In

the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."

- Deepak Chopra

Nothing

is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Henry Ford

How

far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these. "

George Washington Carver

If

I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''

Wayne Dyer

How

people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

- Wayne Dyer

Life

is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith Robinson
American Author and Speaker

Life's

not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.

~Cherralea Morgen

One

of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.

John O'Donohue:

I

never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996

Mortality

" is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order to be tested, we must sometimes face challenges and difficulties. At times there appears to be no light at the tunnel’s end—no dawn to break the night’s darkness. We feel surrounded by the pain of broken hearts, the disappointment of shattered dreams, and the despair of vanished hopes. We join in uttering the biblical plea “Is there no balm in Gilead?” We are inclined to view our own personal misfortunes through the distorted prism of pessimism. We feel abandoned, heartbroken, alone. If you find yourself in such a situation, I plead with you to turn to our Heavenly Father in faith. He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face."

--Thomas S. Monson, "Looking Back and Moving Forward", Ensign, May 2008, 87–90

Friendship

is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

Please

" don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort."--

Gordon B. Hinckley, "Rise to the Stature of the Divine within You," Ensign, Nov. 1989, 94

I

" think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern. Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way."

--Gordon B. Hinckley, "Forgiveness," Ensign, Nov. 2005, 81

There

" is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless."

--James E. Faust, "The Refiner's Fire," Ensign, May 1979,

"one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. "

C. S. Lewis

The

"worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."

- Jim Rohn

Attitudes

" are contagious. Are yours worth catching?"

- Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Do

" something wonderful, people may imitate it."

- Albert Schweitzer

To

"effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."

-Anthony Robbins

I

" count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self."

- Aristotle

Go

" for singles rather than home runs. They're a lot easier to hit. Besides, every four singles equals a run...and the bases are still loaded!"

- Eric Harvey


I really like this one. I think a lot of us, including myself, only keep the end in sight and what we are trying to accomplish. Along the path we get frustrated at the "steps back" so to speak that we take and forget to give credit to all that we have already accomplished towards achieving the main goal. Without the small steps the end goal would not be possible.

Have

" the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."

- W. Clement Stone

Consider.....

" how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

- Jacob M. Braude

Our deepest fear.....

“ is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Marianne Williamson /Nelson Mandela

This quote is my favorite. I have a lot of personal attachment towards it. This is the quote that I posted on my blog that Elisa left her first comment on.

Welcome

I have decided to start this blog to keep track of all thoughts that I find inpiring, uplifting, motivating, etc; this way they are all in the same spot and I can find it when I need it. I always remember a thought and can't remember who said it, where it came from or what piece of scratch paper I wrote it on. Hope they are inpiring for you.