#990 A race to be worthy

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity (happiness).   ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.   ~ Herman Hesse

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.   ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.  ~ Walt Whitman

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.   ~ Julie Andrews

Quotes about good fortune, life

- Where have you found deeper happiness?
- When have you transformed bad fortune into something of value?
- OK, it's time to think about your strengths and positive qualities!  In what ways are you good fortune?
- How have you raced to be worthy of your good fortune?

#989 Not all who wander

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. - Charles Kuralt

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. - Doug Floyd

 Not all those who wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Quotes about nonconformity, life

- What have you questioned?
- When have you resisted a trend, fad, or popular opinion?
- What have you discovered on your wandering?

#988 Work joyfully and peacefully

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.  ~ Doug Larson

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.  ~ Winston Churchill

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.  ~ W. Edwards Deming

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.  ~ James Allen

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.  ~ Golda Meir

Quotes about outcome, life

- What interesting detours have you pursued?
- What observations can you make about your strategies and processes?
- How ethically minded are you?

#987 Back into integration

We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves... We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.  ~ C.S. Lewis

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.  ~ Oscar Wilde

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.  ~ D.H. Lawrence

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.  ~ Anthony Robbins

There is only one story - going out into disunity and coming back into integration.  ~ Joseph Campbell

Quotes about doing, life

- From what windows do you want to look?
- How difficult is it for you to do nothing, to be still?
- What have you been successful in integrating?

#986 Purpose and passion

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.  ~ Carl Jung

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.  ~ Helen Keller

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.  ~ Oswald Spengler

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.  ~ William Cowper

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.  ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Quotes about purpose, life

- What light have you kindled?
- Which of your actions will live on?
- What's your purpose and passion?

#985 An attitude of the heart

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. ~ H.D. Thoreau

If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase. ~ Brian Koslow

Listening is the only way to entertain some folks. ~ Kin Hubbard

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much. ~ Germain G. Glien

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.  ~ J. Isham

Quotes about listening, life

- How are your listening skills?
- To what extent do you ask good questions to enhance the communication?
- How much do you listen from the heart?

#984 Life is fun or suffering?

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.  ~ George Santayana

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.  ~ Katharine Hepburn

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.  ~ Dale Carnegie

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.  ~ Tennessee Williams

The making of fun where no real occasion for fun exists is essentially what comedy is about.  ~ David L. Hall

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.  ~ George Orwell

Quotes about fun, life

- What is better than fun?
- What fun have you experienced in doing something?
- Is life more fun or suffering or ...?