Anne Morrow Lindbergh:
When you love someone, you do not love him or her in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. —Gifts From the Sea(Pantheon)
“There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is — a miracle and unrepeatable.”
“Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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AFFIRMATIONS
Love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
Whatever it is we go thru in life leads us to a higher place.
Always keep people in your life who charge your battery…not drain it!!!
The rules of a relationship are determined by the party of least concerned.
If you can’t get out of it, you might as well get into it.
Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to.
ANYWAY
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
Kent M. Keith-Hawaii, Former President of Chaminade University
“Life is too short and too wonderful to waste time doing things you really don’t want to be doing.
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“The first step in the journey is to lose your way.”
“Your heart often knows things before your mind does.”
“We all have many gifts that we’ve never opened. It’s time to open some of yours. Find your wings! ”
“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is giving your gift away.”
“High standards are realistic goals; perfectionism is self-abuse”
“Few things can make us crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give”
“We have only to experience something once to know of its absence in our lives-and its possibility”
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
“Hope comes furnished with light and heat. ”
“Give the world the best you have and best will come back to you.”
“Go to the edge of the light you see.”
“Never met anyone anywhere who could outsmart honesty.”
“Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking”
“At the end of a matter ask, ‘What will I learn from this to make me better?’”
“Love has nothing to do with what you’re expecting to get-only with what you’re expecting to give, which is everything.”
“A Friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. ”
“Continue to be who you are…to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”
“A Joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart”
“The healthy personality is one who not only plays but who takes his play seriously”
“Don’t blow out my candle just to make yours burn brighter.”
“People often claim that a particular behavior is “natural” and “biologic” when they don’t want to change it.”
“As you think, so you act, as you act, so you become.”
“There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.”
“Throughout our lives, we are brought in contact with spiritual advisors; the trick is not in meeting them, but recognizing them when we do. ”
“Just being born made you worthy!”
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ”
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. ”
“Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live.”
“If the second marriage is a success the first one really isn’t a failure.”
“I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.”
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
“When you give, you begin to live, you get the world.”
“Intelligence is just a tool, it doesn’t make you any better.”
“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those who sang best.”
“We only have this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“Be where you are. Otherwise you will miss your life.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“There are two ways to live life-one as if nothing is a miracle and one as if everything is.”
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
“The stuff that wears on your nerves polishes your soul.”
“And the day came when the wish to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“How we spend our day is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
“Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.”
“Don’t wrap your emotional life around the weaknesses of others.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
