Living Out Loud

Follow your heart

A Thought for the Week

"Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitve, it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. . . At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought." ~ Deepak Chopra

 

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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

 

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Be still

(a Thought for the Week)

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"If water derives clarity from stillness, how much more so does the mind."  ~  Chuang Tzu   "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."  ~  Deepak Chopra   "In the place of stillness, rises potential. From the place of potential, emerges possibility. Where there is possibility, there is choice. And where there is choice, there is freedom!"  ~  Gabrielle Goddard

All coincidence is meaningful!

A Thought for the Week

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"In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word coincidence does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly." ~ Wayne Dyer   "Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences, but rather, it's a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite sublime plan." ~ Unknown   "I do not believe in meaningless coincidences.  I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention." ~ Deepak Chopra

Thoughts become things . . .

A Thought for the Week

"Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you." ~ Bishop Steere

"All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." ~ Buddha

"Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny" ~ Tryon Edwards

"Thoughts become things.  Choose the good ones." ~ Mike Dooley

Find the Good

a Thought for the Week

 

 

"Find the good.  It is all around you.  Find it.  Showcase it and you'll start believing it." ~ Jesse Owens

"Where there are friends there is wealth."  ~ Plautus

 

"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."  ~  Vincent Van Gogh

 

"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."  ~  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn 

 

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Today is the first day of the rest of your life

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"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day." ~ Bob Feller

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." ~ J.B. Priestly

"Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true." ~ Unknown 
 

"The future is always beginning now." ~ Mark Strand

 

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Laughter is the spark of the soul

    

 "Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life."  ~  Unknown
 
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humour in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."  ~ Bill Cosby
 
"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."  ~  Yiddish proverb

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Climb that mountain!

(a Thought for the Week)

"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved." ~ Maurice Chevalier

"'Rocky Balboa' is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander. You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire." ~ Sylvest Stallone

"I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." ~ Unknown

"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So . . . get on your way." ~ Dr. Seuss

The Power is Within You

(a Thought for the Week)

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." ~ Alice Walker

 "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities" ~ Terry Josephson

"Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted." ~ William Hastie

Be authentic

(a Thought for the Week)

"Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness." ~ Unknown

"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will." ~ John McDonald

"Find the courage to hold onto your beliefs, even if the world around you chooses to believe differently. Have the courage to change those beliefs that no longer fit the person you have become. In doing so, you truly become yourself." ~ Daniel Levin

"You never find yourself until you face the truth." ~ Pearl Bailey