This is YOUR Life

This is your life.
In the symphony of your life, you are the star.
You write the melody and the lyrics.
You are the soloist and the conductor.
You are merely a bit player in other people's lives,
but in your own life, you are the star.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
[Be of service, but don't be a doormat.]

Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
Write the melody and the lyrics.
Be the soloist and the conductor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
- Stephen R. Covey

Further reading: What guides you and maintains your direction?

The Melody Within Your Soul

Where Are You Going?

How to Choose Your Life Purpose
    

The Most Important Things

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Choose Your Focus

Perspective on Priorities

Either Accept It, or Change It

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff
    

See God in All Nature

We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart

To commit a crime against the natural world
is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.
- Patriarch Bartholomew

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Further reading: Our Children's Earth

One Great Dewdrop

Nature's Messengers

All Things, One Breath
      

Content with Simple Joys

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

Further reading: Choose Joy Anyway

Calm During Storms

Radiating Light and Love

Life Really Is Good
     

Have Faith; Don't Worry; Take Action

Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To me faith means not worrying.
- John Dewey

Have Faith; Don't Worry; Take Action; Begin Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Serenity in Times of Crisis

Faith to be Courageous

Worrying about Tomorrow

Everything is a Miracle