Living -- the Act of Giving

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else
but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--
more important now was for me to love them.
Feeling that way turns your whole life around;
living becomes the act of giving.

- Beverly Sills

Truly Living

When we are motivated by goals
that have deep meaning,
by dreams that need completion,
by pure love that needs expressing --
then we truly live life.

- Greg Anderson

Be Content

For I have learned,
in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.

- St. Paul [Philippians 4:11]

Create Your Future

Every thought we think is creating our future.

- Louise Hay

Be Positive

Gladness is akin to goodness.

The world needs all the help you can give

by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought

and personal example.

- Grenville Kleiser

Isolation

The person who tries to live alone
will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only
the echoes of his own thoughts
and finds no other inspiration.

- Pearl S. Buck

Success

There is only one success -

to be able to spend your life

in your own way.

- Christopher Morley

Look Well to This Day

Yesterday is but a dream,

tomorrow but a vision.

But today well lived makes every yesterday

a dream of happiness,

and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day.

- Indian Proverb

The Human Family

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order;

to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order;

to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life;

we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Jump In With Gusto

To do anything truly worth doing,
I must not stand back shivering
and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in with gusto and scramble through
as well as I can.

- Og Mandino

Value What You Are

Too many people overvalue what they are not
and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes

Unlock Our Giving

In the long run we get no more than

we have been willing

to risk giving.

- Sheldon Kopp

Judging the Lives of Others

We can never judge the lives of others,

because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path,

but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

- Paulo Coelho

We Need Others

We need others.
We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.
There is no doubt that without it, we too,
like the infant left alone, would cease to grow,
cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

- Leo F. Buscaglia

Ready to Radiate

There is nothing outside you.
That is what you must ultimately learn.
Deep within you
is everything that is perfect,
ready to radiate through you
and out into the world.

- A Course in Miracles

Live in the Present

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave,

find your eternity in each moment.

- Henry David Thoreau

Live for Something

It's not enough to have lived.

We should be determined to live for something.

May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,

sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,

ringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

- Leo F. Buscaglia

How you live

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when.
You can decide how you're going to live now.

- Joan Baez