The outer conditions of a person's life will always
be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
- James Lane Allen
It is those who have a deep and real inner life
who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
- Evelyn Underhill
Begin with your own inner peace.
Then use that inner peace
as a platform from which
to approach the outer world
with perspective, understanding, and patience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances
but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
- Joy Page
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
Further reading:
What Really Matters
Master of My Emotions
Your Attitude is Your Window
Mastering Time
Renewal
Life Really Is Good
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
There are no hopeless situations;
there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
- Clare Boothe Luce
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless,
you are slamming the door in the face of God.
- Charles L. Allen
Life only appears to be rushing toward us.
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future - our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Not Fair, But Joyful
How to Stop Worrying
The Edge of All We Know
Welcome the Unknown
Life: Mystery and Riddle
An Unknowable Future
Like a bird in flight, your life can soar above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.
But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
Further reading:
Without change, there would be no butterflies
The Edge
Need For Approval
Trust in the Light
The path of the adventurer is a path of joy - jlh
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you believe that a task will be difficult, it will be -
and you will have suffered with worry beforehand.
Approach life with joy and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Power of Faith
End Overwhelm, Fear, and Worry
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment
Beyond Your Worries
Gratitude and Thanksgiving
