2024-04-16 04:30
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness,
but of power.
They speak more eloquently
than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of
overwhelming grief ...
and un… Read More
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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is. - jonathan lockwood huie . . . Quotes, sayings, and insights on self-respect, choice, positive attitude, happiness, forgiveness, gratitude.
2024-04-15 04:30
The monsters are in your own head.
- Paula Cole
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.Much is Not as it Appears to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Rattlesnake of the Mind" is a metaphor inspir… Read More
2024-04-13 04:30
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening
when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson
Friends are tho… Read More
2024-04-12 04:30
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most import… Read More
2024-04-10 04:30
It is not our circumstances
that create our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
We Create Our Own Joy or Our Own Sorrow.
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we cannot find conte… Read More
2024-04-09 04:30
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Change always comes bearing gifts.
… Read More
2024-04-08 04:30
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail.
It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
- Charles Kettering
When one door of happiness closes, another ope… Read More
2024-04-07 04:30
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Drive Change, don't wait for change to… Read More
2024-04-06 04:30
A world in upheaval is the breaking of the old sod -
the revealing of rich fresh soil ready for new planting.
Rejoice in the opportunity to sow a new crop. Progress Does Not Come Gently… Read More
2024-04-05 04:30
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank You, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
However much or little you have,
"Thank You" is always a more powerful prayer than, "I… Read More
2024-04-04 04:30
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
In forgiveness you gran… Read More
2024-04-03 04:30
Refuse to be average.Let your heart soar as high as it will.- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lock… Read More
2024-04-02 04:30
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Trust in yourself.
Your perceptions are often far more accurate
than you are willing to believe.
- Claudia Black
W… Read More
2024-04-01 04:30
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath TagoreYou Don't Own Me [watch the video]
- song by John Madara and David White
- sung by Lesley Gore
He that is jealous… Read More
2024-03-31 04:30
May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Hea… Read More
2024-03-30 04:30
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- Václav Havel
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion,
but not their own facts.
- Daniel Patrick… Read More
2024-03-29 04:30
All men should strive to learn before they die,
what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber
The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you,
it is whe… Read More
2024-03-28 04:30
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits… Read More
2024-03-27 04:30
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old proble… Read More
2024-03-26 04:30
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run...
but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open
that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
- Victor Cherbuliez
Joy is what… Read More
2024-03-25 04:30
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
- Will Durant
Examine, inquire.
Look into the nature of things.
Search out the grounds of your opinions,
the for and against.
Know why you believe, understa… Read More
2024-03-24 04:30
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Overcome obstacles - grow a… Read More
2024-03-23 04:30
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- J… Read More
2024-03-22 04:30
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
H… Read More
2024-03-21 04:30
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and jo… Read More
2024-03-19 04:30
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
That is what learning is.
You suddenly understand something you've understood all your lif… Read More
2024-03-18 04:30
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy
Love is t… Read More
2024-03-17 04:30
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994 writer, educat… Read More
2024-03-16 04:30
The best portion of a good man's life
is his little, nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth
A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to r… Read More
2024-03-15 04:30
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;and then
shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
- Matthew 7:5
The only vice that cannot be for… Read More
2024-03-14 04:30
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Bo… Read More
2024-03-13 04:30
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wis… Read More
2024-03-12 04:30
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Don't let anyone else ta… Read More
2024-03-11 04:30
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
We are n… Read More
2024-03-10 05:30
Don't compromise yourself.
You are all you've got.
- Janis Joplin
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not on how things are in themselves.
The least of things with a meaning
is w… Read More
2024-03-09 05:30
Our circumstances define the playing field, not the outcome.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life consists not in holding good cards
but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings
Customs f… Read More
2024-03-08 05:30
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
To be at one with God is to be at peace...
peace is to be found only within,
and unless one finds it there,
he will never find it at all.
Peace lies no… Read More
2024-03-07 05:30
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is pos… Read More
2024-03-06 05:30
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but y… Read More
2024-03-05 05:30
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is n… Read More
2024-03-04 05:30
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Th… Read More
2024-03-03 05:30
Begin with your own inner peace.
Then use that inner peace
as a platform from which
to approach the outer world
with perspective, understanding, and patience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It… Read More
2024-03-02 05:30
Peace doesn't just happen.
Peace must be "made,"
and it's hard work to make Peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace is not an absence of war,
it is a virtue, a state of mind,
a disposition… Read More
2024-03-01 05:30
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness in the present is only sh… Read More
2024-02-29 05:30
Lighten up, have a rainbows and butterflies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your… Read More
2024-02-28 05:30
One's destination is never a place but rather a new
way of looking at things.
- Henry Miller
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Life is a continuity al… Read More
2024-02-27 05:30
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Haste is blind and improvident.
- Titus Livius (Livy)
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When you feel the need… Read More
2024-02-26 05:30
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie In a society that has you counting money, pounds, calories, and steps,
be a rebel and count your blessings instead.
- Rev. Lisa Hec… Read More
2024-02-25 05:30
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- SocratesReputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Loi… Read More
2024-02-24 05:30
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
To free us from the expectations of others,
to give us back to ourselves -
th… Read More
2024-02-23 05:30
The true measure of success in life is how many other lives you made better.
- Jeff HoffmanTo laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to… Read More
2024-02-21 05:30
Definition of "Affirmation" as used here: "Something that may not be
true yet, but that I want to be true (usually about myself) and that I
am working to make true." For example… Read More
2024-02-20 05:30
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception
to such an extent that it changes the world you see.
- Robert Holden
The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there… Read More
2024-02-19 05:30
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster BujoldIf you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"… Read More
2024-02-18 05:30
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,ye have done it unto me.- Matthew 25:40Before you speak to me about your religion,
first show it to me… Read More
2024-02-17 05:30
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul BoeseForgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
I forgive… Read More
2024-02-16 15:38
Pause to smell the roses, to breathe, to take a quiet moment for yourself.
Let today be a day to remember that you get to CHOOSE how you spend your time.
- Jonathan Lockwood HuieThe quiete… Read More
2024-02-15 05:30
Breathe deeply and slowly. Let yourself become centered - shutting out
distractions. Breathe in eternal peace, and let your body fill with
unconditional love.At the center of your being… Read More
2024-02-14 05:30
When we are no longer able to change a situation -
we are challenged to change ourselves.
- Viktor E. Frankl (Nazi concentration camp survivor)Nothing splendid has ever been achieved exce… Read More
2024-02-13 05:30
Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it.- George SantayanaWho has fully realized that historyis not contained in thick booksbut lives in our very blood?- Carl JungThere… Read More
2024-02-12 05:30
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier
state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana
There are good and bad times,
but our mood changes
more o… Read More
2024-02-11 15:02
What's done is done.- William ShakespeareAll life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonath… Read More
2024-02-10 05:30
With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -without gratitude, all of lifeis perceived as a burden.- Jonathan Lockwood HuieWhen you arise in the morning,give thanks for the morning li… Read More
2024-02-09 05:30
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood HuieYou make a mistake, you keep going.
- Linda Gray
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don'… Read More
2024-02-08 05:30
Believe in the goodness of life.
Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.
Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.
Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.
Bel… Read More
2024-02-07 05:30
To the mind that is still,the whole universe surrenders.- Lao TzuBeing wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.The simplest definition of meditation is:when seeing, just… Read More
2024-02-06 05:30
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth. - George Bernard ShawLife has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.- Soren KierkegaardThe pure and simple truth is… Read More
2024-02-05 05:30
A hero is an ordinary individualwho finds the strength to persevereand endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.- Christopher ReeveIf we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our… Read More
2024-02-04 05:30
Money and success don’t change people;
they merely amplify what is already there.
- Will Smith
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him… Read More
2024-02-02 05:30
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luthe… Read More
2024-02-01 05:30
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious,
thought begins.- Albert SchweitzerGod is not what you imagine,
or what you thin… Read More
2024-01-31 05:30
The world has always been in an uproar, and it always will be.
Choose Peace. Choose to live with Peace.
Choose to interact peacefully with everyone -
especially those whose instinct is no… Read More
2024-01-30 05:30
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will no… Read More
2024-01-29 05:30
Exercise: Write your most worrisome trouble on a piece of paper and
feed it to the fire. Send your troubles up in smoke. Breathe deeply and
rejoice. Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not… Read More
2024-01-26 05:30
Important ideas can come from unexpected places. We tend to label people
- Genius, Idiot, Socialist, Right Wingnut, Freedom Fighter, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be… Read More
2024-01-24 05:30
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life… Read More
2024-01-23 05:30
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
- Bodhidharma
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Find out what you don't want to… Read More
2024-01-22 05:30
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is th… Read More
2024-01-21 05:30
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr, the great Danis… Read More
2024-01-20 05:30
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
Pause. Breathe deeply. Step back and look at the issue from a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood HuieAng… Read More
2024-01-19 05:30
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonTake time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down… Read More
2024-01-17 05:30
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
Adversity can crush our spirit - or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan L… Read More
2024-01-16 05:30
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was a writer, playwright, humorist, satirist,
and astute observer of the human condition.
What does he mean by… Read More
2024-01-15 05:30
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Hui… Read More
2024-01-14 05:30
Everything has beauty,but not everyone sees it.- ConfuciusBeauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.- Evelyn UnderhillThose who find beauty in all of naturewill find themselves… Read More
2024-01-13 05:30
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the br… Read More
2024-01-12 05:30
I remind you, as I often do, that these daily emails are intended to
inspire deep thinking about the subject matter, and not to dictate
answers intended to satisfy everyone's individual… Read More
2024-01-11 05:30
Life is without meaning.You bring the meaning to it.The meaning of life iswhatever you ascribe it to be.Being alive is the meaning.- Joseph CampbellThis does NOT mean that life is mean… Read More
2024-01-10 05:30
All things share the same breath -the beast, the tree, the man...the air shares its spiritwith all the life it supports.- Attributed to Chief Seattlebut actually written in 1972 by screenwri… Read More
2024-01-09 05:30
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Maybe life isn't really as complicated
as we make it out to be.
Perhaps a simpl… Read More
2024-01-08 05:30
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,it is governed by our mental attitude.- Dale CarnegieThings turn out best for the peoplewho make the best of the way things turn out.- Art… Read More
2024-01-07 05:30
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.- Helen KellerKeep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that, but the really greatm… Read More
2024-01-06 05:30
We cannot change anything until we accept it.Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.- Carl JungAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain,and most fools do.- Benjamin FranklinNever a… Read More
2024-01-05 05:30
I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.- Louisa May AlcottDevelop a passion for learning.If you do, you will never cease to grow.- Anthony J. D'AngeloIf you put you… Read More
2024-01-03 05:30
Write your Sad times in Sand,Write your Good times in Stone.- George Bernard ShawInstead of dwelling on negative thoughts,cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.- Ernest HolmesIf only… Read More
2024-01-02 05:30
Some thoughts as we enter a New Year:Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.- Jonathan Lockwood HuieStop holding on to the past.Release your regrets about whatever you may have doneor failed t… Read More
2024-01-01 05:30
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best.
- William Arthur Ward
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get… Read More
2023-12-31 05:30
Cheer for endings -- whether goals have been met or not --
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thou… Read More
2023-12-30 05:30
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Even from the darkest night, songs of beauty can be born.
- Mary A… Read More
2023-12-29 05:30
I am the owner of my choices.
I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold...
regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess
that particular perspective.
It takes c… Read More
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