November 7, 2011

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." --John Quincy Adams

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” --Mother Teresa

"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."

--Nadia Comaneci

"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."—Virginia Satir

November 4, 2011

"To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed."
 --Bernard Edmonds

October 13, 2011

"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge." --Eckhart Tolle

"Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be" --Eckhart Tolle

"Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place" --Eckhart Tolle

"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally" --Eckhart Tolle

"[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you" --Eckhart Tolle

"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness." --Eckhart Tolle

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” --Eckhart Tolle

"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

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

"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." --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

"Your body is exactly like a movie projector, and the film running through the projector is all of your thoughts and feelings. Everything you see on the screen of your life is what has been projected from within you, and is what you have put into the film.  By choosing higher thoughts and feelings you can change what you see on the screen at any time. You have complete control of what goes into your film!" --Rhonda Byrne (The Secret)

"CHOOSE wisely" --Knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (emphasis added)

October 5, 2011

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out 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

"Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” --Steve Jobs

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." --Lewis Smedes

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." — Michael Jordan

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. " --George Bernard Shaw

"We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time." - Art Buchwald

FAILURE

What is "Failure" doing in a POSITIVITY Blog????  Well take a look at the POSITIVITY OF FAILURE....

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." --John Wooden

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit." -- Napolean Hill

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." --Henry Ford

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. "--Napolean Hill

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." --Napolean Hill

"No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."--Napolean Hill

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." --Napolean Hill

 "Remember that failure is an event, not a person." --Zig Ziglar

October 3, 2011

"It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice." -- Anonymous

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie

"It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn." -- John Bradshaw

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, thoughts and habits. Don't ever give up and don't ever give in." -- Unknown

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try." -- Beverly Sills

"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. " -- Lloyd Jones

"Whenever I get defensive, it means I've missed an opportunity to learn." --Unknown


 

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