Many fine things can be done in a day
Many fine things can be done in a day if you don’t always make that day tomorrow.
via FB: Zen-Sational Living
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A child with special needs
I don’t think the worst things that could happen to me is raising a child with special needs. I think the worst thing is to raise a child who is cruel to those with special needs.
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Once you light a match
Doesn’t matter how long the lights have been out…once you light a match the light shines in just the same.
The choices you make
You will not always have the answers, and you will not always be right, but if the choices you make are made with love in your heart, you are doing your best from the start.
Cartoon wisdom
An excellent collection of wise words from some popular cartoon movies of the past.
via FB Mahshar Ghasemiyeh
Strive for progress, not perfection
Something to think about…
We are looking for progress, not perfection; however, we sometimes get lost or confused between the two. Expecting ourselves to be perfect at something we are only now learning is a familiar affliction. As we accept our humanness, we’ll allow the mistakes that are a normal part of the process of living and learning — a process we call progress.
Our need to be perfect will lessen with time. And we can help ourselves break the old habits. Perfection and self-worth are not symbiotic, except in our minds. And it’s a symbiosis that has done us a grave injustice. Breaking the old thought patterns takes a commitment. We must first decide and believe that we are worthwhile, simply because we are. There is only one of us; we have a particular gift to offer this world. And our being is perfect as is. Affirming this, repeatedly, is our beginning. But with this, too, progress will be slow; perfection need only be worked for, not achieved.
The patterns we are weaving with our lives are complex, full of intricate detail and knots. We need to go slow, taking only one stitch at a time. With hindsight, we will see that whatever the progress, it was the perfect fit to the overall design.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
A new way to think
You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.
~ Marianne Williamson
No loss of enthusiasm
Success if the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill
Life is like sailing
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
~ Robert Brault
Our way will be illuminated
When you walk with God, you get where he’s going.
Something to think about…
We have met certain people who inspired laughter, hope, or changes in us, or those close to us. We look forward to seeing them. We leave their presence believing in ourselves, aware that we can tackle whatever problems had us immobilized. That special gift to inspire is ours for the taking, too. The inspiration comes from God.
We can look to God for the strength we need. It will come. We can look also to God for direction, for the steps we need to take today. Those persons who inspire us have developed a secure connection to their God. And it’s their connection that comes through them to inspire us.
We can take some time today, before the demands overwhelm us, to weave our connection to our higher power. When that contact is secure, we won’t have to await inspiration from another person to forge ahead with our plans. The inspiration will live within us, and it will beckon us onward. Our way will be illuminated.
Doing what’s right
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.
~ Isaac Asimov
Now, let me get this straight…
I saw this quote a few years ago and kept it in my queue, thinking that I might one day try to put it in picture-quote format and post it, but I feared that it was too long to capture anyone’s attention long enough to actually get read. I’m trying it today, since it goes so well with this morning’s “Life will be better when” message. I hope it makes you smile:
“Now let me get this straight…You want things that you don’t yet have, people in your life who you don’t yet know, and events to take place that haven’t yet occurred, so that once these things come to pass you’ll feel happy, confident, and fulfilled; accomplished, desired, and appreciated; treasured, adored, and, like one bad mamma jama, a beautiful sight to see? But…wasn’t that your rationale for all the other stuff you wanted that you now have?”
~ Author Unknown
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
~ Edmund Hillary
Something to think about…
Goals give direction to our lives. We need to know who we are and where we want to go. But the trip itself, the steps we travel, offer us daily satisfaction, moment by moment — fulfillment — if we’d but realize it. Too often, we keep our sights on the goal’s completion, rather than the process — the day-to-day living that makes the completion possible.
How often do we think, “When I finish college, I’ll feel stronger,” or, “After the divorce is final, I can get back to work,” or even, “When I land that promotion, my troubles are over.” Life will begin “when” — or so it seems in our minds. And when this attitude controls our thinking, we pass up our opportunity to live, altogether.
Looking back on goals already completed in our lives, what so quickly follows the end of a job well done is a letdown. And how sad that the hours, the days, the weeks, maybe even the months we toiled are gone, with little sense of all they could have meant.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
Look deep into Nature
Look deep into Nature and then you will understand everything better.
~ Albert Einstein
These are what we stay alive for
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
~ Dead Poets Society
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