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LEADERSHIP
To lead in the twenty-first century you will be required
to have both character and competence.
Retired American 4-Star General
Unless you're the lead dog
the view never changes.
Anonymous
LEARN TO FLY!
You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly!
Rumi
13th Century Poet
LEARNING TO SURRENDER
Have faith in yourself,
listen to your heart,
and learn to surrender to what you hear
from the depths of your soul.
Jace Carlton
Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything --
even when you cannot foresee the outcome.
Deepak Chopra
Indian Medical Doctor and Best Selling Author
( born 1946 )
LEAVE A LEGACY
In the time we have it is surely our duty
to do all the good we can
to all the people we can
in all the ways we can.
Scottish Author
1907 - 1978
Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you.
So carve your name on hearts and not on marble.
1834 - 1892
dedicated to
Gordon B. Hinckley
1910 - 2008
a gentleman of quiet and kind leadership
who leaves behind a legacy felt around the world.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
LETTING GO
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,
the greater is their power to harm us.
French Author and Philosopher
1694 - 1778
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Even though you may want to move forward in your life,
you may have one foot on the brakes.
In order to be free,
we must learn how to let go.
Release the hurt.
Release the fear.
Refuse to entertain your old pain.
The energy it takes to hang onto the past
is holding you back from a new life.
Mary Manin Morrissey
Giving up the past
allows us to create the future.
Elaine Smitha
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.
The Tao Te Ching
LIFE
It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream
that makes life interesting.
Brazilian Author and Lyricist
Life moves pretty fast.
If you don't stop and look around once in awhile,
you could miss it.
Ferris Bueller
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing and dance,
and write poems, and suffer, and understand,
for all of that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
1895-1986
Life lived for tomorrow will always be
just a day away from being realized.
Leo Buscaglia
Contributed
by
Susie Greathouse
Life is not a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -
WOW - What A Ride!
Anonymous
Contributed
by
Janet Ellis
Life begins
at the end of our comfort zone.
Neale Donald Walsch
Over the ages many philosophers have reminded us
that this is the only life we have.
Every day is a new chance to make a fresh start.
It doesn't matter how old you are,
or how messed up your life might have been up to now,
you've just awakened to a new day,
that new chance you've been waiting for to get it right.
Don't you dare get down on yourself
for anything you've done in the past that didn't work.
You can't go back and do it over.
We've been given this new day, by the grace of God,
to make with it what we will.
Count your blessings ... every last one of them ...
and then go forward with a burning desire
and a determination to make this life the most awesome it can be.
It's within your power to change and create your life
into whatever you want it to be.
And don't forget to forgive yourself along the way
for the mistakes you'll inevitably make.
They're all a part of this wonderful thing we call
LIFE.
Jace Carlton
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
George Carlin
And in the end
it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
THE SECRET OF LIFE
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards:
they try to have more things, or more money,
in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse.
You must first be who you really are,
then do what you love to do,
in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life
is to forgive everybody everything every night
before you go to bed.
Anonymous
LIFE & DEATH
Love is stronger than death
even though it can't stop death from happening.
No matter how hard death tries
it can't separate people from love.
It can't take away our memories either.
In the end,
life is stronger than death.
Anonymous
In memory of
Nicholas James Troiano
July 26, 1979 - November 15, 2005
LISTEN
Inspiration comes
to those who have a quiet mind
and a peaceful heart.
Jace Carlton
Listen to the MUS'NTS
Listen to the MUS'NTS, child,
Listen to the DONT's,
Listen to the SHOULD'NTS,
the IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT'S,
Listen to the NEVER HAVES,
then listen close to me -
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING CAN BE.
Shel Silverstein
American Poet, Songwriter, Musician, Composer, Cartoonist, Screenwriter and Author
1930 - 1999
Contributed
by
Erik Carlton
Find a quiet place and listen.
It should be very quiet.
The only sound you should hear is your heart beating.
Listen.
Peer deep down inside your heart.
Do you see someone that holds a special place in your heart?
Maybe they have always been there when you needed them;
maybe they offered words of encouragement; taught you a lesson;
comforted you when you were sick; praised you on your accomplishments.
Make this their lucky day.
You have the POWER to spread happiness today.
A quick note or a kind word is all it takes
to bring a smile and lasting memory to someone very special.
Gary Harrington
Courtesy
of
Ron Atchison
and
www.InspirationPeak.com
LISTEN TO YOUR HEART
Right now you're on the verge.
That's right ... you.
And I mean ... right now.
Just listen ... carefully.
Yep, that's your heart.
Not someone else's ... YOURS!
It's telling you where your passion lies,
what makes your heart beat the strongest,
what makes you feel the most complete ... the most alive!
Take the time, right now, to really listen.
The answers are there.
Everything you've been missing
because you've been too busy to listen,
too blind to see,
too numb to feel that you were on the wrong track.
If you'll listen, really listen,
you'll know exactly what to do
to make the right move, right now.
Your most precious dreams are about to come true.
It's all up to you.
Now ... just listen.
Then ... make your move ...
with PASSION!
Jace Carlton
Listen to your heart ... it will never mislead you,
for only truth is spoken there.
Jace Carlton
Your heart knows wisdom far beyond reason.
Trust that tug of intuition that pulls at your heart,
it is in harmony with your greatest good
and attuned to something far greater than man's reason.
Andrea Irwin
Listening to your heart is not simple.
Finding out who you are is not simple.
It takes a lot of hard work and courage
to get to know who you are
and what you want.
Sue Bender
LIVING
IN THE
MOMENT
Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
Anonymous
Don't let yesterday
use up too much of today.
Will Rogers
I was regretting my past, and fearing my future.
Suddenly, my Lord was speaking: "My name is I AM."
He paused ... I waited ... He continued.
"When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard.
I am not there. My name is not I WAS.
When you live in the future, with its problems and fears, it is hard.
I am not there. My name is not I WILL BE.
When you live in this moment, it is not hard. I am here. My name is I AM."
Helen Mallicoat
Contributed
by
James A. Carlton
LIVING RIGHT
As long I continue to hear "normal" people
telling me I'm too childish,
I know I'm doing just fine.
Wayne Dyer
TRULY LIVING
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning,
by dreams that need completion,
by pure love that needs expressing,
then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson
LONELINESS
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right next to them
and knowing you can't have them.
Anonymous
Contributed by
Linda Morse
Fellow Star Traveler
LONGSUFFERING
Be kind
Be gentle
Be patient
Be longsuffering
For if thy God was not longsuffering with thee,
what chance would you have?
Contributed
by
Marilyn Karr
LOOK AROUND
Somewhere someone's reaching out
looking for a hand to hold to help them through today
searching for a ray of hope to light their way
saying a prayer that someone somewhere
will hear their cry.
Somewhere someone's reaching out
for you.
Jace Carlton
LOOKING FOR A BRIGHTER DAY
Most of the shadows of this life
are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
LOVE
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then,
but the strings remain forever.
American Teacher, Newspaper Columnist and Author
1918 - 1993
It doesn't matter who you love, or how you love,
but that you love.
American Best-Selling Poet, Singer, Songwriter, Composer and Author
I can't remember the date or what you wore
or what the weather was like on the day we met.
I only remember that you said hello in a voice that sounded like love.
Love is our true destiny.
We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone --
we find it with another.
Thomas Merton
Theologian, Poet, Author and Social Activist
1915 - 1968
Pure love will light the way through the darkest times,
calm the stormiest seas,
and lift you on eagle's wings to the highest heights.
Jace Carlton
Love knows no limit to its endurance,
no end to its trust, no fading of its hope;
it can outlast anything.
Love still stands when all else has fallen.
Anonymous
Contributed by
Kathi Carlton
The way to love anything
is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton
British Journalist and Novelist
1874-1936
Only love can be divided endlessly
and still not diminish.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American Author and Aviation Pioneer
1906-2001
Contributed by
Nancy Wolicki
Fellow Star Traveler
Love is like air,
you can feel it but you cannot see it.
Maria Lado
Fellow Star Traveler
When you touch a moment of pure love,
you touch all the love that has ever been given and received,
and you have access to it.
Alan Cohen
To love and be loved
is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
I have found the paradox
that if I love until it hurts,
then there is no hurt,
but only more love.
Mother Teresa
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow
because it is important to them;
there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
If I could reach up and hold a star
for every time you've made me smile,
the entire evening sky
would be in the palm of my hand.
Anonymous
Sometimes when the stars line up
And you wish with all your heart
Love will find it's way to you
No matter where you are.
Mary Ann Kennedy
from her song
"I Wish I Had A Horse"
on her CD
The Trail Less Traveled
The seed of love,
once planted and nurtured with constant love and care,
will never die.
Jace Carlton
Once you have loved, you will always love.
For what's in your mind may escape,
but what's in your heart
will remain forever.
Brooke Zuroweste
Our union is like this:
You feel cold
so I reach for a blanket to cover Our shivering feet.
A hunger comes into your body
so I run to My garden and start digging potatoes.
You asked for a few words of comfort and guidance
and I quickly kneel by your side
offering you a whole Book as a Gift.
You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep,
and I say
"Here is a rope, tie it around me,
I will be your Companion for Life."
Love Poems From God
Twelve Sacred Voices from
The East and West
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives
as we pass through this world.
There will most likely be no ticker tape parades for us,
no monuments created in our honor.
But that does not lessen our possible impact,
for there are scores of people
waiting for someone just like us to come along;
people who will appreciate our compassion,
our unique talents.
Someone who will live a happier life
merely because we took the time
to share what we had to give.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have a potential to turn a life around.
It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are
to make our love felt.
Leo Buscaglia
If you have love in your life,
it can make up for a great many things you lack.
If you do not have it, no matter what else there is,
it is not enough.
Anonymous
You know you're in love
when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better
than your dreams.
Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
Dedicated
to
Angela & Abe
Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart.
Cling to them as you would for your life,
for without them, life is meaningless.
Don't shut love out of your life
by saying it is impossible to find.
The quickest way to receive love is to give love;
The fastest way to lose it,
is to hold too tightly;
And the best way to keep it
is to give it wings.
Anonymous
To love a person
is to learn the song that is in their heart,
and sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Anonymous
You will find, as you look back upon your life,
that the moments when you really lived
are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,
and not twist them to fit our own image.
Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
Take love away from life
and you take away it's pleasures.
Moliere
Contributed
by
Lani O'Connor
When you love someone
all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
Where there is love,
there are always miracles.
Willa Cather
Once you have learned to love
you will have learned to live.
Anonymous
LUCK OF THE DRAW
Even though we need to play with the cards we've been dealt
it's nice when we can be the dealer
and shuffle the deck ourselves.
Jace Carlton
LUCKY DAY
Forget mistakes. Forget failure.
Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant
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