God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Do what you can, and do it well.
Accept the rest with equanimity, and trust in God.
No one can ever do more than that.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Letting Go and Accepting This Moment
Serenity in Times of Crisis
Eye Of The Storm
Today, begin to look on all things
with love, appreciation and open-mindedness.
- A Course in Miracles
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious
privilege it is to be alive -
to breathe,
to think, to enjoy, to love.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Bounty of the Earth
Be Open - Welcome the New
Living Content
The Essence of Life
Recognizing Our Abundance
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt
A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Prisoner of Habit
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Fly Free
Your talent is God's gift to you.
- Leo Buscaglia
Pray as though everything depended on God.
Work as though everything depended on you.
- Saint Augustine
God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
- Saint Francis de Sales
A man's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23
Leadership is an opportunity to serve.
It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
- J. Donald Walters
Today's affirmation:
I give thanks to God for my physical, mental, and emotional health;
for my intelligence; for my talent; for my parents;
for my rearing; and for my place and condition of birth.
Further reading:
Give Thanks and Celebrate
Tolerance, Not Judgement
Helping Others
Judge Not
Rekindling the Light
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept
the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales
If you would know strength and patience,
welcome the company of trees.
- Hal Borland
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Beyond Worry
Try Again Tomorrow
The Wisdom of Patience
Strength in Silence
Emulate the Patience of Nature
Fortitude
