"I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing,
success and failure, is this gray line between will,
passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'."
- Howard Schultz
30 Apr 2011
26 Apr 2011
Am I going to be happy today?
"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." - Groucho Marx
25 Apr 2011
Happiness - here and now
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." - Robert G. Ingersoll
24 Apr 2011
How far one can go
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
23 Apr 2011
22 Apr 2011
the Art of Living
The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play…he hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both - A Zen Buddhist text
21 Apr 2011
Tomorrow is a new day
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could, some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear with its hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the yesterday.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
20 Apr 2011
There's one sad truth in life I've found
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
19 Apr 2011
The hardest and most courageous act
"Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual….There are times, then, when in order to keep ourselves in existence at all we simply have to sit back for a while and do nothing. And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than to sit still and rest, doing nothing at all. The very act of resting is the hardest and most courageous act he can perform" - Thomas Merton
18 Apr 2011
Try it one more time
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
17 Apr 2011
Reality and unreality
16 Apr 2011
Love the moment
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. - unknown
15 Apr 2011
TODAY IS YOUR DAY!
“Congratulations!”
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
So be sure when you step
step with care and great tact
and remember that Life’s
a great balancing ACT!” Dr. Seuss
14 Apr 2011
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure
“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.
We ask ourselves,
who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God
that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech
13 Apr 2011
Habits
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
12 Apr 2011
This is the true joy in life
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw
11 Apr 2011
How far you go in life...
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver
10 Apr 2011
How to be constantly enthusiastic?
Whenever problems come my way, I tend to feel heavy with waste and negative thoughts. At that time I am not able to feel free and light. When there is heaviness in my mind, I can't move forward with enthusiasm and thereby find it difficult to contribute for others' progress too.
Whatever the circumstances I am faced with, I need to make special effort not to reduce my enthusiasm in any way. Enthusiasm gives me courage and this courage in turn helps me use my own specialties for others’ benefit too. I begin to discover new resources within me, which can be used for everyone’s benefit.
Whatever the circumstances I am faced with, I need to make special effort not to reduce my enthusiasm in any way. Enthusiasm gives me courage and this courage in turn helps me use my own specialties for others’ benefit too. I begin to discover new resources within me, which can be used for everyone’s benefit.
9 Apr 2011
Simplicity
I become free from all the trappings and supports of false pride. I keep it simple. To stay free...to stay close to what is real. Unencumbered, I remain free as a master.
8 Apr 2011
Put Love in Everything you do and see the change
You always have a choice but you forget that you have it. Do you remember the energy and enthusiasm you had on the first day of your first job? You consciously chose to do the work you had gladly accepted to do. But then you gradually fell asleep to the choice you made, and the day became "I have to" go to work, instead of "I want to" go to work. You forgot to see all the opportunities which come with work - opportunities like learning, nourishing and being nourished by others, developing new relationships, expanding your personal capacity. Instead you decided it was just something that you had to do to 'get the money'. This is why most people are sleep-walking through their lives, and they don't know it.
The solution, choose your work every day, put the energy of love into your relationships -every day, even if you don't particularly like your job or the people around you. And you'll be amazed at how your life transforms. When you choose to put love into what you do, the universe will move heaven and hell to let you do what you love.
BK
7 Apr 2011
Kindness
“Kindness in words creates confidence;
kindness in thinking creates profoundness;
kindness in giving creates love.”
kindness in thinking creates profoundness;
kindness in giving creates love.”
~ Lao Tzu
6 Apr 2011
Where is your smile?
“You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.”
5 Apr 2011
Powerful form of encouragement
"Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise." Robert Martin
4 Apr 2011
Who is really Strong?
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.
Aesop
3 Apr 2011
Decision
Decision is often the difference between greatness adn mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future.
Wilfred A. Peterson
2 Apr 2011
Flexible
Learn to be flexible; it makes the curves in your life path much easier to maneuver.
Cherie Carter-Scott
1 Apr 2011
Dignity
I treat others as I would want to be treated. By taking time to reflect on my highest principles before I act and make decisions, I maintain my dignity and am held in high esteem by others.
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