A thought for the Day

[Disney Doll]

A friend remembers the way you were, but won't insist that you stay that way.

 

[EROS]

I want to share something with you -- the three sentences that will get you through life.

Number one, "Cover for me."

Number two, "Oh, good idea, boss."

Number three, "It was like that when I got here."

-- Homer Simpson

 

[Dan Murphy]

Peace within

If there is one thing we've come to understand over the last few months, it is this. The more tumultuous and uncertain the world around us becomes, the more important it is to nurture a real and abiding peace within our hearts. When there is trouble around you, it is more important than ever to have peace within.
Peace is strength at rest. It is high energy without high tension. Those who are strong enough to live in peace and at peace, are the strongest indeed.

Today, and every day, is an opportunity to put the power of peace to work in your life. Though there may be turmoil and confusion all around you, with a peaceful heart you can find the strength to make each and every moment more beautiful than the last.

Act from a perspective of genuine peacefulness, and you'll act with strength, confidence and effectiveness. Hold peace firmly in your heart. Nurture it and let it flow from you, and it will give power to whatever you undertake.

Find your own genuine inner peace and with the strength of that peace you can truly change your world.

-- Ralph Marston

 

[Disney Doll]

Wise sayings often fall on battered ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.--Sir Arthur Helps

 

[EROS]

Maybe, just once, someone will call me "sir" without adding, "you're making a scene."

-- Homer Simpson

 

[Catzeyes]

All is Well

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Pray, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effect without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner.

All is well.

Henry Scott Holland

 

[Disney Doll]

Never,if possible, lie down at night without being able to say:"I have made one human being at least a little wiser, or a little better this day."--Charles Kingsley

 

[Dan Murphy]

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.

-- Mahatma Gandhi,

 

[Dan Murphy]

Pick something positive

When life starts getting too negative, pick something positive from the infinite possibilities available to you. Pick something positive and then focus the energy of your attention and your effort on it.
Find something to learn, develop an empowering new habit, help another person, create something beautiful or useful, build for the future, solve a difficult problem or set about to fulfill any one of the countless number of positive possibilities which are open to you.

You are creative. You are adaptable. You are effective at accomplishment. Every day, your actions bring about the things you've truly decided to pursue. So when darkness surrounds you, when you find yourself engulfed in despair, set your sights on lifting yourself and your world out of that despair.

Right now, there are so many things you can do to make a positive difference. Yet those possibilities, as sweet and as positive and as powerful as they are, have no value unless you decide on a specific one and then do what it takes to bring it into reality.

Pick a positive possibility and start to make it happen. Life won't get you down as long as you're working to lift it up.

-- Ralph Marston

 

[Disney Doll]

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid: so far behind the speaker's lips that it almost already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.--Henry David Thoreau

 

[EROS]

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

 

[Dan Murphy]

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

-- Winston Churchill

 

[Disney Doll]

Nobody could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.--Edmund Burke

 

[helenabear]

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

 

[EROS]

 

[Dan Murphy]

Some great thoughts, DD and Elaine.

Filled with abundance

The world is filled with abundance. Do you see it? Do you appreciate it? Do you make use of it? When you do, then life's abundance becomes your abundance.
Focus your mind on the abundance of life. Focus on the positive possibilities. Give your time, your thoughts and the energy of your actions to those possibilities, and you'll transform them into a sparkling reality.

When you think only of lack and limitation, you're simply setting yourself up to get more of the same negative results. Instead, expand your thoughts to encompass the limitless abundance which already surrounds you. That abundance is yours to use whenever you're ready to see it and live it.

Though circumstances may often be troubling, when you look beyond those troubles of the moment and let go of your fears, you'll find that the abiding, overwhelming abundance of life is always there.

No matter where you are or what has happened in the past, there are always positive possibilities for your life and for the world in which you live. Grab on to the best of those possibilities and live the abundance that can be yours.

-- Ralph Marston

 

[Catzeyes]

That's a great one Dan, thanks so much for sharing it.

 

[Disney Doll]

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.--Lao-Tzu

 

[Catzeyes]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97...

Wear Sunscreen

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You’re not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you

Sing

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either: your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few, you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen...

Baz Luhrmann, Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

 

[EROS]