From the Quote of the Week Files, September 22, 2008

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, or good middle of the night to all Quote of the Weeksters. Are you ready to enjoy a new inspiring or insightful Quote of the Week? It's great with a fresh cup of coffee or tea as you begin (or end) your day!
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"The way into this new world can be so simple - and so sweet. When you're willing to listen to your own voice and trust yourself enough to follow your heart, you encounter your true power - a power marked by courage and vulnerability. Any moment you offer a whole-hearted 'Yes!' to your own truth, you are infused with the power, self-worth, self-respect, self-esteem and confidence that will give wings to the best year of your life."

Debbie Ford
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."

Professor Irwin Corey
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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

From the Quote of the Week Files, September 8, 2008

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your weekly Spiritual Snack for the Mind, Body and Soul. Living the life you want is the theme of this week's quote. Enjoy!
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Deep within each one of us there is an inner longing to live a life of greatness and contribution – to really matter, to really make a difference. We may doubt ourselves and our ability to do so, but I want you to know of my deep conviction that you can live such a life. You have the potential within you. We all do. It is the birthright of the human family. All of us can consciously decide to leave behind a life of mediocrity and to live a life of greatness, at home, at work and in the community. No matter what our circumstances may be, such a decision can be made by every one of us, whether that greatness manifests by:

- choosing to have a magnificent spirit in facing an incurable disease,
- making a difference in the life of a child, giving that child a sense of worth and potential,
- becoming a change-catalyst inside an organization, or
- becoming an initiator of a great cause in society.

We all have the power to decide to live a great life, or even simpler, to have not only a good day but a great day. No matter how long we've walked life's pathway to mediocrity, we can always choose to switch paths. Always. It's never too late. We can find our voice.

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, September 1, 2008

Good Morning, Good Afternoon or Good Evening and Welcome to the Quote of the Week! This week's Quote is about you!
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"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."

Dr. Seuss
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A Recycled Quote of the Week...

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, August 25, 2008

You are dazed, bewildered, trapped in a world with no time, where color collides with sound, and shadows explode. You see a sign up ahead. This is no ordinary email, this is the "Quote of the Week Zone."
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"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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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files for August 18, 2008

What would happen if you discoverd who you really are? Derek Walcott in his poem, Love after Love, thinks it would be like two different people meeting for the first time and making friends. Enjoy!
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Love After Love

The time will come when,
with elation,you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life,
whom you ignored for another,
who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time."

T.S. Eliot
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you.

From the Quote of the Week Files, August 11, 2008

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your weekly spiritual snack for mind, body & soul. This week's quotes are on the silly side. Enjoy!
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"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants."

Chuckles, the Clown; The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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A link to the "Chuckles the Clown" episode... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cL4tMKjfS0
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A recycled Quote of the Week Classic....

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

Groucho Marx
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Wishing you a MOST beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, August 4, 2008

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

"No effort is ever wasted, although some pay dividends later than you think... Do not imagine that you 'wasted your time' because something didn't turn out right. There is no such thing as 'waste' in the Universe. Everything -- everything -- yields benefit... It's true. And your life will show you this. So don't decry the 'effort that failed.' All things lead to your highest good. You just may not know it yet".

Neale Donald Walsch
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him."

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

A Quote Revisited; A Man Remembered

It has come to my attention that Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, 47, has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer this past Friday. With months to live, Pausch gave his famous "Last Lecture" speech at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2007 and it was featured as a Quote of the Week on September 24th (see below for a link to his last lecture).

He cast a long shadow, and his good works will not long be forgotten. May he rest in peace.
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"Be thankful for brickwalls. Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things."

Professor Randy Pausch
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The Story behind the quote...

Many colleges and universities are sponsoring "Last Lectures," inviting speakers to deliver what they would if they knew it was their last lecture. For the author of the above quote, the "last" part of "last lecture" is very real.

Link to his full lecture...
http://www.etc.cmu.edu/global_news/?q=node/42 and hit Play it now
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What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance?

From the Quote of the Week Files, July 28, 2008

Inspired by Saturday's marriage of Quote of the Week members, Donna and Michael, this week's quotes are on Love and Marriage (which goes together like a horse and carriage!) Congatutations Donna and Michael! Wishing you a happy marriage and hoping that your life together will be rich in joy and love!
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"Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity--everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul."
Thomas Moore
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"There are four questions of value in life...
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for?

The answer to each is the same.
Only love."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, July 22, 2008

"We are spiritual beings, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home -- home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self. One of the ways we unconsciously ensure our return is through pain. Pain is the greatest motivator for change. It is the spiritual crowbar that pries open the door to new realities. Would we look into our deeper selves or dwell in them, grapple with them, or inquire into them and initiate change if everything was perfect? More than likely we would just continue living day by day in the comfort of our familiar worlds".

Debbie Ford, Why Good People Do Bad Things
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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 fulfillment, love and companionship;through the gateway of feeling your hate lies your capacity to love;through the gateway of feeling your hopelessness lies true and justified hope;through the gateway of accepting the lacks of your childhood lies your fulfillment now.In giving ourselves permission to feel all of our feelings, we free ourselves from the tyranny of our defenses and open ourselves to our heart's desires."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, July 14, 2008

Simple Truths, A recipe for Spaghetti all equate to living your life more fully ~ or at least Mario Batali thinks so. Enjoy this week's quote!
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"Pay attention to the truth. It's not an intellectual thing. It's a gut thing. My truth is that I love real, honest, passionate, intense experiences. Experiences that don't apologize for themselves or claim to be something they aren't. ... You want a recipe? Boil some spaghetti in well-salted water. While you're doing that, heat up some good extra-virgin olive oil in a skillet and throw in some thin slices of garlic and some red pepper flakes. When the pasta's cooked, toss it in the skillet. Throw in some chopped parsley and a little of the pasta water. Toss it around. Put it on a plate. Grate some Parmigiano Reggiano on top. Congratulations, dude. You've just made spaghetti all'aglio e olio. One of the greatest simple truths of humankind - and a damn good emergency dinner. That's a recipe. It's an idea. It's a dish. It's an icon. It's an experience. It's not rules. And as you cook up your life, I hope you never let anyone else's recipe for success intimidate you or get in your way. Rules are overrated. "

Mario Batali, Chef, Commencement Address, Rutgers College
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

Eric Hoffer

From the Quote of the Week Files for July 7, 2008

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."

Lewis Carroll
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A Recyled 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!