In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
~William Barclay
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
aspirations
We are not simply defined by our individual histories - we are the collection of our individual aspirations. Wishes coming into the world through us.
Friday, December 18, 2009
friendship
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
~Gail Godwin
~Gail Godwin
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
friends
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends we choose.
~Tennessee Williams
~Tennessee Williams
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
sincerity
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
~Basil Rathbone
~Basil Rathbone
Monday, December 7, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
hope
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
~Shawshank Redemption (movie)
~Shawshank Redemption (movie)
Thursday, December 3, 2009
challenge
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
~Joseph Campbell
~Joseph Campbell
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
attitude
The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
~Charles R. Swindoll
~Charles R. Swindoll
Monday, November 23, 2009
communication
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
~Dale Carnegie
~Dale Carnegie
Friday, November 20, 2009
art of living
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
~Havelock Ellis
~Havelock Ellis
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
choice
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
~Joel Osteen
~Joel Osteen
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
enjoy the day
Some people are making such thorough preparations for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
~William Feather
~William Feather
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
BIRTHDAY
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
live
Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Friday, November 6, 2009
change
Recognize that change is necessary. Embrace it and be willing to surrender who you think you are for all that you could become.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
love more
Sunday, November 1, 2009
grateful
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
~Henry Clay
~Henry Clay
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
comfort
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it, is a gainer by the loss.
~L. Estrange
~L. Estrange
Saturday, October 24, 2009
opinions
A person can't keep others from having a bad opinion about them, but can certainly keep them from being right about it.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
together
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
~Marilyn Monroe
~Marilyn Monroe
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
people
Monday, October 12, 2009
love
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
~Sai Baba
~Sai Baba
Saturday, October 10, 2009
life
Weather is a great metaphor for life. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad - and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.
~Pepper Giardino
~Pepper Giardino
Friday, October 9, 2009
smile more
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
~Mother Teresa
~Mother Teresa
Monday, October 5, 2009
blessings
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one that receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
~Barbara De Angelis
~Barbara De Angelis
Sunday, October 4, 2009
empathy
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~Bonnie Jean Wasmund
~Bonnie Jean Wasmund
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
suffering
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
~Joseph Addison
~Joseph Addison
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
darker sides
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
~Carl Jung
~Carl Jung
Sunday, September 20, 2009
adversity
Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.
~Myla Kabat-Zinn
~Myla Kabat-Zinn
Thursday, September 17, 2009
beauty
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
~Camille Piassarro
~Camille Piassarro
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
generous
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
~Orison Swett Marden
~Orison Swett Marden
Friday, September 4, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
be happy
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
~Dalai Lama
~Dalai Lama
Friday, August 21, 2009
happiness
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
~Dennis Waitley
~Dennis Waitley
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
caring
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~Leo Buscaglia
~Leo Buscaglia
Monday, August 17, 2009
connecting
Friday, August 14, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
light in the world
We cannot hold a torch to another's path without brightening our own.
~Ben Sweetland
~Ben Sweetland
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
change
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Monday, July 27, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
growing up
Growing up means owning your vulnerability and learning to function in the face of it.
~James Hollis, PhD
~James Hollis, PhD
Saturday, July 18, 2009
consciousness
Consciousness is the last and latest developed of the organism, and consequently also the most unfinished and weakest part of it.
~Friedrich Nietzche
~Friedrich Nietzche
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
human heart
All of us. Until you hear the whole story, until you dig deeper, and listen... you know only a tiny part of the goodness of the human heart.
~Precious Ramotswe (#1 Ladies Detective Agency #10)
~Precious Ramotswe (#1 Ladies Detective Agency #10)
Monday, July 13, 2009
being human
A person is a person through other persons. It is a delicate network of interdependence. When you tear down another, you wind up tearing yourself down in the process.
~Desmond Tutu
~Desmond Tutu
Saturday, July 11, 2009
friends
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
have fun
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
~Eileen Caddy
~Eileen Caddy
Friday, July 3, 2009
life trials
Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.
~Robert R. Updegraff
~Robert R. Updegraff
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
hope
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
improvement
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
~Bo Bennett
~Bo Bennett
Thursday, June 25, 2009
give
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
~Peyton Conway March
~Peyton Conway March
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
solutions
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
~Albert Einstein
~Albert Einstein
Monday, June 22, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
lessons
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
action
The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
~Bertrand Russell
~Bertrand Russell
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
leading
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
~John Buchan
~John Buchan
Thursday, June 11, 2009
inner conflicts
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
~Karen Horney
~Karen Horney
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
high standards
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
~Greg Anderson
~Greg Anderson
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
love
Who doesn't long for someone to hold
Who knows how to love you without being told
~Natasha Bedingfield
Who knows how to love you without being told
~Natasha Bedingfield
Monday, June 1, 2009
achievement
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~Helen Keller
~Helen Keller
Friday, May 29, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
inward connection
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
~Henri Frederic Amiel
~Henri Frederic Amiel
Monday, May 25, 2009
human life
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
pain
Change involves challenging what is familiar to us and daring to question our traditional needs for safety, comfort, and control.
~Michael Singer (the untethered soul)
~Michael Singer (the untethered soul)
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
character
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
appreciation
Friday, May 1, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
mistakes
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
~Peter McWilliams
~Peter McWilliams
Saturday, April 25, 2009
intention
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
~Madonna Ciccone
~Madonna Ciccone
Friday, April 24, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
wisdom
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
~Walter Lippmann
~Walter Lippmann
Monday, April 20, 2009
our nature
Sunday, April 19, 2009
friends
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
~Thomas Jefferson
~Thomas Jefferson
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
get outside!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
laugh more
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less clean up to do afterward.
~Kurt Vonnegut
~Kurt Vonnegut
Thursday, April 9, 2009
learn
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
~James Thurber
~James Thurber
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
friend
A friend is someone who helps you up when you're down, and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
communication
Communication-- the human connection-- is the key to personal and career success.
~Paul J. Meyer
~Paul J. Meyer
Friday, April 3, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
april fools
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
~Dale Carnegie
~Dale Carnegie
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
faith
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
~Mary Manin Morrissey
~Mary Manin Morrissey
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
greed
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
~Charles Kuralt
~Charles Kuralt
Monday, March 16, 2009
insanity
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
~Albert Einstein
~Albert Einstein
Saturday, March 14, 2009
honesty
What is uttered from the heart alone,
will win the hearts of others to your own.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
will win the hearts of others to your own.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
worries
As day turns into night,
keep your worries out of sight.
No matter how hard the world may seem,
you still deserve the sweetest dream.
keep your worries out of sight.
No matter how hard the world may seem,
you still deserve the sweetest dream.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
friend
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~Anais Nin
~Anais Nin
Saturday, March 7, 2009
purpose
Each of us comes here for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others... for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected to by a bond of sympathy.
~Albert Einstein
~Albert Einstein
Friday, March 6, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
thoughts
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
~Epictetus
~Epictetus
Monday, March 2, 2009
music
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It is something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
~Billy Joel
~Billy Joel
Sunday, March 1, 2009
outside influence
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
~Og Mandino
~Og Mandino
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
peace within
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~Dalai Lama
~Dalai Lama
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
happiness
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~Allan K. Chalmers
~Allan K. Chalmers
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
risk
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
~Annie Dillard
~Annie Dillard
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
money
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
~Benjamin Franklin
~Benjamin Franklin
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
love
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
~Marianne Williamson
~Marianne Williamson
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
alive
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman
~Howard Thurman
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
strong
I read somewhere ... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong ... but to feel strong.
~Into the Wild (2007)
~Into the Wild (2007)
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
help
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
~Mother Teresa
~Mother Teresa
Monday, February 2, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
fantasy
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
~Dr. Seuss
~Dr. Seuss
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
adversity
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
~Lou Holtz
~Lou Holtz
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
INAUGURATION 2009
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
~Barack Obama
~Barack Obama
Sunday, January 18, 2009
life
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
~Ben Stein
~Ben Stein
Thursday, January 15, 2009
state of mind
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
~Martha Washington
~Martha Washington
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
be who you are
Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those that matter... don't mind. And those that mind... don't matter.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
blame
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
~Wayne Dyer
~Wayne Dyer
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
mistakes
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
~Elbert Hubbard
~Elbert Hubbard
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
capacity
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
~Thomas Edison
~Thomas Edison
Sunday, January 4, 2009
success
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
~Albert Schweitzer
Saturday, January 3, 2009
cynical
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
~Sidney J. Harris
~Sidney J. Harris
Thursday, January 1, 2009
a new year
May this new year be filled with all things that lead to growth; warmth and compassion in relationships; strength to help those who ask for it and the openness to accept it in return.
~HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
~HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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