Prayer for the day

27 October
Love anyway
Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford — but you’ll take him anyway.
~Judith Viorst

26 October
Be vulnerable in love
Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.
~Theodore Roethke

25 October
Opinions can be disastrous
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
~Voltaire

24 October
Prevent misunderstanding
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
~Margaret E. Sangster

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
~Andre Gide

23 October
Understand
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.
~Richard Bach

22 October
Hold noble intentions
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
~William Blake

21 October
Express gratitude
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward

20 October
Giving
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
~Max Beerbohm

19 October
Wisdom
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy that does not laugh and the greatness that does not bow before children.
~Kahlil Gibran

18 October
Conquer fear
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
~Shirley Maclaine

17 October
Weigh your words
Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal.
~Author Unknown

16 October
Dreams
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.
~Marsha Norman

15 October
Faith
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
~George Seaton

14 October
Unconditional love
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~Victor Hugo

13 October
Love
Love is being stupid together.
~Paul Valery

12 October
Now
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
~Betty Smith

11 October
Trust, love, joy
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone — but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
~ Walter Anderson

10 October
Encouragement
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~Mark Twain

09 October
Receiving and giving
From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life.

~Arthur Ashe

08 October
Act out of love
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
~Henry Drummond

07 October
Security is an illusion
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
~Helen Keller

06 October
Character
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
~Henry Van Dyke

05 October
Trust
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.
~Frank Crane

04 October
Mind
You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.
~Astrid Alauda

03 October
Hope and fear
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
~Vincent McNabb

02 October
Transcend judgment
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
~Mahatma Gandhi

01 October
Health
A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
~Francis Bacon

30 September
Wisdom
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~George Bernard Shaw

29 September
Seek the Source
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
~Peace Pilgrim

28 September
Pace of nature
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~Lao Tzu

27 September
Soul-mates
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
~Author Unknown

26 September
Timing
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
~Helen Rowland

When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters — one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~John F. Kennedy

25 September
Details
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.
~Benjamin Franklin

24 September
Balance
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
~Leonardo da Vinci

23 September
Little things
Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things.
~Author Unknown

22 September
Laughter and friendship
There is no better way to become friends than to laugh together
~ Mirra Alfassa (The Mother)

21 September
Love always wins
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
~Eva Gabor

20 September
Decisions
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

19 September
Staying young
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~Mark Twain

18 September
Time
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
~Henry Van Dyke

17 September
Tidy soul
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
~Mark Twain

16 September
The Serenity Prayer
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
~Attributed to Reinhold Neibuhr

15 September
Dreams
Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
~Edgar Cayce

14 September
Failure
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

13 September
Faith
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
~Blaise Pascal

12 September
Change
If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.
~Author Unknown

11 September
Anger
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
~Sydney J. Harris

10 September
Act now
You can’t do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

09 September
Self acquaintance
One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
~Norman Vincent Peale

08 September
Integrity
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
~Samuel Johnson

07 September
Love more
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~Henry David Thoreau

06 September
Giving
It is in giving that we receive.
~St. Francis of Assisi

05 September
Living in the now
People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don’t you say the good now days?
~Robert M. Young

Don’t let the past steal your present.
~Cherralea Morgen

04 September
Be yourself
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

03 September
Happiness
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
~Storm Jameson

02 September
Time
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
~Pericles

01 September
Openness
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
~Jim Rohn

31 August
Reserve judgment
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
~Leonardo da Vinci

30 August
Silence
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer
~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

29 August
Listen to your heart
When your heart speaks, take good notes.
~Judith Campbell

28 August
Look within
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution.
~Joe Cordare

27 August
Labour of Love
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
~ Kahlil Gibran

26 August
Mistakes
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
~Mahatma Gandhi

25 August
Understanding
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
~Alexander Chase

24 August
Love Deeply
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
~Sir Arthur Pinero

23 August
Free Will
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
~Jawaharlal Nehru

22 August
Dreams
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
~Kahlil Gibran

21 August
Courage
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

20 August
Live a balanced life
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
~Robert Fulghum

19 August
Have the correct perspective
As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full.
~Nathaniel LeTonnerre

18 August
Listen
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
~Malcolm Muggeridge

17 August
Love is letting go
Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
~From the television show “The Wonder Years”

16 August
Patience
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy Adams

15 August
Freedom
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln

Bonus
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~Mahatma Gandhi

14 August
Spread the light
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
~Ben Sweetland

13 August
Heart’s reasons
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
~Blaise Pascal

12 August
Discovering self
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
~Buddha

11 August
Be who you are
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
~Dr. Seuss

10 August
Silence
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck

09 August
Look Within
The kingdom of God is within you.
~Jesus Christ

08 August
Self-approval
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
~Mark Twain

07 August
Gratitude
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
~W.T. Purkiser

06 August
Difficulties
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
~Author Unknown

05 August
True Friends
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~Arnold Glasow

04 August
Unanswered Prayers
Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~Garth Brooks

03 August
Follow your heart
You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.
~Marge Simpson (The Simpsons)

02 August 2008
Optimism
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~Maori Proverb

01 August 2008
Sacred power of love
Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
~Barbara de Angelis

31 July 2008
Life and soul
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
~Albert Einstein

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
~A. Powell Davies

30 July
Harmony
God realization is the place where in your heart you take your thoughts and ask yourself, “Are they in harmony with the source I originated from?”
~Wayne Dyer

29 July
Love
When love is not madness, it is not love.
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

28 July 2008
Love and Beauty
You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her.
~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
~Author Unknown

27 July 2008
Vision
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
~Henry David Thoreau

26 July 2008
Smile
I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
~Author Unknown

25 July 2008
Infinite Love
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
~Mother Teresa

24 July 2008
Companionship
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~Oprah Winfrey

23 July 2008
Courage
Courage is grace under pressure.
~Earnest Hemingway

22 July 2008
Love
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
~Amy Carmichael

Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
~Karl A Menninger

21 July 2008
Simplicity
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
~ Alexander Pope

20 July 2008
True Friends
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~Albert Schweitzer

19 July 2008
Aim for wisdom
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
~Martin H. Fischer

18 July 2008
Meeting challenges
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~Helen Keller

17 July 2008
Message from dreams
Pay attention to your dreams — God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.
~Eileen Elias Freeman

16 July 2008
Transcend politics
Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
~Anthony J. D’Angelo

15 Jul 2008
Meditate
All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
~Blaise Pascal

14 July 2008
Silence
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the Gods.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

13 July 2008
Just do it
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
~Edward Everett Hale

12 July 2008
Relinquish Prejudice
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
~Albert Einstein

11 July 2008
Humility
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
~William Temple

10 July 2008
Hope
When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown

09 July 2008
Praying
There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying.
~Anonymous

08 July 2008
Perception
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
~ Wayne Dyer

07 July 2008
Keeping faith
Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
~Kahlil Gibran

06 July 2008
Love is greatest
Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things
that last forever: faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love.
~The Holy Bible

05 July 2008
True Values
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
~Albert Einstein

04 July 2008
Never give up
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
~Confucius

03 July 2008
Be Childlike
Unless ye become like children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
~Jesus of Nazareth

02 July 2008
Living in the moment
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
~Stephen Vincent Benét

01 July 2008
Truth
Do not believe what you have heard.
Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations.
Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times.
Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage.
Do not believe in conjecture.
Do not believe in authority or teachers or elders.
But after careful observation and analysis,
when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all,
then accept it and live by it.
~ Gautam Buddha

30 June 2008
Crush your doubts
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
~Vincent Van Gogh

29 June 2008
Risk Blooming
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin

28 June 2008
Self-control
I am,
indeed,
a king,
because I know how
to rule myself.
~Pietro Aretino

27 June 2008
Begin with yourself
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me
~Seymour Miller & Jill Jackson

26 June 2008
Communicate
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now—they won’t be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.
~Anonymous

25 June 2008
Preserve the child in you
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
~Joseph Heller

24 June 2008
Be Flexible
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
~Jon Bon Jovi

23 June 2008
Practise grace
Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.
~Jackie Windspear

22 June 2008
To change, I must accept myself
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
~Carl Rogers

21 June 2008
Seek out help
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
~Rona Barrett

20 June 2008
Kindness and love
Kindness is the ability to love someone more than they deserve.
~Author Unknown

19 June 2008
Pray
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
~William McGill

18 June 2008
Love without expecting
Love is self-giving without asking anything in return
~ Mirra Alfassa (The Mother)

17 June 2008
Self-respect
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.
~Whitney Griswold

16 June 2008
Count your blessings
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
~Author Unknown

15 June 2008
Seek the Source
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
~Peace Pilgrim

14 June 2008
Don’t suffer
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~M. Kathleen Casey

13 June 2008
Choose how you feel
Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
~Jonatan Mårtensson

12 June 2008
Pay a compliment
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
~Mark Twain

11 June 2008
Laugh
I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
~Quincy Jones

10 June 2008
Patience
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
~ Adel Bestavros

9 June 2008
Peace Bombs and Happiness Weapons
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air—explode softly—and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth—boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn’t go cheap, either—not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
~Robert Fulghum

Notes
One of my favourite authors, Fulghum has a knack of saying the most beautiful things. A happiness weapon, a beauty bomb, a world filled with colourful crayons, and innocence everywhere. The mere thought itself is refreshing and energising.

8 June
Take the risk
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
~Seneca

7 June
Be true to yourself
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774

6 June
Express yourself
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
~Stephen Levine

5 June
Cheer up another
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
~Mark Twain

4 June
Persevere
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
~Albert Einstein

3 June
Serve others
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
~William Penn

2 June 2008
See possibilities
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.
~Norman Vincent Peale

1 June 2008
Forgive
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~Paul Boese

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mahatma Gandhi

31 May 2008
Fly today
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
~Luciano de Crescenzo

30 May 2008
See God’s beauty
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~Walt Whitman

29 May 2008
Love, don’t judge
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
~Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
~Mother Teresa

28 May 2008
Seek God
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
~Abraham Lincoln

27 May 2008
Be kind
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~Samuel Johnson

26 May 2008
It’s OK to be contradicted
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

25 May 2008
Live, don’t exist
Live is an active verb, whereas exist, on the other hand, is a passive verb. Living is a choice. Existing is a consequence of having been born. So choose to live, don’t just exist.
~ Manoj Khatri

24 May 2008
Be mindful of time
Watches are so named as a reminder – if you don’t watch carefully what you do with your time, it will slip away from you.
~Drew Sirtors

23 May 2008
Believe in yourself
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
~Michael Jordan

22 May 2008
Be right for your partner
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
~Barnett R. Brickner

21 May 2008
Spend time with God
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
~ Charles Stanley

20 May 2008
Need someone because you love them
Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.”
~Erich Fromm

19 May 2008
Listen to God’s voice
Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice is its most essential part. Listening to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.
~ Andrew Murray

18 May 2008
Avoid procrastination
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as…to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.
~Og Mandino

17 May 2008
Health secrets
For attractive lips,
speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes,
seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure,
share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair,
let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise,
walk with the knowledge you never walk alone.
~Sam Levenson

16 May 2008
Retain innocence, use wisdom
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

~Ron Wild

15 May 2008
Enrich the world
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
~Woodrow Wilson

14 May 2008
Always make an attempt
One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.
~Wayne Gretzky

13 May 2008
Swallow evil words
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
~Winston Churchill

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
~Author Unknown

12 May 2008
Crying is anti-aging
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
~Natalie Clifford Barney

11 May 2008
Find your perfect person
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~Sam Keen

10 May 2008
Look for real happiness
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
~Hosea Ballou

09 May 2008
Find your reason to live
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
~Author Unknown

08 May 2008
Be thankful
If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.
~Frank A. Clark

07 May 2008
Anger is senseless
If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.
~Korean Proverb

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
~Robert G. Ingersoll

06 May 2008
Apology transforms
Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck

05 May 2008
Simplify your life
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
~Martin H. Fischer

04 May 2008
Silence wins
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~Josh Billings

03 May 2008
Laughter dissolves pain
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain
~Elbert Hubbard

02 May 2008
Love and be loved
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu

01 May 2008
Manage your time
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
~Jim Rohn

30 April 2008
Learn to decide
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

29 April 2008
Nurture pleasant thoughts
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
~Montaigne

28 April 2008
Everyone who asks receives
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
~Matthew 7:7-8

27 April 2008
As souls, we’re all equal
When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
~Italian proverb

26 April 2008
Listen to God
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation and for me the most important part is listening to God’s replies.
~ Frank C. Laubach

25 April 2008
Learn from experience
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
~Laurence J. Peter

24 April 2008
Be silent when angry
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~Ambrose Bierce

23 April 2008
Learn from nature
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another
~Juvenal

22 April 2008
Expect a miracle
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
~Saint Augustine

21 April 2008
We never fail until we believe we have failed
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
~Henry Ford

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.”
~S.I. Hayakawa

20 April 2008
Do not be rigid
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
~Albert Einstein

19 April 2008
Be generous quietly
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
~Frank A. Clark

18 April 2008
Cultivate patience
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
~Leonardo da Vinci

17 April 2008
Lead simple lives
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
~Henry David Thoreau

16 April 2008
Rid yourself of fear
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
~Frank Herbert

15 April 2008
Take responsibility of yourself
God has entrusted me with myself.
~Epictetus

14 April 2008
Have a pure heart
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God
~Matthew 5:8

13 April 2008
Spend some time in silence
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~William Penn

12 April 2008
Cultivate the art of conversation
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
~Dorothy Nevill

11 April 2008
Retain your childlike intelligence
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
~Sigmund Freud

10 April 2008
Pay heed to your soul
When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears.
~Jalal ad-Din Rumi

09 April 2008
Imagination is important
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
~Duane Michals

08 April 2008
Learn humility
Life is a long lesson in humility.
~James M. Barrie

07 April 2008
Love is eternal
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
~Vincent van Gogh

06 April 2008
Believe in miracles
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
~Bernard Berenson

05 April 2008
Celebrate your differences
Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.
~Tom Hannah

04 April 2008
Transcend your fears
Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
~Brendan Francis

03 April 2008
Work keeps us useful
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless.
~Charles Simmons

02 April 2008
Laugh everyday
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~e.e. cummings

01 April 2008
Faith liberates
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
~Edward Teller

31 March 2008
Love one another
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
~Michael Leunig

30 March 2008
Keep it simple
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
~E.F. Schumacker

29 March 2008
Have courage
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~Karl Barth

28 March 2008
Be tender and kind
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
~Kahlil Gibran

27 March 2008
We have a choice
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
~Jonathan Westover

26 March 2008
Look within
When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn’t just ourselves that we’re discovering. We’re discovering the universe.
~Pema Chodron

25 March 2008
Invest in your character
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
~Horace Greeley

24 March 2008
Life is a gift. Appreciate it.
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it—would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
~Ralph Marston

23 March 2008
Love, like magic, needs practice
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~Author Unknown

22 March 2008
Make your life a splendid torch
Life is not a ‘brief candle’. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations.
~George Bernard Shaw

21 March 2008
Pray for one another
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
~ The Holy Bible [James 5:16]

20 March 2008
Do what you love doing
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~Albert Schweitzer

19 March 2008
Love dissolves insecurity
Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.
~Doc Childre

18 March 2008
Keep infinite hope
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
~Martin Luther King

17 March 2008
Maintain self respect
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
~Theodore Parker

16 March 2008
Smile and create joy
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy
~Thich Nhat Hanh

15 March 2008
Give, don’t withhold
They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
~Hindu proverb

14 March 2008
Give thanks for the love in your life
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
~Kahlil Gibran

13 March 2008
Pray and work
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
~Saint Augustine

12 March 2008
Choose optimism
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
~Charles Eliot

11 March 2008
Work, don’t worry
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
~Robert Frost

10 March 2008
Never be indifferent
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
~Elie Wiesel

09 March 2008
Do something new
If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon.
~Doug Rader

08 March 2008
Dream precede reality
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
~Carl Sandburg

07 March 2008
Pray regularly
We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tire in the trunk and start seeing it as the steering wheel.
~Author Unknown

06 March 2008
No distance is too great with true love
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
~Hans Nouwens

05 March 2008
Nothing is impossible
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
~Doug Larson

04 March 2008
Take charge
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
~Frank Tyger

03 March 2008
Be aware of small problems
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.
~Benjamin Franklin

02 March 2008
Friendship destroys enmity
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~Abraham Lincoln

01 March 2008
Never explain
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.
~Elbert Hubbard

29 February 2008
Conquer self
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
~Plato

28 February 2008
Bless one another
Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind…
~ Mary Baker Eddy

27 February 2008
Give up security consciousness
Security is a kind of death.
~ Tennessee Williams

26 February 2008
Spread love everywhere
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eye, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
~ Mother Teresa

25 February 2008
We are all interconnected
In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.
~ Dr. David Hawkins

24 February 2008
Accept reality
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
~ Byron Katie

23 February 2008
Focus on your spirituality
If we do not consciously and consistently focus on the spiritual part of ourselves, we will never experience the kind of joy, satisfaction, safety, and connectedness we are all seeking.
~ Susan Jeffers

22 February 2008
Let go
Relationships – of all kinds – are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled.
~ Kaleel Jamison

21 February 2008
Sit quietly
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

20 February 2008
Cultivate a cheerful temperament
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
~Henry Van Dyke

19 February 2008
Stay hopeful
Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn’t come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
~Josh Hartnett

18 February 2008
Embrace the ironies of life
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
~Niels Bohr

17 February 2008
Enjoy your own company
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
~Wayne W. Dyer

16 February 2008
Spend time in silence
Silence is a source of great strength.
~Lao Tzu

15 February 2008
Use your imagination
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
~George Kneller

14 February 2008
Stay in love — it grows deeper
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
~Bruce Lee

13 February 2008
Be grateful in your prayers
Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.
~Verbena Woods

12 February 2008
Challenge your assumptions
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
~Alan Alda

11 February 2008
Living life is a risk
A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are for.
~John A. Shedd

10 February 2008
Don’t suppress pain
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
~J.K. Rowling

09 February 2008
Everyone is a teacher
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
~Galileo Galilei

08 February 2008
Check your desires
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
~Charles Caleb Colton

07 February 2008
Stay in perspective
If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.
~Oscar Wilde

06 February 2008
Ask, seek, knock
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
~Jesus Christ

05 February 2008
Drop your ego
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
~Deepak Chopra

04 February 2008
Offer your full attention
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
~Richard Moss

03 February 2008
Treasure your time
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
~Denis Waitely

02 February 2008
Surrender yourself to your love
Love is a lot like dancing — you just surrender to the music.
~Author Unknown

01 February 2008
God is your constant companion
If only you knew Who walks beside you at all times on your chosen path, fear would be impossible.
~A Course in Miracles

31 January 2008
Mind your own business
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
~Edward Wallis Hoch

30 January 2008
Love is serving
Unselfish love is serving others, wisely and skillfully, and not hankering after wanting them to serve you.
~Goswami Kriyananda

29 January 2008
Monitor your thoughts
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
~Buddha

28 January 2008
We’re all equal
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
~Albert Einstein

27 January 2008
Listen to your instincts
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
~Michael Burke

26 January 2008
Love is extraordinary
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
~William Butler Yeats

25 January 2008
Say thanks
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”
~William A. Ward

24 January 2008
Choose words carefully
Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts
~Robert Fulghum

23 January 2008
Let’s treasure moms
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
~Erich Fromm

22 January 2008
Learn from mistakes
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
~John Powell

21 January 2008
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain

20 January 2008
Let your silence speak
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
~Stephen King

19 January 2008
Stay light
Angels can fly because they carry no burdens.
~Eileen Elias Freeman

18 January 2008
Renew and refresh your views from time to time
If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
~Gelett Burgess

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
~Muhammad Ali

17 January 2008
Let go of all resentment
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
~John E. Southard

16 January 2008
Find your song
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
~Swedish Proverb

15 January 2008
Trust Yourself
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
~Benjamin Spock

14 January 2008
Be willing
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
~Machiavelli

13 January 2008
Spread good habits
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
~Unknown

12 January 2008
Help others
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
~Zig Ziglar

11 January 2008
Cultivate courage
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
~Keshavan Nair

10 January 2008
Come alive
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman

09 January 2008
Smile a lot today
Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.
~Author Unknown

Everyone smiles in the same language.
~Author Unknown

08 January 2008
Live your own life
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
~Carl Sandberg

07 January 2008
Create the circumstances you want
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
~Benjamin Disraeli

06 January 2008
Be generous with love
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
~Mother Teresa

05 January 2008
Cultivate Faith
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
~Robert Collyer

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.
~Author Unknown

04 January 2008
Believe
Everything is possible for him who believes.
~The Holy Bible

03 January 2008
Cultivate a praying attitude
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.
~Walter A. Mueller

02 January 2008
Believe in God
I believe in God, only I spell it N-a-t-u-r-e.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

01 January 2008
New Year is a New Opportunity
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

31 December
Wear a smile
People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.
~Lee Mildon

30 December
Help others
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

29 December
Intention is creative
I tell you this: Your life proceeds out of your intentions for it.
~God [in “Conversations with God” by Neale Donald Walsh]

28 December
Master yourself
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
~Lao Tzu

27 December
Do what is right, always
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
~Isaac Asimov

26 December
Live in the now
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~Buddha

25 December
Follow your deepest instinct
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
~Jesus Christ

24 December
Do what you love
Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.
~Confucius

23 December
Avoid anger, always
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
~Plato

22 December
Choose life
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~Leo Buscaglia

21 December
Be pure and simple
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature
~Thomas Kempis

20 December
Remain awestruck
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
~Eugene Ionesco

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
~Albert Einstein

19 December
Faith makes it possible
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
~Edith Hamilton

18 December
Manifest your destiny
It’s choice — not chance — that determines your destiny.
~ Jean Nidetch

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped
~Anthony Robbins

17 December
Power of Love
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
~Francis David

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

16 December
Stay hopeful
The hopes of today are the realisations of tomorrow.
~ Mirra Alfassa (The Mother)

15 December
True love is a spiritual phenomenon
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
~Kahlil Gibran

14 December
Acknowledge your insanity
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~Mark Twain

13 December
Practise compassion
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~Dalai Lama

12 December
Think you can
Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right.
~Henry Ford

11 December
Praying for humility
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
~Peter Marshall

10 December
Faith is magical
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
~Author Unknown

09 December
Don’t analyse, just love
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
~Douglas Yates

08 December
Live in the now
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
~Oprah Winfrey

07 December
Circumvent anger and hatred
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman’s hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
~ Dalai Lama

06 December
Each of us is a star
If you knew who you really were, you’d be starstruck.
~Victoria Moran

05 December
Do what is right
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
~Confucius

04 December
Silence begets truth
When the mind is still, then the truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
~Sri Aurobindo

03 December
Love is eternal
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~Author Unknown

True love never lives happily ever after — true love has no ending.
~K Knight

02 December
Follow your dream
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
~Paulo Coelho

01 December
Laughter gets you closer
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
~Victor Borge

30 November
Let it out
Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.
~Adabella Radici

29 November
Faith works
Faith makes things possible, not easy.
~Author Unknown

28 November
Accept yourself
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
~Goethe

No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers.
~Author Unknown

27 November
Be present for God’s blessings
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
~Joseph Roux

26 November
Express without guilt
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli

25 November
Competing with the self
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
~Author Unknown

24 November
Fulfill promises
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
~Author Unknown

23 November
Persist in love
The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.
~Albert Ellis

22 November
Apologise
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
~Lynn Johnston

21 November
Vent out
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

20 November
Forgive
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
~William Arthur Ward

19 November
Be good
Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
~Arthur Freed

18 November
Live conscientiously
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
~ French Proverb

17 November
Be authentic
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~Mahatma Gandhi

16 November
Keep it simple
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~Confucius

15 November
Unshakable faith is stronger than reason
Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.
~Allan Kardec

14 November
Grow young
It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
~Tom Robbins

13 November
When the soul prays
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~Victor Hugo

12 November
Fear promotes negativity
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
~Author Unknown

11 November
Laugh together
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
~Victor Borge

10 November
Stages of truth
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

09 November
See the goodness
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
~Saint Vincent de Paul

08 November
Learn from your mistakes
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
~Oswald Avery

07 November
Sow the seeds of joy
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
~Bill Meyer

06 November
Friends open up a new world
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
~Anäis Nin

05 November
The arithmetic of love is different
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~Mignon McLaughlin

04 November
Dodge conformity
If you keep doing things like you’ve always done them, what you’ll get is what you’ve already got.
~Author Unknown

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
~Author Unknown

03 November
Someone’s praying
Someone remembers, someone cares;
Your name is whispered in someone’s prayers.
~Author Unknown

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
~Richard Sibbes

02 November
Hug someone you love, today
A hug delights and warms and charms,
that must be why God gave us arms.
~Author Unknown

Never wait until tomorrow to hug someone you could hug today,
because when you give one, you get one right back your way.
~Author Unknown

01 November
Let love be
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
~Mikhail in “The Zahir” by Paulo Coelho.

31 October
Let go
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
~Author Unknown

30 October
Tears are good
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
~Albert Smith

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
~Jewish Proverb

29 October
Allow space
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
~Alexandra Penney

28 October
Shun assumptions
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
~Henry Winkler