CHOICE
- It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing. - Marcia Wieder
- “There is always a choice of love or fear. If we choose fear and the alienating behavior that goes with it, we go down the tubes. It is up to us. The future is ours. If we choose love and the opportunities it offers us, we will be able to heal ourselves and the whole planet.” - Louise L. Hay
- How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. – Dr. Wayne Dyer
- The past is for reference and not for residence. Emma Steedman
- “Healing always involves releasing the past as we move into the future. If we don’t release the past, we keep re-creating it—and it becomes the future. As we release, it’s also crucial to have a powerful vision of a hopeful and exciting future that draws us forward.” – Dr. Christiane Northrup
- Once you make a decision, the world conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
PERSERVERANCE
- And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin
- When the world says “give up”, hope whispers “try one more time”. ~ unknown
- The more you cut the branches of a tree, the higher and stronger it grows. The more you put the gold in the fire, the purer it becomes. The more you sharpen the steel by grinding, the better it cuts. The more sorrow one sees, the more perfect one becomes. ~ unknown
- …Nature is a chain reaction. One thing follows the other, everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest. See,” he would say, pointing to a tiny vine curled around a sapling, “that is a stinkwood sapling which can grow thirty meters, but the vine will win and the tree will be choked to death long before it will ever see the sky…..always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky…the vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines, when you are a young plant they are very dangerous…always listen to yourself…it is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger, if you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life. Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
- Just like the climber, you may be closing in on your dreams the very moment you think they are all but lost. To develop the legendary leader inside of you, you must be continually eager to take another step in the direction of your dreams. No matter how difficult circumstances may appear, remember, no one can make you give up or give you the drive to keep going. That is your decision alone. You control your own hope.
- As you seek to become the best of which you are capable, you will undoubtedly make mistakes and take wrong turns. You will be severely tested by rejection, doubt, and fear. At times you will feel you’ve given all you have to give and have still fallen short of realizing your aspirations. But, as long as you decide to keep playing the game, you control one of the most important ingredients in ultimate success. This is your absolute resolve to never quit.
LIVING IN THE MOMENT
- Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Indian Proverb
INSPIRING
- Write it on your heart that each day is the best day of the year.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ...reaching your potential as a human being is more than an ideal – it’s the ultimate goal…i’m talking about the real deal: whose life did you touch? who did you love and who loved you back? Oprah – O Mag – September 2010
- …had passed briefly through my life, like a trainpassing in the night. I had known him a little over twenty-four hours, yet he had managed to change my life. He had given me the power of one – one -idea, one heart, one mind, one plan, one determination. Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
LISTENING
- ….listening is a good camouflage. I soon discovered that it is also an art. You learn not simply to listen to what people say. It’s what people don’t say that is important. If you listen hard enough you can hear the most amazing things going on behind the speaker’s voice. Quite often there is a regular conniption going on. It takes years to make a good translation of this secondary soundtrack. Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR’S
- Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance–a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. – Augusta E. Rundel
