“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

“Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.”


“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.”


“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

~John Muir~

"...Dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."

Vince Lombardi

When each day is sacred; when each hour is sacred;
when each instant is sacred; earth and you;
space and you; bearing and sacred through time;
you’ll reach the fields of light. -Guillevic

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

-- Christian D. Larsen

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ~Vilfredo Pareto

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~Willa Cather

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. ~Vernon Howard

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone

"Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
~Robert Brault

(Story of my life...)

“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”
~Louis Kronenberger

"Love is like paint...it makes things beautiful when you spread it, but it will dry up if you don't use it."

Just something that caught my eye at Robert Fulghum's site:

 

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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
~William James

( The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ) -Eric Hoffer

Click the cut to learn the math.

Current Mood: grateful

I just discovered this wonderful community today, in conjunction with the beginning of my daily posts of inspiration over at my personal journal. I thought that the members here might enjoy these also, so if it is okay I'll be posting them over here whenever I can! To give you an idea of what I mean by inspirational posts, this is from my original post:

"I've decided, to keep up my entries on LiveJournal, to post daily about something that inspires me to be a better person. Not to say that they're going to be all saintly, but just things that share happiness - things that I believe can make others smile like they made me smile. These can be photos, artwork, music, videos, role models.. Anything that strikes my fancy (who cares if that's a bit narcissistic? I have a very nice fancy, thank you very much :p)!

So expect entries full of smiles and optimism, of sunshine and summertime, and of all that inspires."

Hopefully this is allowed, feel free to add me as a friend, and - most of all! - enjoy the inspiration. Remember: smile, and the world smiles with you(:

( Follow the [fake] cut for my inspirational song of 6/1/2009 )

Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: Song of the Birds -Ronan Hardiman

"Square your shoulders to the world, be not the kind to quit.
It's not the load that weighs you down but the way you carry it."

-- Anonymous

The more you own your inner genius and the best within you,
the less needy you'll be to have others validate it.

- Robin Sharma
http://www.robinsharma.com/

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you posses. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.”
~Kent Nerburn

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”
~Marian Wright Edelman

“When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?”
~Frank Borman

“I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.”
~J. William Fulbright

Aloneness simply means completeness. You are whole;
there is no need of anybody else to complete you. - Osho


Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you
should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside. - Osho

[When asked if he finds anything holy] "Yes. The individual human mind. In a child's power to master the multiplication table, there is more sanctity than in all your shouted 'amens' and 'holy holies' and 'hosannas.' An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters."

"I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands."

"Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, 'All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline.'"

~All from Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee~

Watch your thoughts.
They become your words.
Watch your words.
They become your actions.
Watch your actions.
They become your habits.
Watch your habits.
They become your character.
Watch your character.
It becomes your destiny.

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

”I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.” -Marilyn Monroe

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation….Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
—Ben Okri

We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel- ‘Yes, that is the way it is, or at least that is the way I feel it.’ You’re not as alone as you thought.
—John Steinbeck

“Before you achieve, you must believe” -Annapolis

"Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not
close your doors to keep the breeze inside."

~Osho


"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, its about
learning how to dance in the rain."

- anonymous

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
~Charles R. Swindoll

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
~Albert Einstein

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
~W. Clement Stone

Current Mood: happy

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
~Mark Twain

He who laughs, lasts!
~Mary Pettibone Poole

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~W. H. Auden

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

Listen to the salutation to the dawn,
Look to this day for it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of our existence.
The bliss of growth, the splendour of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well spent makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.
Such is the salutation to the dawn.

"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave till tomorrow, he said, that which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying." Grey's Anatomy

Joy moves always to new locations,
the ease of its flow never freezing.

A long winter's tale is over. Now
with each spring day a new story.
~Rumi