Today’s Inspirational Quote
“Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.” The 10% refers to the actual amount of control we personally have in what happens to us in life. It therefore follows that we are 90% at the mercy of influences we have no control over. This is just a tad disturbing […]
Today’s Inspirational Quote
“Make today count, you’ll never get it back.” Now this is good advice and worth following don’t you think? However, I guess, like me and most people, we don’t often take the time to think along these lines. We’re too busy going about our daily lives and dealing with whatever the days bring us. Some […]
Today’s Inspirational Quote
“Let your past make you better not bitter.” Painful lessons learned the hard way from the past can very easily colour our present with bitterness. We have all, at one time or another, experienced troubling situations, relationship problems, failure, despair, loss, etc. However, it’s how we each deal with our own personal “demons from the […]
Applied Meditation: How to Make Changes in Your Everyday Life with Meditation
Applied Meditation: How to Make Changes in Your Everyday Life with Meditation, by A. Paul Miller, PhD (Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.) Do you meditate? Or, do you wonder why people bother with meditation? After all, most of us are not concerned with reaching some higher plane of existence or gaining some “special […]
Today’s Inspirational Quote
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” This reminds me of friends we had who, although they were English and resident in the UK, preferred living in the house they had bought in Florida. However, due to immigration rules they were restricted to spending 3 months in Florida then the UK for 3 months, […]
Today’s Inspirational Quote
“Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Of course they can’t. You are a positive person, self-confident, sure of yourself and your many gifts and abilities so why would you allow anybody the power to make you feel inferior? You wouldn’t of course. Be sure to continue as you mean to […]
Today’s Inspirational Quote
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” I guess this is because the rain unleashed by a storm soaks into the earth, nourishing the roots and enabling them to grow even deeper. Compare this to us as human beings. The “storms” that we experience portrayed by the trials and tribulations of everyday life and the “rain” […]
Today’s Inspirational Quote
“Trying to make someone happy who prefers the drama of being miserable, is a guaranteed way to create your own drama of misery.” Some people are just going to be miserable and view the world and everybody in it as conspirators’ in a plot to make their existence unbearable. It won’t matter how much you […]
Today’s Inspirational Quote
“Forgive people who do you wrong….they unknowingly make you strong.” Although we won’t be thinking along these lines while people are or have done us wrong, this is actually very true. Later, thinking about it, we begin to realise that, in having to cope with what they put us through, we do grow stronger. This […]
Today’s Inspirational Quote
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” Exactly! I couldn’t have said it better myself. We all know people who, when problematic situations, hard financial times, or personal strife happens to them, they sail through whatever it is and come out the other end better […]