Monday, February 28, 2011

Jim Rohn - The Power Of Ambition (part 15-20)

The Seven Wonders of the World

Junior high school students in Chicago were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of the lesson, the students were asked to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World. Though there was some disagreement, the following received the most votes:

1. Egypt's Great Pyramids
2. The Taj Mahal in India
3. The Grand Canyon in Arizona
4. The Panama Canal
5. The Empire State Building
6. St. Peter's Basilica
7. China's Great Wall

While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student, a quiet girl, hadn't turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The quiet girl replied, "Yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind because there were so many." The teacher said, "Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help."

The girl hesitated, then read, "I think the Seven Wonders of the World are:

1. to touch...
2. to taste...
3. to see...
4. to hear... (She hesitated a little, and then added...)
5. to feel...
6. to laugh...
7. and to love.

The room was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop.

May this story serve as a gentle reminder to all of us that the things we overlook as simple and ordinary are often the most wonderful - and we don't have to travel anywhere special to experience them.

Enjoy your gifts!

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Don't Let People Label You

Stay Open For #God To Do It His Way

30 Great #Inspirational #Quotes

1) The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.
-- Barbara Pletcher

2) The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
-- Charles du Bois

3) Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
-- Cynthia Kersey

4) Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
-- Nancy Willard

5) I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
-- Kathe Kollwitz

6) An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused Goals.
-- Brian Tracy

7) Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
-- Margaret Thatcher

8) There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
-- Clare Boothe

9) The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

10) Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
-- Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

11) There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.
--Zig Ziglar

12) People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh

13) May your spirit keep the freedom of a butterfly in spring and your heart be filled always with the joys of simple things. May your essence claim the freshness of the new laid morning dew. All of this...and more...
-- Author Unknown

14) Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
-- Doris Mortman

15) People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to...to work for and hope for.
-- Dr. Maxwell Maltz

16) Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
-- Charles "Tremendous" Jones

17) Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the morning is a pleasant face, you may not see it again during the day, but others will.
-- Anon

18) Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
-- Deepak Chopra

19) How do I change?
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labour.
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, "The Greatest Salesman in the World"

20) If you live each day as if it were your last, then when your last day arrives you will have no regrets. Your life will have been a masterpiece; you will have lived life the best way it can be lived - one moment at a time with grace and appreciation.
Richard Carlson

21) We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
--Charles de Gaulle

22) No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
-- Amelia Earhart

23) Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
-- Anonymous

24) The essence of nirvana is tranquil, uncontrived bliss. Realize your own mind is the true mind, and errant imagining ceases. When errant imagining ceases, you are accurately aware. By virtue of accurate awareness, dispassionately perceptive knowledge arises and thus one finds the nature of reality.
-- Hongren

25) Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
-- Tom Lehrer

26) The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-- Buddha

27) So what do we do? Anything - something. So long as we don't just sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
-- Lee Iacocca

28) The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
-- Shakti Gawain

29) When plans are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them.
-- Sir William Osler

30) If your regrets linger, if you cannot find inspiration in solitude, then you still have much to learn from the writers and poets and the cooks on becoming the artist of your own life. You can never recreate the past. But you can shape your own future. And you can make a cake.
-- Jacqueline Duval

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Tony Robbins: Unlock What's Stopping You

Living with Confidence

Great #Quotes to start off the week!

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
-- Margaret Cousins

Ask yourself, "what difference will this thing we're fighting about make in ten years? In one year? In a month?
-- Author Unknown

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
-- Liz Smith

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
-- Anne Frank

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the.... place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
-- Diana Schart Hunt

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-- Helen Keller

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime.
-- Elisabethe Kubler-Ross

I can do no great things, only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
-- Judith M. Knowlton

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
-- Katherine Mansfield

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
-- Margaret Thatcher

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
-- Anita Roddick

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
-- Beverly Sills

Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
-- Caroline Dall

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
-- Liz Carpenter

It's beauty that captures your attention; but personality that captures your heart.
-- Anon

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
-- Lena Horne

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
-- Margaret Thatcher

Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.
-- Mary Eugenia Charles

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone should be.
-- Clementine Paddleford

No one else can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
-- Natasha Bedingfield

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
-- Ellen Glasgow

Of all things you wear, your expression is the most important.
-- Anon

So celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
-- Mia Hamm

The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.
-- Pam Brown

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
-- Martha Washington

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith

We won't always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What's important is that you do care and you act.
-- Charlotte Lunsford

Well-behaved women rarely make history.
-- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

When we have the courage to speak out - to break our silence - we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities to speak up and voice their views.
-- Sharon Schuster

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
-- Author Unknown

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
-- Diana Ross

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
-- Lydia M. Child

You must do the think you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way.
-- Dr Wayne W Dyer

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
-- Herbert Otto

Everybody wants to be somebody;
nobody wants to grow.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.
-- Jim Rohn

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
-- Samuel Johnson

He who would govern others, first should be master of himself.
-- Philip Massinger

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
-- Pablo Picasso

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
-- Abraham H Maslow

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
-- Dr Phil

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.
-- Stephen Covey

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
-- Oprah Winfrey

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
-- Aristotle

Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.
-- Anthony Robbins

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
-- Stephen Covey

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
-- Og Mandino

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.
-- Jim Rohn

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
-- Brian Tracy

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
-- Edward Bulwer Lytton

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
-- Oscar Wilde

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
-- John Ruskin

The process of self-development can be described as the stripping away of layer after layer of all that is false.
-- The Daily Guru

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
-- Oscar Wilde

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
--Aldous Huxley

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays...
-- Pablo Picasso

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-- John Heider

You seek too much information and not enough transformation.
-- Sai Baba

#Quotes on dealing with #Emotional #Pain

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho

Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

No pain, No gain.
- Anonymous

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong (bicycle racer)

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

We would never have a word for Joy if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
- Julius Caesar

Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious decision to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
- Toni Morrison

I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure,
yet know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell

Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious decision to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quotes on Pain

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung

The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
- Armand Hammer

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous

Affirmations about Pain

I am the master of my emotions - I transform fear to love, anger to compassion, pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance, expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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10 #Motivational #Quotes from Jay-z

1. “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business… man.”- Diamonds from Sierra Leone Remix.

How could you not like this line. Jay-Z highlights the fact that he is a walking business. His carefully crafted name, brand and image makes money and thats just by being himself.

2. “One million, two million, three million, four, In just five years, forty million more, you are now lookin at the forty million boy, I’m rapin Def Jam ’til I’m the hundred million man” – You Don’t Know.

Jay counts up his short rise to success with this line and his ambition to keep going til he reaches 100million. Needless to say he hit his target. Moral – Set targets and keep striving for more .

3. “I’d rather die enormous than live dormant.” – Can I Live.

From Jay-Z’s first album “Reasonable Doubt”. This line shows Jigga’s ambition to live life to the fullest even at the risk of death. Moral – Don’t sit back and let life fly by. Take massive action with all your effort.

4. “I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell, I am a hustler baby, I’ll sell water to a well” – You Don’t know.

So many quotables in this one song. Highlights Jay’s self confidence and hustler mentality. Moral – Have self belief.

5. “Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain’t even a garbage can, you have faith!” – Guns & Roses.

From Blueprint 2 with Lenny Kravitz. Everyone gets a break once in a while and you are far from garbage as you have faith.

6. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” – Blueprint 2.

Moral – Learn from your mistakes and never give up.

7. “Ain’t nothin’ wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.” – American Dreamin’.

Jay-Z started out as a drug dealer and was aiming for success at selling drugs. This line highlights his realisation that he needs another target like music.

8. “Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.” – A Dream.

Moral – You make the the decisions which dictate your life. You’re responsible for your own success.

9. “I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of not trying” – Beach Chair.

Moral – It’s better to try and fail than not to try at all.

10. “I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over” – Oprah Masterclass Documentary.

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Great #Quotes from Russell Simmons' Book "Do You"

In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it… Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.
I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.
If you aren't passionate about a vision, it's hard to have faith in it.
I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.
What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, "Do you want to make it or not?"
It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.
Always try to be yourself.
Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.
A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.
Jesus and Muhammad didn't reveal themselves to prove what they could do. They revealed themselves so you could see what *you* can do.
I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.” And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
You've got to tell God thank you every day.
When I start my day by reflecting on all the things I have to be grateful for, I'll have a much more rewarding day.
Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a "hard" job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what kind of work is in front of her, because she understands that she's doing God's work. And when you're working for God, nothing is too hard.
Age ain't nothing but a number.
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.
You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best.
Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.
I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you're going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you've got to keep your eyes focused on the path.
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life’s distractions is called Tapas. It’s another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as “heat” or “essential energy.” The concept is that through a disciplined approach to work and self-sacrifice, Tapas will burn away the negativity that separates us from God. By working our hardest and happily enduring the hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in ourselves.

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Tony Robbins- Get the Best Tools

Jim Rohn - Turn Nothing Into Something

#Inspirational #Poems

How Do I Love Thee?
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, -- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

My Loved One
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.

My Chosen Family
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.

Today is your day to dance lightly with life
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows and butterflies out to play,
soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as your celebration of life.

Today is your day to practice whimsey,
skip on the beach, and play with the waves,
watch wondrous cloud animals parade your story,
find a magical white bunny down every rabbit hole.

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.

Today is your day to honor your being,
release each and every struggle,
gather strength from life's storms,
relax into the arms of spirit.

Today is your day to see in yourself the face of god.
Your mind sparks, your soul sparkles.
Your peace is counterpoint to the clamor of life.
You are a magnificent gift to the world.

How Do I Love Thee?
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My Loved One
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My Chosen Family
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.

The River of Life
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life flows without emotion.
The River surges. The River quiets.
The River overflows its banks. The River dries to a trickle.
The River swirls and storms. The River becomes calm.
The River runs clear. The River runs dark with silt.
The River is indifferent to what benefit or what harm is caused by its water.
The River is the River, and that is all there is to it.

The River of Life has no judgments.
The River flows with no concept of good and bad - right and wrong.
The fields and dreams of men may be nourished by the River of Life, or flooded and covered with silt, and the River just flows.
Men may catch fish and live on the River of Life, or they may founder in a storm and drown, and the River just flows.

The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless, and it changes in its own time.

The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.

The River of Life is not powerful - and it is not weak.
The River of Life is not gentle - and it is not strong or rough.
The River of Life is not deep or shallow.
The River of Life is not nourishing or punishing.
The River of Life is simply the River of Life.
The River of Life just IS. There is no more to it.

The River of Life has no meaning, no good, no bad, no better, no worse, no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.

There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River just flows.

The River is the source of all nourishment - the source of all obstacles.
The River is the source of all life - the source of all death.
The River is the source of all joy - and the source of all sorrow.
Yet the River has no joy - and the River has no sorrow.
The River is just the River.

One can flow harmoniously with the River - or one can struggle fearfully against the River - and the River just flows.
One can accept the River - or one can deny the River - and the River just flows.
One can worship the River of Life - or one can curse the River of Life - and the River just flows.

There is nothing to do - and the River flows.
There is nothing to say - and the River flows.
There is nothing to think - and the River flows.
There is nothing to feel - and the River flows.
The River flows - and all else is our drama.
The River flows - and all else is our invention.

I choose to flow with the River of Life.

Time, an Untamed Beast
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time, an untamed beast,
awaits its funeral feast.
I choose inner peace.

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Had a bad #breakup? #Quotes on #BreakUps and #MovingOn

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

Quotes about Breaking Up and Moving On

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

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

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Breaking Up Quotes - Quotes to Get Over a Breakup

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Anonymous

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

Quotes about Breaking Up

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
- John Dos Passos

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
- Wayne Dyer

Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere.
- Winona Ryder

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Sad Quotes on Breaking Up

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
- James Taylor

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

Funny Breaking Up Quotes and Sayings

Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
- Mae West

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
- Steve Martin

I love to shop after a bad relationship. ... Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
- George Sanders

It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Freedom from Wrong Mindsets

Joel Osteen- Embracing Change

Positive #Affirmations: Affirmations of Courage, Self Esteem, Spirituality, Success

Affirmations of Choice, Freedom, and Responsibility

I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.

I alone am the MASTER of my ship of life.

I am a Paradox - a Duality - and yet an Entirely Unified ME.

I am a Passionate Observer of Life.

I am ME - I am not my attachments, my possessions, or the people in my life.

I am responsible for my thoughts, my beliefs, and my actions.

I choose not to project my past onto my future.

I choose to create a joyful story in THIS moment.

I choose to feel supremely happy at this very moment.

I come to life with an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.

I create a new and more loving story to surround each event in my past.

I honor everyone and honor all points-of-view.

I Listen to the Heartbeat of Life.

I love, without condition, myself, all those around me, and all those in my thoughts, this day and evermore.

I question my questions.

I serve others by living happily, and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.

My Mind Sparks; My Soul Sparkles.

I Honor Diversity.

I allow life to wash over me.

I say that Today is a Perfect Day.

Everyone I Love Becomes My Family.

I choose to enjoy people as I enjoy a rainbow or a butterfly - granting them their freedom.

Time is my friend.

Joy is my choice. I choose joy in every moment.

I Make Free-Will Choices.

I recognize that the person I was in my past is not the person I am today.

I choose never to be a prisoner of urgency.

Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive. When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.

Like a Chameleon, I Adapt to Changing Circumstances.

Like a Dolphin, I am Graceful, Powerful, and Compassionate.

Like a Manatee, I am Peaceful, Respectful, Gentle, Kind, and Self-Healing.

Like an Owl, I am Alert, Patient, and Objective.

Affirmations of Self-Esteem

I follow my own star and my own inner compass.

I am the Melody in the Symphony of My Life.

I choose to live my life in the present, with consciousness.

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.

There is nothing I ever need to have.

There is nothing I ever need to do.

I Say NO to the demands of the world.

I Say YES to the longings of my own heart.

I make my own choices. I decide what I will and will not do. I am proud of my independence.

I accept everything that ever has been, with no regrets, no resentments, and no call for vengeance.

I do my best and accept life as it comes.

I take the helm on my life voyage.

I renounce all assumptions and expectations. I thoughtfully consider all possibilities.

I CHOOSE with courage, awareness, consciousness, and compassion toward all.

I Honor My True Self.

I soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.

I am a being of free-will, and I CHOOSE each and every action I make, every thought I think, and every emotion I feel.

I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent.

I chose to release all my attachments.

I love myself as I truly am.

I grant myself the Honor of being ME.

I am unique in all time and space.

I trust my intuition to deliver inspiring visions of my future.

I ride the storm - cheering wildly.

I gather strength from the storm.

The world is a better place because I am here.

I celebrate my free-will.

I choose my life-path.

I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.

I say YES to the opportunities life offers me.

I set my own course through the ocean of life.

I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure

Courage Affirmations

I Walk Today's March With Courage

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.

I Act with Bold Courage.

Taking inspiration from the powerful vision of my future, I boldly set sail with courage and intent.

I hold my course with focused attention and relentless commitment, as I weather the storms of life.

I Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action Inspired by Powerful Dreams.

I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.

I sing wild songs of adventure.

I gather strength from life's storms.

I live courageously.

I stand in the inspiring vision of my future, boldly taking every step - large and small - with courage and intent.

I am a Bold and Courageous Warrior.

Today is an adventure. I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.

When I Come To The Edge of the Familiar, I Spread My Wings and Fly.

I breathe in my courage. I exhale my fear.

I Cheat Death by Enjoying Life.

I cherish the uncertainty of life's adventures.

My bold life awaits me. I answer the call.

Forgiveness and Compassion Affirmations

I forgive everyone, especially myself, for all actions and all inactions throughout my entire life.

I Forgive Myself and All Others with Compassion.

I forgive everyone for everything.

I forgive myself completely for having created stories of suffering.

I forgive myself for all my angers, resentments, and jealousies.

I have compassion for everyone who has ever been a player upon the stage of my life.

I have unbounded compassion for myself at all times and under all circumstances.

I forgive everyone, especially myself, for all actions and all inactions throughout my entire life.

I forgive for my own sake, that I may transmute my resentments into Unconditional Love.

I Release Myself From All Guilt.

I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.

I unconditionally forgive everyone for all hurt that I have ever experienced in the presence of their actions.

I unconditionally forgive myself for everything that I have ever done, said, or thought that has caused me harm or suffering.

Gratitude Affirmations

I choose to live a life of gratitude and joy, inspiring others to follow my example.

I give thanks for the bounties of this world.

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving.

I have gratitude for EVERYTHING that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.

I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.

I give thanks for both my bloom and my thorns.

I give thanks for EVERYTHING That Has Occurred To Bring Me To This Moment.

Inner Peace Affirmations

I lay aside the battles within my own mind, and grant myself peace.

I bring Peace into moments of chaos.

My Peace is Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.

I attain Inner Peace by Intending my future, and never Expecting it.

My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,

My life is the eye of the hurricane - an island of calm in a sea of uncertainty.

Slowly and Deeply, I Inhale a Calming Breath.

Affirmations of Celebration

I create Today as a celebration of my life.

I Dance with a Light Heart.

I play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.

Today is my day to dance lightly with life.

I invite rainbows & butterflies out to play.

I soar my spirit, and unfurl my joy.

Today, I Dance Lightly With Life.

Today is my day to honor my being,

Today Is My Day To Laugh At Life.

Today is my day to laugh loud - laugh often

Today is my day to paint life in bold colors.

I create today as my celebration of life.

Today is my day to practice whimsey,

I skip on the beach, and play with the wave.

I watch wondrous cloud animals parade my story.

I find a magical white bunny down every rabbit hole.

I am the poet of my mind.

I am the painter of my heart.

I Choose to Dance Lightly With Life

I Dance Lightly With Life.

I Delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.

I Invite Life to Dance.

I Paint My Life In Bold Colors.

Today I invite life to dance.

Today is my day to laugh at life.

I Laugh With Life.

Spiritual Affirmations

I have ready access to a power beyond my wildest imagination.

I radiate my kindness into the world.

I put aside personal preferences and step forward to be of service.

I see the miracle in all of life. I am thankful for all creation.

I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

I open my mind to Spirit,

I trust my intuition to deliver powerful visions of my inspired future, and I empower my intent to transform those visions into reality.

I honor all people and cultures.

I release each and every struggle.

I relax into the arms of spirit.

I set today's life-rhythm with my heart-drum.

Today is my day to see in myself the face of god.

My mind sparks, my soul sparkles.

My peace is counterpoint to the clamor of life.

I ascend from Fear to Unconditional Love.

I choose acceptance and compassion toward all humanity.

I am a Magnificent Gift to the World.

I am Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.

I shine my light of happiness into the darkness of negativity.

I open myself for the word of Spirit to flow through me.

I am a Master of Alchemy; I Transmute Fear and Hate Into Love.

I am a Miracle, and That's Why I'm ME.

I am a Unique Expression of the Universal Fabric of Creation.

I celebrate both my uniqueness and my connection with all that is.

I am Honored that Spirit has chosen to create ME.

I Look In The Mirror and See The Face Of God

I open my mind to Spirit.

I Swim Happily in the Ocean of My BEing.

I entrust my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.

I am a miracle, and that's why I'm ME.

I Am One With Spirit and All Creation

Spirit is within me.

Spirit permeates me and surrounds me.

Spirit is my comfort and my strength.

I am one with the Earth, with the Water, with the Fire, with the Air that I breathe, with all Living Things, and we are all one with Spirit.

I am profoundly grateful that the Powers of Light have chosen ME to be a conduit for Infinite Love.

I am the master of my emotions - I transform fear to love, anger to compassion, pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance, expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.

I have continuous and unlimited access to the infinite and eternal energies of Spirit.

I pray that my greatest desires will always be for exactly what Spirit is offering me at this very moment.

I Relax Into The Arms Of Spirit

In the eternity of all creation, I am the only ME that ever will be.

Lord, grant comfort, joy and health to those I call friend, to those I call enemy, and to those I have cursed by my indifference.

My Cup Runneth Over - My Life Is Abundant.

I view the Divine and All of Life from the perspective of Celebration.

Open the gates and roll out the red carpet, for I am entering the kingdom of peace.

Whenever I look at a human face, I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."

Whenever I look in the mirror, I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."

I am a blessing to the world

Positive Affirmations

I live with enthusiasm, and give thanks for my life.

I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.

I Dream with Powerful Intention.

I soar high above the troubles of the world.

Today, I will be gentle with myself.

When the World Frowns, I Smile Back.

I am a passionate Observer of Life. I see the events, feel the emotions, and recognize the difference.

I practice keen awareness.

I open to inspiration.

I Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.

Like a Butterfly, I have been Reborn with Bold Colors and Strong Wings.

Like a Rose, I Thrive - Blessed With Both My Thorns and My Blooms.

I congratulate myself warmly for each accomplishment, then ask, "What's next?

I Visualize my Intention.

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Words of #Comfort to Lift Your Spirit: Comforting #Quotes

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

May God grant you always... A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to cheer you. Faithful friends near you. And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others, but probably earlier and anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
- Hippocrates (known as the "Father of Medicine")

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth.
- C. S. Lewis

From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell

Words of Comfort to Live By

Lord, grant comfort, joy and health to those I call friend, to those I call enemy, and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as I think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Positive Affirmation Quotes on Finding Comfort

Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am the master of my emotions - I transform fear to love, anger to compassion, pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance, expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.

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You Can Do It #Quotes

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- Anonymous

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford

If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Can Do Attitude Quotes

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy

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

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I Can Do It Quotes

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

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

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution, and arbitrary "rules" about
how life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure! Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Begin your life today, and again tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To change who you are, change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You Can Do Anything Quotes

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anaïs Nin

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anaïs Nin

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all --
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I Can Do Anything - Starting Right Now.
I have my dream, I have God, and I choose to move in the direction of my goal,
even when I am afraid or unsure.
Whenever I fall, I stand up, brush myself off, and keep moving toward my goal.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am the Melody in the Symphony of My Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Say NO to the demands of the world.
I Say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Walk Today's March With Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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The #Oscars : #wisdom from 40 Films in 7 Minutes

Saturday, February 26, 2011

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#Inspirational #quotes for #Saturday: Rabindranath Tagore #Quotes

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Death [Nirvana] is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight,
- Rabindranath Tagore

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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#Oscars weekend! #Inspirational #quotes from #Oscar Winning #Actors and Movies!

“Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.” -Robin Williams "Night at the Museum"

“If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.” -Robin Williams "Dead Poets Society"

“I know what I have to do now, I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?” -Tom Hanks "Cast Away"

“Ruin is the road to transformation.” -Julia Roberts "Eat, Pray, Love"

“When you love someone, you've got to trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?” -Robert De Niro "Casino"

“When you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us….. And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's what living is, the six inches in front of your face.” Al Pacino "Any Given Sunday"

“Man, you told me if I think pennies, I get pennies. I'm thinking dollars, man.” Jamie Foxx "Ray"

“If you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is." -Clint Eastwood " The Outlaw Josie Wales"

“Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.” -Sidny Poiter " To Sir With Love"

“I don't want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.” -Jack Nicholson "The Departed"

"A man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.” -Marlon Brando "The Godfather"

“Freedom is assassinated by egotism.” -Marlon Brando "Last Tango in Paris"

“Pain make man think, thought make man wise, wisdom make life endurable.” -Marlon Brando "The Tea House of the August Moon"

“You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all.” -Marlon Brando "A Streetcar named Desire"

“Destiny is what we make it.” -Denzel Washington "The Bone Collector"

"Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear." -Morgan Freeman "Invictus"

“Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.” -Morgan Freeman "Wanted"

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ 'Has your life brought joy to others?’” -Morgan Freeman "Bucket List"

“Sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back. But step back too far and you ain’t fighting at all.” Morgan Freem "Million Dollar Baby"

Wisest Quotes from Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 1980’s

1) “Where does the power come from to see the race to its end? From within."
”Chariots of Fire (1981) – Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson)

2) “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
Gandhi (1982) – Mohandas Gandhi (Ben Kingsley)

3) “Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would
not see too far down the road.”
Out of Africa (1985) – Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep)

4) “Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others
    what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a
    meaning to this life.”
    Platoon (1986) – Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen)

5) “If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you
say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.”
The Last Emperor (1987) – Reginald Johnston (Peter O’Toole)

Wisest Quotes from Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 1990’s

1) “Every man dies but not every man really lives.”
Braveheart (1995) – William Wallace (Mel Gibson)

2) “When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.”
Titanic (1997) – Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio)

3) “Of all the trails in this life, there is one that matters most. It is the trail of a true
human being. I think you are on this trail and it is good to see.”
Dances With Wolves (1990) – Kicking Bird (Graham Greene)

4) “I would stay asleep my whole life if I could dream myself into a company
of players.”
Shakespeare in Love (1998) – Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow)

5) “I don’t know if we each have a destiny or if we’re just floating around accidental-
    like on a breeze. But I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both are happening at the
    same time.”
    Forrest Gump (1994) – Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)

Wisest Quotes from Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 2000’s

1) “In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think
    we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel
    something.”
    Crash (2005) – Graham Waters (Don Cheadle)

2) “It's called ‘life’, John. Activities available, just add meaning.”
A Beautiful Mind (2001) – Alicia Nash (Jennifer Connelly)

3) “What we do in life echoes in eternity.”
Gladiator (2000) – Maximus (Russell Crowe)

4) “You can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like.”
Chicago (2002) – Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger)

5) “Sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back. But step back too
far and you ain’t fighting at all.”
Million Dollar Baby (2004) – Eddie Dupris (Morgan Freeman)

Inspirational Quotes from Movies

Somewhere along the line
we stopped believing
we could do anything.
And if we don’t have our dreams,
we have nothing.
-The Astronaut Farmer

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.
We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
And the human race is filled with passion.
And medicine, law, business, engineering,
these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Dead Poet's Society

God must be a painter.
Why else would we have so many colors?
-A Beautiful Mind

You want to know how to be here?
Stop constantly waiting for something.
-Eat Pray Love

I found out what the secret to life is:
friends. Best friends.
-Fried Green Tomatoes

If you got to have a dream,
you may as well dream big.
-Jumper

A teacher has two jobs:
fill young minds with knowledge, yes,
but more important,
give those minds a compass so that that knowledge doesn't go to waste.
-Mr. Holland's Opus

If the people we love are stolen from us,
the way to have them live on
is to never stop loving them.
Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
-The Crow

May the wind always be on your back
and the sun upon your face
and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft
to dance with the stars.
-Blow

’What’ and ‘if’
are two words as non-threatening as words can be,
but put them together side by side
and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life.
-Letters to Juliet

If you want to limit yourself, that's fine.
But don't let other people do it for you.
-Gracie

You must not let anyone
define your limits because of where you come from.
Your only limit is your soul.
-Ratatouille

I know you can’t live on hope alone,
but without hope life isn’t worth living.
So you and you and you, you’ve got to give them hope.
-Milk

Sight is about what lies right in front of us.
Vision is what lies ahead.
-Imagine That

If you focus on what you’ve left behind,
you will never be able to see what lies ahead.
-Ratatouille

Until you start believing in yourself,
you ain't gonna have a life!
-Rocky Balboa

Whenever I despair,
I remember that the way of truth and love has always won.
There may be tyrants, murderers
and for a time, they may seem invincible,
but in the end they always fail.
-Gandhi

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-An Ideal Husband

I think one day you'll find
that you're the hero you've been looking for.
-An American Tail

I think happiness comes from
caring more about people rather than less.
-Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

What a beautiful death to die
in the arms of your passion.
-Man on Wire

Kids, you got to be yourself.
You can’t act like anybody else
just because you think they have all the answers and you don’t.
You have to be your own man
and learn to speak up and say what’s on your mind.
-Zelig

Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.
-The African Queen

Insanity is coasting through life
in a miserable existence
when you have a caged lion locked inside
and the key to release it.
-Wanted

I remember one morning getting up at dawn,
there was such a sense of possibility. You know that feeling?
And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness.
This is where it starts and of course there will always be more.
It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning.
It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.
-The Hours

It takes practice and skill to live without regret.
-A Good Woman

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