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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Monday, October 31, 2011
Harvest
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung
Have gratitude for the harvest.
Rejoice in the peace that follows,
and prepare for the next planting.
Further reading: A Story of Money
Abundance or Scarcity? Love or Fear?
Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle
Celebration (Point #7 for living an inspired life)
Gratitude Quotes
Autumn Quotes
Time Flies Quotes
Work Life Balance Quotes
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
World Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Dalai Lama
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Let there be peace on earth. And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Pray for world peace, and always hold peace toward all in your own heart.
Further reading: Together
Assumptions
Expectations
Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
Choose Inner Peace and a Less Stressful Life
Peace Quotes
Inner Peace Quotes
I Pray for Peace in the Middle East
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Dalai Lama
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Let there be peace on earth. And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Pray for world peace, and always hold peace toward all in your own heart.
Further reading: Together
Assumptions
Expectations
Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
Choose Inner Peace and a Less Stressful Life
Peace Quotes
Inner Peace Quotes
I Pray for Peace in the Middle East
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Mystery
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Treasure the mysteries and wonder of life.
Further reading: Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open
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Neil Armstrong,
Osho,
Paulo Coelho,
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Your Heart's Longing
It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.
- Oriah
All rights reserved. Presented with permission of Oriah.
Are you taking action on reaching your heart's longing?
Are you taking action today?
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Appreciation
The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Appreciate everyone in your life. Appreciate everything you have. Appreciate your whole life.
Further reading: Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today
Zero-Based Gratitude
Pay It Forward
Appreciation Quotes
Gratitude Quotes
Happiness Quotes
Thank You Quotes
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Change
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Change brings new gifts, if we are ready to accept them.
Further reading: Drive Change
Never doubt
Take Action - Now
How To Be Happy Today And Prepare For Tomorrow
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Light
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Further reading: Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving
Love or Fear?
Trust in the Light
Quotes about Light
Quotes about Kindness
Quotes about Blessings
Quotes about Grace
Monday, October 24, 2011
Simplicity
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Thank You
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.
- e. e. cummings
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Give thanks, and release your troubles.
Further reading: Gratitude
Zero-Based Gratitude
Celebrating the Small Miracles of Our Life
Gratitude Quotes
Thank You Quotes
Quotes to Live By
Words of Inspiration
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Impossible?
It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
Further reading: How to Think Positive
Attitude is Everything
How to Choose Your Life Purpose
See all my motivational articles
Sayings about Impossible
Sayings about Dreams
Sayings about Optimism
Inspirational Sayings
Friday, October 21, 2011
Fortitude
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortitude: mental and emotional strength in courageously facing adversity.
Further reading: How to Motivate Yourself
Quotes about Strength
Courage Quotes
Uplifting Quotes
William Shakespeare Quotes
Mary Anne Radmacher Quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Life Lessons
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never stop being open to new life lessons.
Further reading: Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open
Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb
Question Your Questions
Truth isn't True. Reality isn't Real.
Life Lesson Quotes
Living Life to the Fullest
Life is Beautiful
Amazing Quotes to Live By
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Lloyd Alexander,
Plutarch
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Action
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- jlh
Further reading: Later is Never
"Reasonable" isn't always good enough
How to Choose Your Life Purpose
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Quotes of Love, Celebration, and Humor
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The #1 Secret of Great Relationships
What is Love?
Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life
Life is Funny
Laugh with Life
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Doug Larson,
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love
Monday, October 17, 2011
Hurry
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Time, Like Life Itself, Has No Inherent Meaning
Overwhelm
Time Flies
Practice Makes Perfect - Sometimes
Quotes that Make You Think
Quotes to Live By
Words of Encouragement
Quotes about Worry
Quotes about Time
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Quotes for Joyful Living
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Success Tip: Drive Change
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Mark Twain,
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Think of your life as just begun - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Start living now - by Mary Manin Morrissey
Friday, October 14, 2011
Inspirations
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Joy Has No Price
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Further reading: Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice
The Secret of Happiness
The truly rich
Giving Joy
Simple Joys
Finding Joy - a movie
Joy Quotes
Quotes about Happiness
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Balance
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
Take some time in a quiet place to contemplate
the balance between being of service -
both to this generation and to generations yet unborn -
and renewing your vitality with play and celebration.
Without play, one becomes old and dry.
Without service, life becomes meaningless.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Finding Balance in Life
Meditation: What? Why? How?
Choose Inner Peace and a Less Stressful Life
Balance Quotes
Priorities Quotes
Question Quotes
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William Arthur Ward
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
A Better World
Let me to-day do something that shall take
A little sadness from the world's vast store,
...
Because of some good act to beast or man -
"The world is better that I lived to-day."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -
for future generations.
Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
Literally planting trees for
your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,
but far more important...
use this symbolism - this imagery -
to represent the kind of legacy
you want to leave to future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Pay It Forward
Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren
Monday, October 10, 2011
Become a Seeker
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forsake the Old Ways and Become a Seeker.
Read What Can Christopher Columbus Teach Us Today?
Further reading: Success Tip: Drive Change
Dare to Dream of Your Great Success - Mary Anne Radmacher
Joseph Campbell Quotes
Helen Keller Quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Adventure Quotes
Quotes about Confidence
Quotes about Curiosity
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Never Give Up
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Later is Never
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Boldly Sail the Storms of Life
Quotes to Live By
Quotes about strength in hard times
Never Give Up quotes
Perseverance quotes
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Sails
Positive Quote of the Day
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Funny Quote of the Day
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Love Quote of the Day
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose
How to be Positive Around Negative People
Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life
Words of Wisdom
Insightful Quotes
Inspirational Words
Quotes that Make You Think
Quotes to Live By
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Friday, October 7, 2011
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Today's affirmation: I set my own course through the ocean of life.
Further reading: Life and Death: Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 (video)
Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life
Attitude is Everything
How To Not Care What Others Think
Need For Approval
How to Deal with Rejection
Quotes about Purpose
Quotes about Perseverance
Quotes about Self Esteem
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Today's affirmation: I set my own course through the ocean of life.
Further reading: Life and Death: Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 (video)
Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life
Attitude is Everything
How To Not Care What Others Think
Need For Approval
How to Deal with Rejection
Quotes about Purpose
Quotes about Perseverance
Quotes about Self Esteem
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Beyond
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
By letting it go, it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you are unlimited.
Further reading: Go Beyond
Beauty and Adventure
Abundance
FEAR
The time has come
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Staying Cheerful
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Affirmation: I welcome this day with a cheerful face.
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
Breaking the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Forgive and Forget
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith (often attributed to Mother Teresa)
Forgiveness is not always easy.
At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered,
to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Further reading: Plentiful Harvest
Monday, October 3, 2011
Hope
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
- Anonymous
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
- Albert Einstein
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God.
It is a gift only we can give one another.
- Elie Wiesel
Further reading: How to Think Positive
9 Secrets For Getting Un-Stuck
12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat
What I Know - What I Don't Know
Five Questions to Ask Yourself When You Feel Sad for No Apparent Reason
Comforting Quotes
Hope Quotes
Uplifting Quotes
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Miracles
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
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
A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude
Appreciate the Unexpected
Trust in the Light
Have a Conversation With God, Today
Unanswered Prayers
Albert Einstein Quotes
Miracle Quotes
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Let Us Be Kind
Let us be kind;
The way is long and lonely,
And human hearts are asking for this blessing only --
That we be kind.
We cannot know the grief that men may borrow,
We cannot see the souls storm-swept by sorrow,
But love can shine upon the way to-day, to-morrow --
Let us be kind.
- W. Lomax Childress
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Further reading: The Cab Ride
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