Halloween 2019 - Play as a Child

Consciously adopt the mindset of a young child,
to whom all of life is a grand adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho

Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly
toward the solution that is certain to come.
Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino

Today is your day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy

Cherish the Whimsey

Sense of Humor

Play Day

Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life (complete poem)
     

Mistakes are just Bumps in the Road

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong
than to agonize at length and be right too late.
- Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the
human condition there is no shame in being wrong,
only in failing to correct our mistakes.
- George Soros

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

Mistakes Always Precede Success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Fear of Striking Out

Never Second Guess Yourself

Make a Decision
       

Be Alert to New Opportunities

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
- John Barrymore

When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous

Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7

Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Further reading: Learn from Failure

Another Door

Follow Your Bliss
    

Just be your own great self, not "better" or "worse" than anyone else

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

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence isn’t thinking you are better than others,
it’s realizing that you have no reason to compare yourself to anyone else.
-Maryam Hasnaa

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Just be your own great self, not "better" or "worse" than anyone else.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Ignore Your Critics

Believe In Yourself

My Wish

Make Your Dreams Come True
        

To Do Good Is My Religion

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

The world is my country,
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine, One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and author of "Rights of Man" (1792)

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion
than for any other single reason.
That, my friends, that is true perversion.
- Harvey Milk

We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Religion is a blessing when, and only when,
it provides a focus for a compassionate community
to minister to its members and to the world at large.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: True Religion is about Helping Others

Everything is God

A Common Denominator of All Religions...