Living messages

 Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.  ~ Neil Postman

- What messages are you sending?

Shades of gray

 Nothing is always absolutely so.  ~ Theodore Sturgeon

- How should one deal with most issues?

What you are

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.  ~ Thomas A. Edison

- What aspects of character are worth a lot?

Striving for knowledge

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.  ~Rutherford Rogers

- How do you enrich and expand your knowledge?

Build a door

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.  ~ Milton Berle

- What opportunity do you seek?

Liking life

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.  ~ Maya Angelou

- How 'successful' are you?

A meaningful life

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.  ~ Ken Hudgins

- What are the central elements of a meaningful life?

A new page

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

-To what new page could you turn?

Do your best

All I ask is that you do your best, and forget the rest.  ~ Tony Horton

- In what areas could you focus on doing your best?

Sense of wonder

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.  ~ Ray Bradbury

- What wonders surround you?

What you do

Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.  ~ William James

- What positive contributions can you make to the world around you?

To the heart

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones.  A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.  ~ Shanon  L. Alder

- How does one reach to the heart in relationships?

Extra mile

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.  ~ Roger Staubach

- Where could you extend some extra effort and care?

Fences

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.  ~ Bill Copeland

- Where could you show more openness?

The director of life

Be the master-gardener of your soul, the director of life.  ~James Allen

- How do you enrich your soul and spirit?

Like a river

 I would like to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.  ~ John Donohue

- How might more acceptance and openness enhance your life?

A little pruning

Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom.  ~ Feroz Bham

- What positive adjustments could you make in your behaviour or perspectives for continued growth?

Seeds of love

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.  ~ Ma Jaya Sati

- When have you been enriched by showing some care?
- Where could you sew more seeds of love?

Worth living

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

-In what do you have faith and enthusiasm?

The sunny side

Grab your coat and get your hat.  Leave your worry on your doorstep.  Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.  ~ Dorothy Fields

- What opportunity is there for sunshine in your life today?

True beauty

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.  ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- What storms have helped to shape and strengthen you?

An act of courage

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.  ~Seneca

- Where do you need to show some courage and resilience?

The noblest question

The noblest question in the world is, “What good may I do in it?"  ~ Benjamin Franklin

-What good could you do today?

Who we are

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.  ~ Malcolm Gladwell

- To what values do you aspire?

Provides enough

Earth provides enough for every man's needs, but not for every man's greed.  ~ Gandhi

- In what areas could you make responsible decisions?

Wide the window

Set wide the window.  Let me drink the day.  ~ Edith  Wharton

- What vitality may you experience today?