Beyond Average

Refuse to be average.
Let your heart soar as high as it will.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
- Frank Zappa

Normal is not something to aspire to,
it's something to get away from.
- Jodie Foster

Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The average estimate themselves by what they do,
the above average by what they are.
- Charles Edwards

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Is Now a Time to be Reasonable?

Begin Today

Mark Twain on Living Boldly

Unlimited

Live Boldly

Challenge Yourself

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

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Circumstance

Forgiveness and Acceptance, Another Look at the Challenges

The Eye-of-the-Storm

The Myth of Security

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Seeking

Live is an Adventure

New Worlds

Plentiful Harvest

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake

We must give more in order to get more.
It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
- Orison Swett Marden

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring,
who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
- B. C. Forbes

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

With every deed you are sowing a seed,
though the harvest you may not see.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Further reading: Bounty of the Earth

Watering Your Garden

Optimism

Changing Seasons

Abundance

Be Thankful

Gratitude
 

Bounce Back

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- George S. Patton

Life is like a roller coaster.
Scream "Whee..." on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Never Give Up

Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

Heartbreak

Feeling Sorry for Yourself?

Feeling Depressed?

Perseverance

Feeling Down

Never Give Up

Life Is A Mirror

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Read more about this quote.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

Smile and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmations:

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I am a Mirror for Love and Light,
but never for Anger or Fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Hate Reflects Hate

We see what we expect to see

We never see Life as it really is

Meaning of Life

Expectations - Demands

Assumptions