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
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Opening the Door
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail.
It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
- Charles Kettering
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Today's affirmation:
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Think Positive
Success Tip: Drive Change
Keep Going
Never Give Up
Try Again
You Can Do It
Determination
Friday, May 30, 2014
Complaining Creates Unhappiness
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Complaining only makes you miserable.
Either plan and take effective action,
or gracefully accept the circumstances you are called upon to bear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Serenity Prayer
Disappointment
Aesop: The Fox and the Grapes
Serenity in Times of Crisis
Is today the day to find joy?
A Different Life
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Inner Beauty
People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed
only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Outer show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- Aesop
True beauty is more than skin deep.
Love the person, not the appearance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: You are Beautiful
Where Does Beauty Live?
Inner Smile Exercise
What Lies Within Us
Finding Beauty
Inner Beauty
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
What You See
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Question Your Questions
Choosing the World You Live In
Beauty is Everywhere
Perspective on the Past
Be an Observer of Life
Profound Questions
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Choose Your Priorities
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles
and important matters as important.
- Doris Lessing
It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff.
- Richard Carlson
Read several of Richard Carlson's 100 ideas from Don't Sweat The Small Stuff.
If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Focus
Know The Difference
How to Choose Your Life Purpose
What Really Matters?
Demands of the World
The Power Of Choice
Priorities
Focus
Attention
Monday, May 26, 2014
Remembering
Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
A hero is someone who has given his life
to something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Further Reading: Memorial Day Quotes
Words of Comfort on the Death of a Loved One
Missing Someone
Coping With Loss, Grief, and Mortality
Service
Sacrifice
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
The Seventh Day
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- Sydney Harris
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
- Ovid
Let today be a day of rest - a day not to work, not to worry, not to regret.
Let today be a day to be apart from the world - a day to turn off the television news.
Let today be a day of repose and reflection.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Rest and Relax
Choose Inner Peace
Think a Kind Thought Today
Gratitude for All of Life
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Creating Balance
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
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: Finding Balance in Life
Living in Harmony
Balance Service with Play
Tips for Stress-Free Living
A Balanced Life
Balance - Counterpoint
Friday, May 23, 2014
Labels
Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Read about the power of naming.
People always want to put a label on you;
they always want to compare you to something.
- Carrot Top
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble
dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
- William Glasser
Labels are for cans, not people.
- Anthony Rapp
Labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
- Michael Graves
I try to look for the good in everybody,
regardless of the way they're labeled.
- Richard Thompson
Further reading: Categorizing People
What Do You See?
Perspective
Judging Others
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil
Perception
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Pursue Your Dreams
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Life expands to fill your dreams.
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
To live a great life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
Today's affirmation:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How To Not Care What Others Think
How to Choose Your Life Purpose
Later is Never
Dream
A Shared Dream
Follow Your Dreams
Perseverance
Take Action
Life Purpose
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Making a Decision
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.
If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
- Tony Robbins
Results = Decision + Action
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
- Amelia Earhart
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition
of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
- Scott Adams (creator of the Dilbert comic strip)
Making a wrong decision is understandable.
Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
- Phil Crosby
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
Decide without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret
Every decision you make ...
Never Second Guess Yourself
Difficult Choices
Action
Decisions
Quotes about Making a Decision
Choose Well
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Not Fair, But Joyful
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Read more about this...
Further reading: When You Have Been Wronged
Love All of Life
Question Your Questions
7 Secrets for a Happy Life
Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice
Not Fair
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Monday, May 19, 2014
What is Defeat?
What is defeat? Nothing but education.
Nothing but the first step to something better.
- Wendell Phillips
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
Play to win, but be cheerful in defeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Overcoming Difficulties
Serenity in Times of Crisis
Do not rail against life
Strength In Hard Times
Life's Storms
A Hard Life
Never Give Up
Adversity
Crisis
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Perspective on Diversity
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority
may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
- James Madison
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Live and Let Live
Know that Spirit transcends all cultural differences and embraces all creation
Each To Their Own
All Creation
A common denominator of all religions...
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Realizing Success
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
There is a real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Mastery of Life
Live With Enthusiasm
What Is Success?
How Much Do You Want It?
Friday, May 16, 2014
When It's Darkest
When It’s Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Coping with the Impossible
Just Before Dawn
Nothing to look forward to
Every Day, a New Day
Is Hope Futile?
Stars
Darkness
Challenge
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Your Thoughts
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
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
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Further reading: Life Is A Mirror
Your Own Darkness
Choose your own life
Intentional Living
Thought
Within
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Being the Melody
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
Write the melody and the lyrics.
Be the soloist and the conductor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
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 R. Covey
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
[Be of service, but don't be a doormat.]
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Further reading: Where Are You Going?
How to Choose Your Life Purpose
Choices
The Meaning of Life
What guides you and maintains your direction?
Awareness
Direction
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Renew Yourself
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly -
spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity
to renew itself and create order.
- Susan Taylor
It is important from time to time to slow down,
to go away by yourself, and simply be.
- Eileen Caddy
Let today be a day to renew your health, your energy, and your spirit.
Further reading: Self-Care
Renewal
A Balanced Life
Health
Don't Struggle
Having a Plan
Nature
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Monday, May 12, 2014
How We Learn
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
Learning is the beginning of wealth.
Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality.
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
- Jim Rohn
Education is not the answer to the question.
Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
- William Allin
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Learning From History
Learning Through Observation
Lifelong Learning
How Life Teaches
Learning and Knowledge
Education
Teacher
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
The Power of Unconditional Love
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy
Love is the greatest force for good.
- jlh
Further reading: Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing - a Parable
Unconditional Love
Living from Your Heart
Intentional Living
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
More quotes about Unconditional Love
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Know Yourself
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
How strange that, although we dwell within ourselves,
we seldom know what we truly want
or what we truly believe about important matters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today's Affirmation:
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- jlh
Further reading: Look well into thyself
Be a Seeker
Be Yourself
A Different Drummer
Seek the Truth
Life Lessons
Life is Amazing
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Friday, May 9, 2014
Injustice
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
If everyone howled at every injustice,
every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness,
then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
- Nelson DeMille
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to
agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
- Bryant H. McGill
If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- Desmond Tutu
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
-Steve Maraboli
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth
and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner
Further reading: Being Big - Standing Tall
Doing Right
A Single Step
Do What You Can Do
Unconditional Love
All Different - All One
Justice
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Creating Opportunities
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All events, occurrences, and situations
turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Further reading: Our Opportunity
Be Brave and Chase Your Dreams
What is Your Dream?
How To Get A Job
Life Purpose - another look
Creating Yourself
Hard Work
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Difficulties Offer Opportinities
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
In the midst of crisis, boldly seize opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: When one door closes...
Overcoming Disability
Fired and Depressed
Is failure the key to success?
How to Cope With Life
Challenges
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Feeling Blessed
When you arise in the morning,
give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength.
Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.
- Tecumseh
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
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Gratitude for This Food
My Glass of Life
What do you take for granted?
Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life
Thank You God
The Power of Gratitude
Being Thankful
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Monday, May 5, 2014
Don't Fight Against Time
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't fight against time.
Develop a comfort and friendship with time.
Time enjoyed is never time wasted.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today's affirmation: Time is my friend.
Further reading: Your Relationship with Time
Make Time For Yourself
The Edge
Everything Happens In Its Own Time
Time
Urgency
Balance
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Blaming
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The impulse to blame something or someone is foolishness.
There is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
As soon as we find someone to blame,
we act as if we've solved the problem.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Accusation of "Fault"
Why I Choose to Believe that Others are Never the Cause of My Unhappiness
Disappointment and Criticism
Judging Others
Categorizing People
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Where do you want to go?
One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
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
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ...
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
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 R. Covey
Choose your life purpose, and excel at living into that purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose
Why?
How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret
Purpose and Direction
Choices
Life Purpose
The Meaning of Life
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Robert Frost,
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Friday, May 2, 2014
Our Habits
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown (also attributed to Albert Einstein)
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
Most of us are prisoners of habit, and don't even notice that we do the same things, think the same things, want the same things each day - mostly without conscious thought.
Today, examine your beliefs, your actions, your wants, to determine whether they still represent your highest purpose.
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Habits - Like Water to a Fish
How to Break Your Bad Habit
Life Choices
Discipline
Getting Better
Habit
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Overcoming Anger
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Further reading: How to Stop Anger Before it Stops You
Can You Really Lift Your Burden of Resentments?
12 Ways to De-Stress Your Life
Moderating the Anger Response Through Training
Trust, Forgiveness, and Feeling Wronged
Fault
Awareness
Anger
Forgiveness
Fear
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