Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis
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
Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
This land, this water, this air, this planet -
this is our legacy to our young.
- Paul Tsongas
We need to think of the future and the planet we are
going to leave to our children and their children.
- Kofi Annan
Our Grandchildren's Planet
Reverence
For Our Children
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- Mignon McLaughlin
When you are through changing, you are through.
- Bruce Barton
Only when we realize that there is no eternal,
unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in
ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
- Hu Shih
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Further reading:
A New Perspective
Moving Forward
Rattlesnake of the Mind
Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
Nothing can stop the [person] with the right
mental attitude from achieving [their] goal;
nothing on earth can help the [person]
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Your Attitude is Your Window
How to Choose Your Life Purpose
Could We Change Our Attitude...
What One Emphasizes
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My quiet voice speaks the loudest.
- Richard Carlson
In quietness are all things answered,
and is every problem quietly resolved.
In conflict there can BE no answer and no resolution.
- A Course In Miracles
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Find God in Silence
Not Fair, But Joyful
Endurance
Your Own Greatest Hero
The Story of "Courage Doesn't Always Roar" by Mary Anne Radmacher
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every day brings new choices.
- Martha Beck
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
When It's Darkest
Focus and Flexibility
Endings and Beginnings
The Rest of Your Life
Beyond Your Comfort Zone
