Enjoy What You Do Have

Life is not about perfection -
or a quest for perfection.
Life is about enjoying what we have -
for as long as we have it.
Life must not be about regretting what we do not have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
- Sai Baba

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung

Further reading: Small Pleasures

Live Your Life Fully

Life Really Is Good

Cherish the Whimsey
   

Release Your Attachment to the Way Things Have Been

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit.
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage,
a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Stop holding on to the past.
1) Release your regrets about whatever you may have done or failed to do that turned out poorly.
2) Forgive others for whatever they may have done or failed to do that cause you harm.
3) Declare today to be a new beginning.
Let go of the past and move on with creating a joyful new future for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Let Go of Your Attachment to Your Plans

A Better Plan

Illusions Lost

Don Miguel Ruiz: The Four Agreements - The Wisdom of the Ages in Four Sound-Bites 
      

Create Your Own Future

Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Where Do You Want To Go?

Thinking as Creation

How To Cope With Life

Create Light for Others

Find God in Silence
    

A Ray of Beauty

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

Further reading: Take time to Smell the Flowers

Lighten Up, Life Isn't Serious

Choose Not To Stress
      

Deep Gratitude for the Spark

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

Further reading: Regrets, Resentments and the Path to Forgiveness - Stop Anger & Live Happy With Conscious Awareness

Appreciate Your  Friends

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Give Love and Comfort