September 30, 2011

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn one's back on life." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more important to hope rather than to fear, to try than not to try. For the one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says 'it can't be done.'" --Eleanor Roosevelt

“Think highly of yourself. The world takes you at your estimate.” -- Jim Rogers

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." --Princess Diana

I'm into "lists"....

1. Be Happy
2. Your Choices = Your life experience.
3. Enjoy ALL the moments...big or small.
... 4. Pay attention to the details
5. Find the lessons...heed them...learn from them.
6. Choose the good thoughts, replace the bad ones with good ones. Choose happiness and BE

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else"-- Albert Einstein

"Nothing external to you has any power over you." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

September 26, 2011

“Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another’s control – to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else’s nightmare.” --Lance Morrow

“Do you prefer that you be right or happy?” --Norman Cousins

"Never compromise a dream. Sure, take a step back, regroup, go bowling, but never compromise a dream." --Mike Dooley

“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.” --Sara Paddison

"The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive." --Demi Moore in Indecent Proposal

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." --Gandhi

"Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out." --Alan Cohen

"Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him." — Orison Swett Marden

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one." --John Lennon

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead." --Louisa May Alcott

"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." --Ken Venturi

September 24, 2011

"Always go the second mile. When we go the first mile, we simply do what is required of us. It is when we go the second mile that excellence is achieved." --Deborah McGriff

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." - Anthony Robbin

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from shore.”
-Dale Carnagie

Do you "love" UNconditionally? Do you "give" UNconditionally? Do you have "expectations" of your friends and family? If so, why? How much of that is your "need" vs. their "benefit?" Something to think about....

"Life is short, don't waste time worrying about what people think of you. Hold on to the ones that care, in the end they will be the ones there." -- Unknown

"Misunderstandings happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication." — Tony Alessandra

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat." — Mother Teresa

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." -- C.S. Lewis

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." --Lao Tzu

"Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."--Maya Angelou

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." --Lao Tzu

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." --Lao Tzu

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." --Lao Tzu

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." --Lao Tzu

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular." --Tony Robbins

"We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right." --Marianne Williamson

September 20, 2011

“You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!”
--Iyanla Vanzant

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” --Eleanor Roosevelt

... “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” --Oprah Winfrey (my slight revision...Where there is no struggle, there is no opportunity to gain strength")

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” --Mahatma Gandhi

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot.” --Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every single time you make a CHOICE to respond in a way that expands you and creates more peace and well-being, you’re strengthening your ability to make that same positive choice in the future. This is true empowerment; it moves you from being a victim to being a victor.” --Carol Kline & Marci Shimoff (emphasis added)

September 17, 2011

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path." --Paulo Coelho

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -- Chinese Proverb

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” --Mahatma Gandhi

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. " --Sophia Loren

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” –-Steve Jobs

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." -- Bruce Lee

September 15, 2011

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." -Margaret Thatcher

"80 percent of success is showing up." — Woody Allen

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." --Rumi

September 14, 2011

"When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny." --Paulo Coelho

It's up to you....Mastery or mediocrity? Excellence or insignificance? It's all up to you. Choose your destiny

"It's always better to give too much, pay too much, and love too much, than not enough." --Mike Dooley

"Your friend is the person who knows all about you, and still likes you anyway." --Elbert Hubbard

"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Meade

“Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw:

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”. -- Hannah More

"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. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.” --Og Mandino

"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition." — W. Clement Stone
 

 

COMPASSION

"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives." --Dalai Lama

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. " --Frederick Buechner

"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?"
--Bell Hooks

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." --Lao Tzu

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -- Dalai Lama

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." -- Simone de Beauvoir

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." --Albert Einstein