What a great post by Brad Stanton to remind us that having faith is not about believing in miracles blindly, but it is taking action to be your best self, being true to your ideals, hopes dreams and values.
Please read more at: http://bradstanton.com/2013/01/18/powerful-ideas/
“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
E.E. Cummings
”There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
Andre Gide
“The most ignorant among mankind have some truth in them. We are all sparks of truth.”
“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.”
- Pablo Casals
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather that luxury; and refinement rather than fashion…to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.”
William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842
American Minister
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace at all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
“The beginning of turning things around so that the species can survive is to be found precisely in the search for universal values. we must take it much more seriously than we do.”
A.H. Halsey
“Our own worst enemy can not harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.”
Jack Cornfield
Buddha’s Little Instruction Book
“When you feel happy, really happy, it somehow seems that you’ve always been happy and that you’ll always be happy. The same is often true when you feel sad, or lonely, or depressed, or broke, or sick, or scared. Something, perhaps, to remember.”
Notes From The Universe
Thoughts become things… choose the good ones! ®
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“When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.”
- David L. Weatherford
“Love is an act of will – namely, both an intention and an action. Love is as love does.”
Road Less Traveled, pg. 83
M. Scott Peck, M.D.
“The heart benevolent and kind most resembles God.”
Robert Burns- 1759-1796, Scottish Poet
“Here is a rule to remember in the future when anything tempts you to be bitter: not ‘this is a misfortune’ but ‘ To bear this worthily is good fortune’.”
Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD
Roman Emperor and Philosopher
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be”
-Grandma Moses
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, people cannot live without spiritual life”
-Buddah
God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does He make only one star shine onto the earth.
-Eberhard Arnold
“Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.”
Hasidic saying attributed to the Belzer Rebbe, Shalom Rokeakh
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
