Act On Your Vision - Begin Today

Begin today. Act on your vision. Do your best.
If you take action, you may succeed or you may fail,
but if you do nothing, the only possible outcome is failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours
 It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha

Take the initiative - don't wait for life to come to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Let Go and Begin Anew

How to Build Self Confidence

New Strength

Another Door Opens
      

Faith is Much Better than Belief

Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The attitude of faith is the very opposite
of clinging to belief, of holding on.
- Alan Watts

Faith is not belief.
Belief is passive.
Faith is active.
- Edith Hamilton

Further reading: The Power of Faith

Don't Worry about Tomorrow

The Edge of All You Know

Release the Struggle
    

Our God-Given Natural World

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer

People must feel that the natural world is important
and valuable and beautiful and wonderful
and an amazement and a pleasure.
- David Attenborough

This land, this water, this air, this planet -
this is our legacy to our young.
- Paul Tsongas

Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created,
not just as it looked when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Further reading: Our Future is the World's Children

Legacy to Future Generations

One Planet, One People, One Destiny

Reverence for Our Earth
      

Greed, Jealousy, and Aggression are Symptoms of Fear

I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw

You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- the Buddha

Once you recognize that greed, jealousy, and aggression
are symptoms of fear, you can begin to respond to negative people
with compassion, rather than with anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Stop Anger Before It Stops You

Finding Peace in Forgiveness

Creatures of Emotion

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat

Ending Your Anger
      

Seeing the Past in New Ways

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Further reading: Release the Past

The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness

Learning From History

Letting Go - Moving On