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, April 30, 2014
Happiness Depends upon Ourselves
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C.P. Snow
Today's affirmation:
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Finding Joy
Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
The Secret of Happiness
What Causes Unhappiness?
Choose To Be Happy
How to be Happier in Life
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
True Friends
A friend is someone who knows all about you
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future, and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Anonymous
Further reading: The Meaning of Friendship
Happy Friends, Happy You
Support
You Can't Make Them Change
Gratitude for Friends
Questions to Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice
Friendship
Monday, April 28, 2014
What's Done is Done
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time
to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
Stop holding on to the past.
Release your regrets about whatever you may have done
or failed to do that turned out poorly.
Forgive others for whatever they may have done
or failed to do that cause you harm.
Declare today to be a new beginning.
Let go of the past and move on with creating
a joyful new future for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Attachment Is Not Love
How to Move On and Let Go
A ceremony for releasing your troubles
Beyond the Grief of Divorce - 7 Steps Toward New Beginnings
Letting Go
Moving On
New Beginnings
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Life is Really Simple
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Basics
Simple Pleasures
Simple Needs
True Riches
Kick Back
Simple Life
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Enjoy a Walk Today
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
If a person walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let today be a day to spend time alone in nature. Take a walk as far from the hustle and bustle of society as you can. If you can, walk near trees or water.
Further reading: What To Do When Your Whole World Is Falling Apart?
Your Life
Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Being Alone
Walking
Nature
Solitude
Friday, April 25, 2014
Travel
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Dare to dream of your great success
Boldly Sail the Storms of Life
One World
The World is My Family
Travel
World
Point of View
Observer
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Water
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
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
Give thanks for the rain in your life
which waters the flowers of your soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The World We Leave Our Children
Water
Natural World
The true meaning of life
Rain
Gratitude for Our Blessings
Watering
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Do What You Can
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
The best portion of a good man's life is his little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Kent Keith (frequently attributed to Mother Teresa)
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
- Bob Proctor
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Feed Just One
Take Action Today
Opportunity for Kindness
Manage Small Fires
A Single Step
John Wooden
Theodore Roosevelt
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Keeping Secrets
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
The man who can keep a secret may be wise,
but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
- Edgar Watson Howe
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
- Jean Racine
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence
you have not already tested.
- Elizabeth I
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
If you don't want others to know about it, don't do it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Pass the Word
Integrity
How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret
Secrets of Happy Couples
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Monday, April 21, 2014
Honor
Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws control the lesser man.
Right conduct controls the greater one.
- Mark Twain
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- Aristotle
To live is to choose.
But to choose well, you must know who you are
and what you stand for, where you want to go
and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Further reading: What is Honor? Is there a place for Honor today?
The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life
Honor
Conscience
The Test
Dignity
Sunday, April 20, 2014
The Message of Easter
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
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
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
One who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
Today, Easter, the most Holy day on the Christian calendar, is a day to celebrate our spiritual natures. We are not just bones and flesh, chemicals and electricity, we are beings of Spirit, one with each other and one with the eternity and infinity of Creation.
On this day, let us affirm the core values of unconditional love of all humans and an uncompromising commitment to caring for all who are sick, infirm, or troubled - as expressed in the biblical story of the Good Samaritan. (Read more on Loving your enemies, the Golden Rule, and the parable of The Good Samaritan)
Further reading: Jesus own Words about Forgiveness and Unconditional Love
Love even those who hate you
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
Don't Settle for "Good Enough"
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Good enough never is.
- Debbi Fields
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
- Thomas Merton
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't settle for "good enough."
Decide what you want for yourself,
and be the best you can be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Do more of what inspires you
Pleasing Everyone
Don't be Limited by what is "Reasonable"
Goals
Live Your Best Life
Perseverance
Enthusiasm
Living Life to the Fullest
Never Give Up
Friday, April 18, 2014
Going Home to God
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
"I go to prepare a place for you."
- John 14:2
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
While we are mourning the loss of our friend,
others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
- John Taylor
Further reading: Have a Conversation With God, Today
Unanswered Prayers
Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation
Death - Comfort
Aging With Grace
Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving
Spiritual Thoughts
From the Bible
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Growing Up - Staying Young
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Too many people grow up.
That's the real trouble with the world,
too many people grow up. They forget.
- Walt Disney
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Don't go through life - grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Stay Young
Never Stop Learning
Staying Young
Never Too Old
Unstoppable Youth
The Power of Laughter
A Young Child
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Forgive Others for Your Own Sake
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The key to forgiveness is to forgive
from the heart -- not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
People are often unreasonable,
illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith (often attributed to Mother Teresa)
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.
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else -
Forgiving is your gift to yourself - a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Stop Anger Before it Stops You
FORGIVENESS - the second Point of Simply An Inspired Life
How to Forgive and Move On
Forgiveness and Acceptance, Another Look at the Challenges
How to Move On and Let Go
Why I Choose to Believe that Others are Never the Cause of My Unhappiness
Anger
Forgiving
- don Miguel Ruiz
The key to forgiveness is to forgive
from the heart -- not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
People are often unreasonable,
illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith (often attributed to Mother Teresa)
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.
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else -
Forgiving is your gift to yourself - a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Stop Anger Before it Stops You
FORGIVENESS - the second Point of Simply An Inspired Life
How to Forgive and Move On
Forgiveness and Acceptance, Another Look at the Challenges
How to Move On and Let Go
Why I Choose to Believe that Others are Never the Cause of My Unhappiness
Anger
Forgiving
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
The Test is How We Care for Society's Children
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
Taxes are a very low price for the benefits of living in a civilized society.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: For Our Children
Gratitude for Our Blessings
Passing the Torch
What Is Life All About?
Civic Responsibility
Community
Cooperation
Children
Monday, April 14, 2014
A Life of Abundance
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins
with the realization that we have already arrived!
- Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith
Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How good things really are
True Riches
Bounty of the Earth
Enjoy Life
Abundance
Gratitude
Truly Rich
Being Content
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Sunday, April 13, 2014
Choosing Inner Peace
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Dalai Lama
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamor.
- Charles Stanley
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Conscious Breathing to Relieve Stress
Bringing Peace
Know The Difference
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff
Surrender
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Inner Peace
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Too Serious?
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly
toward the solution that is certain to come.
Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho
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
Further reading: What If Every Day Were Your Day - Celebrate Whimsey Today
Tread Lightly
Dance Gently With Life
Today is Your Day
Sense of Humor
Smiling
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Friday, April 11, 2014
A Hard Life
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Whenever you say or even think, "This is hard," that task or challenge becomes difficult. Dread it, and it becomes terrifying.
When you choose to move past fear - fear of failure, fear of embarrassment, fear of "looking bad," fear of losing respect - life becomes much lighter, and most any task becomes possible - perhaps even enjoyable. Most any challenge can become an adventure of discovery.
Adversity can crush our spirit - or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Do not rail against life
How to Cope With Life
Life is Really Simple
Why Me, God?
Strength In Hard Times
Overcome Being Negative
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Your Own Darkness
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Further reading: How to Find Yourself
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Go and Do Likewise
Humble Yet Confident
You Are Loved
Cast the First Stone
Making Mistakes
Sin
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Shame
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Our Grandchildren's Planet
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Further reading: Spend Time In Nature
The World We Leave Our Children
Walking
Bounty of the Earth
Natural World
Find Joy in Nature
Our Earth
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Our Grandchildren
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude
Your Life Purpose
Your Legacy
A man's good name is his best monument
Children
Monday, April 7, 2014
Trust Your Intuition
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your inner knowing is your only true compass.
- Joy Page
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice.
It is within everyone.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Today's affirmation:
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition
to deliver powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Three Rules of Life
Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation
Your Inner Voice
Ask from a Compassionate Heart
Intuition
Heart
Inner Knowing
Inner Voice
Vision
Compass
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Sunday, April 6, 2014
Trust
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Trust in the Light
7 Secrets of Happy Couples
What or who do you trust?
Can you trust and if so who?
Take Nothing On Authority
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Flexibility
The boldness of asking deep questions may require
unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
- Brian Greene
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Let no one think that flexibility
and a predisposition to compromise
is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
- Paul Kagame
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley
In science the important thing is to modify and change
one's ideas as science advances.
- Herbert Spencer
Be resolute in your goals, but flexible in your tactics.
There are times that call for repetition and perseverance;
and there are times that require new ways of thinking and doing.
The challenge is knowing one from the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Be Flexible
Practice makes perfect - sometimes
I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself
New Ideas
Beyond Your Comfort Zone
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Friday, April 4, 2014
Reverence
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
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
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Further reading: A Parent's Gift
The Edge of All We Know
Your Path
The Universal Sacrament of Compassion
Choosing Celebration
The Small Miracles of Our Life
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
The Power of Courage
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Three Rules of Life
Courage and Intent
Hoist the Anchor
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Only Your Own Approval
Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
If you find yourself unwilling to take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life and have given your destiny to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
further reading: Dealing With Rejection
How To Not Care What Others Think
Aesop's Fables: The Miller, His Son, and the Ass
How to Build Self Esteem
You are Important
Self Esteem
Self Respect
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Looking Foolish
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have
the possibility of being great.
- Cher
There's something liberating about not pretending.
Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
- Drew Barrymore
People do not wish to appear foolish.
To avoid the appearance of foolishness,
they are willing to remain actually fools.
- Alice Walker
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance
to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Further reading: April Fool
Celebrate Whimsey Today
Do Something Crazy
Dare
Courage
Failure
Humor
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