#1546 Liberates the soul

You must give to get; you must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.  ~Scott Reed

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.  ~Norman MacEwen

No one has ever become poor by giving.  ~Anne Frank

If you find that life is flat,
Full of this, with none of that,
Try giving!  ~Margaret Gordon Kuhlman

Giving opens the way for receiving.  ~Florence Scovel Shinn

Among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.  ~Maya Angelou

Quotes about giving

- In what ways might you enrich your giving and receiving?

#1545 Best nurtured

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.  ~Wayne Dyer

What a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be.  ~Ellen Burstyn

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.  ~Barbara De Angelis

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.  ~Omar Khayyam

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.  ~James Russell Lowell

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.  ~Goethe

Quotes about solitude

- What benefits does solitude provide for you?

- How do you strive to balance solitude with interaction?

#1543 Inner necessity

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. ~Geri Weitzman

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.  ~Arthur Koestler

Only when people are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy - and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.  ~Joyce Carol Oates

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.  ~Charles Mingus

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.  ~Mary Lou Cook

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.  ~Carl Jung

Quotes about creativity

- In what creative endeavor would you like to participate?

#1542 The greatest accomplishment

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.  ~Flora Whittemore

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.  ~Theodore Roosevelt

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.  ~ Tom Robbins

The greatest accomplishment began as a decision once made.  ~Michael Rawls

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.  ~Agnes de Mille

Quotes about decisions

- What doors do (should) you keep open?

- What important decision needs to be made?

#1541 A little of each other

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.  ~Hermann Hesse

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.  ~Robert H. Schuller

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.  ~Rosalynn Carter

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of continent, a part of the main.  ~John Donne

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.  ~Tim McGraw

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Quotes about humanity

- How can you cultivate a richer sense of humanity?

#1540 The scales balance

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.  ~Doug King

So few the grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.   ~Jane Hirshfield

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.  ~Kathleen A. Sutton

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.  ~Denis Waitley

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.   ~Tori Amos

Quotes about balance

- How does a balanced perspective help you to achieve a fulfilling life?

#1539 Gives radiance

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.  ~Loren Eiseley

When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end.  ~Sir John Denham

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.  ~Seneca

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.  ~G. K. Chesterton

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.  ~W.H. Auden

Quotes about foresight

- What anticipations for the near future could help to enrich your life?