Laugh With, Live For, Dream With, Love

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

Further reading: What is Love?

7 Secrets of Happy Couples

You Can't Make Them Change
       

God is in, through, around and for us

We live in a spiritual Universe.
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes

Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis

Religion asks us to believe in someone else's experience of the Divine,
while spirituality invites us to have our own.
- Timber Hawkeye

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

Today's affirmation:
I see the miracle in all of life.
I am thankful for all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Know that You have been Blessed

Where there is Great Love

Love is Everything

Stillness
    

My Heart-Felt Brothers and Sisters

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
- Francois Fenelon

He who experiences the unity of life
sees his own Self in all beings,
and all beings in his own Self.
- The Buddha

Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22

If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus

Today's affirmation:
All people are my heart-felt brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Respect Others

Perspective on Diversity
      

Meet the Unknown with Courage and a Sense of Adventure

Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca

It is only human to fear change, and to fear the unknown.
Usually, change is for the better. But even when a change is, on balance, painful,
there is always a silver lining to every cloud.
Be grateful for the blessings, and accept the rest as important lessons.
Right now, take a deep breath and welcome change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Welcome the Unknown

The Edge of All You Know

Not Knowing

Beyond Fear
    

Faith (Trust God) Plus Action (Trust Yourself)

Faith plus action becomes unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water.
When you swim you don't grab hold of the water,
because if you do you will sink and drown.
Instead you relax, and float.
- Alan Watts

What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to God.
- Anthony Dalla Villa

If you have to have it, it's ego.
If you have to not have it, it's ego.
Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need
and release what you don't.
- Alan Cohen

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Struggle: to make strenuous or violent efforts in the face of difficulties or opposition.
- Merriam Webster Dictionary

To struggle less:
Plan more.
Thoughtfully consider alternatives.
Have more patience.
Have more Faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: A Life of Being at Peace

Harmony of the Soul

Dealing with Dark Days

Release the Struggle