Choose With Intention

Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen

Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Aesops Fable: The Miller, His Son, and the Ass

How to Deal with Rejection

Success Tip: Drive Change

Listen To Your Heart

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be good to yourself.
Listen to your body, to your heart.
We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling
like we're not doing enough.
It's a terribly hard job.
- Marcia Wallace

To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela

All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene

Further reading: Love in My Heart

How to Move On and Let Go

Preparing My Heart for the Holidays

Helping Others

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Abraham Lincoln (attributed)

You have two hands.
One for helping yourself,
the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

Helping someone is what life is all about.
- Willie Stargell

The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 Further reading: Overcome Being Negative

Life Purpose

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Quotes about Helping Others

Helping Hand Quotes

Community Service Quotes

Garrison Keillor Quotes

Encouragement for a Friend

Quotes about Appreciation

Encouraging Sayings

 

Let Your Spirit Soar

Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson

Life has meaning only in the struggle.
Triumph or defeat is in the hands of God.
So let us celebrate the struggle!
- Stevie Wonder

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Edge

Trust in the Light

Grant That I May Radiate

Quotes about Spirit

Struggle Quotes

Celebrate Life Quotes

Glory Quotes

Wings Quotes

Uplifting Quotes

Nurture Yourself

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit,
your time will expand.
You will gain a new perspective
that will allow you to accomplish much more.
- Brian Koslow

Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading:  How to Be Yourself

Pleasing Everyone

Creating a Dream for Your Life

Watering