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, April 30, 2016
Greatest Mistake
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the
human condition there is no shame in being wrong,
only in failing to correct our mistakes.
- George Soros
It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong
than to agonize at length and be right too late.
- Marilyn Moats Kennedy
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Further reading: Never Second Guess Yourself
Fear of Striking Out
Make a Decision
Friday, April 29, 2016
Choose to See the Beautiful
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't live in the world of reality,
we live in the world of how we perceive reality.
- Bryan Singer
There is nothing true anywhere,
The true is nowhere to be seen;
If you say you see the true,
This seeing is not the true one.
- Abraham Lincoln paraphrasing Lao Tzu's Tao te Ching
Even those things which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
- Douglas Horton
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Labels
Finding Beauty
Opinions
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
Reverence for Our Earth
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
We need to think of the future and the planet we are
going to leave to our children and their children.
- Kofi Annan
People must feel that the natural world is important
and valuable and beautiful and wonderful
and an amazement and a pleasure.
- David Attenborough
To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Image of our earth taken by the NASA Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite.
Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet
Natural Web of Life
One Great Dewdrop
All Life
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Serenity rather than Fear
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
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
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Live a Stress-Free Life
How to Stop Worrying
Tested by Storms
Beyond Fear
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Love as a Free-Will Gift
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
Love cures people - both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it.
- Karl A. Menninger
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Where there is Great Love
The Power of Unconditional Love
Love Tenderly
Monday, April 25, 2016
Choose to Celebrate Life
Choose to celebrate life.
Celebrate family, celebrate friends, celebrate love, celebrate adventure and discovery.
Celebrate and give thanks for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild,
and everywhere there is fun,
everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence,
listen to the existence and become part of it.
- Osho
When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed,
but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage
to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong,
that's celebration.
- Shauna Niequist
Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
- Joanne Harris
You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high
You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life.
You are here to help others to make their life happy.
We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and excel.
We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions.
We are here to encompass the world with love and light.
- Amit Ray
Most people reserve celebration for some future "special day."
I choose to celebrate each and every day as a special day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life
Appreciate Today
What If Every Day Were Your Day - Celebrate Whimsey Today
CELEBRATION - An Inspired Life
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Sunday, April 24, 2016
Faith in Tomorrow
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Power of Faith
Beyond Your Worries
End Overwhelm, Fear, and Worry
The Quiet Voice of Courage
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Stand Rapt in Awe
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
We have to stop and be humble enough
to understand that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
God is not what you imagine,
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Further reading: All Life is a Miracle
Appreciate the Basics of Life
An Unknowable Future
Cherish Mystery
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Friday, April 22, 2016
Draw from Suffering
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Expect to have hope rekindled.
Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.
The dry seasons in life do not last.
The spring rains will come again.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Today's affirmation:
I gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Count Your Blessings - Not Your Troubles
Facing the Fear of Change
Stop Longing for "Easy"
Don't Struggle
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Deflating Worry
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Further reading: Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Good People
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that
the whole country isn't in flames,
that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
- Charles Kuralt
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
- Audrey Hepburn
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
America's present need is not heroics but healing;
not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
- Warren G. Harding
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things,
quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,
or delusions of superiority.
- Charles Kuralt
Appreciate good people, wherever they are.
Appreciate friends, family, and community.
Appreciate those who serve you.
Appreciated those you serve.
Give thanks that most people really are good people,
despite the best efforts of TV news to tell you otherwise.
Photo shows people in Austin waiting for the bats to fly out from under the bridge at sunset.
Further reading: Life Really Is Good
Bounty of the Earth
Appreciate Yourself
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Give Thanks for the Smallest Blessings
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
With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Giving Thanks for Our Food
What do you take for granted?
My Glass of Life
Celebrating the Small Miracles of Our Lives
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Encourage Your Friends
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
- William Arthur Ward
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being human, we are imperfect.
That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow;
but none of us can go it alone.
- Hillary Clinton
Further reading: A Little Help from My Friends
Offer Comfort
Acts of Kindness
Give Love and Comfort
Sunday, April 17, 2016
God's Voice
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamor.
- Charles Stanley
My hope for my children must be that they respond
to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
- Andrew Young
The woods speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Learn to become still.
And to take your attention away from what you don't want,
and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds,
not the deafening blasts of doom.
- William Dean Howells
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart.
No one can tell you better than yourself
what comes between you and God.
Ask yourself.
Then listen!
- Johannes Tauler
Further reading: Honor Stillness
The Quiet Voice of Courage
The Beat of the Universe
Heaven is Within Us
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Life is Love - Enjoy It
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
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 not about perfection -
or a quest for perfection.
Life is about enjoying what we have -
for as long as we have it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Live Your Life Fully
Life Really Is Good
Cherish the Whimsey
Small Pleasures
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Friday, April 15, 2016
Welcome Inquiry, Discovery, and New Vistas
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
- Bryant H. McGill
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Being curious is a quality of youthful minds.
Being judgmental is a quality of calcified minds.
Welcome inquiry, discovery, and new vistas
with an open heart and an open mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: A Fire to be Kindled
Power of Imagination
Asking Better Questions
Curious - Adventurous
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Know and Trust Yourself
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Find out what you don't want to know about yourself,
what you're afraid of.
- Linda Evans
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
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
- Bodhidharma
Today's Affirmation:
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Know Thyself
Be Simply Yourself
Saying NO
Follow Your Bliss
At the center of your being you have the answer
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Make Your Choice for Inner Peace
Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
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
There is a criterion by which you can judge
whether the thoughts you are thinking
and the things you are doing
are right for you.
The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
- Peace Pilgrim
If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.
- Lao Tzu
Further reading: Appreciate Today
Find Peace in Forgiveness
God Grant Me The Wisdom
Choose to Live in Peace
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
The Trouble with Taking or Giving Advice
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good,
until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think
in your mind that the counsel is wise.
- Joan Rivers
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Most people when they come to you for advice,
come to have their own opinions strengthened,
not corrected.
- Josh Billings
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Further reading: Trust Yourself
Granting Space
Encourage Me
Questions To Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice
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Monday, April 11, 2016
Be Kind and Gentle with Yourself
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Rest when you're weary.
Refresh and renew yourself, your body,
your mind, your spirit.
Then get back to work.
- Ralph Marston
First renew your own body, mind and emotions;
be kind, compassionate, and gentle with yourself.
Then use your regenerated strength and commitment
to be of service to the less fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Affirmation: Today, I will be gentle with myself.
Further reading: Feel Good About Yourself
Renew Yourself
Make Time For Yourself
Keeping Your Head
Love Yourself
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Sunday, April 10, 2016
Instrument of Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Being a Channel for God's Light
Gaining Peace Through Peace
Where there is Great Love
Doing God's Work
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Saturday, April 9, 2016
Your Power of Reason
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
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
The ultimate authority must always rest
with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
further reading: Re-Examine All You Think You Know
Practice Conscious Awareness
Trust Your Own Advice
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Friday, April 8, 2016
Your Personal Boundaries
Set and enforce your personal boundaries.
You and only YOU get to choose how much influence
you allow others to exert over your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life;
define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein
"No" is a complete sentence, and so often we forget that.
When we don't want to do something, we can simply smile and say "No."
We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say "No."
Love yourself enough to be able to say "Yes" or "No."
- Susan Gregg
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater
than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Further reading: The Power of Saying NO to the Demands of Others
To Thine Own Self Be True
Appreciate Yourself
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Bless and Give Thanks for All of Life
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
We all have our thorns.
We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
- Rose Kennedy
The most glorious moments in your life
are not the so-called days of success,
but rather those days when out of dejection and despair
you feel rise in you a challenge to life,
and the promise of future accomplishments.
- Gustave Flaubert
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
- Andy Rooney
Further reading: Don't Resist to Life
The Power of Your Intention
Choosing a Joyful Life
Life is Not Supposed to be Fair
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Treat Trifles as Trifles
Don't sweat the small stuff... and it's all small stuff.
- Richard CarlsonRead several of Richard Carlson's 100 ideas from Don't Sweat The Small Stuff.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles
and important matters as important.
- Doris Lessing
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
Further reading: Know The Difference
Lighten Up, Be Happy
Live Lightly
Humor in the Face of Adversity
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Accepting Others
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
If you have some respect for people as they are,
you can be more effective in helping them
to become better than they are.
- John W. Gardner
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Opportunity for Kindness
What Compassion Looks Like
Open Minds
Tolerance
Diversity
Monday, April 4, 2016
A True Friend
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us,
but because they will laugh at us;
Through them we learn a little objectivity,
a little modesty, a little courtesy.
- Will Durant
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Further reading: Happy Friends, Happy You
Choosing Your Friends
Tears and Laughter
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Sunday, April 3, 2016
Do Good Now
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
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
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Being of Service
The Least Of These
Feeding the Children
Material Possessions
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Saturday, April 2, 2016
Small Opportunities
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Opportunities are like sunrises.
If you wait too long, you miss them.
- William Arthur Ward
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Today's Affirmation:
I am ready and willing to seize the opportunities life offers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Cherish the Whimsey
Who You Are
Our Opportunity
Be Brave and Chase Your Dreams
Friday, April 1, 2016
Humor is Humanity's Greatest Blessing
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
If we could all just laugh at ourselves,
in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.
- Jena Malone
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is
so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
- Thomas W. Higginson
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Keys to a great life... taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
Further reading: Power of Laughter
Having a Sense of Humor
Cherish the Whimsey
As a Child Again
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