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If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

A person experiences life as
something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this self-imposed prison,
and through compassion,
to find the reality of Oneness.
- Albert Einstein

Related topics: Spiritual Unity

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt

You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We listen. We listen. We move.
We sit. It rains. The sun comes out.
(there stands a friend)
We listen. We laugh. We share.
We sit. We dance. It rains.
There stands a friend.
We listen. We share. We sit. We dance.
The sun comes up.
There. I stand, a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
- Joseph P. Kennedy

We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

What you dream, you can create.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford

May you taste, smell, and touch
your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa

Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is ever giving of Itself.
We must receive, utilize and extend the gift.
Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes
belonging to all people.
- Ernest Holmes

Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our opportunity is to love ourselves exactly as we are -
with all our joys and sufferings.
To be grateful for everything.
To forgive ourselves for our doubts of our own worthiness -
for we have no need to be anything other than what we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Worrying is like a rocking chair,
it gives you something to do,
but it gets you nowhere.
- Glenn Turner

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

Know that love conquers fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

I recognize the delivery of grace to my day,
even if I cannot identify a specific return address.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
- Jean Baptiste Massieu

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

I Make Free-Will Choices.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I admire the wonders of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon,
my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa

Know that when you live joyfully,
you radiate your light into the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron

Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake

In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves
into a different matter altogether.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
- Theodore H. White

The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

I question my questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie