Life Quote for the Day - Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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I have learned too much of the vanity of human affairs to expect any felicity from public life. But I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be. For I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. 

Martha Washington

Life Quote for the Day - Monday, May 30, 2011

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Foresee insult, and make of it compliment, for it is cleverer to avoid insult than to avenge it. It is a great trick to make friends of those who wished to be rivals, and to turn into protectors of your honor those who threatened its injury... time for insult is taken from  them, who must fill it with thanksgiving. It is to know how to live to be able to convert pain into pleasure--what was to have been pain, transform into trust.

Baltasar Gracian

Life Quote for the Day - Sunday, May 29, 2011

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Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky; in the reckless exuberance of spring; in the severe abstinence of grey winter; in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame; in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright; in living, in the exercise of all our powers; in the acquisition of knowledge.. Joy is everywhere. 

Rabindranath Tagore

Life Quote for the Day - Saturday, May 28, 2011

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Joy is not something we can achieve by pursuing it. It is rather something born in the heart of one who has found companionship with God and which overflows into a life in harmony with God. Regardless of outer circumstances, wealth or poverty , health or sickness, it visits the souls of those who are committed in their journey with him. If we look upon all as under God's influence, life will become increasingly full of joy, which no one can take from us. No life can be dull when there is always that watchful expectancy, that anticipation of glad surprise and wonder of how God is using those seemingly little incidents in our lives to his glory and honor.

Esther Carls Dodgen

Life Quote for the Day - Friday, May 27, 2011

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We don't always know whose lives we touched and made better for having cared, because actions can sometimes have unseen ramifications. What's important is that you do care and you do act.

Charlotte Lunsford

Life Quote for the Day - Thursday, May 26, 2011

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Life Quote for the Day - Saturday, May 21, 2011

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious to grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. 

William Henry Channing

Life Quote for the Day - Friday, May 20, 2011

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Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

Life Quote for the Day - Thursday, May 19, 2011

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Accept every event in your life as natural, whether it is life, death, birth, marriage, goings or comings. Accept everyone. Do not argue. Do not question. Do not doubt. Do not judge. You will find that each step will lead on to another one, and when you start living this way there will be great rejoicing in the heavens because a prodigal son or daughter is beginning to return home.

Ronald Beesley

Life Quote for the Day - Monday, May 9, 2011

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The young are looking for living models whom they can imitate and who are capable of rousing their enthusiasm and drawing them to a deeper kind of life. More than anything else, the young need sure guides to go with them on the paths of liberation that God maps out for them.
Bakole wa Ilunga

Life Quote for the Day - Sunday, May 8, 2011

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Many of us have been taught to be very intellectual, very active, and to drive ourselves very hard. We may have a strongly developed intuition, but have not put it in charge. In fact, we may ignore it a lot of the time. We basically protect our sensitive, vulnerable feelings by erecting a tough outer shell. As we begin to use our inner strength and power to take care of ourselves, honor our need for relaxation, and protect our tender feelings, the outer shell melts away and leaves us open yet strong.

Shakti Gawain

Life Quote for the Day - Saturday, May 7, 2011

Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe --sun, moons, worlds, constellations, systems--all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this brood march of grandeur it if did not mean something.

Orison Swett Marden

Life Quote of the Day - Friday, May 6, 2011

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell