From the Quote of the Week Files, November 21, 2011

Good Morning, Good Evening, Good Middle of the Night or Good Afternoon! Welcome to the Quote of the Week. Happiness is the theme of this week's quotes! Enjoy!
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"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

Henry Ward Beecher
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"There are three components of happiness...

Pleasure- we all know about what feels good.
Engagement - the depth of involvement with one's family, work, romance and hobbies.
Meaning - using personal strengths to serve some larger end.

Of those three roads, pleasure is the least consequential. Engagement and meaning are much more important."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, November 14, 2011

This week a couple of quotes as we in America get ready for the Thanksgiving Holiday!. Enjoy!

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"There is always, always, always something to be thankful for."

Anonymous

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Gratitude encourages intuition and abundance. This week and every day be thankful for who and what is in your life — instead of complaining about what you don't have. Appreciate all the abundance and goodness that's around you, whether big or small. Be thankful for your health, children, sunny days, your garden, family, best friends, or even the person who let you jump ahead in line at the bank. The more joy you begin to notice and appreciate, the easier it is for your intuition to lead you to even more happiness and prosperity."

John Holland

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, November 7, 2011

Smiling is the theme for the Quote this week!!! Remember, a smile is a curve that sets everything straight!! ;-)

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"The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.

Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness

and understanding."

Thich Nhat Hanh

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A Recycled a Quote of the Week Classic...

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!

Anonymous

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 31, 2011

And now it is time for the Quote of the Week! Enjoy

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"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."

Johann Von Goethe

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A Recycle Quote of the Week Classic...

"Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you cannot help but love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people."

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 24, 2011

Hello and Welcome back to the Quote of the Week, your weekly spiritual snack for mind, body & soul. Today, two from the Buddha!! Enjoy!

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“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”

Buddha

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Let us rise up and be thankful,

for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little,

and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick,

and if we got sick, at least we didn't die;

so, let us all be thankful."

Buddha

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

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

Welcome.

Your presence, exactly as is at this very moment, is greatly appreciated.

Come on in and enjoy this week's quotes!!

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“Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 10, 2011

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! This week's quote is on Building Bridges. Enjoy

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The Bridge Builder

An old man, going a lone highway,

Came, at the evening, cold and gray,

To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,

Through which was flowing a sullen tide.

The old man crossed in the twilight dim;

The sullen stream had no fear for him;

But he turned, when safe on the other side,

And built a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim, near,

“You are wasting strength with building here;

Your journey will end with the ending day;

You never again will pass this way;

You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide-

Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?”

The builder lifted his old gray head:

“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,

“There followeth after me today,

A youth, whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm, that has been naught to me,

To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.

He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;

Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.”

Will Allen Dromgoole

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."

Max Ehrmann

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 3, 2011

No quote this week! I am however, sending everyone a Big HIGH FIVE! Please link below...
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http://www.ihighfive.com/
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As always, wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; September 26, 2011

Be Optimistic!! That is the theme of this week's quote. Enjoy!!
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Be optimistic
Don't you be a grumpy
When the road gets bumpy Just smile
(Smile and be happy)

Shirley Temple
From the MovieLittle Miss Broadway
Lyrics/Music by Walter Bullock and Harold Spina

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Here is a video clip of Shirley Temple singing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ6rPxQcGpk
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And if you feel like singing the whole song, here are the lyrics

Be Optimistc

Be optimistic
Don't you be a grumpy
When the road gets bumpy Just smile
(Smile and be happy)

Your trouble can't be
As bad as all that
When you're sad as all that
No one loves you

Be optimistic
Don't you be a mourner
Brighten up that corner
And smile, smile, smile

Don't wear a long face
It's never in style
Be optimistic And smile

Be optimistic
Don't you be a grumpy
When the road gets bumpy
Just smile

Your trouble can't be
As bad as all that
When you're sad as all that
No one loves you

Be optimistic
Don't you be a mourner
Brighten up that corner
And smile

Don't wear a long face
It's never in style
Be optimistic
And smile
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And of course the 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 Ziglar
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; September 19, 2011

Greetings and Welcome to the Quote of the Week!

A question is the quote for this week. It is a simple question that can have a powerful impact. In fact, according to the author, it is called a miracle question and it is from the book, Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath ( a book about how to make change last).
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"Suppose that you go to bed tonight and sleep well. Sometime, in the middle of the night, while you are sleeping, a miracle happens and all the troubles that brought you here are resolved. When you wake up in the morning, what’s the first small sign you’d see that would make you think, ‘Well, something must have happened - the problem is gone!’?”
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Infinite goodness has wide arms."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files; September 12, 2011

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, or good middle of the night. Are you ready to enjoy a new inspiring or insightful Quote of the Week? The Themes for this week: Learning to love the Beast and And 9-11 Remembered
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"Lisa Smith-Batchen, the amazingly sunny and pixie-tailed ultrarunner from Idaho who trained through blizzards to win a six-day race in the Sahara, talks about exhaustion as if it's a playful pet. 'I love the Beast,' she says. 'I actually look forward to the Beast showing up, because every time he does, I handle him better. I get him more under control.'

Once the Beast arrives, Lisa knows what she has to deal with and can get down to work. And isn't that the reason she's running through the desert in the first place-to put her training to work? To have a friendly little tussle with the Beast and show it who's boss? You can't hate the Beast and expect to beat it; the only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you , is to love it."

Christopher McDougall (Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen)
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9-11 Remembered...

Right after 9-11, I asked Quote of the Week Members to share their thoughts, feelings quotes, songs lyrics as they reflect on the events of that day.

From Jesse, a Yeat’s poem that he feels has sensitivity to the tragic events of September 11th

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

From Ray, a quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth…

"Give sorrow words;
the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart,
and bids it break."

Isabelleemailed the Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity,
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
Taking, as you did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting that you will make all things right if I surrender to your will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with you forever in the next.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Vicki sent this in memory of all those who perished; the passengers and the pilots on the United Air and AA flights, the workers in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and all the innocent bystanders. Our prayers go out to the friends and families of the deceased.

If I knew If I knew it would be the last time
That I'd see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in more tightly
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep

If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more.

If I knew it would be the last time
I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would video tape each action and word,
so I could play them back day after day.

If I knew it would be the last time,
I could spare an extra minute
to stop and say "I love you,"
instead of assuming you would KNOW I do

If I knew it would be the last time
I would be there to share your day,
well I'm sure you'll have so many more,
so I can let just this one slip away.

For surely there's always tomorrow
to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance
to make everything just right.

There will always be another day
to say "I love you," and certainly there's
another chance to say our "Anything I can do?"
But just in case I might be wrong,
and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you
and I hope we never forget.

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone,
young or old alike,
And today may be the last chance
you get to hold your loved one tight.

So if you're waiting for tomorrow,
why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes,
you'll surely regret the day,

That you didn't take that extra time
for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone,
what turned out to be their one last wish.
So hold your loved ones close today,
and whisper in their ear,
Tell them how much you love them
and that you'll always hold them dear

Take time to say "I'm sorry,"
"Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay."
And if tomorrow never comes,
you'll have no regrets about today.

Author Unknown

From Mike comes lyrics from a Phil Ochs song, “Power And The Glory" (1964)

“Here is a land full of power and glory
Beauty that words cannot recall
Oh her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom
Glory shall rest on us all "

From Jen, a site she found inspiring…

http://people.delphi.com/andybeals/thankyou.htm

Also, Jencloses all of her emails with the following words:..

Be Nice Nice is Good

From Juta came a quote from Goethe...

“Life belongs to the living,
and he who lives
must be prepared for changes.”

Holly felt the following site was heartbreaking and beautiful many photos;
slow to load, but worth the wait:

http://home.earthlink.net/~hankinhsd/thankyou.htm

From Christine, a poem by Siegfried Sassoon…

"A Post-Mortem"

Searching for souvenirs among some rubble,
A post-atomic-warfare man observed
That "those who made this little bit of trouble
Got only what they asked for and deserved."
Then, in a kindlier afterthought's release,
He pitied "them that only asked for peace."

From Ruth…

“All things are connected. We did not weave the web of life; we are but a strand in it. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the people of the earth.”

Chief Seattle

Irene's email message…

loved the choice of wordsworth this week, raoul. you're so right about words failing us, but i've found in the last week that, in fact, words have soothed us, comforted us, rallied us. while we were glued to tv sets, we also read everything we could get our hands on; editorials, reports, testimonies, stories, poems. i have to tried to impress upon my class the importance of the written word and nothing has done more to affirm that than this past week. our family has been fortunate as we have not lost a family member or loved one, but we all suffer and grieve with those who have. i have also been heartened by the positive attitude of my 14 year old freshmen who write about fear but also confidence and hope in the country's future. without hope, we are all lost. love to everyone who receives the quote of the week. i will look for more...irene

And a final quote by Henry David Thoreau …

“The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.”
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; September 6, 2011

Welcome to the Quote of the Week!!!! Your weekly Spiritual Snack for the Mind, Body and Soul. Overcoming FEAR and leaving behind a life of mediocrity are the themes of this week's quote. Enjoy!
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“Fear is something I don’t think you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, then you’re liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along doing what has to be done.”

Margaret Hastings

From Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, a highly recommended book!
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

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, August 29, 2011

Welcome once again to the Quote of the Week! Your presence, exactly as is at this very moment, is greatly appreciated. Inspiration is everywhere. This week's quote was found on the thigh of a young woman at the beach. Enjoy, I know I did!!
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"Colui che è armato con l'amore può sconfiggere ogni disgrazia."

Michelangelo

Translation...

"One who's armed with love can defeat any misfortune."

Michelangelo
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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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A Hurricane Irene Bonus Quote....

"Stay inside, if you have nothing else to do."

This advice was given to a TV Reporter as he was covering Hurricane Irene. Good Advice ~ It got me through the Hurricane!!

Check out the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwgCD9hVSbI

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