Living Out Loud

Life is in the being and doing

 

A Thought for the Week

 

 

"Joy is not in things, it is in us." ~ Richard Wagner

 

"Life is contained in the doing not in the having.  The less you have that isn't of the highest importance to you; the more time and space you have to do and be what is important to you." ~ Beverley Rowland

 

"One day your life will flash before your eyes.  Make sure it was worth watching."  ~  Unknown

Feel afraid and act anyway

A Thought for the Week

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful." ~ Mark Victor Hansen
 
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~ Helen Keller
 
"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen." ~ Paulo Coelho

Invent your future

A Thought for the Week

"What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment.  And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new.  Right now." ~ Unknown

 "Decision changes everything." ~ Douglas Verneeren

 

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

Apologies for being so late this week - I was experiencing severe technical issues!

Be open to magic and miracles

A Thought for the Week

 

 

photo by Sandy Austen

 

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle." ~ Paolo Coelho

 

"One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything.  Sometimes it seems to be hiding but it is always there. The more we can see the magic in one thing, a tiny flower, a mango, someone we love, then the more we are able to see the magic in everything and in everyone."  ~ Joshua Kadison

"That's the thing with magic.  You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you."  ~  Charles de Lint

Start as you mean to go on

A Thought for the Week

Live with intention
Walk to the edge
Listen hard
Practice wellness
Play with abandon
Laugh
Choose with no regret
Continue to learn
Appreciate your friends
Do what you love
Live as if this is All there is 

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

photo by Sir Merv

Serve Others

A Thought for the Week

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."  ~  Albert Pike

 

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."  ~  Albert Schweitzer

 

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."  ~  Anne Frank

 

"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own."  ~  Confucius

Give what you want to receive

A Thought for the Week

"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give." ~ Winston Churchill 

"If you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn to give love; if you want attention and appreciation, learn to give attention and appreciation; if you want material afflucence, help others to become materially affluent." ~ Deepak Chopra

 

"For it is in giving that we receive." ~ St Francis of Assisi

Do unto yourself as you would do unto others

A Thought for the Week

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." ~ Sonya Friedman

"If we spoke to others the way we often speak to ourselves, we'd have no friends!" ~ Duncan Coppock

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection". ~ Buddha

Be True to Yourself

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"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." ~ William Shakespeare

"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 

 

"Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way." ~ J. Michael Straczynski

 

"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

Play hard!

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 photo by Mike Baird

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play." ~ Heraclitus   "We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~ George Bernard Shaw   "Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold." ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce   "When we come together to play and be, we are truly ourselves. When we are truly ourselves it is wonderful, and when we act collectively in that wonder we do transformative work for our community and our world." ~ Brad Colby