Beauty... sometimes takes the
form of a white cloud, and goes dancing over the green fields
or the deep blue sea, where her misty form, marked out in a
momentary darkness, looks like the passing shadow of an angel’s
wing. G. A. Sala,"Beauty of the
Universe"
Because We Believe ... "Once
in everylife there comes a time we walk out all alone and into
the light. The moment won't last but then, we remember it again
when we close our eyes. Like stars across the sky we were born
to shine. All of us here because we beleive." Lyrics
by Amy Foster Gillies - From the song "Because We Believe"
- By Andrea Bocelli on his latest CD "Amore"
"My father gave me the greatest
gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
Jim Valvano
In case we find ourselves starting
to believe all the anti-American sentiment and negativity, we
should remember England 's Prime Minister Tony Blair's words
during a recent interview. When asked by one of his Parliament
members why he believes so much in America, he said: "A
simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many
want in ... And how many want out." Only two defining forces
have ever offered to die for you: 1. Jesus Christ 2. The American
G. I. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
" Reflect upon your present
blessings of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some." Charles
Dickens
"Count the garden by the
flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with
smiles and not the tears that roll."
Anonymous
"Character is the ability
to follow through on a commitment after the initial enthusiasm
has passed." Anonymous
"I'd rather be a could-be
if I cannot be an are, because a could-be is a maybe who is
reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been,
by far, for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was
once an are." Milton Berle
"Why should we be in such
desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprise?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it
is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the
music which he hears, however measured or far away." Henry
David Thoreau, 1817-1862
"Start doing the things you
think should be done, and start being what you think society
should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely.
Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open
society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and
humane society? Then behave decently and humanely." Adam
Michnik
You don't get to control any outcome,
only every choice you make along the way. Stephen
C. Paul Author, Teacher and Psychologist
Compassion
Courage
"Any
fool can run towards the light. It takes a master with courage
to turn and face the darkness and shine his own light there."
Leslie Fieger
"You
can only enter half way into the dark forest before you begin
to come out the other side." Chinese
Expression (Wishing you faith and courage... )
Desire
"There
is only one key to knowledge and that is desire." Amelie
Nothomb
"It
doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how
much you want it." Ralph Marston
Dreams
"If
one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never
be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
--Flavia
Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker
"When
walls close in, skies turn gray, and dreams seem like they're
awfully far away, you're probably just forgetting that the
same 'hands' that created the sun, the moon and the stars,
are still holding yours, anxious to help." The
Universe
"For
better or worse, our future will be determined in large part
by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - American
Psychologist
"How
do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think
you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have
a dream, a goal and you have to be willing to work for it."
Jim Valvano
"Resolve to succeed! The
greatest discovery one can make is that nothing is impossible."
Anonymous
Faith
"Remember,
when the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect
position to pray." Anonymous
"You
never know what events are going to transpire to get you home."
Og Mandino
"To
do well does not mean everything will always turn out well.
The key is to remember that fiath and obedience are still
the answers - even when things go wrong, perhaps especially
when things go wrong." David
E. Sorensen
"You
never know what events are going ot transpire to get you home,"
Og Mandino
Forgiveness
"One
cannot too soon forget his erros and misdemeanors. To dwell
long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow
can only be displaaced by something better, which is as free
and original as if they had not been."
Henry
David Thoreau
Friendship
"A
friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends
are like angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have
trouble remembering how to fly.
Grace
"You've
done better than you know, you've helped more than you realize,
and you're closer than you think." Maria
Lado
Gratitude
"There
is always, always, always something to be thankful for."
Author Unknown
"Count
the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.
Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll."
Anonymous
Hope
Joy
"Joy
is the most infallible sign of the presence of God."
Leon Bloy French Novelist and Poet
Integrity
"If
you are describing any occurrence make two or more distinct
reports at different times. We discriminate at first only
a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from
many points of view, and in various moods, in order to perceive
the whole." Henry David Thoreau
Life
The
Secret of Life "Beginning
today, treat everyone you meet as if they were gong ot be
dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care kindness and
understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of
any reward. Your life will never be the same again - Og
Mandino
Light
"Let
your light shine within you so that it can shine on someone
else. Let your light Shine." - Oprah
Winfrey
Love
"The
more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at
the existence of God and the immortality of your soul."
Fyodor
Dostoevsky, 1821-1881 - Renowned Russian Author
"An
'enemy' is someone that God puts in our path that is most
in need of our love; not retaliation or retribution or harm
or insult." John Carmody -
Former US Marine Captain and Silver
Star Recipient
"Pure
love will light the way through the darkest times, calm the
stormiest seas, and lift you on eagle's wings to the highest
heights." Jace Carlton
"Love
is like air, you can feel it but you cannot see it."
Maria
Lado
Magical
Things
"The
universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our
wits to grow sharper."
Eden Phillpots, 1862-1960 - English
Novelist and Poet
"We
think, sometimes, there's not a dragon left. Not one brave
knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests...
What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments
and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now,
they're all that ever lived
on earth! Richard
Bach, American Author From: 'A Bridge Across Forever'
"Believe
in love. Believe in magic. Believe in Santa Claus. Believe
in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If
you don't, who will?" Jon Bon
Jovi, b. 1962 - American Rock Singer
And this
is your assignment for today... look for the magic (it's everywhere!)...
make some magic (it's easy!)... and for extra credit, throw
a lightning bolt across the sky (just because you can!) Ron
Atchison - Inspiration Peak
Optimism
"I
will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure
the darkness because it shows me the stars." -
Og Mandino
Passion
"Don't
ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes
you come alive, and then go and do that. What the world needs
is people who have come alive." Harold
Whitman
"It
has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the
world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out
here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not
to win it." -- Andre Agassi
"Life
is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody
well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
And you don't do that by sitting around." -- Katharine
Hepburn
"Seek
out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel
most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the
inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you
have found that attitude, follow it." -- William
James
"Your
profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession
is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and
such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."
-- Vincent Van Gogh
Peace
"Better
than a thousand useless words is one word that gives peace."
-Buddha
Perseverance
"If there is
no wind, row." ~
Latin Proverb
Soul
"The
soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body
of each is different" - Hippocrates
"You
don't 'have' a soul. You 'are' a Soul. You 'have' a body."
Clive Staples Lewis, 1898-1963
Success
"I
call people 'successful' not because they have money or their
business is doing well but because, as human beings, they
have a fully developed sense of being alive and are engaged
in a lifetime task of collaboration with other human beings
- their mothers and fathers, their family, their friends,
their loved ones, the friends who are dying, the friends who
are being born.
"Don't
you know it is all about being able to extend love to people?
Really. Not in a big, capital-letter sense but in the everyday.
Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by
word." Ralph
Fiennes, b.1962 Oscar-nominated British Actor
Talent
Time
"The
chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready
for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted
or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn
over a new leaf every hour if you choose."
Arnold Bennett , 1867-1931
Treasures
"Only by much
searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and I
can find every truth connected with my being if I will dig
into the mine of my soul."
James Allen
Wisdom
"If you scatter thorns,
don't go barefoot." Italian
proverb
