We have a good life when we manage to live with both
satisfied and unsatisfied needs,
when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having preferences is a wonderful thing. It is great to know what you want, and to work hard to get it. However, be clear that your preferences are not needs. You can live a fulfilling and joyful life even if you get the oatmeal rather than the cake, the apartment rather than the house, fewer (or more) grandkids than you prefer - even if your preferred political candidate loses the election.
Further reading: Appreciate the Unexpected
Commitments versus Demands
Disappointment
Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice
Demand
Need
Reach
Acceptance
Serenity
Expectations
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, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Choose to Soar
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why settle for less? If you do not yet feel your wings spreading, look for the chains tethering you to your history. You were born wild and free. What happened? Are you willing to break free of your past?
Further reading: Soar
How do you have dreams again?
Live Your Greatest Life
Choose Your Life Purpose
Fly
Be Strong
Inner Strength
Never Give Up
Wings
Monday, July 29, 2013
The Rest of Your Life
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Further reading: Celebrate Today
Seize The Day
Life and Death (video)
Tomorrow
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Attachment Is Not Love
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand – "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The #1 Secret of Great Relationships
What is Love?
Can You Make Them Change?
Love
Freedom
Conformity
Blame
Release
Demands
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Tell The Whole Truth
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
- John Bradshaw
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only good comes from being honest and true.
Only harm and suffering come from falsehood.
It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,
but, in the long run, it does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: White Lies
Integrity
Pretense
Secrets of Happy Couples
Tell The Truth
Falsehood
Morality
Values
Life Lessons
Life
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
- John Bradshaw
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only good comes from being honest and true.
Only harm and suffering come from falsehood.
It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,
but, in the long run, it does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: White Lies
Integrity
Pretense
Secrets of Happy Couples
Tell The Truth
Falsehood
Morality
Values
Life Lessons
Life
Friday, July 26, 2013
Value Completion
All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Complete your lingering projects, and prepare for new beginnings.
Further reading: Keep Your Resolutions
Later is Never
Declare Victory
New Beginnings
Completion
Accomplishment
Endurance
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Complete your lingering projects, and prepare for new beginnings.
Further reading: Keep Your Resolutions
Later is Never
Declare Victory
New Beginnings
Completion
Accomplishment
Endurance
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, July 25, 2013
One More Step
Some days it is a heroic act just to
refuse the paralysis of fear
and straighten up and step into another day.
- Edward Albert
Growth is an erratic forward movement:
two steps forward,
one step back.
Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
- Julia Cameron
Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: One More Mile
Patience
Do What You Can Do
Journey
A New Day
Courage
Growth
Progress
Persistence
refuse the paralysis of fear
and straighten up and step into another day.
- Edward Albert
Growth is an erratic forward movement:
two steps forward,
one step back.
Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
- Julia Cameron
Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: One More Mile
Patience
Do What You Can Do
Journey
A New Day
Courage
Growth
Progress
Persistence
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Silence
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
True silence is the rest of the mind,
and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body,
nourishment and refreshment.
- William Penn
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass -
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Further reading: A Quiet Moment
Quiet Time
Stillness of the Mind
Quiet
Silence
Stillness
Inner Peace
Inner Strength
Being Upset
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Go Through The Motions
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Although it is always better to live with conviction and enthusiasm,
some days it is better just to go through the motions than to do nothing.
Smile even when you feel grumpy.
Meditate or Pray even when you have nothing to say to God.
Cook a healthy meal even when you are tired.
Walk or exercise even when the thought doesn't excite you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Tending the Garden of Our Lives
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Overcome Being Negative
Habit
Excellence
Enthusiasm
Perseverance
Motivation
Smile
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Step Back
Take a step back, evaluate what is important,
and enjoy life.
- Teri Garr
Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: When Life Looks Hopeless
End Overwhelm, Fear, and Worry
Feel Overwhelmed?
Re-Examine All You Think You Know
Pause
Observe Life
Consider
Perspective
Distance
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
All Different - All One
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
[and freedom is equally the right of others to live as they wish]
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling
with other men's concerns.
- Plato
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Live and Let Live
Respect the Uniqueness of Others
Apples and Oranges
A Different Life
Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
Differences
Understanding
Oneness
Justice
Freedom
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
March On
March on. Do not tarry.
To go forward is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Whatever happened, forgive others, forgive yourself,
move forward, live for today and tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Cheer Progress
New Ideas
Forward Together
Your Past
Today's March
The Future
Move On
Progress
Forward
Friday, July 19, 2013
Fear of Striking Out
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Success comes from knowing that you did your best
to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Defeat is not the worst of failures.
Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George Edward Woodberry
Further reading: Be Unstoppable
Endurance
Dare
Begin Today
Motivational Sports Quotes
Mistakes
Fear
Boldness
Defeat
Self Confidence
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Welcome the Rain
Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
- Langston Hughes
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller
I love the rain - it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.
- Play It Again, Sam (1972)
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Give thanks for the rain in your life
which waters the flowers of your soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Growth in Spiritual Life and Career
Accept Circumstances - Choose Response
How to Cope When Life Lands a One-Two Punch?
Great Truths
How to Make Impossible Decisions
Rain
Storm
Rainbows
Changing Seasons
Weather
Sunshine
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Life's Surprises
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
- George Sand
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on your door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Appreciate the Unexpected
The Edge of All We Know
Overcoming Fear
Addicted to safety?
The Unknown
Expectations
Change
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Be a Pillar of Goodness
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- William Shakespeare
Do your little bit of good where you are;
it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- Desmond Tutu
No man or woman can be strong, gentle,
pure, and good, without the world being better for it,
and without someone being helped and comforted by
the very existence of that goodness.
- Phillips Brooks
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
Be a pillar of goodness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Integrity
Pay It Forward
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing - a Parable
Light a Candle
Create Light
Your Legacy
Goodness
Values
A Better Place
Monday, July 15, 2013
Disappointment (Unmet Expectation)
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you say, "no, no, that isn't true," consider that having a pain today is having less good health than yesterday, and aging is having less youth than yesterday.
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Expectations - Demands
"Life is not supposed to be fair." - jlh
Expectations are demands
Question Every Assumption and Expectation
Expectations
Disappointments
Demands
Acceptance
Inner Peace
Letting Go
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Healing
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
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels,
simply by pouring out love.
Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
- Sai Baba
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
- Yoko Ono
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
- Billy Graham
Believe in the goodness of life.
Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.
Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.
Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.
Believe in the laughter of children.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Forgiveness
A Tool for Healing Your Troubles
Allow Healing
Beauty
Pray
Healing
Nature
Love
Goodness
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
The Web of Life
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.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe.
Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole.
All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds
are listened to by all that is.
- Serge Kahili King
He who experiences the unity of life
sees his own Self in all beings,
and all beings in his own Self.
- The Buddha
Let us always meet each other with a smile,
for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
The manifest universe is the body of God ...
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
Further reading: Uniqueness and Unity
Learning To Live Together
One People
Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation
Unity
Connection
Unconditional Love
Opportunity
Peace
Connectedness
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Friday, July 12, 2013
Dance Gently With Life
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Today is your day to dance lightly with life.
Sing wild songs of adventure.
Invite rainbows and butterflies out to play.
Soar your spirit and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
Go With the Flow
Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb
Dance with Life
Storms
Choice
Enjoy
Life is Beautiful
Live Life to the Fullest
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Master of My Fate
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most.
- Stephen Covey
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
[Be of service, but don't be a doormat.]
Today's affirmation:
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Sailboat Metaphor
Take Charge of Your Life
You Are The Pilot
Mastering Time
Life Mastery
Self Esteem
Fate
Quotes to Live By
Success
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Forgiveness
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -- not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
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
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith (often attributed to Mother Teresa)
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else - Forgiving is your gift to yourself - a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgive those who have injured you - not because they deserve your forgiveness, but because you can never be happy until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
Further reading: FORGIVENESS - the second Point of Simply An Inspired Life
Forgiveness and Acceptance, Another Look at the Challenges
A Lesson in Practical Forgiveness
Forgive and Forget? Can You Really Lift Your Burden of Resentments?
Forgiveness
The Past
Pain
Release
Anger
Heart
- Sheri Rosenthal
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
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
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith (often attributed to Mother Teresa)
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else - Forgiving is your gift to yourself - a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgive those who have injured you - not because they deserve your forgiveness, but because you can never be happy until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
Further reading: FORGIVENESS - the second Point of Simply An Inspired Life
Forgiveness and Acceptance, Another Look at the Challenges
A Lesson in Practical Forgiveness
Forgive and Forget? Can You Really Lift Your Burden of Resentments?
Forgiveness
The Past
Pain
Release
Anger
Heart
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Choose To Be Happy
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life
are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful,
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Today, choose happiness.
Further reading: 7 Secrets for a Happy Life
Go With the Flow - Six Ways to Live a Happier Life
Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice
Five Questions to Ask Yourself When You Feel Sad for No Apparent Reason
Inaction breeds doubt and fear - Dale Carnegie
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Daily Worries
What worries you, masters you.
- John Locke
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
To me, faith means not worrying.
- John Dewey
Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
- Yunus Emre
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Today's affirmation:
I reach toward the shining mountains,
beyond the fog of daily worries.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Opportunity
Antidotes for Worry
Lighten Up
Worry
Daily Worries
Affirmations
Relax
Life Is Beautiful
The Meaning of Life
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Dark Days
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Coping with the Impossible
Encouragement for Hard Times
Nothing to look forward to
Life Is Hard?
Light a Candle
Encouraging Thoughts
Positive Thoughts
Strength
Quotes about Life Being Hard
Live, Laugh, Love
Saturday, July 6, 2013
A Strong Foundation
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
- Thomas Kempis
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
Compassion... is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love is the foundation from which your decisions about
your life should be made.
- Darren L. Johnson
Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
- Christine Gregoire
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkley
Further reading: Planting Seeds
A Successful Life
Pleasing Everyone
Decisions
Education
Friendship
Compassion
Foundation
Self Care
Friday, July 5, 2013
Integrity
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Alan K. Simpson
Further reading: When is Your Best Good Enough?
What is Moral versus What is Right
Is Now a Time to be Reasonable?
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Independence - Freedom - Liberty
Have a joyful American Independence Day.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson [Declaration of Independence, and inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some,
are chiefly to be found in democracy,
they will be best attained when all persons alike share
in government to the utmost.
- Aristotle
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Further reading: What is Honor? Is there a place for Honor today?
Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude
Liberty
Independence
Freedom
Gratitude
Respect
Thomas Jefferson
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Re-Examine All You Think You Know
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Focus on the future, rather than the past.
Re-examine all you think you know.
You can mold a future you choose.
Be optimistic, dream and take action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Break Old Patterns of Action
Transformation
Look Deeply
The Jump is So Frightening
Trouble
Study
Future
Joel Osteen
Life Lessons
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Focus on the future, rather than the past.
Re-examine all you think you know.
You can mold a future you choose.
Be optimistic, dream and take action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Break Old Patterns of Action
Transformation
Look Deeply
The Jump is So Frightening
Trouble
Study
Future
Joel Osteen
Life Lessons
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
A Balanced Life
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One has to find a balance between
what people need from you
and what you need for yourself.
- Jessye Norman
Manage the remarkable balance between acting
from your heart and close to your gifts
with completing the obligations
that your labor and tasks require of you.
Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.
- Ron D. Burton
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty,
character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
- Zig Ziglar
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Balance Your Life
Yin-Yang
Harmony
Kick Back
Balance
Intention
Perspective
Need
Obligations
Foundation
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Ancient Eastern Wisdom
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.
- Mencius
Further reading: Overflowing Cup of Tea (Zen Koan)
Zen Koans
Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb
The Wisdom of Gandhi
Confucius
Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)
The Buddha
Quotes to Live By
Words of Wisdom
Inspirational Quotes
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