If we fail to plan, we merely bob helplessly -
like a cork on the sea of life.
If we resist whatever life delivers to us,
we create untold misery for ourselves.
If we act with vision and commitment,
and then accept whatever Spirit provides,
we live a life of purpose and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
- Jules Verne
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Today's affirmation:
I practice non-resistance.
I accept the wisdom of God
in creating the world exactly as it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Acceptance Is Not Resignation
Non-Resistance
Everything Happens In Its Own Time
Serenity in Times of Crisis
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Further reading:
Lighten Up, Life Isn't Serious
Time to Smell the Flowers
Choose Not To Stress
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude
Debt of Gratitude
Opportunity for Daily Thanksgiving
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Live Courageously
Honor Your Commitments
Live Your Greatest Life
Be Unstoppable
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Why?" is the most useless question in the universe.
The only question with any meaning is "What?"
Asking "Why is this happening?" can only disempower you.
Asking "What do I want to make of this?" does exactly the opposite.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nature is relentless and unchangeable,
and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons
and actions are understandable to man or not.
- Galileo Galilei
Further reading:
Complaining Only Makes You Miserable
Break Your Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering
You Are Not A Victim
What One Emphasizes
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