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
Is your glass of life
half empty?
Or half full?
Be Grateful for All of Life:
Each of us has been infinitely blessed - beginning with the gift of life.
Whatever may appear to be missing or broken on any particular day,
our glass is not half full, it is 99.9% full.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie - from
7 Secrets for a Happy Life
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
I don't think of all the misery
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but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
However much or little you have,
"Thank You" is always a more powerful prayer than, "I need more."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Thank You God
Appreciate Your Blessings
Life Really Is Good
My glass of life
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble
and beautiful end of a human being.
- Khalil Gibran
If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse
and you say that you are neutral,
the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Desmond Tutu
When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal,
are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers
Do your little bit of good where you are;
its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- Desmond Tutu
Further reading:
The Freedom of Others
Prison of the Closed Heart
America's Historic Reverence for Independence
Personal Freedom
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.
- Lama Surya Das
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
Further reading:
Believe in...
Burn Away Old Regrets and Resentments
Forgiving Sets You Free
The Peacemakers
Take Nothing Personally
