Recipe for Success

Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
- William A. Ward

Mirror

Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you. 
~ Louise Hay

Thankful

"How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. 
Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative—or thankful.
Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people."
- Sir John Templeton

Count Your Blessings

Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are. ~ Rachael Gordon

Life

Life can only be understood backwards, but can only be lived forwards. - Unknown

Difference

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. 
~ W. Clement Stone

Time

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. 
~Henry Van Dyke

Purpose

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. ~ John Maxwell

Learn to Become Still

Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience. - Michael Beckwith

Pass It On

Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Til in Heaven the deed appears -
Pass it on.
~Henry Burton, Pass It On

One Corner

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley

Focus

If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason. You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence.- Abraham-Hicks

Love

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston

A Bit of Fragrance

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb

Whispers of Truth

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong

Power of Harmony

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. ~ William Wordsworth

Restoration

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. -Sam Levenson

Sparks of Possibility

"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

Don't Let the World Make You Hard

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. ~ Max Ehrmann (Desiderata)

Pencil

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ~ Robert Brault

Birthday Cake

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.  ~George Harrison

Conflict

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you’re part of the problem, not the solution. 
~ Dr Wayne Dyer

Internal Disharmony

We exhaust ourselves far more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony - not doing what we feel we should - than from hard, unremitting work. ~Stephen Covey

Age Wrinkles the body

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. ~ Douglas MacArthur

A Thousand Words

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. 
~ Henrik Ibsen

Moments

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away. - Shing Xiong

A Year From Now...

A year from now you may wish you had started today.
 ~  Unknown Author

Let Your Mind Be Quiet

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.  ~ Edward Carpenter

Always Flowers

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. - Henri Matisse

All That You Touch

All that you touch you Change, All that you Change, Changes you.  ~ Octavia Butler

Together We Can Do Great Things

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.  ~ Mother Teresa

Present Happiness

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.   ~ Robert Anthony

Stepping Stone

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle

Autograph your Work with Excellence

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~Author Unknown

Roadblocks

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.  ~Michael Jordan

The End of the Day

Each of us are our own greatest inhibitor. And, at the end of the day, if you just get out of your own way and let things come to you, it's amazing what will come to you. 
~Laird Hamilton, champion surfer

Focus

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. 
~Denis Waitley

Nature

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.  ~Author Unknown

A Walk

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.  ~John Muir

Plant Trees

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  ~Nelson Henderson

Use Your Power

Today's Affirmation: "It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem." -Coretta Scott King

Price of Excellence

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

~William Arthur Ward

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Secret of the Sea

"My soul is full of longing
For the secret of the sea,
And the heart of the great ocean
Sends a thrilling pulse through me."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Ocean

"It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea--whether it is to sail or to watch it--we are going back from whence we came."
- John F. Kennedy

The Sea

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea."
- e.e. cummings

Beach

"At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun."
~Author Unknown

Summer Day

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."
- John Lubbock

Summer Afternoon

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. 
~Henry James

Summer

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow