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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Do Something Crazy
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Do something.
If it doesn't work, do something else.
No idea is too crazy.
- Jim Hightower
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
- Waylon Jennings
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Today is your day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- jlh
Further reading: What lessons might Halloween hold for us?
Dance Lightly with Life
Unfurl Your Joy
Sense of Humor
Be Cheerful
Life Is Not Meant to be Serious
Whimsey
Laughter
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Congratulate Yourself
Congratulate yourself whenever you have done your best,
regardless of the outcome.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Always do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How often we fail to appreciate what we have already accomplished. Take a moment, right now, to congratulate yourself on what you have accomplished today, this week, in your lifetime.
Further reading: Simply Do Your Best
Value Completion
How to Feel Good About Yourself
How to Stay Positive
Take Charge of Your Life
Appreciate Yourself
Risk
Fail
Self Esteem
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Gratitude, Not Worry
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
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
Time and health are two precious assets
that we don't recognize and appreciate
until they have been depleted.
- Denis Waitley
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Power of Gratitude
Life Is Beautiful
Give Thanks
Appreciating Our Blessings
Abundance
Worry
Fear
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Win Some, Lose Some
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Remember you will not always win.
Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat.
But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -
after you have done your best to achieve success today.
- Maxwell Maltz
Defeat is not the worst of failures.
Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George Edward Woodberry
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The Babe, as well as being the Home Run King, led the American League in Strike Outs in 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927 and 1928.
You are certain never to be a winner if you don't take your time at bat. Do your best, and accept with gratitude whatever result you get.
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Feel Better About Yourself
How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret
How to Deal with Rejection
Coping with Heartbreak
Defeat
Failure
Grace
Mistakes
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Feeling Down? Help Someone Else
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Sharing Happiness
Be Cheerful
Helping Others
Feeling Down
Feeling Depressed
Service
Kindness
Unhappy
Sad
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Respect Others
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem,
the more likely one will be to treat others with respect,
kindness, and generosity.
- Nathaniel Branden
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Every human being, of whatever origin,
of whatever station, deserves respect.
We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
- U. Thant
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today's affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
Further reading: How To Be Happy In Life
Is there a place for Honor today?
7 Secrets of Happy Couples
Unique People
Respect
Differences
Diversity
Friday, October 25, 2013
Never Second Guess Yourself
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
Some decisions don't turn out well,
but if you did your best,
you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Never second guess your decisions.
Keep learning, keep trying,
and always do your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Forgive Yourself
Fear of Striking Out
How to get over regrets and resentments
Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb
Mistakes
Your Decisions
Regrets
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Celebrating Our Differences
It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
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: Empathy
Categorizing People
Oneness
Apples and Oranges
Judging People
Differences
Acceptance
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Being Open to Change
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
When you are through changing, you are through.
- Bruce Barton
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
Only when we realize that there is no eternal,
unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in
ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
- Hu Shih
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Further reading: A New Perspective
Rattlesnake of the Mind
Moving Forward
Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
Open Mind
Heart
Change
Open Heart
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Dignity
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked,
but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- Michael J. Fox (afflicted with Parkinson's disease at age 30)
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
- Anne Sophie Swetchine
The primal principle of democracy
is the worth and dignity of the individual.
- Edward Bellamy
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of
labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
- Grover Cleveland
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative
of the dignity of my high vocation,
and its many responsibilities.
Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way
to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
- Mother Teresa
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors,
but in deserving them.
- Aristotle
There is dignity in being of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Is there a place for Honor today?
Self-Care
HONOR - the first Point of Simply An Inspired Life
Live with Honor and Dignity
Dignity
Honor
Self Respect
Monday, October 21, 2013
Progress of the Human Mind
The human mind always makes progress,
but it is a progress in spirals.
- Madame de Stael
There are no constraints on the human mind,
no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our
progress except those we ourselves erect.
- Ronald Reagan
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- Charles Kettering (1876-1958 - holder of 186 US Patents, including the automotive electric starter)
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions,
but laws and institutions must go hand in hand
with the progress of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, more enlightened,
as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered
and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances,
institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
- Thomas Jefferson [inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Further reading: Moving Forward
New Ideas
March On
Progress
Forward Together
Life Lessons
New Beginning
Growing Up
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Believe in People; Believe in Yourself
I Believe In Peace; I Believe In Mercy.
- Malala Yousafzai (shot by the Taliban for advocating education for girls)
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank (died in Nazi concentration camp)
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
When we are no longer able to change a situation -
we are challenged to change ourselves.
- Viktor E. Frankl (Nazi concentration camp survivor)
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Today's affirmation:
I believe in the goodness of people.
I believe in my own inner strength.
Further reading: Anne Frank
Mother Teresa prayer
Not A Victim
Believe in Yourself
Mercy
Peace
Trust
Beauty
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Change of Pace
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
It is important from time to time to slow down,
to go away by yourself, and simply be.
- Eileen Caddy
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- jlh
Further reading: Try Something New
Sloth - so what?
A Balanced Life
Day of Rest
Yin-Yang
Balance and Harmony
New Ideas
Balance
Friday, October 18, 2013
Say NO to Stress
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.
- Dalai Lama
Never be in a hurry;
do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Further reading: Choose Inner Peace and a Less Stressful Life
De-Stress Your Life
Say NO to Stress: 8 Easy and Powerful Ways
Seven Tips for Stress-Free Living
Kick Back
Stop Hurrying
Stop Fighting Against Yourself
Simple Living
Stress
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Discipline
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.
There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward,
backwards, or sideways.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
How to Motivate Yourself
Never Quit
Be Unstoppable
Perseverance
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Choosing the World You Live In
Loving people live in a loving world.
Hostile people live in a hostile world.
Same world.
- Wayne Dyer
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
A mentality of scarcity - of lack -
is the natural consequence of
viewing the world through eyes of fear.
In contrast, when the world is viewed
through eyes of love,
the future becomes unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: You are the Window
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Living Together
Choose Your Attitude
We see what we expect to see
Appearances
Perspective
World
Perception
Choose
Living
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Win-Win vs. Compromise
Most of us think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing --
that is, if I win, you lose; or if you win, I lose.
Life becomes a zero-sum game.
...
Win-win sees life as a cooperative arena, not a competitive one.
Win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks
mutual benefit in all human interactions.
Win-win means agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying.
- Stephen R. Covey
All compromise is based on give and take,
but there can be no give and take on fundamentals.
Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender.
For it is all give and no take.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't compromise yourself.
You are all you've got.
- Janis Joplin
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,
you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,
and all that is left is compromise.
- Robert Fritz
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
Further reading: Understanding
Focus
Living Deeply
Flow
Cooperation
Principles
Answers
Possibility
Monday, October 14, 2013
Arguing
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
- Booth Tarkington
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course In Miracles
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Six Ways to End Bickering About Money
Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open
Assumptions
Question Your Questions
Disagreement
Opinions
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Everything Happens In Its Own Time
Everything happens in its own time.
- old proverb
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
Keep moving.
Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Further reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat
Go With the Flow - Six Ways to Live a Happier Life
Have Patience
Never Give Up on Life
Just Do Your Best
Fortitude
Progress
Patience
Time
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Passing the Torch
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
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world,
who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
- Felix Adler
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation
with any race or nation known to history,
but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.
- Kelly Millar
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Further reading: For Our Children
Pay It Forward
Responsibility to Future Generations
Our Light
Conscience
Friday, October 11, 2013
Tread Lightly
Tread Lightly:
1. Don't step on anyone's toes.
2. Don't look for trouble.
3. Keep your sense of humor.
4. Carry the Light of God wherever you go.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Alexander Pope
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today's affirmation:
I go gently into the world, and radiate kindness.
Further reading: Dance Gently With Life
The Storms of Life
Lighten Up
Live Gently
The Melody Within Your Soul
Create Light
Forgiveness
Acceptance
Gentleness
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Free Will
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Each of us shares a unity with Spirit and all life,
and simultaneously each of us is an individual with free will.
There is a duality to us as separate and as part of the whole.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Take Charge of Your Life
Conscience
Finding Joy
Consciousness
Aesops Fable: The Miller, His Son, and the Ass
Choice
Responsibility
Freedom
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Simply Do Your Best
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your best is ALWAYS good enough.
After you have truly done your best,
release your attachment to the outcome.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Edge of All We Know
No Regrets
Good Deeds
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better
Doing Your Best
Regrets
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Disappointment and Criticism
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
When they are disappointed, most people react by assigning blame,
and finding someone to criticize.
What if we accepted that our disappointments
are seldom the result of malice on the part of anyone,
and worked together to make life better for all.
Further reading: The Serenity Prayer
Times of Trial and Suffering
Why I forgive everyone, especially myself
Why Me?
The #1 Secret of Great Relationships
Don't shoot the messenger
Expectations
Blame
Monday, October 7, 2013
Beauty is Everywhere
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you. Whether rainbow or butterfly, mountain or tree, painting or poem - whether crafted by nature or by a human hand - beauty adds a magical element to life that surpasses logic and science.
Further reading: Life is Beautiful
Perspective
The Commonplace
CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life
Beauty is whatever gives joy
Flowers
Beauty
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Being an Open Channel
God depends on us.
It is through us that God is achieved.
- Andre Gide
We live in a spiritual Universe.
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
- Eric Butterworth
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Today's affirmation:
I am an open channel for God's message of love and kindness for all.
Further reading: Be a Pillar of Goodness
Good Works
Create Light
Grant That I May Radiate
Service
Kindness
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Life is a Song
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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
I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
Smell The Flowers
Six Ways to Live a Happier Life
How to Think Positive
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Bounty of the Earth
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins with the realization
that we have already arrived!
- Michael Bernard Beckwith
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
A Table Grace of Thanksgiving:
We gather today in gratitude for the bounty of the land,
the joyful company around this table,
and all the other blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Gratitude for This Food
Gratitude for Everything
Harvest
Thanksgiving
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
A Little Help from My Friends
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Sharing with Friends
Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude
True Friends
Opinions and Hearts
The Nature of Friendship
Quotes about Friendship
Helping Others
Cooperation
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Simple Pleasures
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is made up of small pleasures.
Happiness is made up of those tiny successes.
The big ones come too infrequently.
And if you don't collect all these tiny successes,
the big ones don't really mean anything.
- Norman Lear
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Simple Joys
Simple Good Things
Living Simply
The Commonplace
How To Be Happy In Life
Simple Living
Appreciation
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Life is a Riddle
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
God is not what you imagine,
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a riddle.
We cannot expect to understand life's twists and turns as they occur each day,
and we greatly frustrate ourselves in the futile attempt.
Be content to appreciate that there is an overarching purpose,
though that purpose be known only to God, and to history.
Choose service. Choose joy. Accept the unknowing.
Further reading: It Is Up To You
Not Knowing
How Life Teaches
The Riddle of War
The Secret of Happiness
How to Choose Your Life Purpose
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