There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard
It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. - George Matthew Adams
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. - Minna Thomas Antrim
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. - Roger W. Babson
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. – Emerson
*The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink. — Chögyam Trungpa, from Meditation in Action
Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. - Samuel Johnson
I will utilize this day in a more positive way. I should not waste this very day. — H.H. Dalai Lama, from The Art of Happiness
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there, that's disgrace. - Edmund Vance Cooke
Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon. - The Zen Cowboy
Look at the world through soft eyes. Hard eyes distinguish and judge, noting the differences between ourselves and others. Soft eyes discern instead our commonality, the web of life that weaves itself through all humanity and nature. -Mary Manin Morrissey
*Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. - Arthur Helps
*However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act upon them? – Buddha
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Strive to make the spot where you live beautiful; then beauty and harmony will follow you in all your ways and through all your days. - Buddhist Prayer
A spiritual way of life is passionate! Neutrality keeps us in hell. Spiritual people move from being nice to being real. Real love brings people together. If you embrace a big God, you become an amazingly big person. Build your spiritual foundation. Life is lived by beliefs. Get honest. If you're not happy, are you working your spiritual path? Face your family issues. You are more than your past, your conditioning. Change unhealthy beliefs and attitudes. Get out of the box; free yourself! Listen to your feelings. Feelings are valuable guides to where love can heal us. - Mary Manin Morrissey's Life Keys Top 10 Insights into Creative Living, Part 1 - Fr. Leo Booth
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. - Nancy Lopez
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. - Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. - Dodie Smith
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them. - Jack Kornfield
In Mark 11:24, we read: Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask believe that you have received them and you will receive them. Make a decision to experience the dream in your heart, and state that dream as if it's already so. Hold a vision of your desired future and speak it aloud. Claim this promise now. -Mary Manin Morrissey
I get energy from the Earth Itself. I feel that as long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. . . . I won't give up until the Earth gives up. - Alice Walker
The moment we arrived on earth, we were given bodies, the vehicles that carry our spiritual essence. You and I do not live inside our bodies. Our bodies live inside us. They're the means through which we travel in time in this life journey. None of us knows how long this particular vehicle will last. But rather than worrying about when its warranty might run out, it's much more important to concern ourselves with the journey itself, with the knowledge, hopes and dreams our spirits guide us to along the way. Mary Manin Morrissey
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. - John Buchan
*Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau
It is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. - Mother Teresa
Self-knowledge is the shortest road to the knowledge of God. - Islamic Sage
*Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia. - Alexis Carrel
*Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. - William
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. - Baltasar Gracian
*He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking. - Michel Foucault
You must stick to your convictions, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. - Denis Waitley
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. - Saul Alinsky
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. - Louis Aragon
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. - William E. Channing
Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering. – Propertius
The Hindu tradition talks about the veil. When we look at someone, we see our perception of that person. When we look with judgment, the veil becomes more opaque. But when we remember God's inclusive love for all of us, the veil thins, and we begin to see one another as our true selves, the children of God. -Mary Manin Morrissey
Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. - Henry Miller
When I meet new people, in my mind there is no barrier, no curtain. As human beings you are my brothers and sisters; there is no difference in substance. I can talk with you as I would to old friends. With this feeling we can communicate without any difficulty and can make heart-to-heart contact. Based on such genuine human relations-real feeling for each other, understanding each other-we can develop mutual trust and respect. From that, we can share other people's suffering and build harmony in human society. - The Dalai Lama
Deep down we must have real affection for each other, a clear realization or recognition of our shared human status. At the same time, we must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient. - The Dalai Lama
*Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. - John F. Kennedy
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. - Quentin Crisp
I recently read this line: If you ever think you are too small to be effective, then you have never been in bed with a mosquito. There are times we forget who we are, what we're made of, or we struggle to know the purpose for which we've been born. That's why it's so important to build support into our lives, with prayer groups or Master Mind partners. We are not too small to make a difference in the world. By infusing each day with practices that help us remember this truth, we can begin and continue to do the work we have been sent here to do. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed. – Virgil
The nearest way to glory - a shortcut, as it were - is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. - Socrates, quoted in
Every problem is a spiritual issue. - Dalai Lama
For me, God is personal in the sense that He affects every individual differently. The rabbis of the Midrash said, 'God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everyone who looks at it sees a different face.' - Harold Kushner
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
*How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When people ask me Where is God? I tell them I would rather rephrase the question to When is God? Encountering God is not a matter of being in the right place, but of doing the right thing. God comes into our lives when we do things that make us truly human. When we help the poor, when we speak out for justice, when we get over our exaggerated sense of our own importance, when we learn to respond with child-like awe...we make room in our lives for God. - Harold Kushner
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
All we need to do is allow more joy and love into our experience. We need to really choose it, to allow ourselves to feel it, paying attention, choosing to be alive and to be kind; allowing ourselves to feel and to be nurtured by the natural order of the Spirit of God. When we choose and allow it, the dramas fall away and dissolve. - Patricia Sun
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul. - Luther Burbank
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. - Marc Chagall
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her... I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. - Claude Monet
But try, you urge, the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! - Robert Browning
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. - Vittorio Alfieri
There's only one thing stopping us from having heaven on earth: that we can't believe it can be. - Patricia Sun
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. – Aristotle
Suffering is good, in that it constitutes a recognition of inner conflict. Without such recognition, there can be no resolution of problems. - Sri Kriyananda
*It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it. - Alexandre Dumas
*The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. - Phyllis McGinley
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible...what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility! - Soren Kierkagaard
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - Albert Camus
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Kahlil Gibran
To know when to be generous and when firm - this is wisdom. - Edgar Watson Howe
Jesus looked into the eyes of every person, no matter what the infirmity, whether it was physical or emotional and offered a chance to begin anew. Any pain we've suffered or caused, the people we've disenfranchised, all the meanness we've employed, all the ways we cooperated with - Still, in this moment, we have the opportunity to wash the slate clean and begin again. We are forgiven and offered the opportunity to live a better way. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner
We recognize that while our souls are whole, our existence as humans can be painful and problematic. When we use these challenges to learn greater love, our human lives become richer and more fulfilling and we grow closer to our true nature. A physical wound heals when treated properly and left untreated, it festers. Tending to what ails us restores our capacity to give and receive love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. - William Bennett
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. - Harold S. Geneen
*Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh. - Katharine Hepburn
Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. -
To me, God and compassion are one and the same. Compassion is the joy of sharing. It's doing small things for the love of each other-just a smile, or carrying a bucket of water, or showing some simple kindness. These are the small things that make up compassion. - Mother Teresa
We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action. - Mother Teresa
The art of personality is to cut off the rough edges of this spirit of vanity, which hurts and disturbs those one meets in life. - Hazrat Inayat Khan in The Art of Personality
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. - Joseph Addison
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. - James Freeman Clarke
*There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. -
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - Chinese proverb
Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved. - Mother Teresa
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. - Corrie Ten Boom
Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. - Martin Luther King Jr.,
The Apostle Paul was in a dark, dank, rat-infested prison when he wrote these words: I have learned this one thing, that in whatever circumstance I am in, therein to be grateful. (Philippians 4:11) He didn't say we should be thankful for a bad situation, but rather, to be grateful regardless of the circumstance. Through spiritual practice, we find strength that transcends a temporary emotion or misfortune and learn to live from a grateful heart. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Apprehend God in all things, For God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God! If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature- even a caterpillar-I would never have to prepare a sermon, so full of God is every creature. - Meister Eckhart
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. - Clara Barton
It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in action and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate towards yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world. - Tao Te Ching
Practicing being in service takes the focus off ourselves and looks for how we might help others. When we feel grateful, we naturally want to share ourselves and our good fortune. Then we find that being in service only increases our gratitude and joy. - Mary Manin Morrissey
I vow to offer joy to one person in the morning and to help to relieve the grief of one person in the afternoon. I vow to live simply and sanely, content with just a few possessions, and to keep my body healthy. I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free. - Thich Nhat Hanh
*He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. - Mark Twain
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. - Lucille Ball
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order. - Julia Cameron in God Is No Laughing Matter
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. – Aristotle
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. - Thomas Aquinas
*One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. - Henry David Thoreau
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born. - Jonas Salk
*Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are completely dependent on the kindness of others, how can it be that in the middle we would neglect kindness toward others? - Dalai Lama
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. – Aristotle
*When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to live in a stationary one, and do without change. - George Bernard Shaw
Entheos is the root of the word enthusiasm and literally means, God within. When you bring enthusiasm to any situation, you are calling forth an inner power that knows no bounds. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage... to listen to his own goodness. - Pablo Casals
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
What if the second coming of Christ is the coming forth of the Christ in your own being? Can you dare to love in that way? Look at those you consider to be your persecutors, those who have treated you unfairly or unkindly and forgive them. Fill your heart with love, so there is no distinction between friend and foe. Begin now by choosing a difficult person or circumstance in your life and say, Thank you, God. Here is where I can grow my capacity to love. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. - John Burroughs
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. - Cyril Connolly
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. - Alfred Adler
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. -
*A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make no judgments where you have no compassion. - Anne McCaffrey
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. -
*The men and women that are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. - Elizabeth Harrison
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Phillips Brooks
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. - Ralph W. Sockman
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. - Harold B. Melchart
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. - Leo C. Rosten
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. - Edward Gibbon
The world exists for the education of each man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If perceptions lead to behaviors, can our thoughts bring love into our lives? Absolutely. I know for a fact that we can make the choice to love, that we can make that choice come alive, and that it's sustainable, renewable, and ever-deepening. - Barry Neil Kaufman
Compassion is based on the knowledge that the other person is fundamentally like you. - Dalai Lama
Individuals can affect the world by becoming a model or an example in their small circle of influence. Just as a rock thrown into a pond causes ripples to gradually keep going out until eventually they are very small, so our acts influence the ecology of the entire human race. - Stephen R. Covey, in Handbook for the Heart
Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it. - Alain, French philosopher
Pascal said, All of man's problems stem from his inability to sit alone in a room for any length of time. When we grow quiet, we become clear. We more clearly discern right from wrong. We more clearly discern our true desire. We become clear, because we are in communion with that Great Knower that resides within us. -Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
I look upon love as the supreme activity of life. Developing love in yourself has to take priority. You need to draw upon the divine energy from God so that you have the power to manifest or express this kind of love. - Stephen R. Covey, in Handbook for the Heart
*The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing. -Brother David Steindl-Rast quoted in I Will Not Die an Unlived Life by Dawna Markova
There is no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone-which is not, in some form or degree, in every heart. - George Macdonald, in Handbook for the Heart
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. - Emily Dickinson
Every one of us is unique. Every one is an unrepeatable, unique imprint of the presence of God. We have a God who loves differences and a personal humanity that struggles with them. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The more you notice the love, the miracles, and the beauty around you, the more love comes into your life. The more you love, the greater your ability to love. And the process perpetuates itself. As you love the world and the people in it, you find this love manifests itself and returns to you. - Betty Eadie, in Handbook for the Heart
The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast of it, and probably not even to be aware of it. - Henri Peyre
It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. – Euripedes
I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it. - Steven Wright
Befriending myself seems to be about opening my heart as a homeless shelter for all the destituted and prostituted aspects of my being that I have been running from for years without even knowing that's what I have been doing. - Dawna Markova in I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
Sleep that knits up the ravel'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. - William Shakespeare
Rather than insisting that I was perfect and that everyone else was to blame, I was able to begin loving and accepting myself as never before. And, having learned to accept and love myself, I was able to extend love and acceptance to others. I was free to start loving the less than perfect parts of other people as well. - Betty Eadie, in Handbook for the Heart.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire. - Bliss Carman
So what we seek in living from the heart is a rhythm in life that includes time for renewal in nature: time to walk for no purpose at all; time to sit still; time to listen to the sounds of life around us; time to listen to our bodies; time to listen to our hearts. Meditation can teach us this art with the simple grace of following our breath in and out until we feel the life rhythm that always moves in our bodies. - Jack Kornfield
No punishment anyone might inflict on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we inflict on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment. - Parker Palmer quoted in I Will Not Die an Unlived Life by Dawna Markova
The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law. - Mary Manin Morrissey
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher
*Someone once wrote: Happiness is always a by-product. You don't make yourself happy by chasing happiness. You make yourself happy by being a good person. The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they're busy doing good. - Rabbi Harold Kushner, in Handbook for the Heart
None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in. - Rabbi Harold Kushner, in Handbook for the Heart
When we stop merely tolerating life and begin to embrace it, when we release grudges and are willing to bury grievances, when we truly heal what ails our soul, and when we begin to live in truth, we find an innate holiness. We learn that every disorder seeks order, all dis-ease can find ease and no anguish is beyond peace. Our holiness makes us whole. - Mary Manin Morrissey
When we come to a point of rest in our own being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest, and then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud becomes a revelation, and each person we meet a cosmos whose riches we can only glimpse. - Dag Hammarskjld quoted in Senses Wide Open by Johanna Putnoi
Nonviolence is not about passivity. Gandhi talked about nonviolence as a path for the courageous. Courageous literally means of the heart. Therefore, the energy we direct every single day moves through the heart, and we empower others and ourselves with that energy. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Pretend you could spend a week alone, snowed in at a charming mountain cabin. You're thoroughly enjoying the solitude, but the second day, there's a knock on the door. Imagine the person outside is someone with whom you'd least like to spend any time, and now the two of you are stuck together in the cabin. This is your opportunity to change your life in a powerful way. Welcome that person into the cabin of your mind and spend the next several days finding the good in someone you had once dismissed or condemned. - Mary Manin Morrissey
I don't believe I've ever met a person who hasn't been challenged or wounded by something. Difficulties present choices: we can either waste away from our wounds or use them to grow our souls.... The process of making sense of our wounds is a very personal one. But a common theme in wound healing is the universal need to forgive. If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole. - Joan Borysenko, in Handbook for the Soul
Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. - Henry Ford
Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe. - Source Unknown
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