The Eagle in You Wants to Soar

 

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar,
and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
- Carl Sandburg

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable...
we must be content to creep along the ground,
and never soar.
- John Henry Newman

Why settle for less?
If you do not yet feel your wings spreading,
look for the chains tethering you to your history.
You were born wild and free. What happened?
Are you willing to break free of your past?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Spread Your Wings

Life Lived to the Edge

The Edge

Let Your Heart Soar
    

Choose to Soar

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar,
and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
- Carl Sandburg

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable...
we must be content to creep along the ground,
and never soar.
- John Henry Newman

Why settle for less?
If you do not yet feel your wings spreading,
look for the chains tethering you to your history.
You were born wild and free. What happened?
Are you willing to break free of your past?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Spread Your Wings

Life Lived to the Edge

The Edge

Let Your Heart Soar
    

You Too Can Soar

 

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar,
and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
- Carl Sandburg

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth,
God is pleased when we're pleased.
He wills that we be as free as birds to soar
and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable...
we must be content to creep along the ground,
and never soar.
- John Henry Newman

Why settle for less?
If you do not yet feel your wings spreading,
look for the chains tethering you to your history.
You were born wild and free. What happened?
Are you willing to break free of your past?

Further reading: Spread Your Wings

Life Lived to the Edge

The Edge

Let Your Heart Soar
    

The Impulse to Soar

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar,
and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
- Carl Sandburg

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth,
God is pleased when we're pleased.
He wills that we be as free as birds to soar
and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable...
we must be content to creep along the ground,
and never soar.
- John Henry Newman

Why settle for less?
If you do not yet feel your wings spreading,
look for the chains tethering you to your history.
You were born wild and free. What happened?
Are you willing to break free of your past?

Further reading: Spread Your Wings

Life Lived to the Edge

The Edge

Let Your Heart Soar
    

First a Dream

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is your dream - your life-dream?
Have you begun to live it yet?

Further reading: Follow Your Dreams

I Dreamed a Dream (Susan Boyle video)

Dream. Begin. Persevere.

I have a Dream... Martin Luther King Jr. (video)
      

Soar, It's Your Natural State

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable...
we must be content to creep along the ground,
and never soar.
- John Henry Newman

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar,
and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
- Carl Sandburg

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth,
God is pleased when we're pleased.
He wills that we be as free as birds to soar
and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer

Soar - it's your natural state.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life Lived to the Edge

Let Your Heart Soar

Spread Your Wings

The Edge
    

Powerful Dreams, Powerful Action

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

What is your dream - your life-dream?
Have you begun to live it yet?

Further reading: I Dreamed a Dream (Susan Boyle video)

I have a Dream... Martin Luther King Jr. (video)

Dream. Begin. Persevere.

Follow Your Dreams
  

A Bad Day?

Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and, someone's got to pay.
- Jewel

Our attitudes control our lives.
Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day,
for good or bad.
It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness
and control this great force.
- Irving Berlin

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day.
There's everything wrong with making others
have to have it with you.
- Neil Cavuto

Ever had a bad hair day -
a day when everything seemed to be going wrong?
Perhaps today is a day to soothe your ruffled feathers,
take a deep breath, and reaffirm that
the weight of the world is really not on your shoulders,
unless you choose to assume that burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation:
I gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Having a Bad Hair Day?

Release your burdens. Choose Joy.

Life's Storms

Breathe deeply and rejoice.

Bad Day quotes

Sad

Life's Burdens

A Burden?

The fog comes on little cat feet - Carl Sandburg

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking over
harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Fog sneaks in, "on little cat feet," as Carl Sandburg says. A gentle mist creeping across a quiet pond or softening the base of an imposing mountain can inspire one to brew a cup of hot chocolate, settle into a comfortable chair and contemplate life.

However, fog is dangerous for ships, and mind fog is even more hazardous to your mental health. Overly comfortable habits and unthinking repetition can allow mind fog to set in and cobwebs to form in the corners of your mind.

Is today the day to clean your mental gears and blow away the mind fog?

Further reading: Knowledge is soon changed - Gene Wolfe

Be Here Now - Ram Dass

I Dreamed a Dream

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have a Dream... Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

What is your dream - your life-dream? Have you begun to live it yet?

Further reading: Mary Anne Radmacher: Dare to dream of your great success

Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

Take Charge of Your Life - 9 Secrets for Getting Un-Stuck

Vince Lombardi quote: Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is

Intention versus Expectation (Demand)