#958 From this inner desire

Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest.  ~ Mark Twain

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.  ~ Victor Hugo

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.  ~ Oprah Winfrey

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.  ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Quotes about doing right, life

- What motivates you to do the right thing?
- How can you enrich your inner potential for kindness?

#957 The most courageous decision

I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself.  ~ Martin Buxbaum

On a bad day, I have mood swings - but on a good day, I have the whole mood playground.  ~ Charles Rosenblum

The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to.  ~ Hugh Prather

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most courageous decision you make each day is the decision to be in a good mood.  ~ Voltaire

Quotes about moods, life

- How positively do you consider the range of moods?
- How do you try to manage your moods?

#956 The ablest navigators

The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.  ~Michael Althsuler

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.  ~ Epicurus

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of things.  ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Flying dreams mean that you are doing the right thing with your life.  ~ Doug Coupland

The winds and sails are always on the side of the ablest navigators.  ~ Edward Gibbons

Quotes about pilots, navigating, life

-How skilful are you as a navigator?
-Where are you headed?
-What steps can you take to get there?

#955 A great language

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.  ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.  ~ Charlotte Bronte

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.  ~ Meister Eckhart

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.  ~ Alanis Morissette

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.  ~ Martin Buber

Quotes about eyes, life

- How much do you see with your eyes, with your heart?
- Amidst your pain, how much can you see the light?
- When have you experienced the power of an animal's eyes?

#954 The underline to almost every success

What is to give light must endure the burning.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.  ~Winston Churchill

A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.  ~Christopher Reeve

Nothing endures but change.  ~Heraclitus

The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.  ~Mary Anne Radmacher

Quotes about endurance, life

- What burning must you endure amidst the light you emanate?
- In what do you dare and persevere amidst the obstacles?

#953 Stood alone in the silence

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you:

But when the leaves hang trembling,

The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I:

But when the trees bow down their heads,

The wind is passing by.  ~ Christina Rossetti

And all about him was the wind now, a pervasive sighing trough great emptiness, as though the prairie itself was breathing in long gusting breaths, unhampered by the buildings of town, warm and living against his face and in his hair....

 

People were forever born; people forever died, and never were again. Fathers died and sons were born; the prairie was forever, with its wind whispering through the long, dead grasses, through the long and endless silence. Winter came and spring and fall, then summer and winter again; the sun rose and set again, and everything that was once -- was again -- forever and forever. But for man, the prairie whispered -- never -- never. For Brian's father -- never.... There were no catches of breath, simply tears as he stood alone in the silence that stretched from everlasting to everlasting  ~ W. O. Mitchell,  Who Has Seen the Wind

Quotes about wind, life

- What has the wind whispered to you?
- How did you feel with the death of a loved one?
-What permeated your thoughts?

#952 The dew of little things

What youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.   ~ Robert Browning

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.   ~Rabindranath Tagore

Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.   ~Kahlil Gibran

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.  ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Quotes about dew, life 

- What beauty have you discovered with Age?
- What gems have you collected? What tears?
- What change and movement within the world might you ponder more closely?