Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your First Aid for Pessimism!
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"The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being."
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"He only is advancing in life, whose heart is getting softer, whose blood is warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into Living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth --they, and they only."
John Ruskin
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Words for the Year
The challenge from the Quote of the Week, January 11th : Instead of a New Year's Resolution, choose 1, 2 or 3 words that will serve as your mantra throughout the year and hopefully it will remind you to be and not just to do. Here are some responses from QotW members....
Anne ~ Anew!
Joe ~ Acceptance
Stephanie ~ Gratitude and Optimism; with the acronym of GO (Stephanie even had a card made up with her words that she keeps in her daily binder. " Works like a charm." according to Stephanie!)
Darlene ~ Lottery!!!! ;-)
Julie ~ Expansion
Deborah ~ Grace, Wait, Work
Marcy ~ Attention acceptance, Appreciation, Affection
Michele ~ Openness, Contentment
Mary ~ Forgiveness
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
25 January 2010
18 January 2010
From the Quote of the Week Files; January 18, 2010
Welcome to the Quote of the Week; You weekly email dedicated to Empowered Choice, Mind Expanding Perspective and Faith in the Future!
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Never worry about numbers.
Help one person at a time,
and always start with
the person nearest you."
Mother Teresa
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
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Never worry about numbers.
Help one person at a time,
and always start with
the person nearest you."
Mother Teresa
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else."
Peyton Conway March
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Have you thought about your Word (or words) for the year as suggested by last weeks email? A number of QofheW members have and I will shared their word(s) of the year next week.
Peyton Conway March
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Have you thought about your Word (or words) for the year as suggested by last weeks email? A number of QofheW members have and I will shared their word(s) of the year next week.
If you would like to give it a try, just come up with a word (or 2 or 3) that will serve as your mantra throughout the year and hopefully it will remind you to be and not just to do. My word for 2010 is openness!
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
11 January 2010
From the Quote of the Week Files, January 11, 2010
Welcome to the Quote of the Week, your weekly source for nurturing your mind, body & spirit!
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"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."
Epictetus
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic.... Do your New Year's Resolutions "go in one year and out the other"?
Back in January of 2008, The Quote of the Week featured a new way of of making New Year's Resolutions (thanks to Kristine Kane's blog). She suggests that instead of making resolutions, we would pick a word or words that would guide us throughout the year. It would remind us of living our lives at the TO BE level instead of the To Do or To Have level.
This year I am choosing just one word and that is Openness! (My words for 2008 were Gratitude, Appreciation, Listen and Learn and for 2009, they were Lighter, Possibilities and Tranquility.)
What will be your word or words will you chose that will guide you throughout the year? Care to share yours?
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."
Epictetus
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic.... Do your New Year's Resolutions "go in one year and out the other"?
Back in January of 2008, The Quote of the Week featured a new way of of making New Year's Resolutions (thanks to Kristine Kane's blog). She suggests that instead of making resolutions, we would pick a word or words that would guide us throughout the year. It would remind us of living our lives at the TO BE level instead of the To Do or To Have level.
This year I am choosing just one word and that is Openness! (My words for 2008 were Gratitude, Appreciation, Listen and Learn and for 2009, they were Lighter, Possibilities and Tranquility.)
What will be your word or words will you chose that will guide you throughout the year? Care to share yours?
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
04 January 2010
From the Quote of the Week Files; January 4, 2009
2010! A New Chance to Get it Right! Welcome fresh hope and inspiration into your life with a slew of New Year's quotes! Enjoy!
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"And now let us welcome the New Year full of things that have never been."
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Recycled New Years Quotes from years past...
New Year's Quote; 2009
"What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year."
Vern McLellan
"In whatever sense this year is a New Year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand and with joy and gratitude."
Howard Thurman
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New Year's Quote; 2008
January First
The year's doors open
like those of language,
toward the unknown.
Last night you told me:
tomorrow
we shall have to think up signs,
sketch a landscape,
fabricate a plan
on the double page
of day and paper.
Tomorrow, we shall have to invent,
once more,
the reality of this world.
Elizabeth Bishop
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New Year's; 2007
Choices you can make for the New Year
Choose to love—rather than hate.
Choose to smile—rather than frown.
Choose to build—rather than destroy.
Choose to persevere—rather than quit.
Choose to praise—rather than gossip.
Choose to heal—rather than wound.
Choose to give—rather than take.
Choose to act—rather than delay.
Choose to forgive—rather than curse.
Choose to pray—rather than despair.
Author Unknown
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At the end of each year, I ask myself two questions:
1) What do I want to create in this New Year?
And, perhaps even more importantly,
2) What do I want to let go of?
Patricia Digh
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New Year's Quote; 2006
Five questions that will help you reflect the year past and where we find ourselves at the beginning of 2006 (2010)!
What did I learn?
What did I accomplish?
What was your greatest contribution?
How am I different this year than last?
For what am I particularly grateful?
What do remember best about the old year?
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New Year's Quote; 2005
"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."
Henry Ward Beecher
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New Year's Quote; 2004
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third by experience, which is the bitterest."
Confucius
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New Year's Quote; 2003
How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss
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New Year's Quote; 2002
Recipe for a Happy New Year; Serves One, with plenty for everybody!
Ingredients:12 Months; faith; patience; courage; work; hope; faith; generosity; kindness fun ; play; humor; love; unselfishness; cheerfulness; meditation; resolution
Take twelve whole months and see that they are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate. Cleanse them completely from every clinging spite. Pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness. Make them just as fresh and clean as possible.
Cut these months into twenty eight, thirty or thirty-one different parts but don’t make the whole batch at once (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way). Prepare one day at a time.
Into each day put one part faith, one part patience, one part courage, and one part work.
Add to each day one part hope, faithfulness, generosity, and one good deed.
Put in about one heaping tablespoon of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.
Pour all of this into a kettle of love. Cook thoroughly over radiant joy, garnish with a smile, and serve with quietness, unselfishness, and cheerfulness.
Author Unknown
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New Year's Quote; 2001
"If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears, either of joy or sadness, consider the year wasted."
John Cage, Ally McBeal
“No one can go back and make a brand new start, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end!"
Author Unknown
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New Year's Quote; 2000
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Plato
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Wishing you a most beautiful year, wherever it may find you!
__________
"And now let us welcome the New Year full of things that have never been."
Rainer Maria Rilke
__________
Recycled New Years Quotes from years past...
New Year's Quote; 2009
"What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year."
Vern McLellan
"In whatever sense this year is a New Year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand and with joy and gratitude."
Howard Thurman
_____
New Year's Quote; 2008
January First
The year's doors open
like those of language,
toward the unknown.
Last night you told me:
tomorrow
we shall have to think up signs,
sketch a landscape,
fabricate a plan
on the double page
of day and paper.
Tomorrow, we shall have to invent,
once more,
the reality of this world.
Elizabeth Bishop
_____
New Year's; 2007
Choices you can make for the New Year
Choose to love—rather than hate.
Choose to smile—rather than frown.
Choose to build—rather than destroy.
Choose to persevere—rather than quit.
Choose to praise—rather than gossip.
Choose to heal—rather than wound.
Choose to give—rather than take.
Choose to act—rather than delay.
Choose to forgive—rather than curse.
Choose to pray—rather than despair.
Author Unknown
_____
At the end of each year, I ask myself two questions:
1) What do I want to create in this New Year?
And, perhaps even more importantly,
2) What do I want to let go of?
Patricia Digh
_____
New Year's Quote; 2006
Five questions that will help you reflect the year past and where we find ourselves at the beginning of 2006 (2010)!
What did I learn?
What did I accomplish?
What was your greatest contribution?
How am I different this year than last?
For what am I particularly grateful?
What do remember best about the old year?
_____
New Year's Quote; 2005
"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."
Henry Ward Beecher
_____
New Year's Quote; 2004
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third by experience, which is the bitterest."
Confucius
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New Year's Quote; 2003
How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss
_____
New Year's Quote; 2002
Recipe for a Happy New Year; Serves One, with plenty for everybody!
Ingredients:12 Months; faith; patience; courage; work; hope; faith; generosity; kindness fun ; play; humor; love; unselfishness; cheerfulness; meditation; resolution
Take twelve whole months and see that they are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate. Cleanse them completely from every clinging spite. Pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness. Make them just as fresh and clean as possible.
Cut these months into twenty eight, thirty or thirty-one different parts but don’t make the whole batch at once (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way). Prepare one day at a time.
Into each day put one part faith, one part patience, one part courage, and one part work.
Add to each day one part hope, faithfulness, generosity, and one good deed.
Put in about one heaping tablespoon of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.
Pour all of this into a kettle of love. Cook thoroughly over radiant joy, garnish with a smile, and serve with quietness, unselfishness, and cheerfulness.
Author Unknown
_____
New Year's Quote; 2001
"If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears, either of joy or sadness, consider the year wasted."
John Cage, Ally McBeal
“No one can go back and make a brand new start, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end!"
Author Unknown
_____
New Year's Quote; 2000
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Plato
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Wishing you a most beautiful year, wherever it may find you!
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