Good Words

Today's weight: 310.5

My dear friend Ken sent this to me today. Some I had heard before--some were new--all were relevant and timely. Thanks Ken....


GOOD WORDS
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-- Gandhi
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
-- Lao Tzu
Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The result of prayer is life. Prayer irrigates the earth and heart.
-- Saint Francis of Assisi
Prayer is constructive because it enables us to establish closer contact with the Fountain of Wisdom, and we are less likely to be influenced by the appearances around us.
-- Ernest Holmes
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
-- Albert Schweitzer
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The door of the soul opens inward...turn the handle, walk out and be free.
-- Emmet Fox

If you love, you can never be a failure.
-- Bernie Siegel, M.D.
The beauty of being an adult is that you can actually move in the direction your imagination takes you. You are not limited to 'only make believe'. You can harness your creative power and make it work for you.
-- Jane Claypool
Appreciation, gratitude and thanksgiving -- the motive power which attracts and magnifies the hidden potentialities of life.
-- Ernest Holmes
When we walk to the end of all the light we have, and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen: that we will land on something solid, or we will learn to fly.
-- Author Unknown
But the person who goes deeply into his or her own nature will find that God speaks in a universal language of emotion, sense, feeling, intuition and instinct.
-- Ernest Holmes
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily.
-- Zig Ziglar
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-- Mark Twain
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on! 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on! Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on!
-- Henry Burton


I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.
-- Stephen Grellet
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
-- Diane Ackerman
You cannot afford to be planting bad seeds -- thoughts of negation, worries, fears, angers, hates, resentments. Such seeds will grow just as rapidly as the good seeds and will bring forth a crop as sure and abundant.
-- Ernest Holmes
Living by inspiration does not mean living chaotically. Our whole purpose is to make the intellect an instrument for he Spirit. This is exactly what an artist does. We must all become artists in living.
-- Ernest Holmes
Born into time but drawn from timeless space, Thou hast on earth a moments dwelling place, Entombed in matter; yet now aware of soul, Thou shalt take wing, let heaven be thy goal.
-- Ernest Holmes
The essence of love, while elusive, pervades everything, fires the heart, stimulates the emotions, renews the soul, and proclaims the Spirit.
-- Ernest Holmes
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest sense, something helpless that wants our love.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton
Destiny in not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-- William Jennings Bryan
Appreciation, gratitude, and thanksgiving -- the motive power [that] attracts and magnifies the hidden potentialities of life.
-- Ernest Holmes
If it is God's good pleasure to give us the kingdom then it needs to be our pleasure to accept it.
-- Ernest Holmes
May it be a year of greatest communion with Thee, the Giver of all gifts.
-- Yogananda
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and it's only end.
-- Benjamin Desraeli
We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.
-- Luciano De Crescenzo
Sometimes our only available transportation is a leap of faith.
-- Rev. Margaret Shepherd
Some day we shall learn to lay our burdens on the altar of Love, that they may be consumed by the fire of faith in the Living Spirit.
-- Ernest Holmes
If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying YES to love.
-- Leo Buscaglia
Love alone overcomes all and justifies the eternity of her dominion.
-- Ernest Holmes
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Therein lies the peace of God.
-- A Course in Miracles
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are the deepest level.
-- Eckhart Tolle
True prayer is just a continued recognition and thanksgiving that all is good.
-- H. Emilie Cady
There is that within us which longs to know how we "fit" in the scheme of things. It is through true prayer and openness that we find what we seek.
-- Margaret Stortz
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
-- Marianne Williamson
My power is from On High, it cannot be taken from me: It will not leave me desolate.
-- Ernest Holmes
It is your mind. It is the gift of God in you. It contains the potentials of a full life and an expanding experience. Herein is your uniqueness, your individuality, your ability to be you-the you that you can be.
-- Raymond Charles Barker
Spiritual identity is here, in the way we walk on earth, the way we see our life, the way we care for ourselves and for others.
-- Wayne Muller
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts from the highest point of view.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we seek to express God's highest vision for us, we must bring the best of ourselves to the alter of life.
-- Cynthia Cavalcanti
You can never solve a problem at the level of consciousness which created it.
-- Albert Einstein
...Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
-- Romans 12:2
Loving oneself is no easy matter just because it means loving all of oneself, including the shadow where one is inferior and socially so unacceptable. The care one gives this humiliating part is also the cure.
-- James Hilman
Self-awareness -- ongoing attention to one's internal states.
-- Daniel Goleman
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we turn into.
-- Wayne Dyer
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec
You have your paint brush and colors. Paint paradise, and in you go.
-- Nikos Kazantzakis
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
-- Benjamin Disraeli