“Without a strong foundation built on positive character traits, success will not long endure. It is virtually impossible to fake good character. Phonies are quickly spotted because they haven’t the substance and determination to maintain the charade. Developing good character begins with a positive attitude. Your desire to be a good, decent, honest, considerate person …
Month: March 2023
“We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that …
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or leading to do.” -— Pelé “Don’t confuse your path with your destination. Just because it’s stormy now, doesn’t mean you aren’t headed for sunshine later. Don’t lose faith.” — Trent Shelton “Our …
“The most insidious problem with drugs is that the human body develops a tolerance for them and requires larger and larger doses to achieve the same effect. The same is true with self-pity. The more you allow yourself to indulge in it, the more you will require. Soon, self-pity will become a habit, one so …
“You deserve your dream.” — Unknown “Think of your body as your dear friend. It is a physical organism, but it also contains consciousness in every one of its cells.” — William DeFoore “The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to … action without any selfish attachment to the …
“Don’t give your mind permission to get disturbed. A disturbed mind is easily influenced. This will cost you your peace. Learn to maintain your peace by freeing yourself from attachments. Competing or comparing yourself with others will not allow you to focus inwards. An inner focus allows you to keep your eye on your higher …
“Lighten up, have a rainbows and butterflies kind of day.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie “May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that’s always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.” — Irish Blessing “Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color …
“How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it’s important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What’s good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?’” — Nathaniel Branden ” …what …
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” — Oscar Wilde “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” — Henry David Thoreau “To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of …
“If you have a sense of goodness about who you are – that deep, down inside you’re good – then you’re on the right track. And that track is one that leads into God and you don’t need to know what that means or what it is to be the Soul, but that is the …