Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

When did we forget? Why did we forget?

Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Positive Attitude: How to be Positive Around Negative People

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat, Push Your Buttons, Get You Riled Up, Or Annoy You

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa

Gandhi: The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

You get what you settle for. Thelma and Louise

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

Every man dies, but not every man really lives.
- the character Braveheart in the movie Braveheart

Further reading: Do or do not, there is no try. - Yoda (Star Wars movie)

Life is like a box of chocolates. - Forrest Gump

May You be Blessed and May Others be Blessed by You

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance. - Miyagi

Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill

I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Winston Churchill

Choose wisely - then act decisively. Do it today!

Further reading: Rabindranath Tagore: You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water

Amelia Earhart: Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done

ACTION - the sixth Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Ability without honor is useless. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- Aristotle

Further reading: Finding Balance in Life Beats Moderation: Eight Ways to Balance Your Life

Honor your being

This Above All, To Thine Own Self Be True - 5 Ways to Apply William Shakespeare's Advice Today

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. Robert Foster Bennett

Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

Today's affirmation: I make my own choices. I decide what I will and will not do. I am proud of my independence.

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life - 5 Secrets For Breaking Your Bad Habits

Conscious Breathing to Relieve Stress

Positive Affirmations for Relieving Stress

Anais Nin: We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Try Daily Journaling - 7 Hints for Beginning a Rewarding Journaling Practice