Inspirations

Success

2011-01-06T04:07:00.000-07:00

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

-Proverb

Christmas...

2010-11-20T12:47:00.000-07:00

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!"

~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

Gratitude

2010-04-10T04:47:00.000-07:00

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

~William A. Ward

Goals

2010-03-23T23:49:00.004-07:00

"Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures."

- James Cash Penney

An Irish Blessing

2010-03-10T21:19:00.002-07:00

"May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night."

~Irish Blessing

Love's Symbol

2010-02-06T23:51:00.001-07:00

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~Author Unknown

New Year

2010-01-09T07:56:00.001-07:00

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Carry Your Burden

2009-09-12T05:09:00.000-07:00

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Frolic

2009-08-12T20:07:00.000-07:00

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~Leslie Grimutter

Life's Balance

2009-07-21T00:59:00.004-07:00

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Einstein

Success

2009-06-28T06:31:00.001-07:00

"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

Aim High!

2009-06-04T12:59:00.002-07:00

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

Ideals...

2009-05-31T13:24:00.002-07:00

"What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it." ~Ezra Pound

Living With Courage..

2009-05-20T00:58:00.003-07:00

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." ~ Maya Angelou

The Best Cures

2009-03-31T16:06:00.000-07:00

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~ Irish Proverb

Neglect

2009-03-13T11:27:00.006-07:00

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

Become It!

2009-03-06T11:44:00.002-07:00

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." ~ William Arthur Ward

The Right Thing...

2008-12-02T06:32:00.002-07:00

"You always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

Common Sense

2008-10-22T21:16:00.001-07:00

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
~Buddha

Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

Responsibility...

2008-10-06T20:05:00.002-07:00

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

~Denis Waitley

The Psychology of Winning

Enjoy the Journey...

2008-09-15T07:18:00.001-07:00

"I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
- Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey: "I Don't Believe In Failure" (African-American Biography Library)

Live Life Completely!

2008-08-12T15:07:00.004-07:00

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

~Diane Ackerman

Wise Women: A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage, and Beauty

Tolstoy on Health ...

2008-07-29T18:56:00.001-07:00

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

~Leo Tolstoy

Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.)

Habits...

2008-07-14T15:00:00.000-07:00

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Unabridged Audio Program)

Give Your Best...

2008-07-06T13:28:00.000-07:00

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

~ Og Mandino

A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By