From the Quote of the Week Files, June 27, 2010

Listen, Do you want to know a secret?

Welcome to the quote of the Week. This week's theme: Listening!
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"Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear. On a hot summer day in the country you can hear the corn growing, the crack of a tin roof buckling under the power of the sun... Or sometime when you're talking up a storm so brilliant, so charming that you can hardly believe how wonderful you are, pause just a moment and listen to yourself. It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly."

Russell Baker
Commencement Speech, Connecticut College, 1995
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“The first duty of love is to listen.”

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

From the Quote of the Week Files; June 20, 2011

All Souls on Deck!! Welcome to the Quote of the Week!
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"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires ... causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy toward others - both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do."

Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life."

Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; June 13, 2011

Hello and Welcome to the Quote of the Week! I hope you enjoy this eggtraordinary quote!
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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder
for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present.
And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg.
We must be hatched or go bad.”

C.S. Lewis
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Through the gateway of feeling your weakness lies your strength.
Through the gateway of feeling your pain lies your pleasure and joy.
Through the gateway of feeling your fear lies your security and safety.
Through the gateway of feeling your loneliness lies your capacity to have fullment, love and companionship.
Through the gateway of feeling your hopelessness lies true and justified hope.
Through the gateway of accepting the lacks in your childhood lies your fulfullment now.

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, June 6, 2011

Welcome back to the Quote of the Week!! Enjoy!

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“Today is mine. It is unique.

Nobody in the world has one exactly like it.

It holds the sum of all my past experiences and all my future potential.

I can fill it with joyous moments or ruin it with fruitless worry.

If painful recollections of the past come into my mind,

or frightening thoughts of the future, I can put them away.

They cannot spoil today for me.”

Alcoholics Anonymous

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Remember that Right Now...

Somebody is very proud of you.

Somebody is thinking of you.

Somebody is caring about you.

Somebody misses you.

Somebody wants to talk to you.

Somebody wants to be with you.

Somebody hopes you aren't in trouble.

Somebody is thankful for your support.

Somebody wants to hold your hand.

Somebody hopes everything turns out all right.

Somebody wants you to be happy.

Somebody wants you to find him/her.

Somebody is celebrating your successes.

Somebody wants to give you a gift.

Somebody thinks that you are a gift.

Somebody hopes you're not too cold, or too hot

somebody wants to hug you.

Somebody loves you.

Somebody admires your strength.

Somebody is thinking of you and smiling.

Somebody wants to be your shoulder to cry on.

Somebody wants to go out with you & have a lot of fun.

Somebody thinks the world of you.

Somebody wants to protect you.

Somebody would do anything for you.

Somebody wants to be forgiven.

Somebody is grateful for your forgiveness.

Somebody wants to laugh with you.

Somebody remembers you & wishes you were there.

Somebody needs to know your love is unconditional.

Somebody values your advice.

Somebody wants to tell you how much they care.

Somebody wants to share their dreams with you.

Somebody wants to hold you in their arms.

Somebody wants you to hold them in your arms.

Somebody treasures your spirit.

Somebody wishes they could stop time because of you

Somebody can't wait to see you.

Somebody loves you for who you are

somebody loves the way you make them feel.

Somebody wants to be with you.

Somebody wants you to know they are there for you.

Somebody's glad that you're his/her friend.

Somebody wants to be your friend.

Somebody stayed up all night thinking about you.

Somebody is wishing that you noticed him/her.

Somebody wants to get to know you better.

Somebody wants to be near you.

Somebody misses your advice/guidance.

Somebody has faith in you.

Somebody trusts you.

Somebody needs you to send them this letter

somebody needs your support.

Somebody needs you to have faith in them.

Somebody will cry when they read this.

Somebody needs you to let them be your friend.

Somebody hears a song that reminds them of you.

Anonymous

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, Memorial Day 2011

In Flanders Field

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
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It is Memorial Day in America. Originally called Decoration Day, it is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.

The above poem was written during WW I by a Canadian after witnessing the death of his friend during battle. The poppies he refers to grew in profusion in Flanders in the disturbed earth of the battlefields and cemeteries where war casualties were buried and it became a symbol of the British Common Wealth's Remembrance Day, which signifies the end of WW I.

The poem also inspired Professor Moina Micheal to publish her own poem called We Keep the Faith in tribute to the opening lines of McCrae's poem — "In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses row on row."

She then vowed to always wear a red poppy as a symbol of remembrance for those who served in the war. As part of her effort, she sold red poppies to friends and relatives and donated the proceeds to service personnel in need. Her tradition was so successful, that it became a tradition to wear a red poppy in honor of those who died serving this nation during war.
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 17, 2011

Today's Quote of the Week Theme: Finding Yourself. (Why, was I lost?)

Enjoy!
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"DO not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

Rainer Maria Rilke
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 16, 2011

It is now time to leave your world of tension, anxiety and doubt. So please sit back, slow down your pulse, and tune into today's Quote of the Week!

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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

Albert Ellis
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.”

Thomas Merton
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Wishing you a MOST beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 9, 2011

Welcome to the Quote of the Week!

The theme of this week's quotes is the subject of change. They were inspired after spending the last 2 weeks facilating a workshop on Managing Change for employees and managers going through a major change initiative in their organization.
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"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."

R. D. Laing
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"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."

King Whitney Jr.
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time

From the song, Changes by David Bowie
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Wishing you a MOST beautiful day, wherever this may find you!!

From the Quote of the Week Files, April 25, 2012

Welcome back to the Quote of the Week. Even though National Poetry Month has passed, we still continue for one more week featuring a poem as our Quote of the Week!

What is the "Real Good" to you? John Boyle O'Reilly gave it some thought. Enjoy!

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The Real Good

"What is the real good?"

I ask in a musing mood.

"Order," said the law court;

"Knowledge," said the school;

"Truth," said the wise man;

"Pleasure," said the fool;

"Love," said the maiden;

"Beauty," said the page;

"Freedom," said the dreamer;

"Home," said the sage;

"Fame," said the soldier;

"Equity," said the seer.

Spake my heart fully sad:

"The answer is not here."

Then within my bosom,

Softly this I heard:

"Each heart holds the secret:

'Kindness' is the word."

John Boyle O'Reilly

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2 Recycled Poem of the Week Classics....

Joy

And Joy is Everywhere;

It is in the Earth's green covering of grass;

In the blue serenity of the Sky;

In the reckless exuberance of Spring;

In the severe abstinence of grey Winter;

In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;

In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;

In Living;

In the exercise of all our powers;

In the acquisition of Knowledge;

in fighting evils...

Joy is there

Everywhere.

Rabindranath Tagore

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The Smile Virus

Smiling is infectious,

you catch it like the flu,

When someone smiled at me today,

I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner

and someone saw my grin

When he smiled I realized

I'd passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile

then I realized its worth,

A single smile, just like mine

could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin,

don't leave it undetected

Let's start an epidemic quick,

and get the world infected!

Russell H. Conwell

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, April 18, 2011

"For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)—they are experiences."

Rainer Maria Rilke

We continue with Poems for our Quote of the Week for April as it is National Poetry Month. Ever wonder what would have happened if you had chosen a different path? Robert Frost did in his poem, The Road Not Taken. Enjoy!

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The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler,long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost
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A Recycled Poem of the Week Classic...

Little Things

Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our world an Eden
Like the Heaven above.

Thus the little minutes
Humble though they be
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, April, 11, 2011

Welcome to the Poem of the Week!

As you know it is National Poetry Month and we are featuring poems instead of the usual quotes. If there is a poem that you have found encouraging, inspiring,or uplifting, email it in and I will create a little Poem of the Week Anthology at the end of the month! (we have a few entries from last week)

This week, I Know Nothing but Miracles by Walt Whitman is the featured poem.

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I Know Nothing But Miracles

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,

Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,

Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,

Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the

water,

Or stand under the trees in the woods,

Or talk by day with any one I love,

Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,

Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer

forenoon...

Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,

Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,

Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...

What stranger miracles are there?

Walt Whitman

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A Recycled Quote (Poem) of the Week Classic...

If If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? (I just found out!) How about we feature poems this month for the Quote of the Week? The first featured poem is You Reading This, Be Ready by William Stafford. Being attentive to the present moment is the theme. Enjoy!
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You Reading This, Be Ready

Starting here, what do you want to remember?

How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?

What scent of old wood hovers, what softened

sound from outside fills the air?

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world

than the breathing respect that you carry

wherever you go right now? Are you waiting

for time to show you some better thoughts?

When you turn around, starting here, lift this

new glimpse that you found; carry into evening

all that you want from this day. This interval you spent

reading or hearing this, keep it for life -

What can anyone give you greater than now,

starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

William Stafford

(1914-1993)

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit."

William James

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

From the Quote of the Week Files; March 27, 2011

Rise and Shine you happy campers, it is time to meet the challenges of a BRAND NEW WEEK!! And "Rising and Shining" is the theme of this week's quote! Enjoy!
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“Do you know why most people sleep so much?”

“Why?”

“Because they really don’t have anything else to do. Those who rise with the sun all have one thing in common.”

“Insanity?”

“Very funny. No, they all have a purpose that fans the flames of their inner potential.””

Robin Sharma from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Here comes the sun, du, dn, du, du!
here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right

George Harrison; The Beatles
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A link and The Rest of the song lyrics...

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right
It's all right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_dBwJDUlS4
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Wishing you a most beautiful and sunny day, wherever this may find you!!