Quotes of Love, Celebration, and Humor

This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Further reading: The #1 Secret of Great Relationships

What is Love?

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Life is Funny

Laugh with Life

Romantic Love Quotes

Inspirational Quotes about Love

Sweet Quotes

Funny Love Quotes

Funny Inspirational Quotes

Celebrate

The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Further reading: Celebrating the Small Miracles of Our Life

Regarding gratitude and life

We Attract Abundance when We Ask from a Compassionate Heart

Choose Inner Peace and a Less Stressful Life

Celebration Quotes

Gratitude Quotes

Praise Quotes

Diversity Quotes

Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Plato: Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato

I will dance a little. I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Set Life’s Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- jlh

Music and dance add celebration to life.

Further reading: Celebrate Whimsey Today

The Secret of Happiness

Celebrate gratitude

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Don't try to stop the music.

Quotes about Music

Dance Quotes

Don't Worry Be Happy quotes

Happy Days Quotes

Quotes on Being Happy

Celebrate Endings

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- jlh

Cheer for endings -- whether goals have been met or not -- whether the ending is tidy or ragged. Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity nor the incentive to think new thoughts, and to begin great new projects.

Further reading: You have not been abandoned

Fear of the Unknown

Fear is a Bully

Happy Quotes about Life
Inspirational Pictures
Sayings about Life
Empowering Quotes
Strong Quotes

Today is a gift

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Saying

Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- jlh

Give thanks for today.

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Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

How to Sleep Better Tonight

How to Stop Worrying

Inspirational Quotes

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• Encouraging Sayings
• Hope Quotes
• Inspirational Pictures
• Inspirational Quotes about Life
• Inspirational Sayings

Dance... enjoy each step along the way - Wayne Dyer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Gratitude is the prayer, while Celebration is the song and the dance of praise.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you are grateful -- and I hope you are always grateful -- celebrate your gratitude with great enthusiasm and joy.



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Further reading: The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Growing Up Quotes

Cheer Up Quotes

Uplifting Quotes

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

I celebrate myself, and sing myself - Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey

Gratitude is the prayer, while Celebration is the song and the dance of praise.
- jlh

I create Today as a celebration of my life.
- jlh

Celebrate all of life.

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Further reading: Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings. - jlh

Marianne Williamson: Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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You have the power to make life joyful

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie.

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.
- jlh

Today's affirmation: Today, I choose to create joy in my life. Whatever my external circumstances, I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.

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Further reading: The Paradox Of Living In The Moment - How To Be Happy Today And Prepare For Tomorrow

Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance. - jlh

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

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance. - Miyagi

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance. - jlh

Celebrate. Celebration is an expression of Gratitude. Gratitude is like the prayer, while Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance. Celebration is a road to happiness.
- jlh

Today's Affirmation: I create Today as a celebration of my life. I Dance with a Light Heart. I play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.

Further reading: How to be Happy in Life

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

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

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance. - Miyagi

Oprah Winfrey: The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Celebrate what you want to see more of. - Tom Peters

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

I create Today as a celebration of my life.
- jlh

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

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Be curious, not judgmental. - Walt Whitman

Thanksgiving: Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving.

Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving.

Let each day be a thanksgiving.

Each November, the United States celebrates a national day of Thanksgiving. It is my personal favorite holiday, and the one with which I most identify.

Gratitude is one of the values I hold most dear, each and every day, so I particularly appreciate having one day each year when gratitude and giving thanks are publicly recognized.

But rather than expressing gratitude once a year, let each day be a thanksgiving - a day of profound gratitude for all of life.

Why not take time today to celebrate your gratitude.

Make a gratitude list today. Consider beginning a Gratitude Journal and making an entry in that journal every day. My gratitude list begins with the gift of my own life, my being. I then add my health, my friends and family, and ... the list gets very long.

What is on your of gratitude list?

Celebrate your gratitude today... Form a circle and hold hands with friends and family. Raise a plate of food with outstretched fingers and offer thanks to Spirit. Place a candle and special remembrances on a table and offer thanks for those who have gone before. Let Spirit guide the form of your celebration today.

Further reading: A List of Gratitudes - a Thanksgiving

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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The Silver Lining of Losing Your Job

May your spirit soar

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

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance. - Miyagi

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in movie The Next Karate Kid

Anything worth doing is worth enjoying, and that includes religion and spiritual celebration.

Book of the day: Laughter is an Instant Vacation with Free DVD (you can preview the DVD movie)

Further reading: Karate Kid Movie Quotes - Miyagi Quotes

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully. - jlh

A common denominator of all religions is that they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people. - jlh

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

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Today is your day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows & butterflies out to play,
soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- the Sixth point of Simply An Inspired Life

I create Today as a celebration of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: When you keep getting the wrong answers, try asking better questions - jlh

How To Talk Yourself Into Making Personal Changes - Alan B. Densky, CH

How To Be Happy In Life - The 9 Paths To Happiness

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

The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life

The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life are the core values that form the basis of our book Simply An Inspired Life - Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times and Bad by Jonathan Lockwood Huie and Mary Anne Radmacher.

Eight Points of An Inspired Life - Keys to Happiness

• HONOR for true self.
• FORGIVENESS for self and all.
• GRATITUDE in everything.
• CHOICE with open mind and heart.
• VISION with powerful intention.
• ACTION with bold courage;
• CELEBRATION with joy;
• UNITY with all creation.

The Eight Points of An Inspired Life work together to enable us to take charge of our life and make intentional choices for joyful living.

Consider making these Affirmations of an Inspired Life a part of your daily expression of intent:

• HONOR - I Honor My True Self
• FORGIVENESS - I Forgive Myself and All Others with Compassion
• GRATITUDE - I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving
• CHOICE - I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart
• VISION - I Dream with Powerful Intention
• ACTION - I Act with Bold Courage
• CELEBRATION - I Dance with a Light Heart
• UNITY - I Am One With Spirit and All Creation

Here are extended versions of these affirmations.

HONOR:
I Honor My True Self - I grant myself the Honor of being ME. I am unique in all time and space. I am beyond perceived scarcity, obligation, and the need for approval. I am Honored that Spirit has chosen to create ME.

FORGIVENESS:
I Forgive Myself and All Others with Compassion - I forgive everyone, especially myself, for all actions and all inactions throughout my entire life. I accept that no one else has ever been to blame for either my joy or my suffering. The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings is my own emotional response to the events of my life, and I am committed to consistently distinguishing between my feelings about events and the physical occurrence of those events. I declare that everyone who has ever played any role in any of the events of my life is entirely without fault.

GRATITUDE:
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving - I have gratitude for EVERYTHING that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment. I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings, the moments of peace and the flashes of anger, the compassion and the indifference, the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear. I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.

CHOICE:
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart - I renounce all assumptions and expectations, and I declare that I will thoughtfully consider all possibilities. I will CHOOSE with courage, awareness, consciousness, and compassion toward all.

VISON:
I Dream with Powerful Intention - Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver powerful visions of my inspired future, and I empower my intent to transform those visions into reality.

ACTION:
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.

CELEBRATION:
I Dance with a Light Heart - I play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.

UNITY:
I Am One With Spirit and All Creation - I give thanks for the unity of all creation and for EVERYTHING that has brought me to this moment. I release my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

I Dance with a Light Heart - I play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes. - mar

The beauty does not live out there; the beauty's in my eyes. - jlh

Today is your day to dance lightly with life. It really is.
today is your day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows & butterflies out to play,
soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.

Smile. Today would be a wonderful day not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer ‐ and it may not. Happiness is
not about being a winner ‐ it's about being gentle with life ‐ being
gentle with yourself. Let life be a dance, and choose the kind of dance
you want for today ‐ perhaps a gentle loving dance.

"Life is not supposed to be fair." ‐ jlh

There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed
suffering. The secret wisdom is, "Life is not
supposed to be fair."

This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news! Life is not broken.
Nothing is wrong. God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation. The
world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood. Somewhere
along the way, someone got the idea that life was "supposed" to be
"fair," and all the trouble started ‐ expectation, disappointment,
resentment, anger ‐ a whole cycle of suffering that began with the
belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."

If you still think that life is supposed to be fair, read National
Geographic or watch Animal Planet. Humans are not exempt from
the nature of life.

We admit to our children at a fairly young age that the Tooth Fairy
and Santa Clause are fairy tales. Why not prevent immeasurable
suffering and confess to our children at that same age that life is not
supposed to be fair?

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair": Know that there is no single way
that life is "supposed" to be. Demanding that life meet our
expectations is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence. Life is a
game with no rules. Life just happens to us regardless of our best
intentions. Our only path to happiness lies in being open to receiving
whatever life throws at us ‐ with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of
life.

Life is a constant opponent, and an overpowering adversary if
attacked directly. The successful and happy ones dance lightly with
life ‐ a parry here, a feint there ‐ always engaged, but never in the
direct line of life's heaviest blows.

Dance Lightly With Life: Life does not have to be a serious
undertaking. You will make mistakes, you will feel regrets, and
eventually, you will die ‐ so what? Happiness comes from dancing
lightly with life ‐ playing hopscotch on the river of life ‐ leaping
gracefully from joy to joy while laughing at the threats of calamity ‐
even laughing hysterically at our human frailness when we do fall
into the muddy torrent.

The moment you start seeing life as nonserious, a playfulness, all the
burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love everything
disappears.
- Osho

The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life

Last Fall, we featured a sequence of messages on the Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life. Since then, our subscriber list has grown vastly to more than 3100 daily subscribers, so it seems appropriate to re-introduce this material. For those of you who have seen this before, consider it a review.

The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life are the core values that form the basis of our forthcoming book Simply An Inspired Life - Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times and Bad by Jonathan Lockwood Huie and Mary Anne Radmacher, available September 2009 from Conari Press.

We will look at these values one by one every other day over the coming days. Here, we just introduce the eight points, and their affirmations.

The EIGHT POINTS of SIMPLY AN INSPIRED LIFE

· HONOR for true self.
· FORGIVENESS for self and all.
· GRATITUDE in everything.
· CHOICE with open mind and heart.
· VISION with powerful intention.
· ACTION with bold courage.
· CELEBRATION with joy.
· UNITY with all creation.

Affirmations of Simply An Inspired Life

· HONOR - I Honor My True Self

· FORGIVENESS - I Forgive Myself and All Others with Compassion

· GRATITUDE - I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving

· CHOICE - I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart

· VISION - I Dream with Powerful Vision

· ACTION - I Act with Bold Courage

· CELEBRATION - I Dance with a Light Heart

· UNITY - I Am One With Spirit and All Creation

Happy Valentine's Day - Love Without Limits

My husband melted my heart the day he asked me,
“Can I participate in your wonder?”
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher