"Care deeply for yourself, and have the wherewithal to do what it takes to make yourself happy. Go out and claim the life you deserve!" ~Bob Greene
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Samuel Butler - honor
"Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on.” ~Samuel Butler on Honor
Robert Louis Stevenson - Positive Attitude
More than 100 years ago, author Robert Louis Stevenson offered the following tips for maintaining a positive attitude. They still apply today.
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.
You can't please everybody. Don't let criticism worry you.
Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.
Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.
Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.
Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, enmity, grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.
Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places.
Don't hold postmortems. Don't spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don't be one who never gets over things.
Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Richard Henry Stoddard - flowers
“We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.” ~Richard Henry Stoddard
Frederic Chopin - Apathy
“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.” ~Frederic Chopin on Apathy
Anne Glusker - state of mind
"When we enter a state of mindful attention, the present moment, the now, eases open. And when it does, life pours in." ~Anne Glusker
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Haruki Murakami - touchstone
"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone." ~Haruki Murakami
Rev. Ed Bacon - transformation
"Open your heart and you will be amazed at the transformations taking place all around you." ~Rev. Ed Bacon
Susan Orlean - possibility
"The reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility." ~Susan Orlean
Friday, September 7, 2012
Atul Gawande - small steps
"We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right—one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in." ~Atul Gawande
Indira Gandhi - prosperity
"We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible" ~Indira Gandhi
Martha Graham - learn by practice
"I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same." ~Martha Graham
Irwin Edman - myths
"It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved." ~Irwin Edman
William Pollard - opportunity
"It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute." ~William Pollard
Winston Churchill -life
"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed." ~Winston Churchill
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