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, September 30, 2020
Make the Effort to Look for Beauty in the World
In these times of health, political, social, and economic challenge,
it is our task to generate beauty and happiness for ourselves
rather than hoping to "find" them.
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 beauty does not live out there; the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
Perspective. Point-of-view. Is something ugly, or beautiful?
Noble or insensitive? There are six billion ways of seeing life.
Trust your own inner eye for beauty.
Outer show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- Aesop
Further reading: How to Build Self Esteem
How to Love Yourself
How to Feel Good About Yourself
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Don't Fear Obstacles
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
Real obstacles don't take you in circles.
They can be overcome.Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
- Robert H. Schuller
Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Learn to Motivate Yourself
Monday, September 28, 2020
Focus on Finding the Best Way Forward
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Sometimes "bad" things just happen. Try to avoid lashing out at whoever is handiest - your spouse, your family, your friend, the government, God.
Direct your attention to finding a way forward,
rather than on assigning blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Deal with Anger
Revenge is Never the Answer
When You Have Been Wronged
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Sunday, September 27, 2020
With Faith, I Will Fear No Evil
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want...
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me
- Psalm 23
Faith has to do with things that are not seen
and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed
to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas Gandhi
and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed
to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Further reading: Edge of All You Know
Don't Let One Cloud
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Saturday, September 26, 2020
Soar Beyond Limits
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no great limits to growth because there are
no limits of human intelligence,
imagination, and wonder.
- Ronald Reagan
no limits of human intelligence,
imagination, and wonder.
- Ronald Reagan
Further reading: Soar Your Spirit
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Friday, September 25, 2020
To Refocus, Ask Better Questions
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
- old English proverb
Sometimes the way to the pot of gold on the other side of the
mountain is to keep fighting up the steep slippery slope, but often it
is better to walk around the mountain. Also consider refocusing your
attention on another pot of gold that is even larger, shinier, and
virtually at hand.
How often we keep banging our head into the same wall, or to use the
phrase derived from Cervantes Don Quixote, "tilting at windmills." When a
problem seems unsolvable, or a question appears unanswerable, consider
that you may not be asking the best question.
In their own way, problems can be blessings.
They can be the prod to get us out of our complacency and into action.
Problems create an opportunity for us to exercise our ingenuity,
to plan, to persevere, to interact with our social network,
and to feel a sense of accomplishment when we finally overcome the unexpected roadblock.
In the midst of crisis, boldly seize opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Problem-Solving Abilities
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Be Satisfied With Enough
Be Satisfied With Enough,
Work Enough (but not too much),
and Play Enough (but not too much).
Balance Service and Play, Both are Essential.
Take some time in a quiet place to contemplate
the balance between being of service -
both to this generation and to generations yet unborn -
and renewing your vitality with play and celebration.
Without play, one becomes old and dry.
Without service, life becomes meaningless.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
Further reading: Abundance or Scarcity?
A List of Gratitudes
How to Balance Your Life
Comparisons are Odious
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
It Takes a Creative Mind to Ask the Right Questions
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind,
and creativity will instantly fill it.
- Dee Hock
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the
inessential than with inventing something new.
- Helmut Jahn
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
Asking "What IF" is the essence of creativity.
It Takes a Creative Mind to Ask the Right Questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Discovery through New Eyes
Seek Your Own Wisdom
Welcome Inquiry, Discovery, and New Vistas
Scientific Thinking
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
National Voter Registration Day 2020
National Voter Registration Day is an American National Holiday celebrating our democracy, and reminding ALL citizens to register and to vote. It is celebrated each fourth Tuesday of September - in 2020, on September 22.
PLEASE: Register to Vote - and Vote!
Voting for the kind of America you believe in
is one of the greatest gifts you can give your grandchildren.
In many ways, our future is determined as much by local school boards and city councils as by federal officials.
Make a difference.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bad politicians are sent to Washington [and state and local government] by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon
- William E. Simon
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: You Are What You Do
Monday, September 21, 2020
Walking is a Blessing
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let today be a day to spend time alone in nature.
Take a walk as far from the hustle and bustle of society as you can.If you can, walk near trees or water.
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife...
- Thomas Gray
If a person walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
God is Found in Stillness
Find stillness and you find God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We need to find God,
and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
God is found in stillness.
To know God is to stop and be still.
Listen to the spirit within you.
Communion with God happens internally.
You will never meet God in the hustle and bustle of life.
Learn to be silent. It is here that you will find God.
- Tanya Guerrier
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue
seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
- Alan Watts
seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
- Alan Watts
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
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery
that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it,
and fills it with noble inclinations.
- Washington Irving
If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,
you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
- Alan Watts
Today's affirmation:
I am a Unique Expression
of the Universal Fabric of Creation.
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
- Alan Watts
Today's affirmation:
I am a Unique Expression
of the Universal Fabric of Creation.
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Stillness of the Mind
Breath by Breath
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Saturday, September 19, 2020
Resist Anger, Condemnation and Complaint
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength,
the latter becomes irresistible.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Further reading: Speak with Kindness
Friday, September 18, 2020
Open your Eyes to the Unfamiliar and the Hidden
Let today be a day to open your eyes to the unfamiliar and the hidden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are many answers you have received but have not yet heard.
- A Course In MiraclesGod is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
- George Meredith
- George Meredith
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
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.
but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Further reading: Have a Conversation With God, Today
The Power of Asking the Right Questions
A Fire to be Kindled
Beyond Answers
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Do Your Best and then Gracefully Accept What You Can't Change
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Do your best, accept the rest.
Stop demanding joy, attention and friends.
Allow people to disregard you, it's fine.
Who you are should never depend on externalities like your image or possessions.
Every externality can fade (looks, fame, power, money, etc.)
Become ZEN!
- afcpoop on Reddit
Stop demanding joy, attention and friends.
Allow people to disregard you, it's fine.
Who you are should never depend on externalities like your image or possessions.
Every externality can fade (looks, fame, power, money, etc.)
Become ZEN!
- afcpoop on Reddit
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Some decisions don't turn out well,
but if you did your best,
you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Never second guess your decisions.
Keep learning, keep trying,
and always do your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
Further reading: Let It Go - Zen
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Whatever anyone else says or does, their words
and their actions are truly about themselves.
Don't take it personally when they rant,
even if they direct their unhappiness in your direction.
Their negativity is basically selfishness,
and their selfishness is about them, not about you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy on the wall of her orphanage)
We are to take nothing personally,
least of all ourselves, for the moment we do,
our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.
- Hopi Proverb
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
- Henry Miller
- Doug Coupland
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
- Henry Miller
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you.
Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.- Doug Coupland
Further reading: Don't Take Rejection Personally
How to be Positive Around Negative People
Don Miguel Ruiz' Four Agreements
Families and Social Expectations
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Choose Equanimity
Equanimity (or composure) is the state of being calm, balanced,
and in control of one's emotions, even under stress or in the midst of difficulty.
Affirmation:
I choose to respond to life's provocations,
not with anger, resentment, or regret,
but with equanimity and a focus on positive action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
Without accepting the fact that everything changes,
we cannot find perfect composure.
But unfortunately, although it is true,
it is difficult for us to accept it.
Because we cannot accept the truth of transience,
we suffer.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Further reading: Complaining Creates Unhappiness
Ancient Wisdom about Uncertain Times
Restraint
Stay Positive
Monday, September 14, 2020
Deal with Problems Joyfully
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take control of your consistent emotions
and begin to consciously and deliberately
reshape your daily experience of life.
- Tony Robbins
and begin to consciously and deliberately
reshape your daily experience of life.
- Tony Robbins
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Further reading: Release the Struggle
The Storm of Life
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Sunday, September 13, 2020
Believe You Can
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
[As always, quotes are selected for the text of the quote, rather than the lives of those quoted.]
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Whether the challenge is reaching the moon, sailing around the world, hitting a home run, acing a job interview, or walking again after a stroke, we can usually accomplish what we believe we can. But once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
Today's affirmation:
I believe in myself.
I am unstoppable.
Further reading: Power of Thought
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing
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Saturday, September 12, 2020
Set Your Own Fine and Honorable Example
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
Success is getting and achieving what you want.
Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
- Bernard Meltzer
"Success" isn't about money or fame.
Success is living a life you feel proud of.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is living a life you feel proud of.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Doing Your Best
Small Pleasures
Childlike Wonder
Friday, September 11, 2020
September 11th 2020 - Mutual Trust and Respect
This world of ours... must avoid becoming
a community of dreadful fear and hate,
and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must build dikes of courage
to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Photo was taken in the aftermath of 9/11 2001 in New York City
Further reading: Draw from Suffering
Hard Times
To Overcome Fear
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Resolve to Keep Happy
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Further reading: Nothing to look forward to?
Is Hope Futile?
Every Day, a New Day
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Thread of Comfort
May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Your life within God's arms,
Your dance within God's arms,
Is already Perfect!
- Hafiz
Know that to find comfort, relax into the arms of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Ten Little Tips To Feel Happier Right Now
Comfort on Difficult Days
The Secret of Happiness
Give Thanks for the Small Miracles
Beyond Your Worries
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Tuesday, September 8, 2020
True Success is Bringing Joy
Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future,
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.This is to have succeeded.
- Bessie A. Stanley (commonly attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
True success is bringing joy to yourself and to others.
Success is measured in lives bettered, not in money or power.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is measured in lives bettered, not in money or power.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Further reading: March On
Turn Crisis into Progress
Stand Together
Monday, September 7, 2020
Labor Day 2020
Labor Day in the United States is a public holiday celebrated on the
first Monday in September. It honors the American Labor Movement (Labor
Unions) and the contributions that workers have made to the strength,
prosperity, laws and well-being of the country.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of
labor
and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
- Grover Cleveland
and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
- Grover Cleveland
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
- Wendell Phillips
There is no hope for the workingman outside of organization.
- Peter J. McGuire, co-founder of the American Federation of Labor
and reported "father" of the American Labor Day holiday
There is magic in respecting others.
Respect customers, vendors, bosses, employees, co-workers.
Respect parents, spouses, sons, daughters.
Respect the trash collector, the mayor, the bank teller, the truck driver.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: What You Do Makes a Difference
Cooperation
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Faith is the Belief that God will do what is Right
What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
Trust in God's goodness.
Be wary of what humans do in God's name.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person who is fanatic in matters of religion,
and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe,
becomes a person who has no faith at all.
- Alan Watts
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
To know a person's religion
we need not listen to his profession of faith
but must find his brand of intolerance.
- Eric Hoffer
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Further reading: Where there is Great Love
Heaven on Earth
Thank You Prayer
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Saturday, September 5, 2020
Strong Convictions
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
- Honore De Balzac
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences.
No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
- Thomas Huxley
Live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
Further reading: Be an Instrument of Change
Friday, September 4, 2020
Society is a Masked Ball
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest pretenses are built up
not to hide the evil and the ugly in us,but our emptiness.
The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
- Eric Hoffer
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.- Kurt Vonnegut
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
- Al Stewart
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
What if we like our outrageous side best?
We "know" that the "right" thing to do is to suck it up,
put the costume and the happy face back in storage for another year,
re-dress in our frown and gray flannel suit,
and trudge back to job, chores, "responsibilities," and "duty."
Stop! Maybe TODAY is the day to put the frown and gray flannel
into that dusty storage locker, and start to LIVE.
Not just today, but EVERY DAY for the rest of your life!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recognize the extent to which you hide your true nature from the world.
Consider revealing more of your true self.
Consider revealing more of your true self.
Further reading: How To Not Care What Others Think
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Thursday, September 3, 2020
Make the Leap
Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over,
it became a butterfly.- Anonymous
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Come to the edge
We can't. We're afraid
We can't. We will fall. Come to the edge
And they came. And he pushed them
And they flew
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Today's affirmation:
When I Come To The Edge of the Familiar,
I Spread My Wings and Fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Winds of Grace
Live Your Life Fully
Goodness of Humanity
Opportunity for Daily Thanksgiving
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Become a Master of Patience
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu
- Lao Tzu
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Read the Aesop fable The Oak and the Reeds
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020
There is Great Power in Naming
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Shakespeare says, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but I disagree...
There
is great power in naming.
"Urban wall art" and "graffiti" are very
different, even when they are identical.
Think of other word pairs, like
"flower" and "weed" -
"antique" and "used" - "freedom fighter" and
"terrorist"
that greatly color our perception of the object or person
being described.
Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Exercise: Consider the words that you and others in your life use to describe you. If the words are not complimentary, take action to change how you refer to yourself, and encourage others to speak differently of you. For example, if you describe yourself as "shy," choose a more positive term, such as "reserved."
Further reading: It Matters What You Call Something Or Someone
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