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

Orpah's Daily Quote - Jennifer Aniston - health, happiness and success

January 25, 2010
“There's literally nothing more important to our health, happiness and success than what we put into our bodies and the energy, clarity and stamina that come as a result.” — Jennifer Aniston

Thought for Today - Caroline Myss - appreciate what you have

"If you don't appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself." — Caroline Myss, January 25, 2010

Daily Inspirational Quote For Monday, January 25, 2010.

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."— Ziggy

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, January 23, 2010.

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."— Denis Waitley

Sir Winston Churchill Quotes

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." ~Sir Winston Churchill

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger." ~WinstonChurchill

"People occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." ~Sir WinstonChurchill

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." ~Sir Winston Churchill
“Success is moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~Winston Churchill

"The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." ~Winston Churchill (1871-1947)

"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm." ~Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~Winston Churchill

~(British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965) ~

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, January 22, 2010.

"Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always."— Willa Cather

Thought for Today — Oprah

"What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder."~January 20, 2010

Margo Jefferson - Creativity

"Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent." — Margo Jefferson

Daily Inspirational Quote For Sunday, January 17, 2010.

"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind."— Darwin P. Kingsley

Daily Inspirational Quote For Wednesday, January 13, 2010.

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."— Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

DB - on Wisdom

"Wisdom is a personal thing, a thing to be achieved on one's own terms."~ DB, Vagabond Journeys

Gerald Jampolsky - attitude

"The world does not have to change. The only thing that has to change is our attitude." ~Gerald Jampolsky

Quote-of-the- Day: Rush Limbaugh

Today is Jan 8, 2010.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Source: The World of Quotes

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, January 8, 2010.

"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic."— Hazel Henderson

Quote of the Day

Today is Jan 7, 2010.

Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.
~Ralph T. Flewelling~

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, January 7, 2010.

"The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."— Charles Swindoll

Daily Inspirational Quote For Monday, January 4, 2010.

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won"t, you most assuredly won"t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.— Denis Waitley"