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May you find encouragement and inspiration in these encouraging quotes to live by.
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Today is your day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows and butterflies out to play,
soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Dance Lightly With Life:
Today is your day to
dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
soar your spirit,
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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