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Thoughts for Today

• “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” 
  ~ Mark Twain

• Deep listening can help the 'other person' to empty their heart...and remember that you are helping him or her to suffer less..."  Thich Nhat Hanh

 

•  "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."  Martin Luther King

 

• "It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."Dalai Lama

 

• Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.  ~Buddha

 

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.   ~Carl Jung

 

• All you have shall some day be given;
  Therefore give now, that the season of giving
  may be yours and not your inheritors.     ~Kahlil Gibran

 

• "Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing." 
  — Abraham Lincoln

 

• "If you let go a little you will have a little peace, if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace, if you let go completely you will have complete peace."
  ~Ajahn Chah

 

•  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran

 

• The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.  ~Norman Vincent Peale

 

• You must act as if it is impossible to fail. - Ashanti Proverb

 

• Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.  ~James Dean

 

• What you sow, so shall you reap...a really, nice website to visit...as the saying goes, it is better to give than to receive:  http://www.appleseeds.org/7-Things-Success.htm

 

• Peace is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of humanity.     ~William Ellery Channing

                   

•   Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy, you must have someone to divide it with.       ~Mark Twain

 

• Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.   GUESS WHO? :)

 

• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.  ~Henry Ward Beecher   ...a fair piece of music to blend its colorations of words and music

 

• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.       ~Edith Wharton

 

• "I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."
  —Golda Meir

 

• "No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."               ~Follow the Link to see who SAID THIS~

  

• “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”   ~Mahatma Gandhi 

 

• It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.       ~Another, Guess Who?...follow the link!   :D

 

• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." 
  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

 

• A gentle, funny and wise friend said today: "Common sense isn't all that common."  Whoa!... ;) I asked her if I could quote her and she agreed--so I pass this along to you all!    Thanks Joy, for your words to take to heart! :D 

  

• As the the GOOD BOOK says (I paraphrase, of course): 'Run to make peace with your neighbor. You only have today--who knows what tomorrow may bring--if there is a tomorrow.'   ~Nancy Jo 

 

• Something I shall take very much to heart: "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
  ~GUESS WHO?~

 

• "I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." 
  — Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)
   

• If I was given six hours to chop down trees, I would spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
  Abraham Lincoln

 

• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?     ~Benjamin Franklin

  

• As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.   ~Irish Proverb 

  

• Watch, listen and take to heart--Nick Vujicic...a life's journey to inspire:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYB3QSLarLg&feature=related

 

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.       ~Warren Buffet

 

• "People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
  If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
  If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
  If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
  The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
  Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."                  ~Mother Teresa

 

• You are never strong enough that you don't need help.   ~Cesar Chavez

  

• Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the bar-room downstairs?  ~Christopher Morley

• I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
  ~Maya Angelou 

 

• This one always hits me right in the heartstrings, brings goosebumps to my skin and a smile to my face--I guess cause it is one of my deepest aspirations:  "To laugh often and much; to win respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of false critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

•  Being sensitive to yourself isn't the same as being sensitive to others. If we say that we are sensitive person, then think about walking a mile in another person's shoes and experience how they feel. Considering how someone else feels is the true measure of a 'sensitive' person.   ~Nancy Jo

 

• When sharing, share as much as you are able--Share even more than you are able. When giving, give as much as you can; freely and generously. This way, your offering or gift is truly a blessing to the recipient. When participating, give it your all--no, give more than you think you can. What you will reap then, will always exceed your expectations. When you give reluctantly or give the 'least' that you can, this is what you will also receive in return.   ~Nancy Jo

 

• Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.    ~Will Rogers

 

• It may be easy to speak 'your' truth to someone, but the challenge is to 'speak the truth IN LOVE.' It softens and opens the heart and the ears of the listener.    ~Nancy jo, via, Ephesians 4:15

 

• "As you awake each day, cover yourself with gratitude, grace and love. As you embrace all these with your mind, body and spirit, so will these return to you even more powerfully and in abundance."  ~Nancy Jo 

 

• "A smile is your passport into the hearts of others."
  ~ Chinese Proverb

 

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt 

 

• ~"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."~
                                                       ~English Proverb