Discovery in Challenges

"Challenges make you discover things

about yourself that you never really knew.

They're what make the instrument stretch -

what make you go beyond the norm."

Cicely Tyson.

One Difficult Moment

“Take one difficult moment

and use it as a place to start all over

instead of as a time to sink into self-pity.”

Guy Finley

Kind Words

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak,

but their echoes are truly endless.”

Mother Teresa

Be Content

‎"Be content with what you have;

rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking,

the whole world belongs to you."

Lao Tzu

Believe In Yourself

‎"Believe in yourself

and there will come a day

when others will have no choice

but to believe with you."

Oscar Wilde

Tissue Paper Thin

‎"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin,

and a single courageous step

would carry us clear through them."

Brendan Behan

Boredom and Curiosity

“The cure for boredom is curiosity.

There is no cure for curiosity.”

Dorothy Parker

Communication

“The more elaborate our means of communication,

the less we communicate.”

Joseph Priestley

Perfection

‎"The gem cannot be polished without friction,

nor man perfected without trials."

Confucius

Direction

‎"Any fool can make things bigger,

more complex,

and more violent.

It takes a touch of genius -

and a lot of courage,

to move in the opposite direction."

Albert Einstein

Thanksgiving

“Not what we say about our blessings,

but how we use them,

is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

W. T. Purkiser

Prosperity

‎"If you're prosperous in soul,

you'll be prosperous in whole."

Mark Victor Hansen

Opposite Values

‎"Life is the coexistence of all opposite values.

Joy and sorrow,

pleasure and pain,

up and down,

hot and cold,

here and there,

light and darkness,

birth and death.

All experience is by contrast,

and one would be meaningless without the other."

Deepak Chopra

Ultimate Freedom

‎"Our ultimate freedom

is the right and power to decide

how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."

Stephen Covey

In The Middle of Feeling

“Right in the middle of feeling

as though the weight

of the whole world is on your shoulders,

look around for something else

that you might carry.”

Guy Finley

The Common Sense of Your Heart

‎"Remember the phrase,

'The real teacher is within you.'

Very simply,

that teacher is to be found in

the common sense of your own heart."

Sara Paddison

Nothing Can Make You a Victim

“Nothing and no one can make us a victim.

We do it to ourselves when we allow

external circumstances to hold power over us.

Although we have no control over what happens to us,

we always have a choice in how we respond.

We hold our power when

we accept complete responsibility for our thoughts,

feelings and actions.”

Patrice Robson

Express Gratitude

“As we express our gratitude,

we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,

but to live by them.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Give Thanks

"I give thanks for my permanent happiness, my permanent health,

my permanent wealth, my permanent love.”

Florence Scovel Shinn

Feeling Gratitude

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

William Ward