Life Quote of the Day - Saturday, April 30, 2011

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Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best. 
Sidney Greenberg

Life Quote of the Day - Friday, April 29, 2011

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The greatest amount of good we can do in this world lies not in what we say or in the opinions we advance, but in what we are, the atmosphere we carry with us.
Paramananda

Life Quote of the Day - Friday, April 29, 2011

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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
Aurobindo

Life Quote of the Day - Thursday, April 28, 2011

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon

Life Quote of the Day - Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fedor Dostoevsky

Life Quote of the Day - Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why He makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

Life Quote of the Day - Monday, April 25, 2011

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"Instead of waiting to be an old lady to wear purple, wear it now. Instead of waiting for retirement to live in a beautiful place, consider finding a way to get there now. When we live our lives in accordance with our dreams, it becomes easy to cheer for other people doing so. When we don't, it's easy to be sour grapes, unsupportive, or jealous when others break free and follow their heart's desire."

Life Quote of the Day - Sunday, April 24, 2011

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

Life Quote of the Day - Saturday, April 23, 2011

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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring, but beauty faded as no second spring.

Ambrose Philips

Life Quote of the Day - Friday, April 22, 2011

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

Life Quote of the Day - Thursday, April 21, 2011

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If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life Quote of the Day - Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

Life Quote of the Day - Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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So live in each season as it passes, breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

Life Quote of the Day - Monday, April 18, 2011

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There must be beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Francis Drake

Life Quote of the Day - Sunday, April 17, 2011

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If you can't change everything all at once, then at least work on changing something each day. Become aggressive in your battle with the ego. You probably don't need all the things that it wants.You need hope, discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity -- these are the important things. Remember when you are balanced, one stepping stone will lead you to the next. But you will rarely see the whole journey or all the answers at once.

Stuart Wilde 

Life Quote of the Day - Saturday, April 16, 2011

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God has not destined us to be rich, diseaseless, and deathless, but has given us trials, in the form of poverty, disease, the death of our friends and of ourselves -- for the very purpose of teaching us to center our lives not in wealth, health, and this temporary existence, but in serving him. And he has given us foes not in order that we should desire their ruin, but that we should learn to overcome them by love. He has given us a law of such a nature that it is always well with us if we fulfill it.

Leo Tolstoy

Life Quote of the Day - Friday, April 15, 2011

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When you are interested in other perspectives, it doesn't imply, even slightly, that you're advocating them. I certainly wouldn't choose a punk rock lifestyle or suggest it to anyone else. At the same time, however, it's really not my place to judge it either. One of the cardinal rules of joyful living is that judging others takes a great deal of energy and, without exception, pulls you away from where you want to be.

Richard Carlson

Life Quote of the Day - Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Only the wise persons draw from life, and from every stage of it, its true savor, because only they feel the beauty, the dignity, and the value of life. The flowers of youth may fade, but the summer, the autumn, and even winter of human existence, have their majestic grandeur, which the wise persons recognized and glorify. To see all things in God; to make of one's own life a journey towards the ideal; to live with gratitude, with devoutness, with gentleness and courage; And if you add to it the humility which kneels, and the charity which gives, you have the whole wisdom of the children of God, the immortal joy which is the heritage of the true lover of God.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life Quote of the Day - Monday, April 11, 2011

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If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you want to insist that what you are doing is the way it should be done, even when you are not getting anywhere, go right ahead. God will let you run yourself ragged, if you choose to do so. Unfortunately, you will not always be aware that you are in God's way...God has no need to prove to you what God can do.

Iyanla Vanzant

Life Quote of the Day - Sunday, April 10, 2011

We are called, irrevocably, to step over the lines we have drawn for ourselves, to do battle with everything that says we and those around us cannot change, and to step out into the unlimited, abundant life that God has been holding out to us since the world began. 

Barbara Brown Taylor

Life Quote of the Day - Saturday, April 9, 2011

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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy

Life Quote for the Day - Friday, April 8, 2011

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Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins. You need to understand boundaries. You need to know what is and is not up to you, what is and is not your responsibility.

Nathaniel Branden

Life Quote for the Day - Thursday, April 7, 2011

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Nature hasn't blended your mind so completely with your body, as to deny you the power of limiting yourself and bringing under control everything that you are. Always bear that in mind and, with it, remember how little is needed to live a happy life. Just because you've given up on becoming a great logician or a student of physics, don't despair of being free, modest, unselfish, and obedient to the will of God. It's quite possible to become a great sage and yet never be recognized.

Marcus Aurelius

Life Quote for the Day - Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no grace, goodness enough to need no progress, humility enough to need no repentance, devotion enough to need no quickening, strength sufficient without Your spirit; lest standing still, I fall back forevermore. 

Eric-Milner-White

Life Quote for the Day - Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The center of power is not to be found in summit meetings or in peace conferences. It is not in Peking or Washington or the United Nations, but rather where a child of God prays in the power of the Spirit for God's will to be done in her or his life, in her or his home, and in the world about her or him.

Ruth Bell Graham

 
The Power of Prayer

When Jesus was praying on the Mount of Olives His robe shone, and so were His face, His body, and His whole being. The Bible calls it His transfiguration. This is what the power of prayer could do to a person. Because when one connects with his innermost being, he is connecting with God. And God is Power.

Life Quote for the Day - Monday, April 4, 2011

If the people about you are carrying on their business or their benevolence at a pace which drains the life out of you, resolutely take the slower pace; be called a laggard - make less money, accomplish less work than they, but be what you were meant to be and can be. You have your natural limit of power as much as an engine - ten-horse power or twenty or a hundred. You are fit to do certain kinds of work, and you need a certain kind and amount of fuel, and a certain kind of handling.

George S. Merriam

Life Quote for the Day - Sunday, April 3, 2011

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

Confucius

     Sometimes it disappointments me to not be able to finish immediately the task at hand. When I am in control, this is my fault. When I am not in control, this is not my fault. I just have to remember the question, "how do you eat an elephant?" Of course, the answer is eating it piece by piece. No one could swallow an elephant! I may walk slowly like a turtle towards my goal, but the good thing is, I am moving. Someday I'll be there!

Life Quote for the Day - Saturday, April 2, 2011

"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life."

Life Quote for the Day - Friday, April 1, 2011

So live in each season as it passes. Breath the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau