Beginning to an end

“…to make an end is to make a beginning.” — T.S. Eliot

Cheryl Richardson Quotes

"Let your attitude and your actions be the presence of light for someone in need this week." ~Cheryl Richardson

"Surrender your expectations. Instead of setting yourself up for disappointment, decide to do things differently this year. When you notice yourself projecting into the future, worrying about the past or listening to your negative internal chatter, use a simple statement like 'be here now' to remind you to return your thoughts to the most useful place of all—the present!" ~Cheryl Richardson, spiritual author

Thomas J. Peters - Celebrate

“Celebrate what you want to see more of!.” ~Thomas J. Peters

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~R. W. Emerson

"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you."~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People only see what they are prepared to see." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I discover who I am, I'll be free." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

(American writer and scholar)

Quote of the Day

Today is Dec 30, 2009.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.~Alfred North Whitehead~

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, December 26, 2009.

"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."— Roy D. Chapin Jr.

What is Christmas?

“It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”— Agnes M. Pharo

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, December 25, 2009.

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!" — Hamilton Wright Mabie

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, December 24, 2009.

"This was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever." — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Daily Inspirational Quote For Sunday, December 20, 2009.

"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." — Chief Seattle

Thomas Edison Quotes

"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around." ~Thomas Edison

“There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew.” ~ Thomas Edison

Spanish Saying

“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.” ~

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, December 18, 2009.

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." — Robert F. Kennedy

Daily Quote

Today is Dec 16, 2009.

It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).~I Ching (b.c.1150?)~

Seneca Quotes

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." ~Seneca

"Where fear is, happiness is not." ~Seneca

Silence

Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb

Mary Lou Randour - compassion

"The goal of compassion is not to care because someone is like us but to care because they are themselves." ~Mary Lou Randour

Born to love

“We are born to love.”— Helen Fisher

Mary Kay - temporary setback

“One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.” ~Mary Kay

Tyler Perry - Walk Forward

"When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward." ~Tyler Perry

Daily Qoute

Today is Dec 8, 2009.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool.~Thomas Fuller~

Voltaire Quotes

"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills." ~Voltaire

“To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly” ~Voltaire

Bob Proctor - life and death

“Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping to make it safely to death.” ~Bob Proctor

Sir James Dewar - parachutes

"Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open." ~Sir James Dewar

Mary Tyler Moore - Pain

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." ~Mary Tyler Moore

...master-work of wisdom

“To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”— Henri Amiel

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, December 3, 2009.

"Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand." — Robert R. Brown

Quote of the Day

Today is Dec 2, 2009.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.~Proverb, (Chinese)~

Element of Weather

"For how they (lighthouses) stand strong against the element of weather speak the strength of the designer's mind which comprise attitude and character.~lcd, 2 December 2009, comment to eileninmind's blog Traveling with Eilen.

Daily Inspirational Quote For Wednesday, December 2, 2009.

"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?" — Thomas á Kempis

German Proverb

“A good neighbor doubles the value of a house.”

Source: The Happy Guy

Dr. Robert Schuller Quotes

"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple but only God can count the number of apples in a seed." ~Dr. Robert Schuller

"Tough times never last but tough people do." ~Dr. Robert Schuller

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, November 26, 2009.

"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices." — Frederick II, the Great

Desmond Tutu - Be nice

“If you want to be nice to yourself, start by being nice to the other.” ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu

W.J. Cameron - thankful heart

"It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast." ~W.J. Cameron

Thought for Today

"I pray for peaceful pauses within ourselves to acknowledge our gratitude for life and all its complexities." — Oprah

Louise Hay Quotes

I am always presented with new and wonderful opportunities. I flow with what is happening in the moment.

I am willing to open up to the abundance and prosperity that is available everywhere.

The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple.

The road to freedom is through the doorway of forgiveness

~Louise Hay, founder of Hay House~

W. T. Parker - Thanksgiving

“It's not what we SAY about our blessings, but HOW WE USE them, that is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” ~W. T. Parker

John Muir Quotes

"Let children walk with nature. Let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life." ~John Muir

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that fountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life!" ~John Muir

Martin Luther King Jr. - soul

"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Henry Van Dyke - service to the world

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of humankind, this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for." ~Henry Van Dyke

Plato Quotes

"Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light." ~Plato

"Courage is knowing what not to fear." ~Plato

"The first and best victory is to conquer self" ~Plato

"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things." ~Plato on Children

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." ~Plato

Edward George Bulwer Lytton - mightier than sword

"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword." ~Edward George Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873)

Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"Every artist dips his brush into his soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"In this world, it is not what we take up but what we give up that makes us rich." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." ~Henry Ward Beecher

Charles Kingsley Quotes

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults." ~Charles Kingsley

"A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London." ~Charles Kingsley

"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." ~Charles Kingsley

"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever." ~Charles Kingsley

"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know." ~Charles Kingsley

"Do noble things, not dream them all day long." ~Charles Kingsley

"Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book." ~Charles Kingsley

"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell." ~Charles Kingsley

"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them." ~Charles Kingsley

"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means." ~Charles Kingsley

"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us." ~Charles Kingsley

"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth." ~Charles Kingsley

"The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again." ~Charles Kingsley

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought." ~Charles Kingsley

"There is a great deal of human nature in man." ~Charles Kingsley

"There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late." ~Charles Kingsley

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." ~Charles Kinglsey

"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded." ~Charles Kingsley

"Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day." ~Charles Kingsley

Jonathan Swift Quotes

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.” ~Jonathan Swift

"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age." ~Jonathan Swift

Character

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."— Thomas Paine, Daily Inspirational Quote For Monday, March 10, 2008.

Daily Inspirational Quote For Wednesday, November 18, 2009.

"If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic." — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Lao Tzu

"There are ways but the Way is uncharted;
There are names but not nature in words:
Nameless indeed is the source of creation
But things have a mother and she has a name."~Lao Tzu

French Proverb - goose

"He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after." ~French Proverb