Daily quotes with thoughtful reflections to inspire you every day.

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When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed, say: “There is another way of looking at this.”
-A Course In Miracles

There are things that happen around us that automatically trigger a response of anger or stress. We believe our anger or annoyance is justified, and we will often talk with others to validate those feelings. In reality, unless you are being immediately attacked by a killer bear or a steel girder is about to fall [...]

There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going someplace.
-Ralph Sockman

Life is great. Life is hard. It is full of joy and full of pain. We are showered with gifts and stricken with grief.
To live a full life, avoiding pain and grief is as self-defeating as avoiding joy. Just as the appreciation of a warm spring day is amplified by months of uncomfortable cold, joy [...]

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
-John F. Kennedy

Wildflowers in a meadow in the mountains of West Virginia.
Last Friday’s Post, Instant Gratification that is Permanent and Free, talked about the benefits of gratitude and its obstacles. I wrote that, “Gratitude is the single key to peace of mind, contentment and satisfaction.” Here are a few ideas on how to make gratitude a permanent [...]

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-Thomas S. Szasz

Boredom is often a warning sign of one or more of several different problems including the following:

We are not living our lives to the fullest that we can.
We are taking ourselves too seriously.
We are lacking in patience and tolerance.
We are not respecting our time.
We are allowing others to be disrespectful of our time.

Remember that your [...]

With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it.
-Doc Childre
Doc Childre Publications at Amazon.com

Sunday, I posted 10 Ways to Find Time for Inspiration. This post expands on #8: Do What You Enjoy and Enjoy What You Do.
When you enjoy what you are doing, staying focused and on-task is easy and you can experience inspiration without having to set aside time to do so.
There are two distinct ideas [...]

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
-H. G. Wells

Does This Sound Like a Typical Day?
You get up just early enough to use the toilet, shower, shave, get dressed, groomed, wake up the kids, repeat the previous steps with them, grab something to eat, steal a sweaty kiss from the spouse, run out the door balancing a brief case, diaper bag, granola bar, a [...]

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
-Viktor Frankl
Man's Search For Meaning

Frankl’s Experience

Looking up at an early morning autumn moon in De Pere, Wisconsin.
Dr. Viktor E. Frankl spent nearly three years in Nazi concentration camps where his wife and parents were executed. He and his sister were the only survivors in his family. He faced horrors I couldn’t begin to describe or even imagine.

An educated [...]

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