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, August 31, 2016
It's Not That Simple
The contradictions are what make human behavior
so maddening and yet so fascinating,
all at the same time.
- Joan D. Vinge
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem.
We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
- Harold Evans
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have free will, but only within the harsh constraints of predestination.
Within the limits placed upon our lives by the circumstances of our genes,
our place and condition of birth, the parenting we receive, and other events beyond our control,
we are defined by the free will we can still exercise.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb
The Golden Rule is Not Always Golden
Yin-Yang
Managing Your Wayward Mind
Overflowing Cup of Tea - Zen Koan
Life is Really Simple
Balance in All Things
The Basics
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016
You Need Courage
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
Further reading: Courage and Intent
Circumstance Reveals a Person's Nature
Life of Storms
Choose To Be Fearless
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Monday, August 29, 2016
Live Fully and Joyfully
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real
and important in life? That's the individual question.
- Ted Danson
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today's affirmation:
I live every moment, and I live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Live Every Moment, Joyfully
A Life Without Fear
Enjoy Life
Life in Bold Colors
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Highest and Innermost God
The highest God and the innermost God is one God.
- Ernest Holmes
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky,
you look in you.
- Alan Watts
You are within God.
God is within you.
- Peace Pilgrim
When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within.
- Epictetus
To be at one with God is to be at peace...
peace is to be found only within,
and unless one finds it there
he will never find it at all.
Peace lies not in the external world.
It lies within one's own soul.
- Ralph W. Trine
Further reading: Quiet Time
Becoming Love
Being an Open Channel
Good Works
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Saturday, August 27, 2016
Beware of False Knowledge
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions.
When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts
than to change the preconceptions.
- Jessamyn West
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you have a very strong FEELING that something is true, often it isn't.
WANTING something to be true doesn't make it true.
Likewise, being AFRAID that something is true doesn't make it true either.
Further reading: Truth isn't True. Reality isn't Real.
The Danger of Assumptions
Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
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Friday, August 26, 2016
The Hero Revealed
Hard times don't create heroes.
It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.
- Bob Riley
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
A hero is someone who has given his life to something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Some days call for courage,
and ask those who would otherwise lead ordinary lives to become heroes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Circumstance Reveals What You Are Made Of
The Quiet Voice of Courage
Gather Strength
How Hard?
Choosing a Joyful Life
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Thursday, August 25, 2016
Co-Creation, Not Possession
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Love Allows Freedom
7 Secrets of Happy Couples
Possession Is Not Love
Celebrating Your Differences
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Stop Opposing Reality
Dwell in stillness.
Observe without reacting and without judging.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
- Byron Katie
Be still and know who you are.
- Kirtana
Life is simple.
Everything happens for you, not to you.
Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late.
You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
- Byron Katie
Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is,
and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
You're either attaching to your thoughts or you're inquiring. There is no other choice.
- Byron Katie
Further reading: Cultivate Awareness
Breath by Breath
Live in the Present
Cherish This Moment
Cease Striving
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Grin Your Smile
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
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
Consciously adopt the mindset of a young child,
to whom all of life is a grand adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Lighten Up, Be Happy
The Need for Humor
Laughter
Not Too Serious
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Monday, August 22, 2016
Arguments Create Unhappiness
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 prove your worth with your actions,
not with your mouth.
- Jean Paul
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
- George Clooney
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
- Booth Tarkington
What we have to do...
is to find a way to celebrate our diversity
and debate our differences
without fracturing our communities.
- Hillary Clinton
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
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.
Further reading: Listen, Really Listen
Opinions
Arguing
Disagreement
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Compassion, Kindness, Humility
Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with each other and forgive one another.
- Colossians 3:12
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
- Rick Warren
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
If you are going to be spiritually curious,
you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
- Mary Oliver
Religion is a blessing when, and only when,
it provides a focus for a compassionate community
to minister to its members and to the world at large.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Love One Another
Doing God's Work
True Religion is about Helping Others
Peace
A Common Denominator of All Religions...
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Saturday, August 20, 2016
Seek Your Own Wisdom
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise;
rather, seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Basho
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Quotations are dead unless a spur for inquiry.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Know Yourself
The Wisdom of Lao Tzu
Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb
Accepting the Fear of Change
Friday, August 19, 2016
Appreciate Your Blessings
Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
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
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light,
for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks,
the fault lies in yourself.
- Tecumseh
I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.
- e. e. cummings
Further reading: Give Thanks and Celebrate
Thankful and Content
Give Thanks for the Commonplace
Gratitude for THIS Moment
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Calm and Without Panic
If you can keep your head
when all about you are losing theirs...
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
- Rudyard Kipling
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
I believe the ability to think is blessed.
If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it.
The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
- Richard Pryor
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Further reading: Have Confidence in Yourself
How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret
Life of Storms
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Soar, It's Your Natural State
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable...
we must be content to creep along the ground,
and never soar.
- John Henry Newman
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar,
and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
- Carl Sandburg
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth,
God is pleased when we're pleased.
He wills that we be as free as birds to soar
and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Soar - it's your natural state.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Life Lived to the Edge
Let Your Heart Soar
Spread Your Wings
The Edge
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Wonder and Innocence
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
A newborn does not have worry, or stress, or anger, because they have not yet learned those things. Consider what life would be like if you could forget all the past resentments and perceived offenses that color your thinking and your emotions. Buddhists call that state "beginner mind" - an opening to experience life without the jaundiced filter of past disappointments.
Further reading: Growing Up - Staying Young
Reverence
Natural Web
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Monday, August 15, 2016
The Dance of Life
Dance Lightly With Life:
Today is your day to
dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
soar your spirit,
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
Further reading: Appreciate Today
Finding Joy in Our Troubled Lives
Choose to Love Life
Not Too Serious
Today is Your Day (long form of my poem)
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Nature Speaks God's Truth
Listen for my stories in the whispers of the wind.
Listen to the truth in the gurgling of a mountain brook.
Nature remembers the truth. Be still and listen.
Listen to your heart’s guidance.
- Susan Gregg
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books,
but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Juvenal
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
Those who find beauty in all of nature
will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
- L. Wolfe Gilbert
Nature Speaks God's Truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Spend Time In Nature
The Wisdom of Patience
Beyond Answers
Secrets of Water
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Saturday, August 13, 2016
Give the World Your Best
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
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)
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Today's affirmation:
I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Play to Win, but be a Good Loser
Ignore Your Critics
DO IT
Take Charge of Your Life
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Friday, August 12, 2016
Life Without Stress
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Whenever you feel you must hurry,
ask yourself whether the busy-ness is fulfilling your purpose in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Feeling Overwhelmed?
Clarity
Seven Tips for Stress-Free Living
Living in Peace
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Looking for the Open Door
When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been 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
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All good things end - and new good things begin.
Further reading: Learning from Failure
Don't Give Up
The Quiet Voice of Courage
Finding A Way
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Inner Strength and Self Respect
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Integrity
Conscience
Character
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
How We Treat Our Children
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
So long as you have food in your mouth,
you have solved all questions for the time being.
- Franz Kafka
What kind of world do you want to leave your great-grandchildren?
What can you do today to help create that world?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Honor the Children
Passing the Torch
Our Grandchildren
Full Measure
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Monday, August 8, 2016
Your Thoughts Create Your Future
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Blessings flow toward gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today's affirmation:
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
Further reading: Be an Open Channel
Thinking as Creation
The Power of Your Intention
Creating Well-Being
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Sunday, August 7, 2016
Sanctuary for All Creation
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be completely humble and gentle;
be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
There is one body and one Spirit.
- Ephesians 4:2-4
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Further reading: Unity with Spirit and All Creation
Give Thanks for the Love
Perspective on Diversity
Again Tomorrow
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Saturday, August 6, 2016
One Breath
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit
with all the life it supports.
- Attributed to Chief Seattle
but actually written in 1972 by screenwriter Ted Perry
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
We are all one - the web of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Natural Web
All Life
All Brothers and Sisters
Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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Friday, August 5, 2016
Happiness is the Choice to be Happy in This Moment
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety.
It is a long succession of little decisions
simply to be happy in the moment.
- J. Donald Walters
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
Happiness is the Choice to be Happy in This Moment
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
One can flow harmoniously with the River of Life -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Release the Struggle
A Happy Life
The Secret of Happiness
The River of Life
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Rekindle the Light
At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.
Further reading:
Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude
Appreciating Friends
Giving Love and Comfort
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Boldly Paint Your Life
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
YOU make a difference to the world.
Act on your dreams today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
I am the poet of my mind.
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Be Curious - Be Adventurous
The Whole Leap
Choose to Love Life
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016
The Enemy Within
We carry our worst enemies within us.
- Charles Spurgeon
Life is way too short to spend another day at war with yourself.
- Anonymous
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Today's affirmation:
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Stilling Your Mind
Creating Peace Within Yourself
Our Own Worst Enemy
Managing Your Wayward Mind
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Monday, August 1, 2016
Honor Your Commitments
The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we make to ourselves are the ones
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Alan K. Simpson
Honor your commitments with integrity.
- Les Brown
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Today's exercise:
Consider how much you do or do not value your promises to yourself.
Do you take such promises seriously? Break them easily?
Make new promises as circumstances change?
Further reading: Commitment
The Habit of Making Excuses
Character
What You Know Is Right
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