Welcome to my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote. See today's daily inspirational quotes below.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Your Most Important Values


To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene

Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu


Today's project:
Meaningful and joyful lives are lived by adhering to one's personal value system - one's principles. Today, write your six to eight most important values on an index card, and refer to that card as you go about your life today.

Further reading: The Things Divine

Eight Points of An Inspired Life - Keys to Happiness

What You Know Is Right

Daily Journaling - How to Begin a Rewarding Journaling Practice

What We Are Made Of

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Radiate Your Happiness to the World


The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Happiness is like a kiss.
You must share it to enjoy it.
- Bernard Meltzer

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Choosing to live a happy life is not only our greatest gift to ourselves,
it is also the greatest gift we can give to those around us.
When we are happy, we radiate happiness, and that is infectious.
Consider giving the gift of happiness to yourself as being your gift to all humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Happiness Depends upon Ourselves

Sharing Happiness

Happiness in Cheering Others

Cease Striving to Find Happiness

Choose Joy Anyway

A Happy Life

Friday, November 28, 2014

The Whole Leap


You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Looking Foolish

Live Courageously

Take Action - Now

Live Your Greatest Life

The story behind "the jump is so frightening" - Mary Anne Radmacher

Be Unstoppable

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving 2014


As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In a world where so many are hungry,
may we eat this food with humble hearts;
in a world where so many are lonely,
May we share this friendship with joyful hearts.
- Anonymous

For food that stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
- Anonymous

We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing


Today's affirmation:
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving

Bounty of the Earth

Thanksgiving: A Day of Gratitude

A List of Gratitudes - a Thanksgiving

Zero-Based Gratitude

Thank You God
 

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Choose to be Cheerful


Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike

We all have possibilities we don't know about.
We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
- Dale Carnegie


Affirmation: I welcome this day with a cheerful face.

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

What is Defeat?

How to Stay Positive

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Cheer Someone Else Up

Secrets of Happy Couples

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Faith in a Great Future


Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

What we speak becomes the house we live in.
- Hafiz

When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

There are all kinds of futures.
There is a hoped-for future,
there is a feared future,
there is a predictable future,
and there is an unimagined future.
- Werner Erhard


Further reading: Power of Your Thoughts

Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation

Bringing Peace

Simply Do Your Best

The Edge of All We Know

Power of Imagination
 

Monday, November 24, 2014

Opportunity for Daily Thanksgiving


Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero


Further reading: The Miracle of Gratitude

Choose Joy Anyway

Thank You Prayer

Rejoice

Attitude toward Gratitude

Thankful Heart

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Appreciating Friends


I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

A true friend is the one who walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Choosing Your Friends

Happy Friends, Happy You

A Little Help from My Friends

Sharing with Friends

Opinions and Hearts

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Rising Again


Our greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius [quoted by, and often attributed to, Oliver Goldsmith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nelson Mandela]

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is
that one comes from a strong will,
and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

Be resolute in your goals, but flexible in your tactics.
There are times that call for repetition and perseverance;
and there are times that require new ways of thinking and doing.
The challenge is knowing one from the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Keep Moving

Dream. Begin. Persevere.

Mental Attitude

There is a Way

Realizing Success

Stand Up To Your Obstacles

Friday, November 21, 2014

Life in Bold Colors


Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Refuse to be average.
Let your heart soar as high as it will.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer

Normal is not something to aspire to,
it's something to get away from.
- Jodie Foster

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher


Further reading: Be Bold

Don't Wait - Begin Today

Flexibility

The Power of Courage

Dare

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Letting Go - Moving On


A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time
to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Stop holding on to the past.
Release your regrets about whatever you may have done
or failed to do that turned out poorly.
Forgive others for whatever they may have done
or failed to do that caused you harm.
Declare today to be a new beginning.
Let go of the past and move on with creating
a joyful new future for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Take Charge of Your Life - 9 Secrets For Getting Un-Stuck

Forgiveness Releases the Past

A Better Plan

Never Look Back

Let Go... and Become

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

To Thine Own Self Be True


This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity
is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
- Thomas S. Monson

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
- Osho

To be a person of true greatness...
Live with honor.
Respect yourself.
Respect others.
Act honorably.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Value Honor, Not Ego

Stand Tall and Proud

What We Are Made Of

Honor

Dignity

Self-Care



Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Everything is a Miracle


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

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.
- Leonard Nimoy

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love:
the more they give,
the more they possess.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is a miracle.
It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's
bath like a lump of sugar.
- Pablo Picasso


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

Further reading: Everything is God

Zero-Based Gratitude

Trust in the Light

Appreciate the Unexpected

Unanswered Prayers

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Monday, November 17, 2014

What is Age but a Number


You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

You are only as old as you think you are.
- Anonymous

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

What is age but a number.
What you can dream, you can become, at any age.
Live your best life, not your age.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Growing Up - Staying Young

Never Too Late

Staying Young

A New Year, A New Beginning

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Dangers of Pessimism


If we say, "This is never going to work..."
then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill.
- Helen Keller

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
- William James

Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: The Bright Side

Optimism

Staying Positive

Be the Melody

Accentuate the Positive

Mental Attitude

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Proactive in Our Love


We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

Infuse your life with action.
Don't wait for it to happen.
Make it happen.
Make your own future.
Make your own hope.
Make your own love.
And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator,
not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high,
but by doing what you can to make grace happen...
yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
- Bradley Whitford


Further reading: God Grant Me The Wisdom

Faith Plus Action

Do What You Can

Good Works

Opportunity for Kindness

Friday, November 14, 2014

Balance in All Things


A time for everything: a time to relax and a time to be busy,
a time to frolic and a time to lay up food for the winter,
a time to receive and a time to give,
a time to begin and a time to finish.
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One has to find a balance between
what people need from you
and what you need for yourself.
- Jessye Norman

Change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.
- Ron D. Burton

We have an obligation to live in harmony with God's creation.
- Bruce Babbitt

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid


Further reading: Balance vs. Moderation: Eight Ways to Balance Your Life

Creating Balance

A List of Gratitudes

Renew Yourself

Yin-Yang

Living in Harmony

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Natural Web


Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- generally attributed to Chief Seattle

but actually written by Ted Perry in 1972

The manifest universe is the body of God ...
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes

Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel

We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King


Further reading: The World is My Family

Unity with Spirit and All Creation

All Brothers and Sisters

Uniqueness and Unity

One People

Everything is God


Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Humility is Strength


Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren

Humility is not cowardice.
Meekness is not weakness.
Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
- Swami Sivananda

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.
- Debra Wilson

Pride makes us artificial, and humility makes us real.
- Thomas Merton


Further reading: Value Honor, Not Ego

Humble Places

Respect

Love Your Neighbor

Self-Importance

On importance - read this first - then this

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Honoring Our Roots


There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds.
The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe,
aren't even aware of.
- Ellen Goodman

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation
with any race or nation known to history,
but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.
- Kelly Millar

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel

All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Rekindling the Light

A Parent's Gift

Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind

The Trouble with Conformity

Quotes about Tradition


Monday, November 10, 2014

Standing Together


Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller

Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Learning To Live Together

Love Your Neighbor

Mutually Beneficial

A Shared Dream

Win-Win vs. Compromise

One World

 

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Fulfilling Your Dreams


Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,

you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Further reading: Follow Your Dreams

Unity with Spirit and All Creation

Live With Enthusiasm

Dream. Begin. Persevere.

Pursue Your Dreams

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Positive Affirmations


I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson

I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay

I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar


There is great power in daily positive affirmations.
Consider beginning the practice of adopting an affirmation each day.
Use some of my positive affirmations, or let them inspire you to create your own.

Further reading: Are your affirmations about your life positive or negative?

Attitude is Everything

How to Think Positive

Think Positive, Act Positive, Believe Positive
 

Friday, November 7, 2014

Simply Marvelous


The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
- Bill Moyers

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Aristotle

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

What You See

Simple Joys

Things Divine

A Thankful Heart

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Dancing Through Life


I will dance a little. I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous 

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, to meet a new friend,
to bring joy into someone's life,
to feel the wind newly on your skin,
to touch a new fear and a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
to find an ample measure of your own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Remember that you are the captain of your ship of life

Live Fully

We Come This Way But Once

Live Deeply

Leading by Example

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Your Whole Toolkit


If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Read my thoughts about this... 

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
- Alan Lewis
[Sometimes a bigger hammer works, but it isn't a very creative approach.]

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful
than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau

Little men with little minds and little imaginations
go through life in little ruts,
smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
- Zig Ziglar

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

If your only tool is a bomb,
you tend to see every problem as a target.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Our Habits

9 Secrets For Getting Un-Stuck

Being Present in the Moment

Focus and Flexibility

Adaptability

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Your Legacy - Making a Difference


Act as if what you do makes a difference.
It does.
- William James


Our actions today will determine the world we leave our children.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

To leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

We must remember that one determined person can make
a significant difference,
and that a small group of determined people
can change the course of history.
- Sonia Johnson

Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Voting for the kind of America you believe in
is one of the greatest gifts you can give your grandchildren.
Make a difference.

Further reading: Full Measure

Our Grandchildren

VOTE!

Feeding the Children

Our Grandchildren's Planet

Monday, November 3, 2014

DO IT


Do or do not, there is no try.
- Yoda (Star Wars movie)

Read my thoughts about this..

If you don't like the way the world is,
you change it.
You have an obligation to change it.
You just do it one step at a time.
- Marian Wright Edelman

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Simply Do Your Best

Take Charge of Your Life

When is Your Best Good Enough?

Action Beats Inaction

Choices

Sunday, November 2, 2014

A Month of Gratitude and Thanksgiving


Is your glass of life
half empty?
Or half full?

I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank

Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins with the realization
that we have already arrived!
- Michael Bernard Beckwith

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher

If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous

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

Affirmation:
I commit the whole month of November to expressing gratitude and thanksgiving.


Further reading: A List of Gratitudes - a Thanksgiving

Life Really Is Good

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Thank You God

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Being "Right"


Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course In Miracles

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
- George Clooney

You prove your worth with your actions,
not with your mouth.
- Jean Paul

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
- Booth Tarkington


One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Why should it impede your happiness for others to have differing views on politics or religion? for others to paint their houses purple or grow asparagus in place of a grassy lawn? for others to dress, mingle, celebrate, or dine in their own manner?

The path to happiness is to live your life joyfully in your own way
and to support and encourage others to do likewise.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Listen, Really Listen

You Make Your World

A Breathing Meditation

Opinions

Stop Worry using the Qigong Release Exercise

Step Back from the Clamor


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