#1463 Who you are

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.  ~Viktor E. Frankl

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.  ~ Leo Buscaglia

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.  ~ Kevyn Aucoin

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go, and why you want to get there.  ~ Kofi Annan

Quotes about choosing life

- Who are you? What do you stand for? Where do you want to go?
- What choices can you make to enrich your life and others?

#1462 Our natural capacity

What worries you masters you.   ~Haddon Robinson

Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.    ~ English proverb

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.   ~Leo Buscaglia

Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.   ~Terri Guillemets

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our natural capacity of healing do the work.  ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Quotes about worries

- How can you free yourself from worrying too much?

#1461 Set off sparks

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.   ~Kenny Ausubel

Oh what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?  ~ Ada Cambridge

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.  ~Rudolf Steiner

- What sparks could you ignite today?

#1460 Daylight in the mind

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.   ~Linda Ellerbee

I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way; I will do what I know is right. I will look for the flowers by the side of the road; I will laugh and love and be strong. I will try to lighten another’s load this day as I fare along.   ~Mary S. Edgar

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitter for the moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a daylight in the mind, filling it with steady and perpetual serenity.   ~Samuel Johnson

Quotes about laughter

- How open are you to the light today?

#1459 Love cures

I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never seen.  ~John Steinbeck

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.   ~Wayne W. Dyer

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.   ~John Harrigan

Love cures people- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.  ~Karl A. Menninger

Quotes about people

- To whom could you devote some quality attention?

#1458 Take off your shoes

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.  ~ Groucho Marx

This is the real secret of life ― to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.  ~Alan Wilson Watts

Earth’s crammed with heaven… But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Quotes about mindfulness

- How will you make today special (like every other day)?

#1457 A healthy combination

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.  ~ Pierre Bonnard

Be precise.  A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.  ~ Donald Rumsfeld

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise.  ~ Bertrand Russell

The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind.  ~ Roberto Assagiolli

See if you can approach life with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity.  ~  Cyndi Lee

Quotes about precision

- What do you need to consider with more precision?