“The giving of love is an education in itself.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Quote of the Day
Whenever your mind starts going around and around trying too hard to figure something out, try to remember…
“You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” ~Albert Einstein
Instead, don’t stress, relax and know …
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” ~William S. Burroughs
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“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gifted ability, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace from that day. We cannot change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing that we can do is play on the one string that we have and this string is, Attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. And so it is with you….We are in charge of our Attitudes.” ~Charles Swindoll
Summertime…
So hard to believe we’re already in August! I hope the rest of this sunny season doesn’t go too fast. Here are some images that make me think of summer…
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“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.” ~James Dent
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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” ~John Lubbock
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“Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.” ~Kahlil Gibran
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“A life without love is like a year without summer.” ~Swedish Proverb
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“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” ~Robert Henri
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“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” ~Bob Dylan
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius
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At times, I definitely catch these words being applicable to myself and others. This quote is a reminder to always keep things simple because there’s nothing to gain by making things unnecessarily complicated!
Here’s a challenge: What are 3 ways you could simplify your life starting today?
Quotes of the Day
From a Yogi teabag:
“Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.”
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Another good one:
“The best way of life is to be, simply be.”
HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY!
Reminder: Take a Deep Breath
For so many of us, the daily stresses of life can lead us to take shorter, shallower breaths. Ironically yet not surprisingly, this kind of breathing only compounds stress in the body, by depriving the cells of oxygen and by not fully exhaling toxins from the lungs. As few as three deep focused breaths can be extremely calming to your entire body and your mind. So next time you get stressed out, check your breathing - you’ll almost always find it’s shallow and that is the time to stop and take a deep breath. Please don’t put it off and remember “Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.” {Montaigne}
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“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.” -Bill Cosby
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“Silence is essential. Silence gives you the space to move inside yourself, to listen to your interior thoughts, and to examine how you perceive your world and its contents. Without silence all you do is react to the world around you as opposed to respond to it.”- Carolyne Myss
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“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” -Raymond Lindquist
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“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama
Happy Mother’s Day!
Some sweet and funny quotes for my wonderful mom, mom (in-law), grandma (in-law) and all of you wonderful mothers out there!
“A mother’s love liberates.” – Maya Angelou
“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.” – Homer Simpson
“Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes.” – P.J. O’Rourke
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us; when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” – Washington Irving
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“We don’t see if we don’t look and we don’t look if we believe we won’t find what we are looking for.” – Ellen Langer
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“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” -Hans Hofmann
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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce
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“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.” -Washington Irving
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“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” -Groucho Marx
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“If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life.” –Confucius
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” -Albert Camus
Happy New Year!
“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.” -Ellen Goodman
“A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.”
-Edgar Guest
I know I’m a few days late, but with New Year’s Eve kicking off a long weekend, I feel like today is the real start to this new year!
I wish all of my readers a very happy and healthy 2010!
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“Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are. Joy is not necessarily what happens when things unfold according to our plans.” -Marianne Williamson
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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” -Lao Tzu
Happy Thanksgiving!
Some appropriate quotes for the day:
- “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” — Thornton Wilder
- “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein
- “Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” — Joseph Wood Krutch
- “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!
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“Taking in the good is not about putting a happy shiny face on everything, nor is it about turning away from the hard things in life. It’s about nourishing inner well-being, contentment, and peace — refuges to which you can always return.” -Rick Hanson
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“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein
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“It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones.” – Jean Webster
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“When the solution is simple, God is answering.” – Albert Einstein
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
