Time Flies

Live the Life You Imagine

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you’ve imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

Meaning of Life

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

- Nelson Henderson

Wounds

The wound is the place where the light enters you.
- Rumi

Together

 

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. 

If we’re in each other’s dreams, 

we can be together all the time.

- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Calm

Be like a duck.
Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

- Michael Caine

Worry

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo Buscaglia

World Humanitarian Day

Every year on August 19th we mark World Humanitarian Day in honour of aid workers, who have lost their lives in the line of duty. We commemorate their sacrifice and reaffirm our commitment to the lifesaving work that humanitarians carry out around the world every day, often in difficult and dangerous circumstances, where others cannot or do not want to go. This year our World Humanitarian Day campaign is calling on people to answer a QUESTION: ‘What do you think the world needs more of?’”

- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

MY ANSWER: On World Humanitarian Day... what the world needs now -- and more of -- is 

L O V E.

Pure and simple.

Peace of Mind

Let your soul expand,
let your heart reach out to others in
loving and generous warmth, and
great and lasting will be your joy,
and all prosperity will come to you.

– James Allen

Calm

Be guided absolutely and entirely by the vision of calmness,
and not by the shadows of anxiety.
The hour of calmness is the hour
of illumination and
correct judgment.

– James Allen

Thank you

If the only prayer 

you said in your whole life was, 

 "thank you," 

 that would suffice.

 - Meister Eckhart

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction
is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please,
or worse, to avoid trouble.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Enjoy!

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

- Wayne Dyer

Action

Knowing is not enough;
we must apply.

Willing is not enough;
we must do.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

Family Life

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow.
Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines.
Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

 ~Rose Macaulay

New Beginnings

Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way.
Stay away from what might have been,
and look at what can be.

- Marsha Petrie Sue

Time

Don’t say you don’t have enough time.

You have exactly the same number of hours per day
that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo,
Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and
Albert Einstein.

– Jackson Brown, Life’s Little Instruction Book

Service

Heaven is eternal - the earth endures.
Why do heaven and earth last forever?
They do not live for themselves only.
This is the secret of their durability.

For this reason the wise sage puts himself last
and so ends up ahead.
He stays a witness to life,
so he endures.

Serve the needs of others,
and all your own needs will be fulfilled.
Through selfless action, fulfillment is attained.

7TH VERSE - TAO TE CHING

Writing

We write to taste life twice,
in the moment and in retrospect.
- Anaïs Nin

Challenge

Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics,
of how you look at things,
and that can change from day to day, or
with a new prescription for your glasses --
or with a new set of ideological filters.

- George Weigel

Life

Life is either a daring adventure,
or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Love

"Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Use, Exercise, and Express

Remember:
Courage, unused, diminishes.
Commitment, unexercised, wanes.
Love, unshared, dissipates.

— Anthony Robbins

Purpose

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

― Michael de Montaigne

Upcoming Year

May your COMING YEAR
be filled with magic and dreams 
and good madness.
I hope you read some FINE books
and kiss someone who thinks
you're WonderFUL, and don't forget to
MAKE some art --
Write or draw or BUILD or sing 
or live as only you can.
And I HOPE, somewhere
in the next year,
you surprise yourself.

 ― Neil Gaiman

Begin

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.

-Anne Sullivan

Born Again

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.

-Henry Ward Beecher