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Losing Your Temper

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Worrying About Things

There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying.

- Stanley C. Allyn

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference -- in our own lives and those of others.

Barriers Within Yourself

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

Happy Easter

May you feel the gentle warmth
of Easter sunshine on your face,
May you find more quiet moments
that slow your daily pace,
May your heart be filled with joy
and celebration, too,
As you stop and smell the flowers
that are blooming just for you.

Happy Easter...

Mentors

In every story I have heard, good mentors share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

You Are A Good Person

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Dennis Wholey

Thinking Makes It So

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

There Are No Rules

You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. You can make the best of it or the worst of it.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

How to Give Out Love

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz

In Each Other's Dreams

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night

Bill Watterson

Humanity

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude

Elie Wiesel.

The Greatest Mistake

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

A Sacred Journey

Your life is a sacred journey. And it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path…… exactly where you are meant to be right now…… And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.

Caroline Adams

I Shall Never Pass This Way Again

I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again.

Etienne de Grellet

Never Too Old

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C. S. Lewis

Train a Child

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato

Live Your Life

We are our own individuals so we can make the changes we need in our life, to live our life the way we want to. This is our life, our body, our mind, and our heart. We do what we want with it since we own it, don't let anyone tell you different. Live your life, it's yours.

Powers in Life

There are no things or powers in life that can offer you a hand to your dreams except meeting new people who are better than you. You always can learn something from them.

Just Right

"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

Napoleon Hill

Invest Time

It’s better to invest time doing what pleases you, rather than to waste time trying to please everyone else.

Keep Your Balance

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

Opinion

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spencer

Some people take responsibility for their actions and other's choose to rewrite history and blame someone else.

The Present Moment

Live in the present moment - happiness is found only in the present moment. Because the present moment is the only reality that there is. The past is gone, the future is unknown, but the present holds your joy.

Beautiful Sentiments

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Great Thoughts

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Change Thoughts

A Thought causes a Feeling. Change the Thought and the Feeling changes automatically. Can it really be that simple? Try it and see.

Giving Compassion

By giving compassion to others, we are re-minded that we must have had it in the first place in order to have given it. How quickly we seem to forget.

Listen to the words you use. Avoid words like 'always', 'never', 'can’t', 'won’t' and even 'why.' Say 'I choose' or 'I want', instead of 'I need' or 'I should' and notice the difference.

Remember, nobody is ever born with a completely positive attitude; it is something that has to be developed and polished over a period of time, and the extent to which you can do it would again depend upon your positive attitude towards life.

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

Ernest Bramah

Exciting Opportunities

When you discover it's your choice and your attitude, your energy shifts and you find yourself walking a new path filled with exciting
opportunities!

Greatest Gifts

The ability to enjoy one's own company is one of the greatest gifts life has to offer. Learning to turn our thoughts away from all our responsibilities at the day's end and take our mind into a state of peace
and benevolence enables us to carry greater and greater loads without feeling burdened. When our inner landscape is full of beautiful thoughts, everything we do is a pleasure. Gently, we calm down chaotic situations and offer solace to troubled minds.

Focus on the Negative

It is true that there is much suffering in the world. But do we need to worry about it? If we focus on the negative, that drains us of the strength to help. Goodness and truth are also at work in our world, as well as darker forces. When I switch on my awareness of positive qualities common to humanity, it is like bringing light into the darkness. The past stops haunting me and I stop worrying about the future. I see more clearly what I need to do now, for lasting happiness and health.

Stress

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

David Allen

World of Peace

Your thoughts guide you to your destiny. If you always think the same you will always get to the same place. Think in a new way and you will be a new person. Give happiness to all and you will live in peace. Create peace in your mind and you will create a world of peace around you.

Sunrise Brings New Opportunity

Each sunrise brings a new opportunity. No matter how bad the day before was, today is brand new. When you wake up, seek the strength and courage to do the right thing.

I Don't Feel Like It

I don't 'feel' like it", is a common chant we often say to ourselves or to others when we're tired, not in the mood, or simply procrastinating. The next time you're not feeling "in the mood", either change your thinking or simply say to your mind, "thank you for sharing". Then focus on only taking the very first step to get started, then take another, and another. One step at a time until the law of momentum kicks in. By then, chances are you'll forget all about not being "in the mood", and will be well on your way to completing whatever it was you needed to do...and feeling great about it!

Be Happy NOW!

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Spirituality is an inner closeness a warmth that wells up from the inner being. It is not so much a mindset as a wellness of mind that envelops the being. A spiritual person welcomes change, challenge and life itself. He/she looks into the world with a vision of love and respect. There are no challenges that can’t be conquered, there are no quest that can’t be worked out. The spiritual person knows limitations are only self imposed restrictions.

We Think Too Much and Feel Too Little

When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal. When another is lost, dare to help them find the way. When a friend falls, dare to be the first one to extend a hand.

Make Tomorrow a Sunny Day

Inspiration

Inspiration does not come like a bolt. Nor is it kinetic, energetic striving. It comes into us slowly and quietly all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Don't Let Doubt Stop You

The biggest roadblock to success in life is self-doubt. Doubt makes you susceptible to the critical voices--inside and out--that whisper negative affirmations such as, “I am not worthy, good enough, or capable enough to achieve my dreams.”

Don't let doubt stop you in your tracks. To keep doubts and doubters at bay, learn to celebrate the magnificent, shining part of you--even when life's storms momentarily eclipse its brilliance.