“If your definition of success has little or no measure of
love in it, get another definition.” ~Robert Holden
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Native American Prayer
I give you this one thought to keep
I am with you still – I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow
I am sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle autumn rain
When you awake in the morning’s hush
I am the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight
I am the soft stars that shine at night
Do not think of me as gone
I am with you still in each new dawn
The Great Boatlift of 9/11 (A must watch video)
“I have one theory in life. I never want to say the word I should have. If I do it and I fail, I tried. If I do it and I succeed, better for me. I tell my children the same thing. Never go through life saying you should have. If you want to do something you do it”
“I believe that everybody has a little hero in them. You gotta look in and it is there…it will come out”
Circumstances
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, they make them.”
George Bernard Shaw
Today is the Beginning
I’ve learned that
No matter what has happened or hasn’t happened to you in your life
No matter how heartbreaking
No matter what you lost
No matter who deceived you
No matter what dreams were broken
No matter the what wrong decisions you made, what opportunities you passed up, what regrets you may have
No matter how devastating the circumstances
No matter how long you have suffered
No matter how old you are
Today is the beginning
Today is the day to finally change it all
Life has only one direction
Who you are is worth it all
So what are you going to do with today?
“What has been in your life up till now has nothing to do with what still can be”
Build Your Own Building
“You know, I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it’s not. The future is not fixed; it’s fluid. You can build your own building, or hut or condo…the world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.”
Bono
Consistently…
“If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in awhile that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently” Tony Robbins
Photo: Thomas Mangelsen
A Must Read Story
While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I had one of those life-changing experiences that you hear other people talk about — the kind that sneaks up on you unexpectedly. This one occurred a mere two feet away from me. Continue reading A Must Read Story
I wish to Change My Life, So Please Change Me
If love is not in your life, it’s on the way…prepare.
The love you pray for is trying to reach you at every moment.
“Please heal my romantic wounds that I might give and receive true love. Teach me how to let love in and lit it stay. Remove from my mind all judgment and from my heart all fear. Release the chains that bind me. Help me not to miss my own life. Do not allow me to escape my good. Soften my heart”
May I begin again?
I wish to change my life, so please change me.
Excerpts from Enchanted Love, Marianne Williamson
The Silence Within
We have to believe this to make sense of the detours:
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
POSITIVE THOUGHTS ON LIFE 