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Attitude

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. -Charles Swindoll

Goethe

“There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.” - Goethe

Who's number one?

"It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility." - Alan Cohen

I know the feeling. Do you?

Do you know the feeling of wanting to try something new but being scared out of your brain to take the chance because what if, what IF you regret it in the end. Well my question to you is: what if you don't?

Ponder this.

Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, stop every motor and halt all activity for an hour some day to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want. -James Truslow Adams

Karma

Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma. -Lama Thubten Yeshe, "The Bliss of Inner Fire"

Turn on your ears.

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. -Rebecca Falls

Freedom

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. -Carl Jung

Off the air

"Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in." - Anonymous

*nods head*

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -Carl Jung

Think about it.

"What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think." -Dr. Patrick Gentempo

It sure doesn't hurt to give this a try.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming. -Goethe

So being a nut is good?

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. -Anonymous

Patience

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. -Saint Francis de Sales

Priorities

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. -Doug Larson

Kitchen humor

"I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking." ~Katherine Cebrian

Tis the season...

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards." -Robert Orben

Got love?

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love. -Rainer Maria Rilke

Not everything is seen with your eyes.

"When the night is cloudy, I still believe in stars, Even when the darkness blocks the light. They're shining out like beacons on the other side of hope. You can see them when you hold your heart just right." - Selia Qynn

Peace

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Moshe Dayan