Gratitude

When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.

- Anthony Robbins

Age

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain

Sharing

Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.


- Donna A. Favors

Childhood Memories

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Christmas

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

Burton Hillis

Best Things

The best things in life aren't things.

- Art Buchwald

Abundant Life

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

- William Mather Lewis

Never Give In

It's not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what you do with what you have left.
Never give up and never give in.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Life's Challenges

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

Zest in Living

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

True to Your Vision

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built.

- James Allen

Another Kind of Poverty

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.


- Mother Teresa

Leadership

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

- John Buchan

Exercise for the Heart

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
- John Andrew Holmes Jr.

Helping

Look up and not down.
Look forward and not back.
Look out and not in,
and lend a hand.

- Edward Everett Hale

Live Today

Cherish yesterday, dream tomorrow, live today.

Light

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in
their true beauty is revealed
only if there is light from within.

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Attracting Greater Good

When your heart is focused on love for all living things, you're magnetically attracting your own greater good. Simply know that.

- Marianne Williamson

Gaps

Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded.
Gaps occur in places where we are afraid to see ourselves.

- Deepak Chopra

Gift of Friendship

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure,
because, of all the things granted us by wisdom,
none is greater or better than friendship.
- Pietro Aretino

Failure - A Step Toward Success

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

- Og Mandino

Adversity

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

- Arthur Golden

Impact of Our Choices

Spirit is the Life, Mind is the Builder, and the Physical is the Result.
In other words, spirit is the source of all life.
The mind focuses that energy into creative (positive)
or destructive (negative) avenues of expression.
The impact of our choices will eventually find expression in the physical,
affecting ourselves and our relationships with one another.

- Edgar Cayce

Only You

There is a place that you are to fill that no one else can fill -
something you are to do that no one else can do.
- Plato

Live ...

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

- Ayn Rand

Rent

Activism is my rent for living on this planet.

- Alice Walker

Generosity

Generosity consists not the sum given,
but the manner in which it is bestowed.

- Unknown

World AIDS Day

Ignorance and prejudice are fuelling
the spread of a preventable disease.

World AIDS Day, December 1 is an opportunity
for people worldwide to unite in the fight
against HIV and AIDS.

It's up to you, me and us to stop the spread
of HIV and
end prejudice.

~worldaidsday.org, 2006

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

~William Hazlitt

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