received but have not yet heard.
- A Course In Miracles

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus

Let today be a day to open your eyes to the unfamiliar and the hidden.

Further reading: Finding A Way

A Fire to be Kindled

Beyond Answers

Asking The Right Questions