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BE INSPIRED TO BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted—Aesop
- Too many people die with their music still inside them—Oscar Wilde
- Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world—Buddha
- There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life—Sister Mary Rose McGeady
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind—Dr. Seuss
- The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty wasted thirty years of his life—Muhammad Ali
- It is never too late to be what you might have been—George Eliot
- Bravery is being the only one who knows that you are afraid—Franklin P. Jones
- Being kind not in some great deed of heroism, not in some great speech or act that may be pointed with pride—but rather in the little kindneseese from day to day—Edgar Cayce
- As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them—John F. Kennedy
- I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble—Rudyard Kipling
- Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it was—Dr. Seuss
- We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop—Mother Theresa
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover—Mark Twain
BE INSPIRED TO FIND YOUR SPIRITUAL SELF
- There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet—Brooke Medicine Eagle
- Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul—Democritus
- This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness—Dalai Lama
BE INSPIRED BY NATURE
- I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field some where and don't notice it… People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it's always trying to please us back—Alice Walker
- Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better—Albert Einstein
- If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected—Chief Seattle of the Suwanish
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul—John Muir
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Only when the last tree has died, and the last river poisoned and the last fish caught, will we realise that cannot eat money— Cree Indian Saying
- We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond though the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the mumuring of the sea–Paul Tillich
BE INSPIRED IN YOUR WORK
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit—Aristotle
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work—Thomas Edison (re. his effort to make the light bulb work!)
- Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare—Japanese proverb
- Help people reach their potential. Catch them doing something right—from the One Minute Manager
- Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply—Stephen R. Covey
- Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision— Muhammad Ali
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress—Mahatma Gandhi
- To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you—Benjamin Disraeli
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist see opportunity in every difficulty—Winston Churchill
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them—Henry Davide Thoreau
INSPIRATION FOR A PEACEFUL, LOVING WORLD - Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free—Dalai Lama
- Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make a real difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- Don't complain that the rose bush has thorns; rejoice that the thornbush bears roses—The Koran
- Before I pass judgment on a man, let me walk a mile in his moccasins—Native American Saying
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err—Mahatma Gandhi
- One man can make a difference, and every man should try—John F. Kennedy
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3 favourite poems
A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be? You, a child of God. Your playing small does not
serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
From The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying:
Autobiography in Five Chapters
One: I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am hopeless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever to find a way out.
Two: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I'm in the same place. But it isn't my fault. It still takes a long time to get out.
Three: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in. It's a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately.
Four: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.
Five: I walk down another street.
The Invitation (part of) by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know
if you will risk looking like a fool for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive
It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
I want to know
if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.
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