“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme,...
Quote of the day
“Happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.” -- Bertrand Russell ~ British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social reformer, socialist and pacifist. (1872-1970) Photo by James Edward Mills...
"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." Barack Obama ~ 44th President of the United States (1961-)...
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.” Lin Yutang ~ Chinese writer and inventor (1895 – 1976) -- Chances are whatever it is that’s stressing you today can wait until tomorrow. It’s Sunday. Go outside and play. Photograph by Ben Moon...
Quote of the day / 01.08.2009
Serve Others – The Joy Trip Project
“The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve others.” Albert Schweitzer~ theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician (1875-1965) -- Even when your own need is great there will always be others who need more than you do. There’s great comfort to found in giving of yourself in the service of those less fortunate because it inspires a sense of abundance from which true prosperity can be manifest. (illustration from the stetchbook of the artist and climber Jeremy Collins)...
"Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go." [caption id="attachment_554" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Natalie Goldberg"][/caption] Natalie Goldberg: American author (1948-) There’s joy in not knowing what the future holds. It's scary but follow your dreams. Guided by your heart, pursuing those things in life you love most will lead you somewhere. You might be surprised to find when you arrive that there is exactly where you’re supposed be....
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