#944 A state to grow into

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ~ Helen Keller

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ~ Mother Teresa

Faith sees a beautiful blossom on a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.  ~ William Arthur Ward

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes about faith, life

- Where lies your faith?
- How much optimism and hope does it provide?
- How are you growing?

#943 The best story

The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.  ~ Arnold Bennett

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.  ~ Douglas Pagels

Quotes about new day, life

- How ready are you for the next hour/day?
- What do you want to 'tweak' about your life to enhance your daily journey?
- What story lies within you?

#942 The will to sprout

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

A good farmer never plants all his seeds in a single piece of land. ~ Habeeb Akande

Once more I am the silent one
who came out of the distance
wrapped in cold rain and bells:
I owe to earth's pure death
the will to sprout. ~ Pablo Neruda

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. ~ Leo Buscaglia

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place, but a seed to be planted and to bear more seeds toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~ Henry David Thoreau

-  Quotes about seeds, life

- What seeds are you planting?
- What new life seeks expression within you?
- Where lies your sharing and nurture?

#941 A good idea

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.  ~ John Ruskin

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.  ~ Victor Hugo

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.  ~ Edwin Way Teale

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.  ~ Wendell Berry

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.  ~ Frank B. Kellogg

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.  ~ Emily Dickinson

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.  ~ James Douglas

Quotes about dawn, life

- What can dawn and dusk teach you?
- In what sense can contemplating dawn and a new day be the best treatment?
- What fresh daily potential lies within you?

#940 The mark of wisdom

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.  ~ Albert Einstein

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.  ~ W. B. Yeats

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.  ~ Charlie Chaplin

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.  ~ Socrates

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes about wonder, life

-What do you question?
-In what aspects of life could you allow your senses to grow sharper?
-What miracles have you seen recently?

#939 Part of a tree

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.  ~ Virginia Woolf

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.  ~ George Orwell

Study the past if you would define the future.  ~ Confucius

"History" is a Greek word which means, literally, just "investigation."  ~ Arnold Toynbee

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.  ~ Micheal Crichton

Quotes about history, life

- What events in your past have gained emotional depth?
- What are several lessons you have learned about life?
- What from the past would you like to investigate?

#938 Until you have won

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.  ~ Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.  ~ Nelson Mandela

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.  ~ Horace Mann

Quotes about victory, life

- What recent effort brought you some satisfaction?
- How often do you think of the defeated after a victory?
- What victory for humanity have/will you accomplish?