Happy Easter

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther

Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring,
who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
- B. C. Forbes

This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8

Further reading: Easter message: Love even those who hate you

Jesus own Words about Forgiveness and Unconditional Love

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Power of Teamwork

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

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Individual commitment to a group effort -
that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi 

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to
reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy

Further reading: Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today

The Best Leader

My Personal Greatest Hero

Better Than Competition 

Quotes about Teamwork

Quotes about Commitment

Encouraging Quotes

Quotes about Success

My Quotes about Unity

My Quotes about Dreams

Take Charge of Your Life

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Build Self Esteem and Self Confidence

How to Feel Good About Yourself

Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life

Dreams of Your Great Future

The Power of Gratitude

Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't
come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Koenig

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Regarding gratitude and life

Gratitude for Small Miracles

Comparisons are Odious

Gratitude Quotes

Joy of Living Quotes

Happiness Quotes

Appreciation Quotes

Quotes about Struggle

Life's Burdens

Forgive Yourself

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself -
have the compassion to forgive others,
and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:  How to get over regrets and resentments

How to Move On and Let Go

Regrets, Resentments and the Path to Forgiveness

Forgiveness Quotes

Regret Quotes

Mistakes Quotes

Letting Go Quotes

Moving On Quotes

Lessons Quotes

Make Time For Yourself

Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous

Further reading: How to Stay Young

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Time is What We Make of It

Overwhelm

The Storm of Life

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

How to Move On and Let Go

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Storm Quotes

Gratitude Quotes

Quotes about Storms

Dance Quotes

Rain Quotes

Rainbow Quotes

The Melody Within Your Soul

There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir

Knowledge is of the mind, wisdom is of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Tending the Garden of Our Lives

Kindness and Charity

Great Truths

Soul Quotes

Quotes about Angels

Quotes about Noise

Quotes about Beauty

Music Quotes

Words of Wisdom

Non-Resistance

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

Today's affirmation:
I practice non-resistance.
I accept the wisdom of God
in creating the world exactly as it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb

Love All of Life

The River of Life (Poem)

Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open

Quotes about Serenity

Quotes about Resistance

Quotes about Acceptance

Quotes about Suffering

The Serenity Prayer

My Positive Affirmations

Stress, Anger, and Forgiveness

You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James

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

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

Further reading: Forgive and Forget? Can You Really Lift Your Burden of Resentments?

Stop Anger Before it Stops You - 7 Secrets

12 Ways to De-Stress Your Life

Quotes about Stress

Quotes about Anger

Quotes about Forgiveness

Peace Quotes

Wound Quotes

Comforting Quotes

Balance and Harmony

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures,
the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations -
each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy,
bound together by cosmic harmony.
- Ruth Bernhard

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas.
That is probably the only way to achieve a measure
of harmony in one's life.
- Napoleon Hill

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to
live in total harmony with the Lord.
- Sai Baba

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

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: 12 Ways to De-Stress Your Life

Make Healthy Choices to Relieve Stress

Try Meditation

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Quotes about Harmony

Quotes about Balance

Quotes about Nature

Quotes about Energy

Quotes about Creation

Quotes to Live By

End Overwhelm, Fear, and Worry

Can you imagine a life with no fear?
What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
- Max Lucado

One who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things,
then I should have said, "God, why me?"
about the good things that happened in my life.
- Arthur Ashe
Tennis star Arthur Ashe died at age 49 after contracting HIV from a blood transfusion he received during heart bypass surgery.

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

The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love and Trust God.
Everything God touches is good - and God touches everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Feel Overwhelmed?

Go With the Flow - Six Ways to Live a Happier Life

Trust in the Light

Unanswered Prayers

Quotes about Worry

Quotes about Trust

Quotes about God

Quotes about Faith

Quotes about Fear

Inspirational Quotes

Live and Let Live

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Read my thoughts about this saying.

Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling
with other men's concerns.
- Plato

We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale

Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Let It Be
- Paul McCartney

The phrase "live and let live" is so familiar that it fails to carry the profound impact it deserves. Much of the true wisdom of life is captured in this simple saying. It addresses the rights of others to their own beliefs and actions, as well as a warning about meddling in the affairs of others.

Let today be a day to honor and respect the beliefs and lifestyles of your extended family, your friends, your neighbors, your fellow citizens, and all those around the world.

Further reading: Our Bond of Humanity

God grant me the serenity...

Another Perspective

Be Content

All Religions

Meddling - 5 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice

Do Unto Others Quotes

Acceptance Quotes

Diversity Quotes

Quotes about Meddling

Quotes about Evil

Reason

If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind

The ultimate authority must always rest
with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Practice Conscious Awareness

Rules For Living A Successful Life

What is Moral versus What is Right

Photo of the Hubble Space Telescope courtesy of NASA.

Irish Blessings for St Patricks Day

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Traditional Irish Blessing

May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours, wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing

May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing

Further reading: Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Have a Conversation With God, Today

Abundance or Scarcity? Love or Fear?

Thank You Quotes

Words of Encouragement

Serenity Quotes

Meaning of Life Quotes

Spiritual Quotes

Words of Comfort on the Death of a Loved One

Overcoming Fear

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous

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

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

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.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As you follow world events and especially politics, try to avoid fanning the flames of fear and hatred.

Further reading: 3 great quotes

Awareness

Risk

Quotes about Fear

Courage Quotes

Adventure Quotes

Quotes about Hate

Quotes about Anger

Quotes about Danger

Looking For Love

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- Rumi

Love isn't something you find.
Love is something that finds you.
- Loretta Young

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at
one's friends and family and see if love is all around.
If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
- Jasmine Guy

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy

Seek not outside yourself.
- A Course in Miracles

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Further reading: The #1 Secret of Great Relationships

What is Love?

Overcoming Obstacles

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

Real obstacles don't take you in circles.
They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher

Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
- Robert H. Schuller

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

How to Motivate Yourself

Later is Never

Quotes about Overcoming Obstacles

Quotes about Strength

Quotes about Adversity

Quotes about Overcoming

Courage Quotes

Quotes about Fear

Key to Happiness

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie

Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll

Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

How to be Happier in Life

Personal Mottos for Happiness

Happiness Quotes

Mottos to Live By

Attitude Quotes

Gratitude Quotes

Acceptance Quotes

Serenity Prayer

A Different Life

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis

Further reading: Different and yet the Same

Apples and Oranges

Harmony with the Universe

Drive Change

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

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

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton 

Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The nature of life is constant change. The world is not the same today as it was yesterday, and it will be different still tomorrow. We can be victims of that change, or we can proactively drive change.

The way of success: Visualize the end result, Plan, Take action, Persevere, Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.

Further reading: Adapt to Change

You're In Charge

Intention versus Expectation (Demand)

Quotes about Change

Quotes about Action

Letting Go Quotes

Grow Quotes

Begin Quotes

Now Quotes

Power of Faith

Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Faith has to do with things that are not seen
and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado

Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Further reading: Miracles Need Both God and You

A Story of Money

How God Works - old story retold

Dream To Reality

Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin

May Your Most Beautiful Dreams Become Your Reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Climb Every Mountain

Create Your Future

Dreams and Goals

Our Challenge

The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

I will greet this day with love in my heart.
And how will I do this?
Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again.
I will love the sun for it warms my bones;
yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit.
I will love the light for it shows me the way;
yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart;
yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul.
I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due;
yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
- Og Mandino

Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Limits

The Eye-of-the-Storm

Overcoming Fear

Life only appears to be rushing toward us

Discovery and adventure, rather than fear

Impossible?

Opportunity Quotes

Quotes about Challenge

Quotes about The Unknown

Quotes about Adventure

Quotes about Possibility

Uniqueness and Unity

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Overcoming Disability
 
Fired and Depressed
 
What is Moral versus What is Right

Quotes about Uniqueness

Quotes about Unity

Quotes about Connection

Quotes about Being True To Yourself

Right Path Quotes

Quotes about Balance

Changing Others

We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have no ability whatsoever to change anyone other than yourself. You can only cause yourself great suffering if you try.

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Further reading: Don't Take It Personally

Two Rules For Living A Successful Life

The #1 Secret of Great Relationships

Seeing Others

The Canvas Of Life

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman

I am the poet of my mind.
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The canvas of life awaits You -
the painter of your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Affirmation:
I boldly paint my dreams upon the canvas of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How do you have dreams again?

Practice Conscious Awareness

Living A Successful Life

Enjoy Your Life

Joy is what happens to us
when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is not about perfection -
or a quest for perfection.
Life is about enjoying what we have -
for as long as we have it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Doors will open

Play full-out and enjoy all of Life

Who said that life had to be serious?

Rainbows

Change who you think you are

Stay adaptable, stay Joyful

Follow Your Dreams Quotes

Be Happy Don't Worry Quotes

Blessings

Inspirational Quotes - Browse or search my huge quotes database

Strength In Hard Times

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

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life.
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
- Lord Byron

Further reading: Hard Times

Overcoming Obstacles

Gather Strength

False Knowledge

Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

The more opinions you have, the less you see.
- Wim Wenders

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you have a very strong FEELING that something is true, often it isn't.
WANTING something to be true doesn't make it true.
Likewise, being AFRAID that something is true doesn't make it true either.

Further reading: The Danger of Assumptions

Truth isn't True. Reality isn't Real.

Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind

Quotes about Knowledge

Quotes about Opinion

Quotes about Beliefs

Quotes about Assumptions

Quotes about Truth

Quotes about Ignorance

You Are Not A Victim

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality,
their own dream.
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others,
you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Most of us believe that we have
been betrayed by someone outside of us -
in other words someone has done something to hurt us,
been dishonest or broken a promise made:
some trust in some concept was broken.
Indeed someone may have taken an action
that took only their needs into consideration,
they may have not followed through on a promise made,
and they may have not told you the truth.
But their actions have nothing to do with you
and have everything to do with them.
That's why no one can do anything TO you.
They can take actions that involve you that you may not like -
But you are not a victim, no way, no how.
- Sheri Rosenthal

We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

Further reading: You are not a victim - article by Sheri Rosenthal

Why I Choose to Believe that Others are Never the Cause of My Unhappiness

FORGIVENESS

Attitude Quotes

Point Of View Quotes

Circumstances Quotes

Quotes about Suffering

Quotes about Hurt

Quotes about Trust