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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Showing posts with label John Lennon. Show all posts
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 change 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
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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
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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
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John Lennon,
Lucretius,
Ryunosuke Satoro,
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish.
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
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John Lennon,
John Muir,
Pope John XXIII,
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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
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John Lennon,
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Louisa May Alcott,
The Buddha
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
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.
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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