Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are - Lao Tzu

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Today's affirmation: I am open to receiving the generous gifts of Spirit. I hold no expectations or demands on the form, the timing, or the color of the wrapping on the bountiful gifts of Spirit.




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Further reading: Inspiring short stories of love, compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude

Zero-Based Gratitude

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

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. - Amelia Barr

Attitude Quotes

Beautiful Quotes

Blessings

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart. - Mary Anne Radmacher

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

Let today be a day to appreciate your relationships and friendships. Let today also be a day to be clear which connections are committed, and which are merely for temporary convenience.

Further reading: Relationship articles

Long Distance Relationships - advice and quotes

Six Ways to End Bickering About Money

How to Know When "Mister Right" is Mister Wrong - dating advice for women

Quotes about Friendship

Funny Quotes about Friends

I celebrate myself, and sing myself - Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. - Walt Whitman 

  Celebrate what you want to see more of. - Tom Peters 

  The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

Gratitude is the prayer, while Celebration is the song and the dance of praise. - jlh 

  I create Today as a celebration of my life. - jlh 

Celebrate all of life.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. - Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

It is hard to do what you fear, but harder to keep thinking about it.

Further reading: Steve Jobs Three Rules of Life

Hoist the Anchor

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

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors - jlh

Be a Columbus to whole new worlds of thought within you - Henry David Thoreau

Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau

While Christopher Columbus is, and was, a man of very mixed reputation, we know of Christopher Columbus today, 500 years after he lived, because he had a Dream, Charted a Course, and Boldly Set Sail.

Like Columbus, we have Dreams that run through our head like full color movies, pleading with us to take action.

Like Columbus, we have many people telling us that our dreams are "crazy," and we should settle for less.

Like Columbus we are unable to anticipate what the future will bring, and what the consequences of taking action on our Dreams might be.

Will we, like Columbus, chart the best course we are able, given the information we have access to at the time, and set sail? Or will we trash our Dreams into the box labeled "fantasy discard pile," and return to doing what others expect of us?

Stand tall, breathe deep, and Choose today to chart the course that will transform your Dream into reality.

Further reading: Motivation

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. - Seneca