Chelle Thompson - lemon to lemonade

"When we have enough clarity to turn "Life's Lemons" into sweet lemonade, we realize what a gift those lemons were!" ~Chelle Thompson

Hallmarks of our "soul signature"

Everywhere we turn there are signs guiding us in the direction of our highest purpose. These clues are the hallmarks of our "soul signature" – the individual expression of the "unifying essence" from which all our lives spring. ~Drawn from David La Chapelle popular retreats, Destiny Lines; [writer, poet, and author of Navigating the Tides of Change].

Hal Borland - autumn

"Autumn is the eternal corrective. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?" ~Hal Borland

Sandra Magsamen Quotes

"Creativity and play help you gain confidence, self-understanding and self-esteem. They increase your concentration, help you learn to take risks and create balance and order." ~Sandra Magsamen

"Let creativity help you solve problems, face challenges and become a part of the fabric of your daily life." ~Sandra Magsamen

Quote of the Day

Today is Oct 26, 2009.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.~Gilbert Keith Chesterton~World of Quotes

Problem

“If you are able to state a problem—any problem—and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.”— Edwin Land

Daily Quote - World of Quotes, Oct 25, 2009.

Every truth is not good to be told.~Proverb, (Italian)

Shakti Gawain - affirmation

"An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so." ~Shakti Gawain

Mary Anne Radmacher

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Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." ~Leo F. Buscaglia

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. 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 a potential to turn a life around. It"s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt." ~Leo Buscaglia

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, October 23, 2009.

"The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive … and begin to act accordingly."— Shakti Gawain

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, October 22, 2009.

"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional."— Glenda Cloud

Florence Scovel Shinn - boomerang

"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." ~Florence Scovel Shinn

Berthold Auerbach - music

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Berthold Auerbach

Conrad Hilton - Succes and Action

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit" ~Conrad Hilton

Terence - Mind of the possessor

“Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.” ~Terence (African Writer in Rome 190-158 B.C.)

Honor by living

"For yesterday I hold no apologies, For tomorrow I hold no answers, today is a gift and I will honor it by fully living in it."— Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Federico García Lorca - awake

"I’ve often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake." ~Federico García Lorca

George Matthew Adams - through encouragement

"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause." ~George Matthew Adams

DH Lawrence - triumph

“The supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.” ~D.H. Lawrence

Jack Kerouac - mad people

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” ~Jack Kerouac

Gilda Radner - ambiguity

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity." ~Gilda Radner

Daily Inspirational Quote For Tuesday, October 20, 2009.

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living."— Gail Sheehy

Prasanthi Nilayam on spiritual progress

"Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness. Paddy grains have to be de-husked in order to become edible as rice. Cotton has to be converted as yarn to become wearable cloth. Gold nuggets have to be heated in the crucible to remove the impurities. Man too, must purify his impulses, emotions and desires and cultivate good thoughts, words and deeds so that he can progress spiritually." ~Prasanthi Nilayam

Dr Robin Smith - be wise

"Be wise with what you have. Be wise with what you are using. When you have something and you are not using it, you are telling the universe that you don't have the room to be blessed with more." ~Dr Robin Smith

Anne Lamott Quotes

"For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you." ~

"We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be." ~

"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself."

~Anne Lamott~

Thought for Today

"Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage." — Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way

Charles Langbridge Morgan - art of living

"The art of living does not consist of preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up." ~Charles Langbridge Morgan

Ann Demeulemeester - clothing

"Certain pieces of clothing become like friends. They become a part of your life. You can't stand it if, all of a sudden, they are gone." ~Ann Demeulemeester

Sheenagh Pugh - best effort

"Sometimes our best efforts do not go amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to." ~Sheenagh Pugh

James Oppenheim - foolish man

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." ~James Oppenheim

Loretta Girzartis - word of encouragement

"If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen." ~Loretta Girzartis

Done with gratitude

“No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.”— Oprah

Thought for Today

"What you do today creates every tomorrow." — Oprah

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, October 17, 2009.

"Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future."— Dale Turner

In love?

“Anyone who is in love is living a charmed life, especially if you've been in love for many years, through good times and bad.” — Layng Martine Jr.

Health

“It made me a better person, to understand how precious health is, and how everything can change in an instant, and how, even though the people who love you can't stop difficult things from happening, they will be there every scary step of the way.”— Cindy Chupack

Carter Heyward - world

"Lovers recreate the world." ~Carter Heyward

Oz Garcia - Marvel of Science

“Today I embrace the marvels of science and the great thinkers of our time who continually astonish me.” ~Oz Garcia

Nelson Mandela - place

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." ~Nelson Mandela

Health

“Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.”— Andrew Weil, MD

A way of life

“Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”— Yves Saint Laurent

George William Curtis - Happiness

“Happiness lies, first of all, in health.” ~George William Curtis

Marianne Williamson on Find Solutions

"Give your problems to God, and He will provide the answers. He may not give you the solution right away, but he'll help you find your way." ~Marianne Williamson

Darkness to light

“Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light.”~Sarah Mclaughlan

Susan Taylor - message in crisis

"In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change — breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place." ~Susan Taylor

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, October 3, 2009.

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