From the Quote of the Week Files, March 30, 2009

Good Morning New and Old members of the Quote of the Week!

Need an attitude adjustment? Dr. Gerald Jampolsky outlined a core framework (Attitudinal Healing principles) to help people to let go of fear, discard negative and hurtful thoughts from the past, and remove inner obstacles to peace. Here they are...
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• The essence of being is love.
• Health is inner peace.
• Giving and receiving are the same.
• We can let go of the past and the future.
• Now is the only time there is.
• We learn to love ourselves and others by forgiving rather than judging.
• We can become love-finders rather than faultfinders.
• We can be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening outside.
• We are students and teachers to each other.
• We can focus on the whole of our lives rather than on the fragments.
• Because love is eternal, death need not be viewed as fearful.
• We can always see ourselves and others as extending love or giving a call for help.

Dr. Gerald Jampolsky
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude”

Zig Zigler
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you

From the Quote of the Week Files, March 23, 2009

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your weekly spiritual snack for mind, body & soul. Today's quote is by the Senior Editor of Rolling Stone Magazine, David Fricke and is dedicated to good friend and Quote of the Week member Mike who just celebrated a milestone birthday.
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There are three essential Commandments:

Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable,
Without Bias.

David Fricke
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

Lao Tzu
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this finds you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, March 16, 2009

Are you constantly on the "GO"? Are you ready to "GO" and you embrace your life confidently? Will you "GO" and satisfy your basic needs or fulfill your lifelong dreams? " GO" is the theme of this week's quote. "GO" for it!
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A fresh start
A chance to go into a whole new direction
So will you…
Will you go out the door and go left instead of right?
Will you create a new recipe?
Find a new favorite song?
Do something you always wanted to do?
Will you go forward while also giving back?
And will you keep going no matter what life throws your way?

Well, let’s GO

Visa Commercial
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And in honor of St Patrick's Day, we have this Irish Blessing (sent in by QoftheW member, Rich and is dedicated to Grandma Dooley)...

"May those who love us, love us:and those who don't love us,
may the Good Lord turn their hearts;and for those whose hearts won't turn,
may the Good Lord turn their anklesso we'll know them by their limping!"
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!





Let's "GO"....

It is a big beautiful world!

From the Quote of the Week Files, March 9, 2009

Step out of the chaos as you refresh, reawaken and rediscover yourself with a motivational and inspirational thought with today's Quote of the Week! Nonsense is the the theme for this week's quote. Enjoy!
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

Dr. Seuss
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"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men!"

Willy Wonka
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, March 2, 2009

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your weekly spiritual snack for mind, body & soul.

For the past 25 years, a poem about life's journeys, Ithaca, kept appearing in my life and it recently appeared again (is somebody trying to tell me something?). I seem to understand it better each time I read it. I thought I would share it with you as the Quote (Poem) of the Week.
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Ithaca

When you start on your journey to Ithaca,
then pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
Do not fear the Lestrygoniansand the Cyclopes and the angry Poseidon.
You will never meet such as these on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
emotion touches your body and your spirit.
You will never meet the Lestrygonians,
the Cyclopes and the fierce Poseidon,
if you do not carry them within your soul,
if your soul does not raise them up before you.

Then pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many,
that you will enter ports seen for the first timewith such pleasure, with such joy!
Stop at Phoenician markets,and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and corals, amber and ebony,and pleasurable perfumes of all kinds,
buy as many pleasurable perfumes as you can;
visit hosts of Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from those who have knowledge.

Always keep Ithaca fixed in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for long years;and even to anchor at the isle when you are old,
rich with all that you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.
Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would never have taken the road.
But she has nothing more to give you.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not defrauded you.
With the great wisdom you have gained, with so much experience,
you must surely have understood by then what Ithacas mean.

-K. P. Kavafis (C. P. Cavafy), translation by Rae Dalven
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A great reading of this poem by Sean Connery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic (1999)...

“He who wants milk should not sit himself in the middle of a pasture waiting for a cow to back up to him.”

Anonymous
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, February 23, 2009

Hello Everybody and Welcome to the Quote of the Week! This week's quote is by the Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus.
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Signs of someone who is progressing:

He blames no one,
He praises no one,
He complains of no one,
He accuses no one,
He never speaks of himself as of someone important or who knows something.

Epictetus
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

Reggie Leach
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, February 16, 2009

Hello Everybody and Welcome to the Quote of the Week! It is President's Day in the US and we have not just one quote, but five (that's right, five) quotes about leadership by US Presidents. Enjoy!
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"Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

John Quincy Adams

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

John F. Kennedy

" 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

John Adams

"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
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!