Living Out Loud

Refresh your outlook

(a Thought for the Week)

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust

"The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes." ~ Chales R. Swindol

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." ~ Jimmy Dean



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Change your Beliefs

(a Thought for the Week)

"Beliefs are the determinant of what one experiences. There are no external causes." ~ David Hawkins

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." ~ Napoleon Hill

"A belief is assuming something to be true, to be a fact. A belief is not caused, it is created by choice. A belief about a thing's existence is not the same as its existence." ~ Bruce Di Marsico

"If you think you have a problem, accept that your belief systems (thoughts), are giving you trouble, not the world." ~ Larry Crane

Trust yourself

(a Thought for the Week)

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." ~ Golda Meir

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." ~ Garth Henrichs

"Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise." ~ Grantland Rice

"I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it." ~ Sarah MacLachlan

"Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart." ~ Unknown

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." ~ Billy Wilder

As within, so without

"Our outer world is a reflection of our inner world. Take care of your inner world and plant the seeds of goodness & love. All other things will fall into place." ~ Unknown

"As we understand that the outer world is merely a reflection of our inner world we realize that people and events do not happen to us, they happen for us. We drew them to us for our higher good, for our understanding, for the evolution of our consciousness." ~ Lucille Anne Meltz

"It does not matter one iota what we change on the outside, if we haven't done the work to change on the inside. Our reality will continue to evolve so that it is a reflection of our inner beliefs and world." ~ Tony Davies

Invent your future

(a Thought for the Week)

"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened." ~ John M Richardson Jr

"As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living it, at once, to any degree that you possibly can."  ~  Mike Dooley 

"Decision changes everything." ~ Douglas Verneeren

"The best way to predict your future is to invent it. It's up to you." ~ Frank Maguire

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Be the Change

(a Thought for the Week)

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning. But anyone can start today and make a new ending." ~ Maria Robinson

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." ~ Flora Whittemore

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." ~ Pericles

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." ~ Mahatma Ghandi

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Count your blessings

(a Thought for the Week)

"When a person thinks about the things, people and experiences that they're grateful for, their awareness of the good in their life increases, and they start to feel good. What you focus on increases, so the more you feel good about all there is to be grateful for, the more will show up." ~ Jamie Smart

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." ~ Brian Tracey

"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play." ~ Og Mandino

"An attitude of gratitude can fend off any sad- itude." ~ Karen Salmansohn

Celebrate your Life

(a Thought for the Week)

"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think." ~ Horace

"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." ~ Susan Polis Schutz

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part." ~ Shirley MacLaine

"May you live all the days of your life." ~ Jonathan Swift

All is well, no matter what it looks like

(A Thought for the Week)

"Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution." ~ Deepak Chopra

"A jug fills drop by drop." ~ Buddha

"Your joy is divine and so is your suffering. There's so much to be learned from both." ~ Wayne Dyer

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." ~ Douglas Adams

"Life has to be lived forwards, but it only makes sense backwards." ~ Rod Briggs

"All is well, no matter what it looks like. It's all happening perfectly." ~ Susan Jeffers

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Step into the field of all possibilities

(a Thought for the Week)

"Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security." ~ John Allen Paulos

"Impossible is a word humans use far too often." ~ Jeri Ryan

"Our aspirations are our possibilities." ~ Samuel Johnson

"Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities." ~ Deepak Chopra