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07/23/2008
Only that day dawns
to which we are awake. 07/22/2008 You gotta have a
dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a
dream come true? 07/21/2008 Your trials did not
come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you
realize that your are a part of Spirit and that just
behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity. 07/18/2008 A man may fulfill the
object of his existence by asking a question he cannot
answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. 07/17/2008 Enthusiasm is the
divine particle in our composition: with it we are
great, generous, and true; without it, we are little,
false, and mean. 07/16/2008 Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals. - David Ogilvy But an accurate
definition of the self is impossible. The people who say
you are not facing reality actually mean that you are
not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all
else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can
sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. Curiosity may have
killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned,
the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is
ignorance. 07/10/2008 Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your
words as well as their intent. 07/09/2008 If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you
may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man
flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man
flattened by conformity stays down for good. 07/08/2008 Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand. - Sue Patton Thoele 07/07/2008 You must train your intuition -- you must trust the
small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to
say, what to decide. 07/04/2008 Truly every new idea
is a violation of some older idea; as the awakening of
tomorrow is a violation of today's slumber. As long as
man continues to evolve, in other words, to separate
himself from chaos, and to express himself in a higher
form, he must always shatter something. In shattering,
he disobeys: in breaking, he creates. 07/03/2008 A discipline I have
observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people. 07/02/2008 Your future takes
precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather
than on the past. 07/01/2008 Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy 06/30/2008I believe that to
meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have
to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility.
Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself,
one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all
humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human
survival. It is the best foundation for world peace. 06/27/2008 We run after values
that, at death, become zero. 06/26/2008 There is no joy
without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate
life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal
is love?...At these moments you can either hold on to
negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal
and keep on loving. 06/25/2008 Death is simply a
shedding of the physical body like the butterfly
shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher
state of consciousness where you continue to perceive,
to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. 06/24/2008 I've told my children
that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to
celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a
graduation. 06/23/2008 Life is a great
sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even
greater one. 06/20/2008 It doesn't matter
what road you take, hill you climb, or path you're on,
you will always end up in the same place, learning. 06/19/2008 We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese 06/18/2008Improve your spare
moments and they will become the brightest gems in your
life. 06/17/2008 What we call the
secret of happiness is no more a secret than our
willingness to choose life. 06/16/2008 The best things in
life are nearest. Breath in your nostrils, light in your
eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the
path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the
stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes,
certain that daily duties and daily bread are the
sweetest things in life. 06/13/2008 Let the world slip we
shall ne'er be younger. 06/12/2008 Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle 06/11/2008 Pure and simple, any
person who is enjoying life is a success? 06/10/2008 People worry about
careers but rarely spend half that energy managing their
lives. I want to make my life the best it can be. 06/09/2008 The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing? - Ellie Katz 06/06/2008Slow down and the thing you are chasing will come around and catch you. - Zen saying 06/05/2008 Within you there is a
stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at
anytime and be yourself. 06/04/2008 Take the gentle path.
06/03/2008 The life I touch for
good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn
another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in
what far place my touch will be felt. 06/02/2008 Smiles help me
remember that the sky is only dark between the stars.
05/30/2008 Sometimes you earn
more by doing things that pay nothing. 05/29/2008 We are here to add
what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. 05/28/2008 There are people who
take the heart out of you, and there are people who put
it back. 05/27/2008 Praise the bridge
that carried you over. 05/26/2008 We must not, in
trying to think about how we can make a big difference,
ignore the small daily differences we can make which,
over time, add up to the big differences that we often
don't foresee. 05/23/2008 When you care, people
notice. 05/22/2008 It takes courage for
people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.
05/21/2008 You have a gift that
only you can give the world - that's the whole reason
you're on the planet. use your precious energy to build
a magnificent life that really is attainable. The
miracle of your existence calls for celebration every
day. 05/20/2008 Courage is
adversity's lamp. 05/19/2008 We must walk
consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap
in the dark to our success. 05/16/2008 Go and wake up your
luck. 05/15/2008 There's a good time
coming. 05/14/2008 We are the hurdles we
leap, to be ourselves. 05/13/2008 Wrong turns are as
important as right turns. More important sometimes. 05/12/2008 Don't wait for
inspiration. Take action! Action generates inspiration. 05/09/2008 Possibilities do not
add up, they multiply. 05/08/2008 Everything is always
impossible before it works. 05/07/2008 Live and work with
integrity, and everything else is a piece of cake. 05/06/2008 Be fanatics. When it
comes to being, doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs. 05/05/2008 Whoever I am or
whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within
my reach. 05/02/2008 You've achieved
success in your field when you don't know whether what
you're doing is work or play. 05/01/2008 What we love and what
captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place
of great destiny. 04/30/2008 Finding the right
work is like discovering your soul in the world. 04/29/2008 May you always find
new roads to travel; new horizons to explore; new dreams
to call your own. 04/28/2008 We each have only a
limited amount of time here. We have to do more with it,
pay attention, explore, be open to all of life. 04/25/2008 From small beginnings
come great things. 04/24/2008 Person to person,
moment to moment, as we love, we change the world. 04/23/2008 Follow your passion
as long as you live. 04/22/2008 It seems to me that
we can never give up longing or wishing while we are
alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful
and good, and we must hunger for them. 04/21/2008 By being yourself,
you put something wonderful in the world that was not
there before. 04/18/2008 Unless you walk out
into the unknown, the odds of making a profound
difference in your life are pretty low. 04/17/2008 Today is the day. 04/16/2008 Dreams pass into the
reality of action. 04/15/2008 The future is not
someplace we are going to, but a place we are creating.
The paths to it are not found, they are made. 04/14/2008 You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you have chosen to be and do about what has happened. - Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God) 04/11/2008
The little things in life? The little
moments? They aren't little. They often turn out to be
the most memorable and meaningful things we encounter. 04/10/2008 Sometimes when I
consider what tremendous consequences come from little
things, I am tempted to think there are no little
things. 04/9/2008 Faith is an invisible
and invincible magnet and attracts to itself whatever it
fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects. 04/8/2008 We all need something
to believe in, something for which we can have
whole-hearted enthusiasm. We need to feel that our life
has meaning, that we are needed in this world. 04/7/2008 One thing is certain:
That is that the power of belief, the power of thought,
will move reality in the direction of what we believe
and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do
something, you can. That is a fact. 04/4/2008 Practice rather than
preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by
your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the
level of your capability then go beyond to a higher
level. 04/3/2008 Failure is an event,
not a person. Yesterday ended last night. 04/2/2008 Hope is the companion
of power, and the mother of success, for who so hopes
has within him the gift of miracles. 04/1/2008 Success is not final,
failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts. 03/31/2008 The whole of this
Universe is stationed in the Omnipresent and the
Omnipotent God. We see Him in various forms. He brings
to light all these worlds. Him they call the Kala,
Infinite, Pervading the infinite space. 03/28/2008 The final mastery is
oneself. 03/27/2008 I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment. - R. Buckminster Fuller 03/26/2008 Hear the other side. 03/25/2008 The only person who
behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew
every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their old
measurements. 03/24/2008 Only a life in the
service of others is worth living. 03/21/2008 Be happy. It is a way of
being wise. 03/20/2008 Spend eighty percent of
your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather
than the problems of yesterday. 03/19/2008 Be content with what you
have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there
is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. 03/18/2008 Death is the opening of a
more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume;
in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul. 03/17/2008 Advice is what we ask for
when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. 03/14/2008 Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities. - Robert H. Schuller 03/13/2008However wise it may be to glean wisdom from the past, it is folly to regard the past as the exclusive source of truth. Truth is relative and expanding; it lives always in the present, achieving new expression in each generation of men--even in each human life. - The Urantia Book 03/12/2008Envy not success, nor
pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in
the soul's reckoning. 03/11/2008 Everlasting perspective
helps you keep things in their proper light. 03/10/2008 If we're told that an odd piece of our china is worth a hundred pounds, - how rare its beauty! - Logan Pearsall Smith 03/07/2008 And we ask not any soul
to perform beyond its scope. 03/06/2008 The most beautiful thing
we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and science. 03/05/2008 A man's rootage is more
important than his leafage. 03/04/2008 We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. 03/03/2008 To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell 02/29/2008 How you are going to feel today is a decision you make. - Robert H. Schuller
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. - William Jones 02/27/2008 See how fleeting and trifling
is the condition of humans; yesterday an embryo, tomorrow a
mummy or ashes. So for the tiny sliver of time you are
given, live rationally, and depart from life cheerfully, the way
the ripe olive falls, praising the season that brought it forth
and the tree that nurtured it. 02/26/2008 Somebody should tell us,
right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we
might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it!
I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so
many tomorrows. 02/25/2008 The soul that has no established aim loses itself. - Michel de Montaigne 02/22/2008If you can spend a perfectly
useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have
learned how to live. 02/121/2008 As a rule, I always look for what others ignore. 02/20/2008 Eternal life is the endless quest for infinite values. I honestly think it is better
to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at
something you hate. To lead a life in which we
are inspired and can inspire others, our hearts have to be
alive; they have to be filled with passion and enthusiasm. To
achieve that, we need the courage to live true to ourselves.
Rather than borrowing from or imitating others, we need the
conviction to be able to think for ourselves and to take action
out of our own sense of responsibility. Today is the first day of the
rest of your life. 02/14/2008 The clearest sign of wisdom
is continued cheerfulness. 02/13/2008 The world is one percent
good, one percent bad, ninety-eight percent neutral. It can go
one way or the other, depending on which side is pushing.
This is why what individuals do is important. 02/12/2008 Have patience with all
things, but first of all with yourself. 02/11/2008 Seize from every moment its
unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. 02/08/2008 He is a wise man who does not
grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those
which he has. 02/07/2008 A retentive memory may be a
good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of
greatness. 02/06/2008 There is a magnet in your
heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is
unselfishness, thinking of others first ... when you learn to
live for others, they will live for you. 02/05/2008 Accept the place that divine
providence has found for you, the society of your
contemporaries, the connection of events. 02/04/2008 Humble men and women do not have a low opinion of themselves; they have no opinion of themselves, because they so rarely think about themselves. The heart of humility lies in undivided attention to God and a de-selfing of our plans, projects, ambitions and soul. Humility is an indifference to our own well-being and a carefree disregard of the image we present. No longer concerned with appearing to be good, we can move freely in the mystery of who we really are, aware of the sovereignty of God and of our absolute insufficiency and yet moved by a spirit of radical self-acceptance without self-concern. - Brennan Manning 1/31/2008The willingness to trust
others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the
cornerstone of becoming civilized. 1/30/2008 Life is painting a picture,
not doing a sum. 1/29/2008 A life spent in making
mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life
spent in doing nothing. 1/28/2008 Some people speak from
experience, while others, from experience, don't speak. 1/25/2008 Love doesn't just sit there,
like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the
time, made new. 1/24/2008 The days come and go like
muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant party, but they
say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they
carry them as silently away. 1/23/2008 To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.
- Vimala Thakar
1/22/2008 It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the
answers. 1/21/2008 Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. 1/18/2008 Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe
is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and
everything your heart desires must come to you. 1/17/2008 One must not always think so much about what one should do, but
rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us, but we must
ennoble our works. 1/16/2008 Just as a spring breeze awakens tender new shoots of green,
sincere encouragement can thaw a frozen heart and instill courage.
It is the most powerful means to rejuvenate the human spirit. 1/15/2008 I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving
purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic
companionship. Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a
benign power. 1/14/2008 There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship
should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is
sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well. 1/11/2008 Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the
rest. 1/10/2008 Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice
things that happen to us. 1/9/2008 Peace of mind first -- and all things will follow on that. 1/8/2008 Diamonds are only chunks of coal, 1/7/2008 The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not
with big deposits in bank accounts, but with little deposits of
thoughtfulness and affection in the "love account." 1/4/2008 Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.... 1/3/2008 Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live. 1/2/2008 We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room,
drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe
this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms
of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential. 1/1/2008
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put
words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity
and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
- Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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