Motivational thoughts-What you see

Let this season of joy truly be a season of joy. It is far too easy to get caught up in the Doing, and forget to relax, to love, and to enjoy. Stop, look around, breathe, be grateful for everything. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Forgiveness

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher, 19th century Congregationalist clergyman and social reformer

Devote yourself

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

Famous people quotes-Own common sense

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.
- The Buddha

Positive quotes-Powerful dreams

Live a life of bold and courageous action inspired by powerful dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thoughts on life-Not a race

Life is a journey. It is not a race to test who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot. Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander - watching the view to left and right - above and below - as  the days slowly move past in dress review.

Content

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

Poetic quotes

I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.
- E. E. Cummings

Sexual quotes-Like money

Sex is like money; only too much is enough. 
- John Updike

Humor quotes-If you were a chicken

Imagine if you were a chicken, and you got the other chickens mad, and they decided to tar and feather you. No one would notice.

- Scott E. Roeben

An Inspired life

Living an inspired life comes from the living of it - the taking action - and not from the wanting, or the hoping, or even from the dreaming and the planing, unless the dreams and plans are followed by bold action. Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Deep thoughts-The sea

Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The next planting

Have gratitude for the harvest.
Rejoice in the peace that follows, and prepare for the next planting.

Fear of difference

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

Funny thoughts-The little things

I got a miniature abacus for my birthday. It's the little things that count.

- Scott E. Roeben

Dream anything

To dream anything that you want to dream.
That's the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do.
That is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself to test your limits.
That is the courage to succeed.
- Bernard Edmonds

Motivational thoughts-When everything goes wrong

It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Thought for the day-Commitment to excellence

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- Vincent Lombardi

Independence day quotes-Patriotism

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.  

- Erma Bombeck

Blessings of peace

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William Gladstone

Thought for the day-Borrow the earth

Treat the earth well. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Wrinkles

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.  

- Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Same pillow

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.  

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Famous people quotes-Immeasurable cares

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
- George Eliot

Humor quotes-A new drug

I read a story about a new drug that's the first to be FDA-approved to treat bipolar disorder. That news makes me so enraged and ecstatic!
- Scott E. Roeben

Peace

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

- Coleman McCarthy

Thought for the day-Character

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden

Beautiful quote

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play in your hair.

- Kahil Gibran

Own road to happiness

Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Positive quotes-Dreams of the future

I like dreams of the future better than history of the past.

- Patrick Henry