From the Quote of the Week Files, December 28, 2009

Last quotes for 2009!!! If you are like me, you are probably wondering where the year has gone ~ Either time is moving faster or I am moving slower, I am not sure.

So here are some quotes to think about as 2009 comes to an end as well a some reflection questions for you to ponder from Colleen Snow's website, www.BeTheChangeWorld.com.

I hope it will help you (and me) to review the past year and ring in the New Year. Happy New Year!!
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"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

Hal Borland
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"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential."

Ellen Goodman
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Wishing you a most beautiful year, wherever this may find you!
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Some Old Year Reflection Questions to think about...

1. If you could give 2009 a name what would it be?
2. If there is a symbol that represents 2009 that would capture its essence, what would it be?
3. If you could give yourself a name that symbolizes you in 2009 what name would you give yourself?
4. Name the people who made a difference in your life. Whom do you appreciate and why?
5. What gifts have you received this year? (This could be tangible like your income, a favor or emotional support.)
6. What gifts have you given others this year? (tangible or not)
7. How did your relationships grow, change or end? What did you learn?
8. What journeys have you taken? (inner and outer experiences i.e. a new baby, a vacation, a new job)
9. Where did you derive your sense of well-being, health and knowledge? What helped you feel good about yourself?
10. What goals did you achieve and what do you need to celebrate?
11. For Review-What and who did you grieve this year and where are you in the process? Preview-What empowers your mission and enhances your dream?
12. Passages, changes and initiations: What has changed? What is new? What happened? How are you different because of it?
13. Where did you find joy?
14. What would be the sound track/song that represents your life in 2009?
15. In what context did you feel more authentically alive?
16. Free-To-Be the change you wish to see in the world: summarize from the inside out how are you “being” with yourself, and others in the relationship to the world

From the Quote of the Week Files; December 21, 2009

"Haid joule ja head uut aastat"; "God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År" ; "Buone Feste Natalizie" ; "Feliz Navidad" ; "Nollaig Shona Dhuit" ; "Joyeux Noël"; "Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan" ; "Saint Dan Fai Lok" ; "Froehliche Weihnachten" ; "Kala Christouyenna" ; "Een Plesierige Kerfees"; "I'd Miilad Said Oua Sana Saida" ; "Merry Christmas" ; "Happy Hanukkah" and / or Happy Holidays everybody!!!

Here are a couple of Christmas quotes to ponder. Enjoy!
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"Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."

Augusta E. Rundell
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"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace."

Agnes M. Pahro
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Wishing you a most beautiful Holiday, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; December 14, 2009

Hello & Welcome to the Quote of the Week! The place to go to where you can get timeless wisdom at bargain basement prices!!
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Life is on your side

"Most people think life is against them, trying to piss them off, that they are unlucky, that things don't work out for them. Einstein said that "the most important decision we will ever make in our lives is whether we believe we live in a friendly or an unfriendly universe." If you want to get good at change, you must believe life is your partner, on your side, conspiring for greater good coming into your life -- despite the apparent immediate loss it might appear to be. Change isn't there to hurt, anger or annoy you. It's there to bring new things, people, jobs, opportunities. Always."

Ariane de Bonvoisin
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic from December 15, 2008... This week's quote is really a series of 10 questions to help us (me) to reflect on 2008 (2009) (now that it is nearly over), see what worked and get more of that in 2009 (2010). The questions are...

What went really well for you at work in 2008 (2009)?
What did you do that you're proud of?
Who have you helped out?
How have you grown and developed professionally?
How have you grown and developed personally at work?
Who has really appreciated your work?
Who has helped you out and been there for you?
Who have you admired at work in 2008 (2009)?
What have been some fun moments at work in 2008 (2009)?
Which 5 things from 2008 (2009) would you like
to have more of in 2009 (2010)?

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, December 7, 2009

Do you know the signs and symptoms of Inner Peace? Saskia Davis does and it is the featured Quote of the Week!! This quote also comes with a warning so be sure to read that as well.
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The Twelve Signs (symptoms) of Inner Peace

• Loss of interest in conflict Frequent attacks of smiling
• Frequent overwhelming attacks of appreciation
• Loss of desire to judge others
• Unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment
• Tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than from fear based on past experience
• Loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others
• Loss of the ability to worry (a serious symptom)
• Contented feelings of connectedness to others and nature
• Increasing susceptibility to love extended by others as well as an uncontrollable urge to extend it
• Increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make things happen

Saskia Davis
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WARNING

If you have some or all of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of inner peace may be so far advanced as to not be curable. If you are exposed to anyone exhibiting any of these symptoms, remain exposed only at your own risk.
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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, November 30, 2009

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your weekly spiritual snack for mind, body & soul.
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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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As you think about the upcoming Holiday Christmas season, we have 2 Recycles Quote of the Week Classics....

"As the holidays approach, it's so essential to prepare yourself - body, mind and soul - for the faster pace of the coming weeks. This is the time to take extra special care. While you're giving to others, make this the time to give to yourself as well..."

"If you were going to make this the best holiday season ever, how would you do it? It won't happen for most people, because most people won't have that as their #1 intention. And it's unlikely that you'll have the life-changing holidays that you could have if you don't create a powerful intent."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files!

In the U.S., Thursday marks our Thanksgiving holiday and the center of this day is thankfulness and gratitude for all the good things in life (and there are many!). With that in mind, here are Thanksgiving quotes for you!

Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the spirit of the occasion!
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"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."

Estonian Proverb
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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."

Melody Beattie
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“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

Thornton Wilder
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"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice."

Meister Eckhart
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Wishing you a most beautiful day and Thanksgiving, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, November 16, 2009

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! You weekly email dedicated to EMPOWERED choice, MIND EXPANDING perspective and FAITH in the future. Decision making is the subject of this week's quote. Enjoy!
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"Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself."

Eleanor Roosevelt
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Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"It is never too late to become what you might have been."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, November 9, 2009

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!
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Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

M Scott Peck
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, November 2, 2009

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! A place where you can fight the daily grind with an eclectic mix of inspirational quotes from the world's great thinkers!
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)
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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
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Did you know that any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th?
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

Remembering my Father

My Dad has been gone a month and a day now and I am fluctuating daily between overwhelming grief and joy with all the happy memories that I have. One memory is when I went to visit him back in April and he was reading the poem, O Captain! My Captain by Walt Whitman. He asked me if I knew what it was about and while I had some idea of the poem’s meaning, I knew it wasn’t to the extent that he did. He went on to explain that it was about how Walt Whitman felt about the death of Abraham Lincoln because of his love and admiration for him. He then went on to read the poem. It was beautiful.

I just re-read the poem yesterday, and as I think about it, it reflects how I feel about my father’s passing. In God’s hands he will rest, in my heart he will live forever.
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O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

From the Quote of the Week Files; October 26, 2009

Welcome to the place to go to where you can get timeless wisdom at bargain basement prices ~ The Quote of the Week!
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“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”

James M. Barrie
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Do not ask what the world needs. Instead, ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.”

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 19, 2009

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! This week's quote is a verse from an old inspirational song, Keep on the Sunny Side of Life. I've also included a short history of the song, the lyrics and for your listening pleasure, a link to the song! Enjoy!
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Keep on the sunny side,
always on the sunny side.
Keep on the sunny side of life.
It will help us every day,
it will brighten all the way
If we keep on the sunny side of life.

Ada Blenkhorn
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"Early in Ada Blenkhorn's life, she was given the task of caring for an invalid nephew who always wanted his wheel chair to be pushed 'down the sunny side of the street.' His constant repetition of this phrase inspired her to write the gospel Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life. [1899]
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Keep on the Sunny Side

There's a dark and a troubled side of life
There's a bright and a sunny side, too
Tho' we meet with the darkness and strife
The sunny side we also may view

[chorus]
Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
Keep on the sunny side of life
It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way
If we'll keep on the sunny side of life

Tho' the storm in its fury broke today,
Crushing hopes that we cherished so dear;
Storm and cloud will in time pass away
The sun again will shine bright and clear.


Let us greet with a song of hope each day
Tho' the moments be cloudy or fair
Let us trust in our Saviour alway
Who keepeth everyone in His care
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A link to the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIcb9xWnr8s&feature=related
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Here's to keeping on the Sunny Side!
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 12, 2009

Welcome to the Quote of the Week. Your presence, exactly as is at this very moment, is greatly appreciated.
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"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
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And 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!