Welcoming Life

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene

Book of the Day: Learning to Dance in the Rain

Further reading: Maybe So, Maybe Not

Life Happens

Acceptance

Life Quotes

Acceptance Quotes

Dance Quotes

Learning Quotes

Rain Quotes

Acceptance

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

Do what you can, and do it well. Accept the rest with equanimity, and trust in God. No one can ever do more than that.


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Further reading: Love versus Attachment

Life Happens

Enjoy what you have

Quotes about Acceptance

Quotes about Blessings

Quotes about Understanding

Uplifting Quotes

Quotes to Live By

Love versus Attachment

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand – "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- jlh

Further reading: Can People Change ?

Acceptance Makes a Great Relationship Even Better

My articles about relationships - and many other topics.

Relationship Quotes

Quotes about Letting Go

Jealousy Quotes

Life Happens

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous

A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Adversity

Billy Graham

Life isn't Fair

Quotes about Life

Fair Quotes

Acceptance Quotes

Helen Keller

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it,
then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller

Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

Further reading: How to Think Positive

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

The Secret of Happiness

Helen Keller Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Gandhi Quotes

Joseph Addison Quotes

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. - Yiddish Proverb

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder

Further reading: Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today

Questions to Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice

No One Can Give You Freedom But You

Proverbs

Life Quotes and Sayings

Quotes about Life Lessons

Living Life to the Fullest Quotes

Resistance creates suffering - Dan Millman

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Don't worry or waste energy in attempting to resist the inevitable. Take action only when it is likely to be productive. In all other situations, practice gracious acceptance.

Affirmation: Today, I choose the higher road
- the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.

Further reading: The River of Life (Poem)

Life is Not Supposed to be Fair

Byron Katie - The Work - No One Can Give You Freedom But You

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil

Love All of Life

Leadership - Recognition

Proverbs about Life

Quotations on Life

Sad Quotes about Life

Three Word Quotes

All of life is an IF

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll

All of life is an IF - all life is change. Release your attachment to the way things have been, and wend your way joyfully through life's unfolding majesty.

Further reading: Attitude is Everything

Steve Jobs Three Rules of Life

Adapt to change

Success Tip: Drive Change

Life is Beautiful

Aging with Grace

Change Quotes

Courage Quotes

Life Purpose

Play to win, but be cheerful in defeat

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's one of life's great paradoxes ...

Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us is critical to happiness.

Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.

The best we can do in the face of this paradox is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat, and be ready to play again.

Further reading: Maybe So, Maybe Not

How to Deal with Rejection

Failure? Never

Intention versus Expectation (Demand)

Quotes about Strong Women

Cheer Up Quotes

Caring Quotes

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world, we are all one.
- jlh

Color of skin, languages, religions, and traditions are all part of the magnificence of humanity. Honor diversity.

Further reading: Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind

Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open

The Nature of Belief

Question your questions

Acceptance Makes a Great Relationship Even Better

Quotes about Perspective

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Quotes about Life Changing

Quotes about Moving On in Life

Life Quotes to Live By

Don't Complain!

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't Complain! If it's important enough to complain about, it is important enough to take action on. Either accept it, or change it.

Further reading: How to Move On and Let Go

How to Stay Positive

How to be Positive Around Negative People

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Sports Quotes

Funny Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes for Work

Motivational Sales Quotes

When you find peace within yourself... - Peace Pilgrim

Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities.
Always stand proud in who you are!
- Margaret Spellings

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim

Affirmation: Today, I choose the higher road
- the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.

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Further reading: Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren

The Jump is So Frightening - Mary Anne Radmacher

The River of Life (Poem)

Friendship Messages
Get Over It Quotes
Get Well Soon Messages
Never Give Up Quotes

Love ... waits to be accepted. - Rabindranath Tagore

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Be open to the goodness of life - even in the midst of apparent adversity.

Further reading: What`s in a Name?

Honor all children.

Beware of mind fog

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Quotes about Living Life to the Fullest
Quotes about Life Lessons
Amazing Quotes
Being Yourself Quotes
Inspirational Quotes

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None of us is perfect - and that's OK.

Life is not about perfection - or a quest for perfection. Life is about enjoying what we have - for as long as we have it.

Further reading: How to Cope with Rejection

How to Accept Life as It Comes

The Role of Travel in Accepting Life

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.

• Words of Inspiration
• Inner Beauty Quotes
• Inner Peace Quotes
• Inner Strength Quotes
• Inspirational Pictures

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

The message behind this famous image has been debated, so I'll just say what it means to me...

1. Mind your own business. What your neighbor does (within the law) is none of your concern. Accept that behavior is not evil simply because it is different.

2. Don't listen to gossip. Don't even listen when people speak badly of others.

3. Never gossip or speak unkindly of others.

This does NOT condone being an unconcerned citizen. This does NOT mean to look the other way if your co-worker is pilfering the cash drawer or you witness a crime on the street.

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Further reading: Mother Teresa quotes: Love begins at home

Mark Twain quotes: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness

Winston Churchill quotes: We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Quotes about Life

How to Deal with Rejection

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. - Sylvester Stallone

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. - Theodore H. White

Not everyone is always going to like what you do. Your job application, your book proposal, your offer of marriage is going to get rejected sometimes - perhaps often. Your boss, your spouse, even the person behind you in the supermarket checkout line is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong. Don't take it personally.

Deal with rejection by...

1. Asking yourself, objectively, if there is something to be learned about yourself from the experience.

2. Just letting to go. It's their problem, not yours. They probably had an argument with someone else, have heartburn, or are just grumpy and looking for someone to grump at.

Further reading: The Serenity Prayer - God grant me the serenity...

Lao Tzu: He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Don Miguel Ruiz: Don't take anything personally

Courage Quotes

Mark Twain: The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

These are the keys to a great life... taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.

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Further reading: The Serenity Prayer - God grant me the serenity...

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Today is your day to dance lightly with life. It really is. - jlh

Let It Be - Paul McCartney

Let It Be
- Paul McCartney

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning. We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't fight against life, let it be. Life has its own rhythm, its own time. In most cases, you simply create stress and suffering for yourself whenever you attempt to hurry the course of history or to slow it.

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Further reading: Victor Hugo quote: An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Lao Tzu: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished

How to be Happy - 7 Secrets for a Happy Life

The River of Life has no meaning - no good, no bad, no better, no worse, no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mother Teresa quotes: Love begins at home

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

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Further reading: Offering Comforting Words and Support

A hero is someone who has given his life to something bigger than himself or something other than himself. - Joseph Campbell

Gifts freely given are never obligations - jlh

Mary Anne Radmacher: As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

Mark Twain quotes: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain

I have been very blessed in having been able to get a tiny peek into the nature of life in a few places around the world. Nothing else has ever brought me so face-to-face with the rigidity of my own thinking as an hour on a street in Cairo or Beijing or a walk through the countryside of Mexico or Peru. Travel opens my mind and my heart more than years of study and contemplation ever could.

We are all one whether we dine on corned beef in New York City, black-eyed peas and cornbread in rural Louisiana, or roast guinea pig in Peru.

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Further reading: The Paradox Of Living In The Moment

Friedrich Nietzsche: There are no facts, only interpretations

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat, Push Your Buttons, Get You Riled Up, or Annoy You - 6 Ways to Cope - jlh

Monastery Housekeeping (one of my Aha moments in traveling to other cultures)