Lazy Sunday

So I was going to post something original and thought provoking today,
but then V and M wanted to go outside and play, which meant I had to be away from my computer. Before I knew it it was too late, the brain too tired to write anything original.

Fortunately for me (and you) while I was reading Mystical Me's archive posts I found this cool link and some great inspirational quotes that I thought I'd steal & share again with everyone.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. (Shakti Gawain, American spiritual writer)

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the USA, 1809-1865)

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom and peace - are always attained by giving them to someone else. (Peyton Conway March, American general, 1864-1955)

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. (H. Jackson Browne, American writer)

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. (Eric Hoffer, American writer, 1902-1983)

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is not diminished by the indifference of others. (Dag Hammerskjold, secretary-general of the UN, 1961 Nobel Peace Prize, 1905-1961)

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. (Robert Maynard Hutchins, American educational philosopher, 1899-1977)

He who angers you conquers you. (Elizabeth Kenny, Australian researcher, 1880-1952)

The answer is in your heart. You can always hear it, if you listen for it. (Elizabeth George Speare, American children's writer, 1908-1994)

The path to our destiny is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. (Barbara Hall, American author, born 1961)

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol, American artist, 1928-1987)

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. (Andre Paul Guillaume Gide, French writer, 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1869-1951)

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our minds to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. (Barbara Bush, American first lady, born 1925)

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. (Michelangelo, Italian poet, painter, sculptor and architect, 1475-1564)

Somehow, not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad.
(John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, 1807-1892)

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. (Sidney Madwed, American poet)

The more you praise and celebrate life, the more there is in life to celebrate. (Oprah Winfrey, American TV-host, born 1954)

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health and has a clear conscience? (Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher, 1723-1790)

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. (Heinrich Emil Brunner, Swiss theologian, 1889-1966)

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher, 1803-1882)

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. (L. Thomas Holdcroft, American theologian)

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. (John Boyton Priestley, English author, 1894-1984)

Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. (Bernard Williams, English philosopher, 1894-1984)

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you where. (Cherie Carter-Scott, American author)

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the USA, 1809-1865)

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. (Henri Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, 1807-1882)

Gratitude unlocks the beauty of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. (Melody Beattie, American author)

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. (Booker T. Washington, American human rights activist, 1856-1915)

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. (Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, born 1911)

The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude.
Right attitudes produce right actions. (William Johnson, superintendent of American Indian Affairs, 1715-1774)

If the only prayer you ever say in your life is 'thank you', it will be enough. (Meister Eckhart, German theologian and mystic, 1260-1328)

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher, 1803-1882)

If you're not giving the world the best you have, what world are you saving it for? (Kent Keith, American author, born 1949)

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (William Somerset Maugham, British novelist and playwright, 1874-1965)

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. (Dale Carnegie, American author, 1888-1955)

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. (Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist, 1870-1937)

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for the future. (Arnold H. Glasgow, American psychologist)

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you might find you're missing all the rest. (Dave Matthews, American singer-songwriter)

Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind. (Bob Proctor, American motivational speaker and author)

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation. (Robert Francis Kennedy, American senator and attorney general, 1925-1968)

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. (Will Rogers, American actor, 1879-1935)

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and playwright, 1749-1832)

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. (Jim Watkins, American actor, born 1944)