“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.” – Anthony Robbins from W. Terry Whalin

“In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.” – John Ruskin from Jayne Savoie Post

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” –  (William Arthur Ward) from Becky Kinsey Neufeld

“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 from Lisa Copen

“Gratitude helps you to grow & expand; gratitude brings joy & laughter into your life & into the lives of all those around you.” – Eileen Caddy from W. Terry Whalin

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James from W. Terry Whalin

“The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.” – Arnold Bennett from Jayne Savoie Post

“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.” — Corrie Ten Boom from Janet Lynn Mitchell

“The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” – Victor E. Frankl from W. Terry Whalin

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” — Corrie Ten Boom from Janet Lynn Mitchell

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter Drucker from Jayne Savoie Post

“Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.” – Merle Miller, from W. Terry Whalin

Seeking God’s perfect will:  “God’s will is determined by His wisdom which always perceives, and His goodness which always embraces, the intrinsically good.” -C.S.Lewi’s from Marian McFadden

Yeah for no nonsense discipline: “I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.”— Peter DeVries from Maria Keckler

Recent quotes from Patsy Clairmont:

“Pride is the mask of one’s own faults.” ~Jewish Proverb

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain

“Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.” ~Anon

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not & often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” –  Henry W. Longfellow
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.” ~ L. Buscaglia
 
“The tragedy in life is not the fact of death, it is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

Recent quotes from W. Terry Whalin:

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” – Demosthenes Choose To Be Unstoppable
 
What are you doing to embrace this?: “I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated.” – Leland Bartlett

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. “ -William James

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson from Patsy Clairmont

 ”Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.” – Mary C. Crowl from Lisa Copen

“The idea is in thyself. The impediment, too, is in thyself.” – Thomas Carlyle: Choose To Be Unstoppable from W. Terry Whalin

“Never fear growing old; there are many who have never had the privilege” ~Anon. from Patsy Clairmont

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” ~Frank H. Clark, from Patsy Clairmont (Patsy, how do you come up with all of these?)

“Intentional people accept what they can’t change about their season/circumstances, making brave, deliberate decisions about what they can change.” 

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Anthony Robbins from W. Terry Whalin

“I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.” – Mary Gardiner Brainard from Lisa Copen

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill from W. Terry Whalin

“One of the best escapes from the prison of procrastination is to take even the smallest steps toward your goals.” – Waitley

“A goal without a plan is a wish.”

Why do I have so many quotes about goals?

“The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.” – Warren Buffett from Jayne Savoie Post

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” –  Winston Churchill from Patsy Clairmont

“A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it’s an undo-it-yourself project.” – Abigail Van Buren from Jayne Post 

“Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.”  – R. Schickel from Patsy Clairmont

“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.” – Jack Niklaus from W. Terry Whalin

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” – Phillips Brooks from Jayne Savoie Post

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ~ William Wordsworth from Patsy Clairmont

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” – Winston Churchill from Joanne Kereluk Curry

The loss of a home or possessions is often viewed as a materialistic loss, and we tend to minimize its significance and impact. What is often overlooked are the irreplaceable family heirloom-type items that are lost and the huge amount of time, effort, and money it will take to rebuild after a loss. A trunk full of baby clothes, a box of school memorabilia, photo albums and baby books are the kind of things no one or no amount of insurance can replace.

My mom lost her Good News Bible on an airplane. It was the first Bible she purchased when she became a Christian, and she had been studying and speaking out of it for over twenty years. It had all of her original markings she had written as she made spiritual discoveries for the first time. She said, “I’ve never studied and marked up the Bible the same way since I lost that Bible.”

There are emotional connections to our things that make a dramatic impact on us if they are lost. I lost the onyx stone out of an antique ring my Grammy Littauer gave me. A few years later, the beautifully filigreed mounting was crushed. I looked in antique stores for twenty years before I found a ring that was similar. I now wear that ring almost every day as a precious reminder of my grandmother’s love, even though it is not the same ring.

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