Abundance
Abundance can be had simpy by consciously receiving what has already been given.
~ Sufi Saying
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Love and appreciation for others
I cannot love and appreciate others if I cannot love and appreciate myself.
I’m not sure I agree with this quote. It seems to me that the very act of loving and appreciating others causes us to love and appreciate ourselves. Thoughts?
Life’s truest happiness
Life’s truest happiness is found in the friendships we make along the way.
~ Author Unknown
Friendship
Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway.
~ Author Unknown
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Live a life of love
Live a life of love, honesty, appreciataion, kindness, and strength…sprinkled with a little silliness.
We all look at the same moon
No matter what our differences are, we all look at the same moon.
~ Author Unknown
Being kind or being right
If you have to choose between being kind and being right, choose being kind and you will always be right.
We discover ourselves through our relationships with others
I looked for my soul but my soul I could not see. I looked for my God but my God eluded me. I looked for a friend and then I found all three.
~ William Blake
Something to think about…
Many of us are presently rebuilding old relationships and searching for new ones, ones that we hope we can protect. We can’t survive without relationships, some intimate, some close, some casual. And we discover ourselves through our relationships with others.
The purity of a relationship is directly proportional to the undivided attention we both give to those shared moments, hours, experiences, to being “there” with one another. This communion with another is the celebration of life and God that quickens hearts and users in serenity.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
Think Like a Tree
Soak up the sun. Affirm life’s magic. Be graceful in the wind. Stand tall after a storm. Feel refreshed after it rains. Grow strong without notice. Be prepared for each season. Provide shelter to strangers. Hang tough through a cold spell. Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring. Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky. Be still long enough to hear your own leaves rustling.
~ Karen Shragg
The tree in this image looks rather pitiful to me, but I like the sentiments. 
In life we never lose friends
In life we never lose friends, we only learn who the true ones are.
via FB: Lessons Learned in Life
Simply shine your light on the road ahead
Simply shine your light on the road ahead, and you are helping others to see their way out of darkness.
~ Katrina Mayer
Be a lamp, a lifeboat, or a ladder
S.S. Helpful: Be a lamp, a lifeboat, or a ladder.
~ Rumi
Love, love, love this one!
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What life is all about
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
~ Angela Schwindt
What is to give light must endure burning
What is to give light must endure burning.
~ Dr. Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” was fascinating to me. Frankl was deported to the Theresienstadt camp in Prague in January, 1942. He had just married Mathilde Grosser one month earlier. He was later sent to Auschwitz camp in Poland. He spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps. By the end of the war, Frankl lost his pregnant wife, his parents, and a brother.
This is a man who suffered greatly, yet he went on to become a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School until his death in 1997. He wrote thirty-two books that have been translated into 26 different languages.
Viktor drew on his own experiences as a survivor of the holocaust to originate the discipline of Logotherapy. Logotherapy is a form of Psychotherapy that stresses the need to find meaning in life even in the most tragic circumstances. When “Man’s Search for Meaning” was published in 1959, Carl Rogers called it “one of the most outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years.”
via http://www.wisdomcommons.org/wisbits/4559-the-story-of-viktor-e-frankl
The moments that take our breath away
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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Everything that has a beginning has an end
Everything that has a beginning has an end. Make your peace with that, and all will be well.
~ the Buddha
What you think about
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing, that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think about.
~ Dale Carnegie
A being and a becoming
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
~ Matthew Arnold
Something to think about…
We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day. The temptation to blame others may be ever present. And much of our past adds up to wasted days or years, perhaps, because we did blame someone else for the unhappiness in our lives.
We may have blamed our own parents for not loving us enough. We may have labeled our husbands the villains. Other people did affect us. That’s true. However, we chose, you and I, to let them control us, overwhelm us, shame us. We always had other options, but we didn’t choose them.
Today is a new day. Our options are entirely open. We are learning who we are and how we want to live our lives. How exhilarating to know that you and I can take today and put our own special flavor in it. We can meet our personal needs. We can, with anticipation, chart our course. The days of passivity are over, if we choose to move ahead with this day.
Every day is a new beginning.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
Leadership from the bottom up
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.
~ John Quincy Adams
Interesting notion, isn’t it? John Quincy Adams was clearly not referring to positive thinking when he said or wrote that idea, but there is so much negative thinking in the world right now, it’s sometimes overwhelming and depressing, and I believe it’s going to take leadership from the bottom up, if there can be such a thing, to change that.
I’m on a mission, of sorts, to change my own thinking, and I’ve been sharing that process with whomever is interested. It’s actually working, for me. In a big way. And judging by the growing number of warm and encouraging emails and messages I’ve been receiving, many of you seem to be finding inspiration here, as well, which pleases me to no end. And those of you who share these images are spreading thoughtful content even further and are probably changing the lives of others in ways you don’t even know.
Individuals, as leaders. Bottom up. A growing army of positive thinkers on a roll.
Cool idea, Mr. Adams.
My thanks, to everyone who’s reading this, for joining me on this journey.
Janet.¸¸.ღ
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