A Fresh Start

New Year's Day. A fresh start. 

A new chapter in life waiting to be written.

New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.

Answers to be discovered and then lived in this
transformative year of delight and self-discovery.

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand.

Only dreams give birth to change.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~

Happy New Year!

A State of Mind

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.

To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy,

is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

~ Calvin Coolidge ~

Love In Action

Christmas, my child, is love in action.

Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

~ Dale Evans ~

Christmas

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.

It is happiness because we see joy in people.

It is forgetting self and finding time for others.

It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

~ Thomas S. Monson ~

Merry Christmas

Winter

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

~ Paul Theroux ~

Happy Winter!

Stay Calm

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.

Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,

even if your whole world seems upset.

~ Saint Francis de Sales ~

Getting Things Done

The whole point in getting things done

is knowing what to leave undone.

~ Oswald Chambers ~

A Spiritual Journey

Each one of us has our own evolution of life,

and each one of us goes through different tests

which are unique and challenging.

But certain things are common.

And we do learn things from each other's experience.

On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

~ A. R. Rahman ~

Believe In Yourself

Once we believe in ourselves,

we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight

or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

~ e.e. cummings ~

Compassion

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

~ Dalai Lama ~

Kindness

No act of kindness, no matter 

how small, is ever wasted. 

~ Aesop ~

Gifts From The Universe

We cannot stop the winter or summer from coming.

We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are.

They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse.

But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

~ Gary Zukav ~

Knowing Is Not Enough

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do,

but few people actually do what they know.

Knowing is not enough!  You must take action.

~ Tony Robbins ~

Gentleness

Only the weak are cruel.

Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

~ Leo Buscaglia ~

In Need Of Praise

People are in greater need of your praise

when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed.

~ Bob Moawad ~

A Fool

For God's sake give me

someone who has brains enough

to make a fool of himself.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

Know It Alls

Those who think they know it all

have no way of finding out they don't.

~ Leo Buscaglia ~

Think You Do

Don't care what others think of what you do;

but care very much about what you think you do.

~ St. Francis Desales ~

Stop to Figure Out

If at first you don't succeed,

before you try again, stop to figure

out what you did wrong.

~ Leo Rosten ~

Favorite Expressions

Some favorite expressions of small children:

"It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot."

Some favorite expressions of small adults:

"It's not my job...No one told me..It couldn't be helped."

True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability.

~ Dan Zadra ~

Persistence

Ambition is the path to success.

Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

~ Bill Bradley ~