Beauty is whatever gives joy. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy. - Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka 

  To love beauty is to see light. - Victor Hugo 

 We are blessed to experience nature's paintbox. 

 Further reading: CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Life is magnificent - just as it comes.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Declaration of Independence of United States of America

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

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

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. George Washington

Presidential Quotes

Thomas Jefferson quotes

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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire

Share more, argue less. Thank more, resent less. Appreciate more, blame less.

Further reading: Six Ways to End Bickering About Money

Stop Anger Before it Stops You

Moderating the Anger Response Through Training

Five 30-Second Emotional Releases to De-Stress at Work

A Story of Money

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. William Blake

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. - William Blake 

  Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. - The Buddha 

  The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! - Henry Ward Beecher

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing - without gratitude, all of life is perceived as a burden.

 Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude 

  Comparisons are odious 

  What do you take for granted? 

  The struggle ends when the gratitude begins. Neale Donald Walsch

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle - The Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

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

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

The unknown is like the darkness of a cave - it can be illuminated by the brief light of one adventurer's small candle.
- jlh

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 Stay Positive Around Negative People

7 Tips for Stress-Free Living

Conscious Breathing to Relieve Stress

The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life