Your Attitude Defines Your Life

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

Attitude is Everything.
- Charles Swindoll

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Whatever happens to you, your attitude determines the quality of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How To Be Happy In Life

Playing the Cards You Hold

Choose to be Cheerful

What One Emphasizes

Choosing a Joyful Life
    

Just Give A Little More Than You Take, Each Day

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

It's not that hard to be a good person... 
Just give a little more than you take - each day.
Do a little something for someone less fortunate.
Do a little something for future generations yet unborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Your Life Purpose

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

A man's good name is his best monument
    

You Must Create Empty Space to Allow Creativity

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind,
and creativity will instantly fill it.
- Dee Hock

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the
inessential than with inventing something new.
- Helmut Jahn

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce

May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Seek Your Own Wisdom

Scientific Thinking

Welcome Inquiry, Discovery, and New Vistas

Discovery through New Eyes
        

Seek Win-Win Solutions

When we seek to discover the best in others,
we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
- William Arthur Ward

Most of us think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing --
that is, if I win, you lose; or if you win, I lose.
Life becomes a zero-sum game.
... [In contrast,] Win-win sees life as a cooperative arena, not a competitive one.
Win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks
mutual benefit in all human interactions.
Win-win means agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying.
- Stephen R. Covey


Your mother really did know the secret to a better world:
"Play nicely together. Don't fight."

Today's affirmation:
I feel unity with Spirit and with all that is.
My life is richer for sharing my being with all those I meet.
Each experience, however it appears at the time,
highlights and strengthens the fabric of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Helping Others

Our Shared Humanity

A Shared Dream

Caring for Others
      

Pay Attention and Look Closely

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass,
it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller

The more you look, the more you see.
- Robert M. Pirsig

Reason, observation, and experience;
the holy trinity of science.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.
Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own.
It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
- Paulo Coelho

Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Stay Alert for Opportunities

Have Eyes for Beauty

Why Are You Going?