Edward de Bono - we need creativity

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, June 24, 2010.
"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."— Edward de Bono

Ed and Deb Shapiro - enjoying every moment

"You have reached the highest achievement if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much. Real success is about fully enjoying every moment." —  Ed and Deb Shapiro

Henry Chester - enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.~Henry Chester~

Thomas Jefferson - right mental attitude

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from  achieving his goal; nothing  on earth can help the man with  the wrong mental attitude.~Thomas Jefferson

Stan L Wright - open the heart

The simplest thing I can tell anyone is do not close the door. Open the heart." —  Stan L. Wright, father of country music singer Chely Wright

Tracy Morgan - sense of humor

"Your sense of humor is the knife in which you cut through the wilderness of despair."

—  Tracy Morgan, actor and comedian

Dr Barbara Becker Holstein

"May you feel good today.  Sometimes the simplest way to having pleasant feelings is to not say anything negative about anyone else today." ~ Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

Rita Mae Brown - creativity

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, June 17, 2010.
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."— Rita Mae Brown

Sally's Musing - luminous blue

"The dawn's sky of luminous blue greets the coming of a beautiful day but who's stopping to watch it turn deeper blue?" ~Sally's Musing

John W Gardner - web of social pressures

Daily Inspirational Quote For Wednesday, June 16, 2010.
"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."— John W. Gardner

Brenda Ueland - to grow within and to life

	June 15, 2010 “When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.”—  Brenda Ueland, Oprah Magazine (Internet Subscription).

Gerald Holton - when mind stretched

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. ~Gerald Holton~

Mack McGinnis - for what we are

Daily Inspirational Quote For Sunday, June 13, 2010.
"Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are."— Mack McGinnis

Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein - tank of energy

"May you wake up each day with a clear head, a smile already spreading and enough curiosity, enthusiasm, and hope to start this day on a full tank of energy." ~ Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - one sees rightly

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, June 11, 2010.
"It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Thich Nhat Hanh - thougt, word and action

June 8, 2010

"Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature."

—  Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk, author and teacher

Robert H Schuller -imprisoned possibilities

Daily Inspirational Quote For Sunday, June 6, 2010.
"Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities."— Robert H. Schuller

Henry Miller - seeing things

“One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller,

(Oprah) May 31, 2010

Masisyn Taylor - taking care of ourselves

Thought for Today

"Surrounding ourselves with friends and family that nurture us rather than drain us is an important step in taking care of ourselves fully, mind, body and spirit."
— Madisyn Taylor, Daily OM (Oprah)

Emily Dickinson - thing with Feathers

HOPE is the thing with FEATHERS that perches in the SOUL and sings the tune without WORDS and never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson~

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Madisyn Taylor - souls feels safe to grow

"When we are surrounded by relationships that nurture us fully, our souls feels safe to grow, create and have the courage to express ourselves fully." — Madisyn Taylor, co-creator of Daily OM

Martin Fraquhar Tupper - silence

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."~Martin Fraquhar Tupper~

All for Love

"A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain." -Abraham Crowley

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Saint-Exupery

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." -John Donne

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." -Benjamin Franklin

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." -Henry Ward Beecher

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." -Joseph Conrad

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
-La Rochefoucauld

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" -Christopher Marlowe

"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are." -Houssaye

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." -St. Augustine

"To love another person is to see the face of God." -Les Miserables

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." -Alexander Smith

"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe." -La Rochefoucauld

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time." -Lawrence Durrell

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." -La Rochefoucauld

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." -Thoreau

"Blushing is the color of virtue." -Diogenes

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other." -Leo F. Buscaglia

"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
-Dr. Karl Menninger

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting." -Mother Theresa

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - genius, power and magic

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it...” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hal Boyle - restful river

Jenolan River Walk
May 2011

"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else." ~Hal Boyle

Honore de Balzac - heart of a mother

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”- Honore de Balzac

Iris Murdoch - small treats

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” — Iris Murdoch

Mother Theresa - Love

“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house.
Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God’s kindness;
kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”

~ Mother Theresa~

Inspirational Quotes

Richard Barnfield - Friend

“He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If you wake, he cannot sleep;
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.”

– Richard Barnfield

Inspirational Quotes

Buddha - on the present moment

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." ~ Buddha

Happiness

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Henrik Ibsen - strongest man

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ~Henrik Ibsen~

Benjamin Franklin - investment in knowledge

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."~Benjamin Franklin~

Henry George - social problems

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.~Henry George, Social Problems (ch. IX)~

Ed and Deb Shapiro - smiles and laughter

"Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day." — Ed and Deb Shapiro

Samuel Smiles - possibility to reality

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, April 2, 2010.

"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."— Samuel Smiles

Marie Curie - the way of progress

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.~ Marie Curie, Polish-born Physicist and Chemist

Golda Meir - flames of achievement

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.~ Golda Meir, Israeli's Fourth Prime Minister

Calvin Coolidge - Persistence and Determination

Press on. Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are the overwhelming power. ~Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the USA~

Ed and Deb Shapiro - play and climb

"If you never play, you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain, you will never know for sure how good the view is." — Ed and Deb Shapiro

Daily Inspirational Quote For Monday, March 8, 2010.

"If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits."— William J. Bennett

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, March 5, 2010.

"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."— Baron Thomas Babington Macauley

Leo Tolstoy - happiness

“Happiness is in your ability to love others.” — Leo Tolstoy

March 4, 2010

Richard Wiseman - thinking and behaving

"Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving." ~ Richard Wiseman, PhD (Oprah)

Oprah - fear and self-doubt

"You can either waltz boldly onto the floor of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall and recede in the shadows of fear and self-doubt." ~ Thought for Today

Chelle Thompson - gifts that relationship offers

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, February 19, 2010.

"There"s no escaping it, the common denominator in each and every relationship in our life is: OURSELVES. The person I am today is a direct result of my past experiences and the fact that I chose to pay attention and learn. When we stay conscious, we eventually recognize the gifts that our relationships offer.— Chelle Thompson, Inspiration Line"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - armory of human mind ...

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~

Oprah - Touched by Love

Thought for Today

"Whenever you've been touched by love, a heart-print lingers so that you're always reminded of the feeling of being cared for, knowing that, to someone, you mattered."
— Oprah

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, February 13, 2010.

"We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympatheticlookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts."— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

If you love somebody…

Let go of their hand.

Let go of their sight.

Let go of their company.

But never let go of their heart.

~The Happy Guy