From the Quote of the Week Files, April 9, 2010

Hello everybody and Welcome to the Quote of the Week!!! What is your definition of happiness? Famed movie director, Alfred Hitchcock knew and that is this week's quote! Enjoy!__________

"A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive… I can’t bear quarreling, I can’t bear feelings between people — I think hatred is wasted energy, and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive — a sharp word, said by a person, say, who has a temper, if they’re close for me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions, but when all these are removed and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something — I think that’s as happy as I’ll ever want to be.”

Alfred Hitchcock
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Check out the link below to see Alfred Hitchcock speak on happiness...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dOICbwSIs&feature=player_embedded
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, April 2, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week. The BEST day, year and vitamin is the theme for this week's quotes. Enjoy!
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“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

Bob Moawad
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A Quote of the Week Recycled Classic...

"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
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Remember: The best vitamin for making friends is…B1!

Anonymous
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Wishing you a most bestiful day, wherever this may find you!
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grace

From the Quote of the Week Files, March 26, 2012

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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“Your journey has molded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.”

Asha Tyson
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"When the bottom falls out of your life, is that the problem or is it the point?"

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, March 19, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your weekly spiritual snack for mind, body & soul. After a While is the theme for this week's quote (a poem really) but for me after reading it, it probably should be named After a Long, Long, Long While.
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After a While

After a while you learn the difference,
Subtle difference,
Between holding a hand and
Chaining a soul.

You learn that love
Doesn’t mean leaning and
Company doesn’t mean security.

You begin to learn
That kisses aren’t contracts and
Presents aren’t promises.

You begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open,
With the grace of an adult,
Not the grief of a child.

You learn to build
All your roads on today
Because tomorrow’s ground
Is too uncertain for plans.

After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns
If you get too much.

So you plant your own garden and
Decorate your own soul
Instead of waiting
For someone to bring you flowers.

You learn
That you really can endure.
That you really are strong.
You really do have worth

Veronica A. Shoffstall
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, March 12, 2012

Good Morning 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!
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"You think this is just another day in your life. It’s not just another day — it’s the one day that is given to you, today. It’s given to you, it’s a gift. It’s the only gift that you have right now, and the only appropriate response is gratefulness. If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response to the great gift that this unique day is, if you learn to respond as if it were the first day in your life, and the very last day, then you would have spent this day very well.”

Louie Schwartzberg
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Check out this link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj2ofrX7jAk
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, March 5, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your weekly spiritual snack for mind, body & soul. Today's quote is from an open letter by the former Leader of Canada's New Democrats, Jack Layton prior to his death. (See the attached pdf file for the letter.)
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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”

Jack Layton
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A Recycled Quote of the Week...

"Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it."

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

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Grace

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From the Quote of the Week Files, February 27, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Inspired by Patti Digh's post, How will you leap on leap day?, (http://www.37days.com/2012/01/leaping-with-sam-keen.html) and the Honda commercial onCreating a Leap List (http://automobiles.honda.com/leap-list/my-list/), this weeks quotes are about making the leap!

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"BREAK on through to the other side."

The Doors
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Two Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"There is at the bottom only one problem and this is its name:
How does one break through? How does one get into the open?
How does one burst the cocoon and become a butterfly?"

Thomas Mann

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"Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”

David Lloyd George
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What will be your leap for this year?

Leap Year; Leap Now!
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

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Grace

From the Quote of the Week Files, February 20, 2012

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, or good middle of the night to all Quote of the Weeksters. It is President's Day in the United States and with that in mind, we have 2 Presidential quotes.
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"It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."

Abraham Lincoln

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"It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing."
George Washington
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; un- rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, February 13, 2012

What me Worry? When it comes to worry, studies have shown the following statistics:
40% never happens.
30% of what we worry about has already happened.
12% are needless worries.
10% are petty and unimportant.
8% of what we worry about actually happens. Of this percentage…
4% of our worries that happen are beyond our control.
4% of what we worry about we have some if not all control over the results.
Given these statistics, I hope you enjoy the Quote of the Week!
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“Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles…. it empties today of its strength”

Corrie ten Boom
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days that should be kept from fear and apprehension.

One of them is yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.

All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word. Yesterday is gone.

The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow, with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our control.

Tomorrow’s sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds – but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is as yet unborn.

This leaves only today. Any man can fight the battles of just one-day. It is only when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities – yesterday and tomorrow – that we break down.

It is not the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse and bitterness for something which happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow will bring.

Let us, therefore, live but one day at a time.

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

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

Step out of the chaos as you refresh, reawaken and rediscover yourself with a motivational and inspirational thought with today's Quote of the Week! Courage is the theme for this week's quotes!!
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Courage does not always roar.
Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow".

Maryanne Radanbacher
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"As for you my fine friend,you are a victim of disorganized thinking.You are under the unfortunate delusionthat simply because you run away from danger,you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.”

As said to The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, January 30, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Did you know that the Quote of the Week is Cruelty Free? I do not test the Quote of the Week on innocent lab animals. Going outside your comfort zone and going deep is the theme of this week's quotes! Enjoy!
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“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

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

"Ideas are like fish.

If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch."

David LynchMovie Producer; Director and Author
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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Grace

From the Quote of the Week Files, January 23, 2012

Have you forgotton your own best advice? NO PROBLEM!! Rediscover it right here with The Quote of the Week!
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"Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.”

Asha Tyson
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Laughter is not only the best medicine. It's what keeps marriages alive, families from going insane, team mates in sync, and companies from going belly under (pun intended). Let your own Magical Impish Child come out more often and you'll be surprised at how the world looks different -- for the better."

Carol Ross
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By the Way, Did you know that January 24th is Global Belly Laugh Day? Check it out! ~~ http://www.bellylaughday.com/124laughbounce.html
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Quote of the Week members continue to share their word for the year, a word that will inspire them throughout the year ("To Be" as oppose "To Do"). Words chosen are ~ Compassion, Consideration and Politeness!
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, January 16, 2012

"Now" is the theme for the Quote of the Week! Welcome and enjoy!
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“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

Ernest Hemingway
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

Marcel Proust
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Quote of the Week members continue to share their word for the year, a word that will inspire them throughout the year ("To Be" as oppose "To Do").

Peace of Mind
Nourish
Serenity
Resolve
Patience
Occupy (as in occupy 2012)
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!