All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
Today's Affirmation:
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Boldly Paint Your Life
Dreams and Action
Your Dream in Action
People must feel that the natural world is important
and valuable and beautiful and wonderful
and an amazement and a pleasure.
- David Attenborough
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
This land, this water, this air, this planet -
this is our legacy to our young.
- Paul Tsongas
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created,
not just as it looked when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Further reading:
Legacy to Future Generations
Reverence for Our Earth
One Planet, One People, One Destiny
Our Future is the World's Children
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
Further reading:
Be Simply Yourself
Fulfilling Your Dreams
Approve of Yourself
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Keep your eyes open to your mercies.
The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on your door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Finding A Way
Addicted to safety?
Appreciate the Unexpected
The Edge of All We Know
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamor.
- Charles Stanley
The woods speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
My hope for my children must be that they respond
to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
- Andrew Young
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds,
not the deafening blasts of doom.
- William Dean Howells
Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Further reading:
Honor Stillness
The Beat of the Universe
The Quiet Voice of Courage
Heaven is Within Us
