Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes

Pay It Forward

2013-05-24T00:08:00.000-04:00

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Each of us has been generously gifted by parents, teachers, mentors, and others we can never repay. So, in gratitude for what we have received, it is now our turn to generously gift the children, the up-and-coming, and the down-and-out -- with no expectation that they can ever repay us - and with the hope that they will, in turn, pay-forward to another generation.

TODAY, consider performing an act-of-kindness for someone who can never repay you.

My friend Clint Steele has a website that is dedicated to the Pay-It-Forward concept and to weekly ideas for Pay-It-Forward Fridays. Take a look at payitforwardx1million.com

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Universal Kindness and Compassion

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing - a Parable

Legacy

Generosity

Compassion

Gratitude

Children

Kindness

Respect Yourself

2013-05-23T00:08:00.000-04:00

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity
is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
- Thomas S. Monson

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
- Osho

Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Deal with Rejection

Need For Approval

Become Your Own Greatest Hero

Respect Yourself quotes

Honor

Integrity

Self Worth

Pride

Self Respect

Observing Life

2013-05-22T00:08:00.000-04:00

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.
I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie

Today's Affirmation:
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life is All in the Perspective We Take on It

Gratitude and Observing Life (pay special attention to the "Today In My World" exercise at the bottom of this post)

Daily Journaling - How to Begin a Rewarding Journaling Practice

Observer

New Eyes

Knowledge

Discovery

What Is Life

It's a Wonderful Life

Live With Enthusiasm

2013-05-21T00:08:00.000-04:00

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited.
One gets excited about going on a roller coaster.
One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
- Bo Bennett

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Further reading: Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

Do more of what inspires you

What Can Christopher Columbus Teach Us Today?

Enthusiasm quotes

Success

Failure

Zest

Effort

Achievement

Health

2013-05-20T00:08:00.000-04:00

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

You know, all that really matters is that the people
you love are happy and healthy.
Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
- Paul Walker

Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb

If you have good health, or even tolerably good health, be very grateful and joyful, and be compassionate toward those whose health is failing.

Further reading: How to Sleep Better Tonight

Say NO to Stress

Zero-Based Gratitude

Health

Renewal

Relaxation

Healing

Gratitude

Count Your Blessings

Joy at Home

2013-05-19T00:08:00.000-04:00

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

A man travels the world in search of what he needs
and returns home to find it.
- George Edward Moore

Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground
as you reach for the stars.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Daily Renewal

7 Secrets for a Happy Life

Living Your Greatest Life

Home

Family

Return

Love

Being Safe

Search the World

Simple Joys

2013-05-18T00:08:00.000-04:00

It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Zero-Based Gratitude

Simple Life Quotes

Abundance Quotes

Joy

Simplicity

Enjoying Life

Inner Peace

When Life Kicks You

2013-05-17T00:08:00.000-04:00

All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes "bad" things just happen. Try to avoid lashing out at whoever is handiest - your spouse, your family, your friend, the government, God.

Further reading: When You Have Been Wronged

Revenge is Never the Answer

How to Deal with Anger

Overcoming

Blame

Suffering

George Washington Carver

Life Goes On

Life is Hard

Know The Difference

2013-05-16T00:08:00.000-04:00

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding:
you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
- Charles Kettering

Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Great Truths

Consciously Choosing Your Truth

Different and yet the Same

Understanding

Serenity

Knowedge

Acceptance

Values

Perspective

Life Is Not Meant to be Serious

2013-05-15T00:08:00.000-04:00

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life Is Not Meant to be Serious

Further reading: April Fool

Celebration

Discouraged?

You Are Blessed

Laugh

Stress

Zen Quotes

Worry

Winnie The Pooh Quotes

Serenity

Manage Small Fires

2013-05-14T00:08:00.000-04:00

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin

At times it is folly to hasten,
at other times to delay.
The wise do everything in its proper time.
- Ovid

To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

Whether it is a health condition, a family feud, or overdue bills, manage small fires before they become uncontrollable blazes.

Further reading: Take Action

Later is Never

Eight Rules for Living Your Greatest Life

Lao Tzu quotes

Benjamin Franklin quotes

Deep Quotes about Life

Life Lessons

Time Flies

Living in the Moment

Do What You Can Do

2013-05-13T00:08:00.000-04:00

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa

Your best is ALWAYS good enough. After you have truly done your best, release your attachment to the outcome.

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Further reading: Play to win, but be a good loser

How to Forgive and Move On

How to Love Yourself

Quotes about Doing Your Best

Regret

Action

Try

Perseverance

Commitment

Mother's Day

2013-05-12T00:08:00.000-04:00

A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honoré de Balzac

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Further reading: Forgiveness is Essential to a Great Relationship

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

A List of Gratitudes - a Thanksgiving

Family

Children

Forgiveness

Heart

Sharing

Inner Peace

Don't Just Settle

2013-05-11T00:08:00.000-04:00

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
- Thomas Merton

Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Further reading: Do more of what inspires you

Don't be Limited by what is "Reasonable"

Pleasing Everyone

Goals

Perseverance

Live Your Best Life

Enthusiasm

Never Give Up

Living Life to the Fullest

Coping with Heartbreak

2013-05-10T00:08:00.000-04:00

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous

Further reading: How to Move On and Let Go

Coping With Loss, Grief, and Fear

Beyond the Grief of Divorce

Words of Comfort on the Death of a Loved One

Endings

Divorce Quotes

Grief

Sad Quotes about Love

Encouragement

Begin Today

2013-05-09T00:08:00.000-04:00

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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Later is Never

Drive Change

Break Old Patterns of Action

Be Brave and Chase Your Dreams

Action

Boldness

Begin

Courage

Power

Today

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

2013-05-08T00:08:00.000-04:00

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Further reading: Why be Reasonable?

Time to Move On

Overcoming Disability

Discovery

Personal Growth

Experience

Adventure

New Beginning

Motivational Thoughts

Dark Times

2013-05-07T00:08:00.000-04:00

When It’s Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Coping with the Impossible

Nothing to look forward to

Is Hope Futile?

Darkness

Stars

Difficult

Challenge

Hard Times

Self Confidence

Encouragement

The Edge of All We Know

2013-05-06T00:08:00.000-04:00

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

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

Today's affirmation:
I am unstoppable.

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Further reading: Mary Anne Radmacher: Frankie's Story (The origin of Live With Intention)

Normal vs. Bold

Dare

Top 5 Regrets

The Unknown

Life on the Edge

Knowledge

Regret

Live Fully

Going Beyond

Gratitude for This Food

2013-05-05T00:08:00.000-04:00

Food is our most fundamental material blessing.
Use each meal as an opportunity to feel gratitude for all the blessings of this life.

In a world where so many are hungry,
may we eat this food with humble hearts;
in a world where so many are lonely,
May we share this friendship with joyful hearts.
- Anonymous

For food that stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
- Anonymous

We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing

As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor

Further reading: Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving

Zero-Based Gratitude

Gratitude itself is a source of joy

Thankfulness

Thanksgiving

Appreciation

Thank You

Gratitude

Thank You God

Kick Back

2013-05-04T00:08:00.000-04:00

Don't sweat the small stuff... and it's all small stuff.
- Richard Carlson

Beware the barrenness of a busy life
- Socrates

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- Anonymous

Ask yourself whether your busy-ness is fulfilling your purpose in life.

Further reading: Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Happiness is a Choice

Your Life Purpose

Urgency

Balance

Simple Life

Stress

Hurry

Relax

What Is Success?

2013-05-03T00:08:00.000-04:00

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer

Success is a state of mind.
If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are a success when you feel good about what you are doing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Do Your Best

Success

Happiness

Positive Thinking

Failure

Enthusiasm

Self-Esteem

Motivation

2013-05-02T00:08:00.000-04:00

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

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Further reading: How to Motivate Yourself

Success Tip: Drive Change

Later is Never

Motivation

Dream

Try Harder

Begin

Persistence

Energy

Intuition

2013-05-01T00:08:00.000-04:00

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.
- Joy Page

Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice.
It is within everyone.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Three Rules of Life

Ask from a Compassionate Heart

Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation

Intuition

Inner Knowing

Heart

Inner Voice

Compass

Life

Becoming a Leader

2013-04-30T00:08:00.000-04:00

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

Successful leadership requires accepting responsibility,
making commitments and consistently delivering on those commitments,
and always setting an outstanding example for those you lead.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Further reading: How to be Successful in Business

How to Motivate Yourself

How to Share Your Thoughts With the World

Leadership

Motivation

Success

Teamwork

Responsibility

Solution