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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Showing posts with label John Lennon. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Life Happens, Don't Look For A Scapegoat


It happens - Sometimes.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Life, by its very nature, can never be certain or "safe."
What each of us *can* choose is whether to be a kind person or to be a selfish person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
                  
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

When they are disappointed, most people react by assigning blame,
and finding someone to criticize.
What if we accepted that our disappointments
are seldom the result of malice on the part of anyone,
and worked together to make life better for all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people.
- Harold S. Kushner

When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch

It is a natural human instinct to assign blame to some person for everything that goes wrong in our lives.
Sometimes this is an attempt to deflect blame from our own behavior.
Often this is just an unwillingness to accept that tragic events can occur without any human being at fault.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:  Don't Take Life as Personal Affront

Think Twice Whenever "Fault" Is Mentioned 

Blame is a Cop Out 

Criticism and Complaint 
        

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Give Thanks for Both the Bloom and the Thorns


Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous

The most glorious moments in your life
are not the so-called days of success,
but rather those days when out of dejection and despair
you feel rise in you a challenge to life,
and the promise of future accomplishments.
- Gustave Flaubert

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
- Andy Rooney

We all have our thorns.
We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
- Rose Kennedy

Further reading: Choose a Joyful Life

Don't Resist Life

Life is Not Supposed to be Fair

The Power of Your Intention
     

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Principles are Sacred


Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain

Further reading: Live Your Principles

For Future Generations

The Price of Standing for Something Important

Either Accept It, or Change It
     

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Conscience and Principles


In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain


Further reading: For Future Generations

Live Your Principles

Either Accept It, or Change It

The Price of Standing for Something Important
    

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Bless and Give Thanks for All of Life


The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous

We all have our thorns.
We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
- Rose Kennedy

The most glorious moments in your life
are not the so-called days of success,
but rather those days when out of dejection and despair
you feel rise in you a challenge to life,
and the promise of future accomplishments.
- Gustave Flaubert

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
- Andy Rooney


Further reading: Don't Resist to Life

The Power of Your Intention

Choosing a Joyful Life

Life is Not Supposed to be Fair
   

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Gift of Love


We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
- Jean Anouilh

A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa


Further reading: Giving Love and Comfort

Giving of Yourself

Extending Love

Proactive in Our Love

Channels Made for Sharing

Friday, January 2, 2015

Being Fully Present in TODAY


Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen
but, if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

This is the day which the Lord has made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms 118:24

Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
Some great things are happening today
that bear no resemblance to what you planned.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Living in the Present

An Unknowable Future

The Canvas Of Life

Our Opportunity

A New Day

Life as Currency

Saturday, January 11, 2014

A Shared Dream


The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius

Individual commitment to a group effort -
that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo


Imagine what you could accomplish if you enrolled others into your dream. The world changes when people of vision and commitment create an infectious enthusiasm for their ideas. What is your great idea whose time has come?

Today's affirmation:
I feel unity with Spirit and with all that is.
My life is richer for sharing my being with all those I meet.
Each experience, however it appears at the time,
highlights and strengthens the fabric of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: The Power of Teamwork

Win-Win vs. Compromise

William Arthur Ward

My Personal Greatest Hero

Progress

Cooperation

Thursday, October 3, 2013

A Little Help from My Friends


As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

The more a helping hand is given,
the more hands are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Sharing with Friends

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

True Friends

Opinions and Hearts

The Nature of Friendship

Quotes about Friendship

Helping Others

Cooperation

Saturday, March 30, 2013

The Power of Teamwork


Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Individual commitment to a group effort -
that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi 

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to
reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy


Further reading: Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today

The Best Leader

My Personal Greatest Hero

Better Than Competition 

Quotes about Teamwork

Quotes about Commitment

Encouraging Quotes

Quotes about Success

My Quotes about Unity

My Quotes about Dreams

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Dream To Reality


Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin

May Your Most Beautiful Dreams Become Your Reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Climb Every Mountain

Create Your Future

Dreams and Goals

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Everything Happens for a Reason


I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe


I think "learn to trust no one but yourself" is much too cynical, but the rest is good advice.

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to ch
ange them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Further reading: How to Move On and Let Go

Success Tip: Drive Change

Question Your Questions

Quotes about People Changing

Everything Happens for a Reason Quotes

Thank You Quotes

Powerful Quotes

Quotes about Breaking Up

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Watering


We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon

The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous

Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson


Further reading: Tending the Garden of Our Lives

Pay It Forward

Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren

Quotes about Gardening

Quotes about Love

Quotes about Nurture

Quotes about Water

Quotes about Fences

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. - Ryunosuke Satoro


Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

We are each of us angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius


Further reading: Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today

Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation

Walk to the edge?

Jimmy Yen - My Personal Greatest Hero

Teamwork Quotes

Quotes about Unity

Spiritual Quotes

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish.

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir 

 Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. - Pope John XXIII 

 Imagine - John Lennon 

 Imagine whatever most speaks to your heart. Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish. 

 Further reading: Later is Never 




Saturday, February 26, 2011

The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.


Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott


Be alert. The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.

Further reading: How to Stop Worrying

How to Gain Self Confidence

How to Move On and Let Go

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Be Happy Today And Prepare For Tomorrow

Inspirational Quotes

Sad Quotes

Words of Wisdom

Sayings about Life

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

I get by with a little help from my friends. - John Lennon


I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

Be careful the friends you choose - for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous


Let today be a day to be grateful for all the friends who helped you along the road of life.

Further reading: How to Cope with Loneliness

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Some people move our souls to dance - Flavia Weedn

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Life is a song - sing it - Sai Baba


Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
- Sai Baba

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon


Appreciate all of life. Play to win, but be a good loser and come back to play your best the next day.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Imagine - John Lennon: Imagine Peace, Imagine Love


Imagine!
- John Lennon

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir


Imagine peace. Imagine love. Imagine oneness. Imagine whatever most speaks to your heart.

Take a moment to sit back, close your eyes, and visualize what you wish for the world, what you wish for the future of humankind.

Let this be a time not only for resolutions about your personal future, but also a time to make your resolutions about the kind of world you want your grandchildren to inherit.

Mark Twain quotes: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness

John Lennon: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Teamwork: John Lennon: A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together becomes reality.

Teamwork

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together becomes reality. - John Lennon

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo


Imagine what you could accomplish if you enrolled others into your dream. The world changes when people of vision and commitment create an infectious enthusiasm for their ideas. What is your great idea whose time has come?

Further reading: Jimmy Yen - My Personal Greatest Hero

A hero is someone who has given his life to something bigger than himself or something other than himself. - Joseph Campbell

Inspiring video of DJ Gregory, a golfer in spite of Cerebral Palsy, walking all the golf courses of the entire PGA tour.
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