| “Stress
is not what happens to us. It's our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is
something we can choose.
— Maureen Killoran
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/24//07 People
and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by BELIEVING that they can
upset us.
— Albert Ellis
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/22/07 At
times I'm so discouraged with problems of the day, I fail to see THE JOYFUL THINGS
that are along the way; When troubles overwhelm me it's then my nerves may fray,
that's when I need to take the time to simply sit and pray; I must try to remember
though problems come my way, not to miss THE JOYFUL THINGS and the beauty of the
day.
— Author Unknown
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 9/10/07 You
have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of
yourself and see what happens.
— Louise Hay
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 8/27/07 It's
not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our
children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.
I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
— Joyce Maynard
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 8/13/07 The
young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
—
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/18/07 Life
isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in
the rain.
— Author Unknown
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 5/21/07 There
is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest
of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
—
Dr. Kurt Hahn, Outward Bound Schools Founder
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 3/26/07 The
great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our
eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search
for, without finding it.
— Seneca
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 2/26/07 You
are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence,
as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair."
— Douglas MacArthur
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line1/8/07 If
we fall asleep every night counting and acknowledging our blessings — we
'give permission' for The Universe to keep bringing them. When we show
appreciation and give thanks for those blessings, we invite more of the same into
our personal world.
— Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line11/24/06 Instead
of the usual standard of good and bad, ask how beautiful something is and whether
it makes you happy.
—
Author Unknown
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/2/06 There's
a powerful State of Mind that I believe we can all reach ... eventually. I learned
to move out of a survival-no-matter-what upbringing into positive thinking and
action. However, it was only when I finally embraced my serene, inner KNOWINGNESS
that miracles began to happen everywhere in my life.
—
Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 7/31/06 Dreams
pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this
interdependence produces the highest form of living.
—
Anais Nin
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/12/06 The
real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having
new eyes.
—
Marcel Proust
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 3/20/06 Become
a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise
your sights and see the possibilities — always see them, for they're always
there.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 1/2/06 The
unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through
the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some
heavenly blessings!
— Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 11/21/05 One
never knows what The Universe has in store for us. Personally, I believe that
IT IS ALL GOOD ... though we may have to spend some time in reflection to discover
how many blessings in disguise have resulted in the evolution of our soul.
— Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/31/05 Success
means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person
you believe you were meant to be.
— George Sheehan
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 7/11/05 Chance
encounters often create magical opportunities for joy, understanding and personal
growth. The key here is to stay open ... for even the most incredible sunbeam
cannot pierce a wall of stone.
— Harry Thomas,
Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 2/28/05 Celebrate
what you want to see more of!
— Thomas J. Peters
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/13/04 Often
what we dream about and pray for doesn't take the form that we think it 'should.'
This is the time that we need to call upon our 'inner wisdom' ... to see beyond
the physical and recognize true gifts when they magically appear on our doorstep.
— Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/25/04 Things
turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
—
Art Linkletter, Radio/TV Personality & Author (1912- )
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 9/27/04 The
greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing
the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
—
William James, American Psychologist (1842-1910)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 3/1/04 My
grandma was always 'biding her time' until she could get to Heaven. In the meantime,
her life was fairly miserable and she treated my mother abusively. I learned a
valuable lesson, however: Create as much Heaven on Earth as possible with everyone
near and dear.
— Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 1/19/04 If
you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly
won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
— Denis Waitley, Motivational
Speaker and Author
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/29//03
The
eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
—
Henry Bergson, French Philosopher (1859-1941)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/27//03 We
must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by
an
infinite expectation of the dawn.
—
Henry David Thoreau, American Writer, Philosopher, and Naturalist (1817-1862)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 8/4//03 If
you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
—
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (121-180)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/23//03
Minds, like
parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when
closed.
—
L.E. Modesitt, Jr., American Author (1943 -- )
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 4/14//03
Worry
is like a rocking chair — it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get
you anywhere.
— Dorothy
Galyean, Author of "Grandmas Little Books"
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 1/20//03 Each
choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us,
it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows
of our past and the joy in our future.
—
Harry Thomas, Editor of Inspiration Line
©
2003 Inspiration Line The
remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that
people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing
we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
—
Charles Swindoll If
we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet
the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that
we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
— Hazel
Henderson Non-participation
gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate,
life still goes on. If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to
go, then why not change the attitude? Reshaping attitudes is possible. Awareness
is the key initial step.
— Marsha Petrie Sue (The CEO
of You) The
world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.
— Gerald Jampolsky I
refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless
midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can
never become a reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will
have the final word.
— Martin Luther King Jr. You
cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what
happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing
it to master you.
— Brian Tracy All
that we are is the result of what we have thought.
—
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
No
one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of
our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they.
They merely put our attitude to a test.
—
Jim Rohn There
are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The
other is as though everything is a miracle.
—
Albert Einstein
Each
of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe
he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
— William James You
have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could
do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your
own mind.
— Darwin P. Kingsley Only
in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind
is adequate perception of the world.
— Hans Margolius
Preconceived
notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
—
Merry Browne
What
you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends
on what sort of person you are.
— C.
S. Lewis
It's
surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their
feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves,
and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
— Sydney
J. Harris
Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power
coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer
so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about
us always.
— Willa
Cather
Our
limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for
ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
—
Denis Waitley We
cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those
years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control
the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose
to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the
world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose
and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can …
our attitude.
— John Maxwell
(Developing the Leader Within You) You
can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have
roses.
— Ziggy
The
appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and
beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
—
Kahlil Gilbran
Man's
mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
—
Oliver Wendell Holmes The
voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
— Marcel
Proust
Men
are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
—
Epictetus What
is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to
us.
— Jean-Paul Sartre Everything
that is done in the world is done by hope.
— Martin
Luther Weakness
of attitude becomes weakness of character.
— Albert
Einstein The
future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
—
Eleanor Roosevelt Worry
does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
—
Corrie Ten Boom
Ah,
but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
— Robert Browning An
optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees
only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind.
—
Albert Schweitzer Ideals
are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like
the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and
following them you will reach your destiny.
— Carl
Schurz Stick
with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.
—
James Reston (advice to his grandson in New York Times Feb.
1980) Take
one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it
is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.
—
Benjamin Franklin
When
you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than
pessimistic.
— Charles R. Swindoll (Living Above the
Level of Mediocrity) Write
it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light
tomorrow with today.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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