You are given your circumstances; you choose your response

 

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances
but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
- Joy Page

It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions,
everything we have done, and have not done.
- Hubert Selby Jr.

Your RESPONSE to any situation is your own RESPONSibility.
You are given your circumstances; you choose your response.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Don't Give Up

Thoughtful Response, Not Panic

Life is Not Hopeless

Create Happiness
    

How We Respond to Challenges

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances
but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
- Joy Page

It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions,
everything we have done, and have not done.
- Hubert Selby Jr.

Your RESPONSE to any situation is your own RESPONSibility.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Don't Give Up

Thoughtful Response, Not Panic

Life is Not Hopeless

Create Happiness
    

A Great Relationship is a Co-Creation

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The next time you say, "my wife," "my husband," "my children," or even, "my friend," pause for a moment and ask yourself whether there isn't just a tiny bit of possessiveness in that statement.

Further reading: Can You Make Them Change?

What is Love?

Generous Love

Our Loved Ones
      

Have Courage and Leap

Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs

The jump is so frightening between
where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to God.
- Anthony Dalla Villa

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach

Further reading: Faith Plus Action

Serenity in Times of Crisis

Be Unstoppable

Again Tomorrow
     

Beyond Limits

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: You Can Do It

The Power of Courage

Challenge of Dark Times

Be Unstoppable
     

How We Respond to Challenges

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances
but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
- Joy Page

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions,
everything we have done, and have not done.
- Hubert Selby Jr.

It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Your RESPONSE to any situation is your own RESPONSibility.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Thoughtful Response, Not Panic

Life is Not Hopeless

Don't Give Up

Create Happiness
    

Love Without Demanding Change

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

A loving relationship is one in which
the loved one is free to be himself -
to laugh with me, but never at me;
to cry with me, but never because of me;
to love life, to love himself,
to love being loved.
Such a relationship is based upon freedom
and can never grow in a jealous heart.
- Leo F. Buscaglia

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand – "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra

Further reading: Great Relationships

Love is Everything

What is Love?

The #1 Secret of Great Relationships
        

Circumstance Reveals What We're Made Of

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men
who have grown hopeless about them.
- Clare Boothe Luce

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless,
you are slamming the door in the face of God.
- Charles L. Allen

Further reading: Inner Life - Outer Life

The Power of Courage

Progress
    

Transformation into Butterfly

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
- Richard Buckminster Fuller

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief
in injustice and tragedy.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the Master calls the butterfly.
- Richard Bach

"Know thyself."
A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly.
Whoever studies himself arrests his own development.
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
- Andre Gide

There are all kinds of futures.
There is a hoped-for future,
there is a feared future,
there is a predictable future,
and there is an unimagined future.
- Werner Erhard

Further reading: Endings

Butterfly

Be an Instrument of Change
    

The Questions that Really Matter

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

Questions are a microscope peering into the depths of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Importance of Asking The Right Questions

Keeping Curiosity Alive

The Mind: A Fire to be Kindled

Quotations Pose Questions
    

Just the Way You Are

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A loving relationship is one in which
the loved one is free to be himself -
to laugh with me, but never at me;
to cry with me, but never because of me;
to love life, to love himself,
to love being loved.
Such a relationship is based upon freedom
and can never grow in a jealous heart.
- Leo F. Buscaglia

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand – "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love

Further reading: Love is Everything

The #1 Secret of Great Relationships

What is Love?

Great Relationships
    

Welcome Your Challenges

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Confidence and Action

Be Brave and Chase Your Dreams

Beyond Average

The Real You
   

Love Allows Freedom

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama  

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The next time you say, "my wife," "my husband," "my children," or even, "my friend," pause for a moment and ask yourself whether there isn't just a tiny bit of possessiveness in that statement.

Further reading: Generous Love

What is Love?

Our Loved Ones

Can You Make Them Change?

Beyond Your Limits

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: You Can Do It

Challenge of Dark Times

The Power of Courage

Be Unstoppable

Beyond Average

Life Is Unlimited

Attachment Is Not Love

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand – "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama 

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The #1 Secret of Great Relationships

What is Love?

Can You Make Them Change?

Love

Freedom

Conformity

Blame

Release

Demands

No Limits

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Overcoming Disability

Living A Successful Life

Be Brave and Chase Your Dreams

Challenges

Self Confidence

Limitations

Challenge

Unlimited

Limit

Profound Questions

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon

Questions are a microscope peering into the depths of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Affirmation:
I question my questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Question Your Questions

Maybe So, Maybe Not

What Are You Doing?

Quotes about Asking Questions

Quotes about Answers

Quotes that Make You Think

Wisdom Quotes

Wise Thoughts

Quotes about Insight

Quotes about Questions

Your Mission

A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach

Further reading: Living with Honor

Purpose and direction

Powerful Intention

Butterfly

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
- Richard Buckminster Fuller

'Just living is not enough,' said the butterfly, 'one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.'
- Hans Christian Andersen

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree - after a year and a thousand miles.
- jlh

Further reading: How to Build Self Esteem

Where are you going?

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

Footprints in the sand... Where have you been? Where are you going? Pay attention. Don't let resentments or pessimism answer for you.