Deep Gratitude for the Spark

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

Further reading: Regrets, Resentments and the Path to Forgiveness - Stop Anger & Live Happy With Conscious Awareness

Appreciate Your  Friends

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Give Love and Comfort
      

Your Light Rekindled

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Appreciating Friends

Give Love and Comfort
      

True Friend

A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

Further reading: Appreciating Friends

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Give Love and Comfort
      

Rekindle the Light

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

Further reading:

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Appreciating Friends

Giving Love and Comfort
    

Complaining Only Makes You Miserable

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Complaining only makes you miserable.
Either plan and take effective action,
or gracefully accept the circumstances you are called upon to bear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Serenity Prayer

Disappointment

Serenity in Times of Crisis

Aesop: The Fox and the Grapes

A Different Life

Is today the day to find joy?

Complaining Creates Unhappiness

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins

Complaining only makes you miserable.
Either plan and take effective action,
or gracefully accept the circumstances you are called upon to bear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Serenity Prayer

Disappointment

Aesop: The Fox and the Grapes

Serenity in Times of Crisis

Is today the day to find joy?

A Different Life

Passing the Torch

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world,
who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
- Felix Adler

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation
with any race or nation known to history,
but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.
- Kelly Millar

I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn

Further reading: For Our Children

Pay It Forward

Responsibility to Future Generations

Our Light

Conscience

Our Light

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Further reading: How to Think Positive

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse - a fable by Aesop

Adversity

Quotes about Light

Gratitude Quotes

Fear Quotes

Quotes about Hate

Quotes about Love

Affirmation: I shine my light of happiness into the darkness of negativity.

Affirmation: I shine my light of happiness into the darkness of negativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world. Visualize your light radiating throughout the world, passing from person to person until the whole earth is uplifted by your happiness. See yourself carrying a candle into a dark cave. The candle illuminates the darkness rather than the darkness snuffing out the candle.