Let Me Embrace Thee

Life should be embraced, not merely endured.  ~ Karen Chaffee

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  ~ Charles R. Swindoll

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.  ~ Lao Tzu

Don't fear change; embrace it.  ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.  ~ William Shakespeare

Quotes about embracing life

The Best of This

Life is a song...sing it.
Life is a game...play it.
Life is a challenge...meet it.
Life is a dream...realize it.
Life is a sacrifice...offer it.
Life is love...enjoy it.   ~ Sai Baba

If there is another world, he lives in bliss
If there is none, he made the best of this.  ~ Robert Burns

Quotes about life

Up Hill all the Way

The first and best victory is to conquer self.   ~Plato

There are no short cuts to any place worth going.   ~Beverly Sills

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.    ~ Bum Phillips

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.    ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.    ~Rene Descartes

Does the road wind up-hill all the way?  Yes, to the very end.    ~Christina Rossetti

Quotes about self discipline

Best Worth Doing

Our great business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.  ~ Thomas Carlyle

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non essentials.  ~ Lin Yu Tang

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.  ~ Lou Holtz

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.  ~ Harold B. Lee

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.  ~ Edward Humphrey

Quotes about priorities

Constant Kindness

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.  ~ George Bernard Shaw

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.  ~ Rudyard Kipling

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.  ~ L. M. Montgomery

Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Constant kindness can accomplish much.  As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.  ~ Albert Schweitzer

Quotes about misunderstanding

The Best Six Doctors

To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.   ~William Londen

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.  ~ Hippocrates

To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.  ~ Chu Hui Weng

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.  ~ Danish proverb

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.   ~ quoted in "The Health Club" in School Life, Vol. IV (January - June 1920)

Quotes about good health, healing

Talent working with Joy

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.    ~Stephen King

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.  ~ Goethe

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.  ~ Roy L. Smith

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.  ~ Frank Tyger

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.  ~ Leo Buscaglia

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes about talents

Make the Heart Bigger

We owe it to each other to tell stories. ~ Neil Gaiman

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~ Maya Angelou

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.  ~ Anais Nin

Stories can conquer fear; they can make the heart bigger.  ~ Ben Okri

Quotes about stories

Sometimes you Weep

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.  ~ Studs Terkel

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.  ~ Thomas More

In every community there is work to be done.  In every nation there are wounds to heal.  In every heart there is the power to do it.  ~ Marianne Williamson

The wound is the place where the light enters you.  ~ Rumi

Life is like an onion.  You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.  ~ Carl Sandburg

Quotes about wounds, healing, recovery

The Beauty that Remains

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.  ~ Tom Stoppard

Each moment is a place you've never been.  ~ Mark Strand

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.  ~ Joseph Joubert

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.  ~Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.  ~Anne Frank

Quotes about perspective

Confident Tomorrows

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  ~ Winston Churchill

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.   ~ Hans Selye

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.  ~ Zig Ziglar

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays
And confident tomorrows.  ~ William Wordsworth

Quotes about attitude

The Walls We Build

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
 
You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.
 
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
 
Take care of your body; it's the only place you have to live.
 
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.
 
Quotes by Jim Rohn

The Most Beautiful

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. (who rolled a rock up a mountain only to see it roll back down)  ~ Albert Camus

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.  ~ Muhammad Ali

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.  ~ Rebecca West

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.  ~ Norman Vincent Peale

One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.  ~ Sigmund Freud 

Quotes about struggle

Make our Souls Blossom

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Men kick friendship  around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack.  Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.  ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The best way to destroy an enemy is to  make a friend.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

A true friend stabs you in the front.  ~ Oscar Wilde

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners  who make our souls blossom.  ~ Marcel Proust

But if the while I think of thee dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.  ~ William Shakespeare

Quotes about friendship

True Spiritual Growth

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.   ~ Anne Frank

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.   ~ Charles Darwin
 
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ~ Lord Acton
 
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.  ~Alexis de Tocqueville

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.  ~ M. Scott Peck 

Quotes about illumination, enlightenment

See the Light

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.   ~Mary Dunbar




One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.  ~Henry David Thoreau




As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.    ~Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is not consolation; it is light.    ~Simone Weil

Light
Light
The invisible reminder of invisible light.    ~ T. S. Eliot

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.   ~Aristotle Onassis

To love beauty is to see the light.    ~Victor Hugo

Quotes about light

To Make a Beginning

Each age has deemed the new born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.  ~ Walter Scott

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.  ~ Hartley Coleridge

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.  ~ Henry Moore

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool. ~ F. M. Knowles

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.  ~ T. S. Eliot

Quotes for the new year 2014

May your Arms Never Tire

May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For,
May your arms Never Tire.     ~D.Simone

May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too.
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.  ~ Irish blessing

Quote inspiration for new year 

The Life in your Years

It's better to burn out than to fade away.  ~ Neil Young

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.   ~Suzanne Collins

Love as much and as hard as you can because one day in your life near the end, you may forget how it truly feels.   ~Jeanette Michelle

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'  ~ Erma Bombeck

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in your years.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

Quotes about end

Ornament is Organic

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.  ~ Luc de Clapiers

Education is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.  ~ Aristotle

So may the outward shows be least themselves: the world is still deceived with ornament... ~ William Shakespeare

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.  ~ Joseph Addison

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals.  It is organic with the structure it adorns whether a person, a building, or a park.  ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Quotes about ornament