Quote of the day

[Geoff-Allen]

"May we never let the things we can’t have or don’t have or shouldn’t have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it. One of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have."

~ Richard L. Evans

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative - or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people."

~ John Marks Templeton

 

[Geoff-Allen]

After you have been kind, after love has stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it. Love hides even from itself. Love waives even self-satisfaction. “Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.”

~ Henry Drummond

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind, and they who have so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but their own disposition, will waste their lives in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief they propose to remove."

~ Samuel Johnson

 

[freethinker44]

"I have had it with these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane!"

~ Samuel L Jackson

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."

~ John Heywood

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Gentleness is a way of life, showing our love in how we interact with people and things. Like any way of life, gentleness has to be practiced for us to become more gentle. If we want to become more gentle, we must take active steps, that is (1) choosing to be more gentle, (2) keeping this resolution in mind, (3) acting in gentleness, and (4) catching ourselves when we are not gentle so that we can be more aware of our gentleness or lack of gentleness in the future."

~ Thomas Stobie

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.
New-made friendships, like new wine,
Age will mellow and refine.
Friendships that have stood the test--
Time and change--are surely best;
Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray;
Friendship never knows decay.
For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
Once more we our youth renew.

~ Joseph Parry

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Your criticism polishes my mirror." If you
understand who you are and respect yourself, you will not see criticism
as a problem but as an opportunity to become a better person. When you
feel inadequate or imperfect, the criticism is threatening and makes you
feel that you have to defend yourself. When you are secure--not perfect,
but secure--you can listen to the criticism and consider its value. You can
say, "I'm sorry." And "thank you for polishing my mirror," and when it is
appropriate you can learn from the criticism and improve your behavior.
I say when it is appropriate because there are some people who love
to find fault in others. That is their problem."

~ Bernie Siegel

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"While ideas such as discipline and focus are undeniably important, so is
the idea of having fun. With a small amount of effort, we can extract all
the fun and joy out of most parts of our lives - our relationships, our work,
even our leisure time. We can put so many restrictions and should's on
everything we do that our very lives become dull, overly ponderous, and
routine. Before long, we find ourselves living up to a set of rules - and
we're not certain where the rules came from or whose they are. Let
yourself go. Have a little fun with life. Or, have a lot of fun with life. If
you've spent years being extremely disciplined, reliable, and somber,
maybe part of achieving balance is having a decade of fun."

~ Melody Beattie

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing
with the other person? Can you enjoy together those
moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the
moments people look back on at the end of life and number
as their most sacred experiences."

~ Eugene Kennedy

 

[Geoff-Allen]

The capacity for getting along with our neighbour depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individuals will try to be as tolerant of their neighbour's shortcomings as they are of their own."

~ Eric Hoffer

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and the pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing, and grace before I dip the pen in the ink."

~ G. K. Chesterton

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"You'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place."

~ Terry Goodkind

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful
for everything that I have materially. I am thankful for everything that I have
spiritually. I thank God for allowing me to experience these things, even the
experiences that may not seem so positive, such as developing an illness. I
may not understand why I have the illness, but I sense that it is there for a
purpose, and so I thank God for it. I ask him to allow me to expand beyond
my narrow-mindedness and self-centeredness so that I can see the good
that comes from everything."

~ Betty Eadie

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Everybody really knows what to do to have his or her life filled with joy. What is it?
Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them.
Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself
and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what
you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words:
"If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

~ Norman Vincent Peale

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."

~ John Heywood

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"We don't have choices about who our parents are and how they treated us, but we have a choice about whether we forgive our parents and heal ourselves."

~ Bernie Siegel

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Grant that I may be given appropriate difficulties and sufferings on this journey so that my heart may be truly awakened and my practice of liberation and universal compassion may be truly fulfilled."

~ Tibetan prayer

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Why not let people differ about their
answers to the great mysteries of the
Universe? Let each seek one's own
way to the highest, to one's own sense
of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life.
Let each philosophy, each world-view
bring forth its truth and beauty to a
larger perspective, that people may
grow in vision, stature and dedication."

~ Algernon Black