From the Quote of the Week Files; November 18, 2013

Here is this week's Quote!!  Enjoy!

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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

If at any time, anyone struggles with unanswered questions that disrupt serenity, I offer the following reflection:

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

Don't search for the answers that could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Wishing you a MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY, wherever this may find you!

Inspirational Poem: Carry On by Robert W. Service

Carry On

It's easy to fight when everything's right,

And you're mad with the thrill and the glory;

It's easy to cheer when victory's near,

And wallow in fields that are gory.

It's a different song when everything's wrong.

When you're feeling infernally mortal;

When it's ten against one, and hope there is none,

Buck up, little soldier, and chortle:

Carry on! Carry on!

There isn't much punch in your blow.

You're glaring and staring and hitting out blind;

You're muddy and bloody, but never mind.

Carry on! Carry on!

 You haven't the ghost of a show.

It's looking like death, but while you've a breath,

Carry on, my son! Carry on!

And so in the strife of the battle of life

It's easy to fight when you're winning;

It's easy to slave, and starve and be brave,

When the dawn of success is beginning.

But the man who can meet despair and defeat

With a cheer, there's a man of God's choosing;

The man who can fight to Heaven's own height

Is the man who can fight when he's losing.

Carry on! Carry on!

Things never were looming so black.

But show that you haven't a cowardly streak,

And though you're unlucky you never are weak.

Carry on! Carry on!

Brace up for another attack.

It's looking like hell, but - you never can tell;

Carry on, old man! Carry on!

There are some who drift out in the deserts of doubt,

And some who in brutishness wallow;

There are others, I know, who in piety go

Because of a Heaven to follow.

But to labor with zest, and to give of your best,

For the sweetness and joy of the giving;

To help folks along with a hand and a song;

Why, there's the real sunshine of living.

Carry on! Carry on!

Fight the good fight and true;

Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer;

There's big work to do, and that's why you are here.

Carry on! Carry on!

Let the world be the better for you;

And at last when you die, let this be your cry:

Carry on, my soul! Carry on!

Robert W. Service

Good Question: Which comes first? Happiness or Success

Ithaca; A Great Poem; A GREAT Message; Thanks Mike Pennella

Thanks to my friend Mike, 

I am once again reminded of the message

behind this wonderful poem!

Need a Hug?

From the Quote of the Week Files, Veterans Day, November 11, 2013

It is Veteran's Day in America in which we honor those who have so bravely served this country. A quote by Dan Lipinski reminds us of this day. 

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"On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free."

Dan Lipinski

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

I will not die an unlived life.

I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days,

To allow my living to open me,

To make me less afraid,

More accessible.

To loosen my heart until it becomes a wing,

a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance;

To live so that which came to me as seed

goes on to the next as blossom

And that which came to me as blossom,

goes on as fruit.

Dawna Markova 

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

Weekends! Ogden Nash

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy.

You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday.

No wonder you feel that lost sensation.

You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.

Ogden Nash

Have a GREAT One!!

A Nudge from Melody Beattie! Thank you!

“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."

Melody Beattie

A Nudge from Albert Schweitzer

"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."

Albert Schweitzer

Ayse Birsel: "Your life is your most important project"

From the Quote of the Week Files; November 4, 2013

"You are far greater than you have ever dreamed of being. And no matter what you are experiencing in your life right now, trust that all is good and unfolding in your best interests. It may not look pretty, but it is exactly what you need to learn for you to grow into the person you have been destined to become. Everything occurring in your life has been perfectly orchestrated to inspire your maximal evolution as a human being and bring you into your true power. Learn from life and allow it to take you where you are meant to go - it has your highest interests in mind."

Robin Sharma:"Discover Your Destiny with the Monk Who Sold his Ferrari"

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less."

Piet Hein

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

Socrates Nudges

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.” Socrates  

An Inspiring Book Excerpt

"Whenever there is worry in the mind, all we can think about is what might go wrong or what has gone wrong. In the absence of any obvious problem or concern, the worrying mind will simply manufacture problems. (What we perceive as problems are often only circumstances). Restlessness is a similar agitated state. When meditators are caught up inagitation, there are so many mental objects seeming to clamour for their attention – regretful thoughts, neurotic thoughts, anxieties, speculations, assumptions – the volume of mental activity can seem overwhelming. A surprisingly simple and useful technique for countering worry is to deliberately put to one side the specific concerns that are dominating the mind. Certainly there are things in life that need planning but so much of what we call planning is actually worry. So often, we try to solve problems when we don’t have all the necessary information – concerns that are purely speculative – ‘what might happen if’ – are a complete waste of time. The significant feature of a restless or worried mind is the absence of happiness. When we introduce happiness into the mind, restlessness and worry fall away. Choosing to think positively – we can think about everything that is good in our lives, as opposed to what’s wrong. As the mind stops jumping back into the past or forward into the future it becomes content to settle into the moment. Concerns that loomed large now seem insignificant; we wonder why we ever got so het up."

From "Buddhism: The Plain Facts" 

Robert Mann & Rose Youd