Best
“If you are content with the best you have done, you will never become the best you can be.” Unknown.
Believe in Yourself
Happy New Year, everyone!
“Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true.” – Unknown
Freedom
Victor Frankl once wrote, “Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Revelation
“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order…the continous thread of revelation” – Eudora Welty
Good, Better, Best
“Never stop until your good becomes better, and your better becomes the best.”
– Frank Zappa
Dreams
“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water and altered the color of my mind” Emily Bronte
Passion & Purpose
“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela
Passion and purpose are interlinked. And they come from the gifts or talents that you have – those things that you take for granted as being so simple. Playing small means that we aren’t using those talents to their full capability. Sort of like singing in the shower, but not in the choir. If you have a beautiful voice you should be sharing it with others, even though you discount your talent to yourself. That is the fear talking. I am really getting in touch with the thought that anywhere I have resistance, I have fear that I need to take out hiding and look at. Why am I afraid, whats the worst that could happen, and just do it anyway.
Excellence
“Excellence is…caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical; expecting more than others think is possible.” – Winston Churchill
When you really believe in someone, you give them permission to think big. To open themselves to the possibilities and because of your belief they begin to believe, and suddenly that mountain in front of them becomes a hill with a gradual slope. If you think that I can do it, and she thinks I can do it, then I begin to believe I can can do it. And if all believe in each other and expect 6 impossible things before breakfast, who knows what we could do together?
Arrogance
“Guilt is really a form of arrogance which makes life all about oneself, rather than just learning the lesson, correcting the mistake and moving on. Forgiveness puts things in perspective and brings back innocence. It returns life to ease, flow and confidence.” – Chuck Spezzano
I never thought about guilt being a form of arrogance before. I love how reading someones words causes the word to form in my mind and get redefined. It’s like I am shining a light on a part of it that I never saw before. Arrogance is in the line “it’s all about me” and reminds me of how we react when we think that if I had only done this thing different, that thing wouldn’t have happened. That is arrogance, that someone’s misfortune somehow turned on only our actions or lack thereof.
Questioning
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
Always test your “truth” to make sure that it shouldn’t change. Every new thing that we learn, changes what we already knew. Either completely or we just understand a new facet of the truth, we see it a little clearer. If we don’t allow for our truth or understanding of the world to change, then we can’t really accept any new learning. If we don’t accept any new learning or sharing of knowledge, then we’ve built ourselves a prison built out of bars of ignorance. You can’t live the life you are meant to live, unless you open yourself to the posibility that everyone you meet knows something that will help you on your journey. So like that four year old that asks “why” keep asking and seeking and you will find it!
Express Gratitude
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward.
Spark
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” – Albert Schweitzer