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
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Your Most Important Values
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't know what your destiny will be, but 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
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
Today's project:
Meaningful and joyful lives are lived by adhering to one's personal value system - one's principles. Today, write your six to eight most important values on an index card, and refer to that card as you go about your life today.
Further reading: The Things Divine
Eight Points of An Inspired Life - Keys to Happiness
What You Know Is Right
Daily Journaling - How to Begin a Rewarding Journaling Practice
What We Are Made Of
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Saturday, November 29, 2014
Radiate Your Happiness to the World
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness is like a kiss.
You must share it to enjoy it.
- Bernard Meltzer
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Choosing to live a happy life is not only our greatest gift to ourselves,
it is also the greatest gift we can give to those around us.
When we are happy, we radiate happiness, and that is infectious.
Consider giving the gift of happiness to yourself as being your gift to all humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Happiness Depends upon Ourselves
Sharing Happiness
Happiness in Cheering Others
Cease Striving to Find Happiness
Choose Joy Anyway
A Happy Life
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Friday, November 28, 2014
The Whole Leap
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Looking Foolish
Live Courageously
Take Action - Now
Live Your Greatest Life
The story behind "the jump is so frightening" - Mary Anne Radmacher
Be Unstoppable
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Thursday, November 27, 2014
Thanksgiving 2014
As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In a world where so many are hungry,
may we eat this food with humble hearts;
in a world where so many are lonely,
May we share this friendship with joyful hearts.
- Anonymous
For food that stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
- Anonymous
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing
Today's affirmation:
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving
Bounty of the Earth
Thanksgiving: A Day of Gratitude
A List of Gratitudes - a Thanksgiving
Zero-Based Gratitude
Thank You God
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Choose to be Cheerful
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
We all have possibilities we don't know about.
We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
- Dale Carnegie
Affirmation: I welcome this day with a cheerful face.
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
What is Defeat?
How to Stay Positive
Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Cheer Someone Else Up
Secrets of Happy Couples
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Faith in a Great Future
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
What we speak becomes the house we live in.
- Hafiz
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
There are all kinds of futures.
There is a hoped-for future,
there is a feared future,
there is a predictable future,
and there is an unimagined future.
- Werner Erhard
Further reading: Power of Your Thoughts
Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation
Bringing Peace
Simply Do Your Best
The Edge of All We Know
Power of Imagination
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Monday, November 24, 2014
Opportunity for Daily Thanksgiving
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
Further reading: The Miracle of Gratitude
Choose Joy Anyway
Thank You Prayer
Rejoice
Attitude toward Gratitude
Thankful Heart
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Appreciating Friends
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 the one who walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Choosing Your Friends
Happy Friends, Happy You
A Little Help from My Friends
Sharing with Friends
Opinions and Hearts
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Rising Again
Our greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius [quoted by, and often attributed to, Oliver Goldsmith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nelson Mandela]
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is
that one comes from a strong will,
and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
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: Keep Moving
Dream. Begin. Persevere.
Mental Attitude
There is a Way
Realizing Success
Stand Up To Your Obstacles
Friday, November 21, 2014
Life in Bold Colors
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Refuse to be average.
Let your heart soar as high as it will.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Normal is not something to aspire to,
it's something to get away from.
- Jodie Foster
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Be Bold
Don't Wait - Begin Today
Flexibility
The Power of Courage
Dare
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Letting Go - Moving On
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
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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 caused 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: Take Charge of Your Life - 9 Secrets For Getting Un-Stuck
Forgiveness Releases the Past
A Better Plan
Never Look Back
Let Go... and Become
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
To Thine Own Self Be True
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity
is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
- Thomas S. Monson
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
- Osho
To be a person of true greatness...
Live with honor.
Respect yourself.
Respect others.
Act honorably.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Value Honor, Not Ego
Stand Tall and Proud
What We Are Made Of
Honor
Dignity
Self-Care
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Everything is a Miracle
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C.S. Lewis
The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.
- Leonard Nimoy
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love:
the more they give,
the more they possess.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything is a miracle.
It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's
bath like a lump of sugar.
- Pablo Picasso
Today's affirmation: I see the miracle in all of life. I am thankful for all creation.
Further reading: Everything is God
Zero-Based Gratitude
Trust in the Light
Appreciate the Unexpected
Unanswered Prayers
Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life
Monday, November 17, 2014
What is Age but a Number
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You are only as old as you think you are.
- Anonymous
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is age but a number.
What you can dream, you can become, at any age.
Live your best life, not your age.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Growing Up - Staying Young
Never Too Late
Staying Young
A New Year, A New Beginning
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Sunday, November 16, 2014
Dangers of Pessimism
If we say, "This is never going to work..."
then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill.
- Helen Keller
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
- William James
Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Bright Side
Optimism
Staying Positive
Be the Melody
Accentuate the Positive
Mental Attitude
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Proactive in Our Love
We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Infuse your life with action.
Don't wait for it to happen.
Make it happen.
Make your own future.
Make your own hope.
Make your own love.
And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator,
not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high,
but by doing what you can to make grace happen...
yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
- Bradley Whitford
Further reading: God Grant Me The Wisdom
Faith Plus Action
Do What You Can
Good Works
Opportunity for Kindness
Friday, November 14, 2014
Balance in All Things
A time for everything: a time to relax and a time to be busy,
a time to frolic and a time to lay up food for the winter,
a time to receive and a time to give,
a time to begin and a time to finish.
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One has to find a balance between
what people need from you
and what you need for yourself.
- Jessye Norman
Change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.
- Ron D. Burton
We have an obligation to live in harmony with God's creation.
- Bruce Babbitt
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Further reading: Balance vs. Moderation: Eight Ways to Balance Your Life
Creating Balance
A List of Gratitudes
Renew Yourself
Yin-Yang
Living in Harmony
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Thursday, November 13, 2014
Natural Web
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- generally attributed to Chief Seattle
but actually written by Ted Perry in 1972
The manifest universe is the body of God ...
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
Further reading: The World is My Family
Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All Brothers and Sisters
Uniqueness and Unity
One People
Everything is God
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Humility is Strength
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren
Humility is not cowardice.
Meekness is not weakness.
Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
- Swami Sivananda
It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.
- Debra Wilson
Pride makes us artificial, and humility makes us real.
- Thomas Merton
Further reading: Value Honor, Not Ego
Humble Places
Respect
Love Your Neighbor
Self-Importance
On importance - read this first - then this
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Honoring Our Roots
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds.
The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe,
aren't even aware of.
- Ellen Goodman
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
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Rekindling the Light
A Parent's Gift
Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
The Trouble with Conformity
Quotes about Tradition
Monday, November 10, 2014
Standing Together
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Learning To Live Together
Love Your Neighbor
Mutually Beneficial
A Shared Dream
Win-Win vs. Compromise
One World
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Fulfilling Your Dreams
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Further reading: Follow Your Dreams
Unity with Spirit and All Creation
Live With Enthusiasm
Dream. Begin. Persevere.
Pursue Your Dreams
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Positive Affirmations
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
There is great power in daily positive affirmations.
Consider beginning the practice of adopting an affirmation each day.
Use some of my positive affirmations, or let them inspire you to create your own.
Further reading: Are your affirmations about your life positive or negative?
Attitude is Everything
How to Think Positive
Think Positive, Act Positive, Believe Positive
Friday, November 7, 2014
Simply Marvelous
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
- Bill Moyers
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Aristotle
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
What You See
Simple Joys
Things Divine
A Thankful Heart
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Dancing Through Life
I will dance a little. I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, to meet a new friend,
to bring joy into someone's life,
to feel the wind newly on your skin,
to touch a new fear and a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
to find an ample measure of your own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Remember that you are the captain of your ship of life
Live Fully
We Come This Way But Once
Live Deeply
Leading by Example
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Your Whole Toolkit
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Read my thoughts about this...
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
- Alan Lewis
[Sometimes a bigger hammer works, but it isn't a very creative approach.]
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful
than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
Little men with little minds and little imaginations
go through life in little ruts,
smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
- Zig Ziglar
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
If your only tool is a bomb,
you tend to see every problem as a target.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Our Habits
9 Secrets For Getting Un-Stuck
Being Present in the Moment
Focus and Flexibility
Adaptability
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Your Legacy - Making a Difference
Act as if what you do makes a difference.
It does.
- William James
Our actions today will determine the world we leave our children.
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
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
To leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
We must remember that one determined person can make
a significant difference,
and that a small group of determined people
can change the course of history.
- Sonia Johnson
Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Voting for the kind of America you believe in
is one of the greatest gifts you can give your grandchildren.
Make a difference.
Further reading: Full Measure
Our Grandchildren
VOTE!
Feeding the Children
Our Grandchildren's Planet
Monday, November 3, 2014
DO IT
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Yoda (Star Wars movie)
Read my thoughts about this..
If you don't like the way the world is,
you change it.
You have an obligation to change it.
You just do it one step at a time.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Simply Do Your Best
Take Charge of Your Life
When is Your Best Good Enough?
Action Beats Inaction
Choices
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Sunday, November 2, 2014
A Month of Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Is your glass of life
half empty?
Or half full?
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins with the realization
that we have already arrived!
- Michael Bernard Beckwith
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Be Grateful for All of Life:
Each of us has been infinitely blessed - beginning with the gift of life.
Whatever may appear to be missing or broken on any particular day,
our glass is not half full, it is 99.9% full.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie - from 7 Secrets for a Happy Life
Affirmation:
I commit the whole month of November to expressing gratitude and thanksgiving.
Further reading: A List of Gratitudes - a Thanksgiving
Life Really Is Good
Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude
Thank You God
Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Being "Right"
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course In Miracles
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
- George Clooney
You prove your worth with your actions,
not with your mouth.
- Jean Paul
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
- Booth Tarkington
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why should it impede your happiness for others to have differing views on politics or religion? for others to paint their houses purple or grow asparagus in place of a grassy lawn? for others to dress, mingle, celebrate, or dine in their own manner?
The path to happiness is to live your life joyfully in your own way
and to support and encourage others to do likewise.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Listen, Really Listen
You Make Your World
A Breathing Meditation
Opinions
Stop Worry using the Qigong Release Exercise
Step Back from the Clamor
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