Be Bold

Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- jlh

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Further reading: Appreciate the Unexpected

How to Stop Worrying

Dare to Dream of Your Great Success - Mary Anne Radmacher

Later is Never

Quotes about Being Bold

Quotes about Action

Quotes about Fear

Quotes about Freedom

John F. Kennedy Quotes

Opportunity

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger
and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

The jump is so frightening between
where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In the midst of crisis, boldly seize opportunity.
- jlh

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Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Success Tip: Drive Change

Life is Beautiful

Life Lesson Quotes

Memorial Day 2011

Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances.
The spirit of this day has not changed -
it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
- Doc Hastings

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous

Further reading: Memorial Day Quotes

What is Honor? Is there a place for Honor today?

A Time to be Reasonable?

Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

Comforting Quotes

Courage Quotes

Presidential Quotes

Sad Quotes

Henry David Thoreau: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow.”
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are in charge of your life. The people you interact with every day are mostly focused on their own fears and needs, and generally don't make the extra effort to be kind to you. Forgive them, and take responsibility for creating your own life as your masterwork.

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Read Frankie's Story (the origin of Mary Anne Radmacher's Live With Intention quote).

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Further reading: How to Think Positive

How to Move On and Let Go

How to Take Charge of Your Life

Positive Quotes about Life

Cute Quotes and Sayings

Family Quotes and Sayings

Famous Quotes about Life

Create today as your celebration of life - jlh

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Create today as your celebration of life. Express yourself Today! There is something of ourselves that cannot be said in words. Perhaps that something can be expressed in form or color, dance or music. If only with crayons or a tin drum, let that something that cannot be said move your hands or your body today.

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Further reading: CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Mary Anne Radmacher's blog

Finding Balance in Life

Inspiring short stories

How to Cope with Loneliness

Happy Couples

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost

Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

It is one thing to live in a country that guarantees the freedom to believe, speak and (mostly) act as you wish. It is quite another thing, and far more significant, to choose to exercise the personal freedom to be your own person with your own consciously determined beliefs, and the commitment to put those beliefs into speech and actions.

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Further reading: How to get over regrets and resentments

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain

Action is our greatest weapon against fear. Left to molder, fear grows upon itself, but in the face of action, fear is left in the dust.

Further reading: Today is your day to paint life in bold colors - jlh

ACTION - the sixth Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Mark Twain quote: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Throw off the bowlines.

Mark Twain quotes

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors - jlh

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Out with the gray! In with color; in with the juice of life.

Vision - Creation - Art? Each of us is an artist, but many are repressed artists. There is something of ourselves that cannot be expressed in words. Perhaps that something can be expressed in form or color, dance or music. If only with crayons or a tin drum, let that something that cannot be said move your hands or your body today.

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Further reading: Be an Original

The Silver Lining of Losing Your Job

May your spirit soar

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

Mark Twain quote: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Throw off the bowlines.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain

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

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the
dog.
- Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.
- Mark Twain

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the
pig.
- Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could
hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I
was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain

Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain

mary anne radmacher: courage doesn't always roar

courage doesn't always roar.
sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"i will try again tomorrow."
- mary anne radmacher

Today's affirmation: I stand in the inspiring vision of my future, boldly taking every step - large and small - with courage and intent.

Today's affirmation: I stand in the inspiring vision of my future, boldly taking every step - large and small - with courage and intent.

Consider reviewing: Living the Unconcerned Life - Choosing to End Worry

ACTION - the sixth Point of Simply An Inspired Life

ACTION - the sixth Point of Simply An Inspired Life I Act with Bold Courage - Taking inspiration from the powerful vision of my future, I boldly set sail with courage and intent. I hold my course with focused attention and relentless commitment, as I weather the storms of life. Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action Inspired by Powerful Dreams. - jlh Choose with no regret. - mar

Begin Today, and Again Tomorrow

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

Every day is a day to take action. Whatever your choices, take action on those choices. Taking no action is equally a choice, just not a choice made from awareness. Make conscious choices, and take action on those choices - Today.

Helen Keller: One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Spread your wings - TODAY. Why wait?

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

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

It's a cozy little luncheon with the girls, or a "no holds barred" time with the guys. Everyone tells their story and complains a little. "My marriage is getting worse," "My boss doesn't appreciate me," "I don't know what to do next." Amazingly, everyone at that table knows just how to fix everyone's problems - except their own. Why?

We are so close to our own issues that we see impossibility in each proposed solution. I couldn't just leave my abusive spouse, I need the money and the house, I couldn't survive on my own. Really? We can tell a friend how to leave an unworkable job, marriage, or friendship, and a moment later recoil in horror when a similar suggestion is offered for our dilemma.

Take a deep breath. Step back from the situation to gain a clear perspective. Be courageous and bold. Consider carefully what advice you would give to a good friend who was in the same circumstances that trouble you, and then accept that advice and put it into action - today.

How do you want to be remembered? Live life full out - Begin today - jlh

How do you want to be remembered? Live life full out - Begin today.
- jonathan lockwood huie

What do you want written on your tombstone? Inspired people? Good friend? Loving spouse and parent? Or, worked late at the office? What you do TODAY is what others will remember. Make today count.

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self - jlh

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- jonathan lockwood huie

NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me how my life should be lived. I answer only to myself and to Spirit - whatever that means to me.

Please accept this photo as representing all self-proclaimed authorities. It is not my intention to single out any particular religion, gender or race.

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent - jlh

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
- jonathan lockwood huie

Having set a direction, begin - begin today. Take action - take action every day.

Winston Churchill quote: You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Thomas Jefferson: Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson

Helen Keller: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller

Why live? Adding one to my count of days, or postponing a feared death by another day do not inspire me. I live to experience something new each day - to learn something new, meet a new friend, bring joy into someone's life, feel the wind newly on my skin, touch a new fear, a new anger, and with focused intent and good fortune, find an ample measure of my own joy.

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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. The story of how she broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language has become known worldwide through the play and film The Miracle Worker.