#1380 To bright unclouded day

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.  ~ Mark Twain

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.  ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

There is no investment which you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer in your establishment.  ~ Orison Swett Marden

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.  ~ Percy Bysshe Schelley

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all- make us laugh, think, cry and cheer- preferably in that order.  ~ Madeleine Albright

And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.  ~ Emily Bronte

Quotes about cheer

- How much do you value good cheer?
- How do you try to cultivate it?

#1379 Completing the circle

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.  ~ Samuel Johnson

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.  ~ Abigail Adams

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.  ~ Seneca

Persevere in virtue and diligence.  ~ Plautus

The seven factors of awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomenon, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.  ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical- there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.  ~ Eric Mann 

Quotes about diligence 

- What have you learned to do with diligence?
- Where lies a new frontier for your efforts?
- How have you been awakened by your diligence?

#1378 The capacity to receive

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.  ~ Aldous Huxley

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.  ~ George Bernard Shaw

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.  ~ Rabindranath Tagore

I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.  ~ Joseph Grenny

Quotes about capacity

-  How can you enlarge your capacity for experience, love, and life?

#1377 Own the vision

Dreams are extremely important.  You can't do it unless you can imagine it.  ~ George Lucas

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.  ~ Warren Bennis

The best vision is insight.  ~ Malcolm Forbes

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ~ Jonathan Swift

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.  ~ Jack Welsh

Where there is no vision the people perish.  ~ Proverbs 29:18

Quotes about vision

- What positive vision could encourage you?

#1376 The seed of potential

All men want something to do, or rather something to be. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every human heart. ~ Rumi

As long as you feel inspired, your life is being well spent. ~ Hugh McLeod

May we serve with much fire, much heart, much desire, and much prayer. ~ Ronna Detrick

Desire is the seed of potential. ~ Alaina Odessa

Quotes about desire, accomplishment

- What do you want to be?
- What desire could launch you into positive action and fulfillment?

#1375 Humanity Matters More

It is not our differences that divide us.  It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.  ~ Andre Lorde

Strength lies in differences, not similarities.  ~ Stephen Covey

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.  ~ M. Scott Peck

Differences are not intended to separate and alienate.  We are different in order to realize our need of one another.  ~ Desmond Tutu

We all live under the same sky, but we all don't have the same horizon.  ~ Konrad Adenauer

We all do better when we work together.  Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matter more.  ~ Bill Clinton

Quotes about differences

- What differences do you see in the people around you?
- How can you positively build upon differences?

#1374 Dreams of a shadow

Learn what you are and be such.

The best of healers is good cheer.

The test of any man lies in action.

People are the dreams of a shadow.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Quotes by Pindar, Greek poet, 522-443 BC

- What have you learned about yourself?
- How can you shape your days to embody your positive attributes?