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
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Choose With Intention
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Aesops Fable: The Miller, His Son, and the Ass
How to Deal with Rejection
Success Tip: Drive Change
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Listen To Your Heart
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be good to yourself.
Listen to your body, to your heart.
We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling
like we're not doing enough.
It's a terribly hard job.
- Marcia Wallace
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Further reading: Love in My Heart
How to Move On and Let Go
Preparing My Heart for the Holidays
Monday, October 29, 2012
Helping Others
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Abraham Lincoln (attributed)
You have two hands.
One for helping yourself,
the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Helping someone is what life is all about.
- Willie Stargell
The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Overcome Being Negative
Life Purpose
How to Choose Your Life Purpose
Quotes about Helping Others
Helping Hand Quotes
Community Service Quotes
Garrison Keillor Quotes
Encouragement for a Friend
Quotes about Appreciation
Encouraging Sayings
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Willie Stargell
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Let Your Spirit Soar
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
Life has meaning only in the struggle.
Triumph or defeat is in the hands of God.
So let us celebrate the struggle!
- Stevie Wonder
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
Further reading: The Edge
Trust in the Light
Grant That I May Radiate
Quotes about Spirit
Struggle Quotes
Celebrate Life Quotes
Glory Quotes
Wings Quotes
Uplifting Quotes
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Nurture Yourself
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit,
your time will expand.
You will gain a new perspective
that will allow you to accomplish much more.
- Brian Koslow
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: How to Be Yourself
Pleasing Everyone
Creating a Dream for Your Life
Watering
Friday, October 26, 2012
Keep Going
You've got to have dreams to keep you going.
- Steve Waugh
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age,
which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
- Aldous Huxley
Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited.
One gets excited about going on a roller coaster.
One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
- Bo Bennett
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Gain Self Confidence
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
How to Motivate Yourself
Keep Going Quotes
Enthusiasm Quotes
Determination Quotes
Moving Forward Quotes
Achievement Quotes
Success Quotes
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Feeling Alone
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
The eternal quest of the individual human being is
to shatter his loneliness.
- Norman Cousins
When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Further reading: What is Love?
How to Deal with Rejection
How to Avoid Falling in Love With Love
Feeling Alone Quotes
Fear Quotes
Feeling Lonely Quotes
Relationship Quotes
Life Quotes to Live By
Being Alone Quotes
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Live Fully
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
Further reading: It's a Wonderful Life
Live Every Moment
Choose Your Life Purpose
Live Your Best Life Quotes
Quotes about Enjoying Life
Life Changes Quotes
Life is Good Quotes
Deep Quotes about Life
Live Life Quotes
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Creating Your Future
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can create miracles in your own life,
and in the lives of those around you -
because you are a miracle,
and you are connected to the source of all miracles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: What is Your Dream
Success Tip: Drive Change
Eight Rules for Living Your Greatest Life
Monday, October 22, 2012
Opinions and Hearts
We may have our private opinions,
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us,
but because they will laugh at us;
Through them we learn a little objectivity,
a little modesty, a little courtesy.
- Will Durant
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: My Voters' Guide (It isn't what it sounds like. Go check it out.)
Pleasing Everyone
Families and Social Expectations
Quotes about Understanding and Friendship
Quotes about Acceptance and Friendship
Lost Friendship Quotes
Quotes about Broken Friendships
Quotes about True Friends
Friendship Sayings
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Your Greatest Life
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
For me, the message of this inspiring William Shakespeare quote is to be true to your own values - to live an honorable life. This quote does not in any way promote being self-centered and greedy.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Eight Rules for Living Your Greatest Life
Living Your Inspired Life (video)
The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Follow Your Heart
If you get to the point where someone is telling you
that you are not great or not good enough,
just follow your heart
and don't let anybody crush your dream.
- Patti LaBelle
It's imperative to follow your heart and choose
a profession you're passionate about,
and if you haven't found that "spark" yet,
if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives -
be persistent until you do.
- Steve Kerr
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Affirmation:
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Stay Young
7 Secrets for a Happy Life
9 Secrets For Getting Un-Stuck
Follow Your Heart Quotes
Follow Your Dreams Quotes
Dreams Come True Quotes
Quotes about Rhythm
Dreams and Goals Quotes
Quotes about Not Being Good Enough
Friday, October 19, 2012
Being Annoyed
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely
as small as what you allow to annoy you.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed
by the defects of those with whom we associate.
- Francois Fenelon
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Depressed? Laugh!
Live Without Anxiety or Worry
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat
Quotes about Being Upset
Quotes about Being Annoyed
Quotes about Being Peaceful
Quotes about Worry
Quotes about Inner Peace
Proverbs and Sayings
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Being Kind
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Overcome Being Negative
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing - a Parable
The Brick
Kindness and Charity
Be Kind Quotes
Kindness Quotes
Quotes about Compassion
Life Purpose Quotes
Inspirational Quotes about Love
Quotes about Selflessness
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Envy
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
Blessed is he who has learned
to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate,
to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Further reading: Comparisons are Odious
How to Be Yourself
Wealth and Power
Quotes about Envy
Quotes about Being Rich
Wealth Quotes
Ignorance Quotes
Quotes about Being Blessed
Quotes about Being Humble
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Brotherhood
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every
time you meet a human being.
- Jane Wyman
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world
with a broader significance
than the narrow association of
members in a sect or creed.
- Helen Keller
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood
to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane,
we must also be certain that there is no one true faith
or path by which it may spread.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
The greatest challenge ...
is not the exploring of the mysteries of the outer space,
but the developing of the millions of God's forgotten children,
the developing peoples of the world,
so they can become our equal
and full partners to build a better world -
a world of freedom and brotherhood.
- Jimmy Yen
Further reading: Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
Assumptions
Expectations - Demands
Brotherhood Quotes
Opportunity Quotes
Freedom Quotes
Conformity Quotes
Quotes about Children
New Day Quotes
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Boredom
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time;
serenity, that nothing is.
- Thomas Szasz
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every
morning with a burning desire to do things -
you don't have enough goals.
- Lou Holtz
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Nothing to look forward to?
Overcome Being Negative
Break Old Patterns of Action
Boredom Quotes
Being Bored Quotes
Quotes about Goals
Serenity Quotes
Quotes about Solitude
Quotes about Desire
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Lou Holtz,
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Wonder
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life has loveliness to sell,
all beautiful and splendid things,
blue waves whitened on a cliff,
soaring fire that sways and sings,
and children's faces looking up,
holding wonder like a cup.
- Sara Teasdale
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
My husband melted my heart the day he asked me,
"Can I participate in your wonder?"
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Amazing
Celebration
Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation
Quotes about Wonder
Life Is Beautiful Quotes
Quotes about Giving Back
Get Over It Quote
Life Path Quotes
Joy of Living Quotes
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Accomplishment
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn
There is a real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
- Norman Vincent Peale
No matter what accomplishments you make,
somebody helped you.
- Althea Gibson
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling,
but in rising again after you fall.
- Vince Lombardi
Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose
How to be Successful in Business
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Accomplishment Quotes
Achievement Quotes
Be Yourself Quotes
Self Discipline Quotes
Quotes about Enthusiasm
Quotes about Discipline
Friday, October 12, 2012
Give Thanks
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light,
for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks,
the fault lies in yourself.
- Tecumseh
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
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
Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude
Universal Gratitude
Small Miracles of Our Life
Give Thanks Quotes
Joy of Living Quotes
Quotes about Being Enlightened
Sunshine Quotes
Quotes about Joy
Quotes about Renewal
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Daily Motivation
Question: Can't I just fix myself so I will stay motivated and inspired all the time?
My answer: It will probably always be a daily task to keep yourself on track.
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You will never change your life
until you change something you do daily.
- Mike Murdock
Our character is basically a composite of our habits.
Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns,
they constantly, daily, express our character.
- Stephen Covey
What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Choose Your Focus
You are the Captain
Understanding
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Excellence
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than others think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
Excellence is not a destination to be arrived at,
but a path of continual attention and improvement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
When is Your Best Good Enough?
Excellence and Humility
Play to win, but be a good loser
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Believe and Take Action
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Motivate Yourself
Become Your Own Greatest Hero
My Personal Greatest Hero
Believe In Yourself Quotes
Take Action Quotes
Inner Guidance Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Faith Quotes
Eyes Quotes
Monday, October 8, 2012
New Worlds
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Further reading: What Can Christopher Columbus Teach Us Today?
What If Every Day Were Your Day
The Jump is So Frightening - Mary Anne Radmacher
Adventure Quotes
Courage Quotes
New Beginning Quotes
New Day Quotes
Never Quit Quotes
Try Again Quotes
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Be Content
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Happiness consists not in having much,
but in being content with little.
- Marguerite Gardiner
Further reading: Contented Living
Jealousy, Comparison, and Dissatisfaction
Perceived "Needs"
Quotes about Being Content
Quotes about Appreciation
Quotes about Abundance
Serenity Prayer
Quotes about Simplicity
Being Happy Quotes
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
Sacrifice
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
Be unselfish.
That is the first and final commandment for those who
would be useful and happy in their usefulness.
If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because
you are choking the source of development,
which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
- Charles William Eliot
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
- Sai Baba
The word "sacrifice" is an interesting word because it is usually associated with suffering - but that association is illogical. To "sacrifice" means to give up something you want in order to get something you want even more. You "sacrifice" eating deserts in order to get things that are much more valuable to you: good health and a longer life. If you didn't think those things were more important than the deserts, you wouldn't make that choice. So, trading the lesser for the greater should be a source of joy, right? But we suffer because we want the greater AND the lesser. Such is human nature.
Further reading: Your Life Purpose
Comparisons are Odious
Honor (Self Respect)
Quotes about Sacrifice
Unselfish Quotes
Quotes about Service
Pain and Suffering Quotes
Decision Quotes
Suffering Quotes
Friday, October 5, 2012
Conscience
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
Expression of Universal Gratitude
Love or Fear?
Quotes about Conscience
Quotes about Choices
Quotes about Values
Thank You Quotes
Quotes to Live By
Words of Encouragement
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Trust Your Own Advice
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde.
Trust yourself; then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today's affirmation: I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
Further reading: Be the Melody
Before Offering Helpful Advice
Stay Conscious and Aware
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Gentleness and Time
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When I Honor myself,
I am confident of my being,
and I am gentle with myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The North Wind and the Sun - Aesop
I Hope You Dance
Kindness, Compassion, Generosity
Quotes about Gentleness
Quotes about Loving Yourself
Blessings
Quotes about Being Gentle
Quotes about Mercy
Being Thankful Quotes
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When I Honor myself,
I am confident of my being,
and I am gentle with myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The North Wind and the Sun - Aesop
I Hope You Dance
Kindness, Compassion, Generosity
Quotes about Gentleness
Quotes about Loving Yourself
Blessings
Quotes about Being Gentle
Quotes about Mercy
Being Thankful Quotes
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Footprints
Footprints in the sand...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Pay attention.
Don't let resentments or pessimism answer for you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime,
and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time,
it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
- James Branch Cabell
Register to vote NOW - and invite your friends and family to register also.
In most states you can register by mail - but generally you must do so 30 days before the election - that is, before October 6.
Further reading: How to Stay Young
How to be Positive Around Negative People
How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret
Monday, October 1, 2012
Perspective
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Perspective
We All Want Great Results
Is Hope Futile?
Quotes about Perspective
Quotes about Beauty
Quotes about Facts
Quotes about Opinions
Quotes about Politics
Quotes about Truth
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Perspective
We All Want Great Results
Is Hope Futile?
Quotes about Perspective
Quotes about Beauty
Quotes about Facts
Quotes about Opinions
Quotes about Politics
Quotes about Truth
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