Quote of the Week; September 30, 2013

"Live in the moment" is the theme of this week's quotes. Enjoy!

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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

Henry David Thoreau

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity."

 Gilda Radner
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A Video Bonus

How to Live in the Moment (Not)...

http://youtu.be/OINa46HeWg8

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Wishing you a most BEAUTIFUL day, wherever this may find you!

Liu Bolin makes me Think! He is in the picture! Can you find him?

Calvin Trillen; The Secret of Life

The Secret of Life...

Once, for the program at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp gala, some volunteer counselors contributed short passages about their experiences at camp, and Alice wrote about one of the campers, a sunny little girl she called L.  At camp, Alice had a tendency to gravitate toward the child who needed the most help, and L. was one of those. "Last summer, the camper I got closest to, L., was a magical child who was severely disabled, " Alice wrote.  "She had two genetic diseases, one which kept her from growing and one which kept her from digesting any food.  She had to be fed through a tube at night and she had so much difficulty walking that I drove her around in a golf cart a lot....One day, when we were playing duck-duck-goose, I was sitting behind her and she asked me to hold her mail for her while she took her turn to be chased around the circle.  It took her a while to make the curcuit, and I had time to see that on top of the pile was a note from her mom.  Then I did something truly awful, which I'm reluctant now to reveal.  I decided to read that note.  I simply had to know what this child's parents could have done to make her so spectacular, to make her the most optimistic, most enthusiastic, most hopeful human being I had ever encountered.  I snuck a quick look at the note, and my eyes fell on this sentence: 'If God had given us all the children in the world to choose from, L., we would only have chose you.' Before L. got back to her place in the circle, I showed the note to Bud, who was sitting next to me.  'Quick. Read this,' I whispered. 'It's the secret of life.'

Calvin Trillen, Alice, Off Page

Wisdom from Elizabeth Kubler Ross

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

Elizabeth Kubler Ross 

Then, later you see it was Perfect...

"Life is a constantly morphing thing.  Just when you think you know where it's all headed you wake up the next morning to a completely different view. The landscape has changed along with the seasons, but the trees are the same trees, only your view has changed.  So you try to cling to the old things that used to comfort you, clinging to the familiar, but they provide little or no solace.

The fears do not subside. At this point we have no choice but to surrender to the unknown.

that is where the real beauty lies.

It is not in the knowing, the familiar, the expected.  But in the embracing of the unknown. a willingness to walk down a new path and to trust that everything is as it should be. perfect. as it is.

Schopenhauer said,"When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another.

Then, later, you see it was perfect."

Sometimes there are little glimpses of the perfection, amidst the mess. It is at those times we feel blessed beyond measure."

Keri Smith

The Best Year of your Life

"The best year of our lives is not made up of days or weeks or months. It is made up of moments. Moments when we allow our separateness to melt away so we can be truly intimate with another; moments when we take a risk and express our love in an unexpected way; moments when we choose forgiveness over resentment; moments when we appreciate the perfection of where we are and who we are with. These are the moments that bring meaning to our lives and joy to our hearts."

Debbie Ford

From the Quote of the Week Files; September 23, 2013

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--that is to triumph over old age."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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The above quote is dedicated to Ruth McGinnis, who celebrated her 95th today. She celebrated her landmark birthday this past weekend with a party with her family and friends.  Her heart is unwrinkled and her beauty and spirit springs from her heart and soul. Happy Birthday Mrs. McGinnis!!

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life:  maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves.  A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

A Reminder from Barbara

“Today, I am reminded that life must be accepted for the way it is, and not as I may want it to be.  That I must not give up my trust in God at any time. To despair truly does bring forward a dark cloud making it difficult for the light from the almighty to enter.  Remembering to stay strong, and accepting the love and kindness of others, rather than isolating myself, is necessary to cope with any pain that one may be feeling.  It must also be remembered that one cannot resolve all problems, and that learning how to live with unresolved problems is a wonderful lesson to embrace.  From this day foreword, life, as I know it, will be a true roller coaster ride."

Barbara from California, Women on the Verge of Thinking.

Try The McGurk Effect! - Horizon: Is Seeing Believing?

The Best Obituary you will ever Read

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2013/09/the-best-obituary-you-will-ever-read/

A Nudge from Joseph Campbell

"Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment — not discouragement — you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. 

Then when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You'll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes."

Joseph Campbell

From the Quote of the Week Files, September 16, 2013

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your weekly email dedicated to EMPOWERED choice, MIND EXPANDING perspective and FAITH in the future.

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Discovering a Magical Mantra

Many years ago, I’d heard about an Indian guru who had come up with a magical mantra that supposedly helped people develop an attitude of gratitude. I decided to visit him in India and see what this gratitude practice was. So after traveling 18 hours by plane, and then taking a taxi for another 2 hours, I finally reached his ashram. When at last I finally met the bearded guru, I told him I wanted to hear his amazing mantra for helping people practice daily gratitude. He said in his heavy Indian accent, “Ah yes, my technique is the most powerful mantra on earth.” He leaned in to whisper it into my ear. He said, “Whenever possible, repeat the following words in your head. The magical mantra I give you is the words, “Thank You.”

I was supremely disappointed. I said, “That’s IT!?”

He said, “No, ‘that’s it’ is the mantra you have been using, and that mantra makes you feel like you never have enough. My mantra is the words ‘Thank You’—not ‘That’s It.’ ‘That’s it’ will take you nowhere, but ‘Thank You’ will quiet your mind and open your heart. So when you eat good food, say thank you! When you see your child, or a sunset or your pet, repeat the mantra ‘thank you’ and soon you will have an attitude of gratitude for each blessing in your life.”

Jonathan Robinson

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An Embroidered  Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, September 15, 2008

Welcome to the Quote of the Week ~ bringing you quotes of interest that will make us both think a little bit more, question life, or enjoy living more. Letting go this the theme of this week's quote.
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"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us."

Joseph Campbell
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic

Nine requisites for contented living:

Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thinking the best for all

The Beatles - Abbey Road ~ Vocals Only

Wisdom from Forrest Gump

No Ordinary Passenger ~ Inspiring!

Official San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Construction Time-Lapse

The Making of a Steinway - A Steinway & Sons Factory Tour..

I grew up near this factory!

Very Interesting!

From the Quote of the Week Files, September 9, 2013

Welcome to the Quote of the Week. 

This week we are featuring quotes by Roald Dahl, author of 

James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among others

​. ​In fact, there is a Roald Dahl Day coming up on Friday the 13th which commemorates his birthday (http://www.roalddahlday.info/​)  Enjoy the Quotes!!

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​Here's to having Good Thoughts...

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Do you still believe in Magic?

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A Recycle Quote of the Week Classic...

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Wishing you a Most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!!

George Bernard Shaw Nudges!

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw

A Quiz from Charles Schultz

Take this quiz:

Name the five wealthiest people in the world.

Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.

Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.

Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize.

Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.

Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?  The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday.  These are no second-rate achievers.  They are the best in their fields.  But the applause dies.  Awards tarnish.  Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.

Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:

List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.

Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.

Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.

Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.

Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.

Name half a dozen heroes whose stories have inspired you.

Easier?

The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards.  They are the ones that care.

Charles Schultz

Attitudinal Healing Nudges!

Attitudinal Healing

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

Lorde performing "Royals" Live on KCRW

From the Quote of the Week Files; September 2, 2013

Good Morning, Afternoon or Evening to  New and Old members of the Quote of the Week!  It is now time to leave your world of tension, anxiety and doubt.  So please sit back, slow down your pulse, and tune into this week's quote and video on Gratitude!
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

 Innerspace
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

“Silent Gratitude Isn’t Much Use to Anyone.”

 Gladys B. Stern

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An Interesting video;  

An Experiment in Gratitude

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHv6vTKD6lg

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

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Have a GREAT September; Earth, Wind & Fire - September