22 February 2010

From the Quote of the Week Files; February 22, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week ~ Your weekly State-of-the-Art Life Enhancement in easy to digest bite-sized nuggets!

This week's quote is a remedy for when you feel some things in life are bad and they can really make you mad; or when other things just make you swear and curse. Enjoy!
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When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble,
give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

Eric Idle; Monty Python; "Life of Brian"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"The best things in life are not things."

C. & J. Woods
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

15 February 2010

From the Quote of the Week Files, February 15, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week ~ You weekly message to help you make 2010 a 10!
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"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Siddhartha Gautama
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

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

08 February 2010

From the Quote of the Week Files, February 8, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week. Your weekly stream of fruitful, fulfilling and inspiring insights! This week's quote is about Simplicity, Patience and Compassion!
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"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world."

Laozi (Tao Te Ching)
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything."

Albert Schweitzer

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

01 February 2010

From the Quote of the Week Files, February 1, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week ~ Your weekly State of the Art Improvement in easy bite size nuggets!
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Do you know what to ask yourself in order to get what you really want? Debbie Ford think she does and that is the Quote of the Week!

1. Will this choice propel me toward an inspiring future or will it keep me stuck in the past?
2. Will this choice bring me long term fulfillment or will it bring me short term gratification?
3. Am I standing in my own power or am I trying to please another?
4. Am I looking for what's right, or am I looking for what's wrong?
5. Will this choice add to my life force, or will it rob me of my energy?
6. Will I use this situation as a catalyst to grow and evolve or will I use it to beat myself up?
7. Does this choice empower me or dis-empower me?
8. Is this an act of self-love or self-sabotage?
9. Is this an act of faith or an act of fear?
10 Am I choosing from my Divinity or am I choosing from my humanity?

Debbie Ford; The Right Questions: Ten Essential Questions To Guide You To An Extraordinary Life
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A Recyled 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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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

25 January 2010

From the Quote of the Week Files, January 25, 9009

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your First Aid for Pessimism!
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"The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being."

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"He only is advancing in life, whose heart is getting softer, whose blood is warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into Living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth --they, and they only."

John Ruskin
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Words for the Year

The challenge from the Quote of the Week, January 11th : Instead of a New Year's Resolution, choose 1, 2 or 3 words that will serve as your mantra throughout the year and hopefully it will remind you to be and not just to do. Here are some responses from QotW members....

Anne ~ Anew!
Joe ~ Acceptance
Stephanie ~ Gratitude and Optimism; with the acronym of GO (Stephanie even had a card made up with her words that she keeps in her daily binder. " Works like a charm." according to Stephanie!)
Darlene ~ Lottery!!!! ;-)
Julie ~ Expansion
Deborah ~ Grace, Wait, Work
Marcy ~ Attention acceptance, Appreciation, Affection
Michele ~ Openness, Contentment
Mary ~ Forgiveness
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

18 January 2010

From the Quote of the Week Files; January 18, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week; You weekly email dedicated to Empowered Choice, Mind Expanding Perspective and Faith in the Future!
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Never worry about numbers.
Help one person at a time,
and always start with
the person nearest you."

Mother Teresa
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"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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Have you thought about your Word (or words) for the year as suggested by last weeks email? A number of QofheW members have and I will shared their word(s) of the year next week.

If you would like to give it a try, just come up with a word (or 2 or 3) that will serve as your mantra throughout the year and hopefully it will remind you to be and not just to do. My word for 2010 is openness!
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

11 January 2010

From the Quote of the Week Files, January 11, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week, your weekly source for nurturing your mind, body & spirit!
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"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."

Epictetus
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic.... Do your New Year's Resolutions "go in one year and out the other"?

Back in January of 2008, The Quote of the Week featured a new way of of making New Year's Resolutions (thanks to Kristine Kane's blog). She suggests that instead of making resolutions, we would pick a word or words that would guide us throughout the year. It would remind us of living our lives at the TO BE level instead of the To Do or To Have level.

This year I am choosing just one word and that is Openness! (My words for 2008 were Gratitude, Appreciation, Listen and Learn and for 2009, they were Lighter, Possibilities and Tranquility.)

What will be your word or words will you chose that will guide you throughout the year? Care to share yours?
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

04 January 2010

From the Quote of the Week Files; January 4, 2009

2010! A New Chance to Get it Right! Welcome fresh hope and inspiration into your life with a slew of New Year's quotes! Enjoy!
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"And now let us welcome the New Year full of things that have never been."

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Recycled New Years Quotes from years past...

New Year's Quote; 2009

"What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year."

Vern McLellan

"In whatever sense this year is a New Year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand and with joy and gratitude."

Howard Thurman
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New Year's Quote; 2008

January First

The year's doors open
like those of language,
toward the unknown.
Last night you told me:
tomorrow
we shall have to think up signs,
sketch a landscape,
fabricate a plan
on the double page
of day and paper.
Tomorrow, we shall have to invent,
once more,
the reality of this world.

Elizabeth Bishop
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New Year's; 2007
Choices you can make for the New Year

Choose to love—rather than hate.
Choose to smile—rather than frown.
Choose to build—rather than destroy.
Choose to persevere—rather than quit.
Choose to praise—rather than gossip.
Choose to heal—rather than wound.
Choose to give—rather than take.
Choose to act—rather than delay.
Choose to forgive—rather than curse.
Choose to pray—rather than despair.

Author Unknown
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At the end of each year, I ask myself two questions:
1) What do I want to create in this New Year?
And, perhaps even more importantly,
2) What do I want to let go of?

Patricia Digh
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New Year's Quote; 2006

Five questions that will help you reflect the year past and where we find ourselves at the beginning of 2006 (2010)!

What did I learn?
What did I accomplish?
What was your greatest contribution?
How am I different this year than last?
For what am I particularly grateful?
What do remember best about the old year?
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New Year's Quote; 2005

"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."

Henry Ward Beecher
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New Year's Quote; 2004

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius
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New Year's Quote; 2003

How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?

Dr. Seuss
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New Year's Quote; 2002

Recipe for a Happy New Year; Serves One, with plenty for everybody!

Ingredients:12 Months; faith; patience; courage; work; hope; faith; generosity; kindness fun ; play; humor; love; unselfishness; cheerfulness; meditation; resolution

Take twelve whole months and see that they are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate. Cleanse them completely from every clinging spite. Pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness. Make them just as fresh and clean as possible.

Cut these months into twenty eight, thirty or thirty-one different parts but don’t make the whole batch at once (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way). Prepare one day at a time.

Into each day put one part faith, one part patience, one part courage, and one part work.

Add to each day one part hope, faithfulness, generosity, and one good deed.

Put in about one heaping tablespoon of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.

Pour all of this into a kettle of love. Cook thoroughly over radiant joy, garnish with a smile, and serve with quietness, unselfishness, and cheerfulness.

Author Unknown
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New Year's Quote; 2001

"If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears, either of joy or sadness, consider the year wasted."

John Cage, Ally McBeal

“No one can go back and make a brand new start, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end!"

Author Unknown
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New Year's Quote; 2000

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

Plato
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Wishing you a most beautiful year, wherever it may find you!

28 December 2009

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

21 December 2009

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!

14 December 2009

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!

07 December 2009

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!

01 December 2009

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!!