Quote Worthy
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.
"Mindfulness is paying attention without judgement."~Amber Karnes
"Little strokes fell great oaks.” –Benjamin Franklin
“What day is it?", asked Winnie the Pooh
"It's today," squeaked Piglet
"My favorite day," said Pooh” ~A.A. Milne
Comparison is the thief of peace and power. Don’t let it thwart your victory. ~Priscilla Shirer
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch. ~Corrie ten Boom, Don't Wrestle, Just Nestle, 197
Our bodies can change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.~Amy Cuddy
https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are?language=en#t-1019984
"Strive for excellence not perfection." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"But now when I teach, I put a huge emphasis on aiming true--finding your innate talents, dropping fear, and pursuing what makes your heart beat, regardless of what anybody else thinks." ~Kathryn Budig, globetrotting yoga teacher and health and wellness writer
"Learning to relax and calm yourself is a valuable life skill. A relaxed body is healthy, vibrant, and feels great. A relaxed mind in creative, powerful, and unlimited. Stress reeks havoc on the body and the mind. So it is important to have tools you can use to reduce stress." --Mira Binzen, Global Family Yoga
How we do anything is how we do everything. -- Mira Binzen
Inspirational novelist, Eugenia Price (1916-1996) --"If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his."
"Faith is the ability to hear the melody of God's future. Hope is the courage to dance to its tune today." Bishop Hanson, Tweeted on March 18, 2013
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
“Life is about obstacles. Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens.”
Wade Boggs
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I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
"Well begun is half-done!" -- Mary Poppins (Every journey begins w/ a single step)
Shake the dust off your sandals if a locale won't welcome you--shake the dust off your shoes if someone won't accept all you've tried to apologize for.
Pastor Tommy
It's better to make an honorable retreat than to make a bad stand.
Pastor Tommy
Make the most of your talent and time. Cut out activities that only distract or make it harder for you to fulfill your responsibilities.
11/25, The One Year Through the Bible Devotional
God Reliance vs. Self Reliance
Less is more.
Keep the door to dreams open! You just might walk through it.
Nell Williamson
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do!
-Edward E. Hale
"You win some, lose some, wreck some, just keep driving!"
Dale
Children are living messages to a time in the future we'll never know!
When life is really good, it's messy.
Brad Pitt
Behavior follows attitude!
WEIGHT WATCHERS
The only way to become truly wise begins with having reverence for God.
"Peace, Prayers, & Blessings".
Pastor Tommy
"Be Firm, Be Fair, Be Consistent" This was the mantra of a high school principal I worked for in Waynesville, Missouri. It should be the discipline policy for schools everywhere.
Sheri Lewis
"God uses ordinary people & ordinary moments to tell about God's extraordinary promises."
TEN KEY PROMISES FROM THE BIBLE
"Unless we take a moment for a deep breath. A moment to remember who we are, who we belong to. A moment to focus – not on ourselves but on the power of God within us. The power of God around us. One halting step follows and if that goes well we take another. One step at a time and God sustains us
The deeper meaning of this story isn’t the fear generated by a trash talking Goliath. The deeper meaning is the good that God is soon to do despite Goliath’s prideful bluster. God is up to something. God is up to something in our lives.
Let us pray: Heavenly Father, when we hear the voices which challenge us and see the obstacles that stand in our way, we can become immobilized by our fears and shrink. We pray, when our going gets hard, for the courage to trust in you and your power within us. In Jesus’ name. Amen.".
DAILY DEVOTIONS, 7/14/09
The inmates do not run the asylum!
Wayne Price, 7/18/09
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else.
WW Rhonda
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." --Jane Howard
" Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. "
--Sydney Smith
If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.--Rick Warren
" The real secret of success is enthusiasm. "
--Walter Chrysler
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach -- Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/
"These days, my practice (my yoga practice) is teaching me to embrace imperfection: to have compassion for all the ways things haven't turned out as I planned, in my body and in my life - for the ways things keep falling apart, and failing, and breaking down. It's less about fixing things, and more about learning to be present for exactly what is."
~Anne Cushman
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” -- Abraham Lincoln
"Folks are usually as happy as they make their minds up to be."~Abraham Lincoln
He will keep in perfect peace all those who trust in him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord! -- Isaiah 26:3
"Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind than on the externals in the world."~George Washington, 1787
“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
The Hero In Me
She smiles, she laughs, she hurts, she cries.
She holds it all deep inside.
She lives, she flies, she soars, she dies.
She is the one I idolize.
She loves, she gives, she cares.
She is the one I know I will someday be.
A hero, a mother, a child, a soul.
The woman inside of me.
Isabelle, 10th grader
Red Cloud Indian School