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PARENTING

In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children
requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility,
strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work
than any other challenge we might have in life.
This is especially so when moral foundations of honor and decency
are eroding around us.
For us to have successful homes, values must be taught,
and there must be rules, there must be standards,
there must be absolutes.

James E. Faust





PASSION
  
There are many things in life that will catch your eye,
but only a few will catch your heart ...
pursue those.

Anonymous


If you sing like an angel
but do it without love,
you'll never rise above the crowd.

If you chase after your goals
but forget your heart,
you'll always be answering to someone else.

If you follow the same path
without trying another,
you'll always be left wondering.

If you strive for perfection
but do it without heart,
your work will have no soul.

If you live your life
but do it without passion and purpose,
you'll always wonder
"What could have been?"

Jace Carlton


Don't ask yourself what the world needs,
ask yourself what makes you come alive,
and then go and do that.
What the world needs
is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman


You must believe in what you're doing
otherwise you're just wasting your time.

Find a personal calling that you can be passionate about
and follow your heart.

In the end,
you'll be grateful you followed your heart,
rather than what someone else said you should do.

Jace Carlton


Find the truth in your life
and then live it
passionately!

Find out where your heart belongs
and go there
passionately!

Take the time to discover who you are
and give yourself to the world
passionately!

Jace Carlton


The rules are simple.
Take your work, but never yourself, seriously.
Pour in the love and whatever skill you have,
and it will come out.

Chuck Jones


To live content with small means -
to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion,
to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich -
to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly,
to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with an open heart -
to bear all cheerfully - do all bravely, await occasions - never hurry;
in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.

William Ellery Channing


Life is like a piano.
Anyone can play a song through meaningless repetition,
but it takes passion to play a masterpiece.

Anonymous


Everyone should carefully observe
Which way his heart draws him
And then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic saying


When mindless, unchallenging, routine existence and safety
are blindly accepted and become unthinking goals,
there can be no authenticity,
because you and everyone else has a mission,
a purpose in life that cannot be denied if you are to live fully.
If you have no purpose, you have no passion.
If you have no passion, you have sold yourself out.
I know that, because I know that within each of us there are passions that,
if acknowledged and released,
will energize and excite the experience of life.

from
"Self Matters"
by
Dr. Phillip C. McGraw


A strong passion for any object will ensure success,
for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Ben Stein





THE PATH

The strait and narrow path, though clearly marked,
is a path, not a freeway nor an escalator.
Indeed, there are times when the only way
the strait and narrow path can be followed
in on one's knees!

Neal A. Maxwell





PATIENCE

No matter how slow the film,
Spirit always stands still long enough
for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White
American Photographer
1908-1976


Rome wasn't built in a day.
Be patient with yourself.

Anonymous





PEACE

Peace comes gradually ... one heart at a time.

Jace Carlton


We must come to see that peace
is not merely a distant goal to seek,
but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.
We must pursue peaceful ends
through peaceful means.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


If it is peace you want,
seek to change yourself,
not other people.
It is easier to protect your feet with slippers
than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Anthony de Mello


If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa





PEOPLE

Keep away from small 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
American Writer and Humorist
1835 - 1910


There are two types of people who will tell you
that you cannot make a difference in this world:
those who are afraid to try themselves,
and those who are afraid that you will succeed.

Ray Goforth





PERFECTION

There is no such thing as
extemporaneous acquisition.
Perfection is not gained any more than heaven
at a single bound.
We build the ladder by which we rise.

Daniel Webster





PERSEVERANCE

Life is not easy for any of us.  But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted in something,
and that this thing, at whatever cost,
must be attained.

Madame Marie Curie


At the end of every challenge
is the beginning of something new.

Anonymous


Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Great works are performed,
not by strength,
but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson





PERSPECTIVE
  
When written in Chinese,
the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters -
one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States - 1961-1963
1917 - 1963
  


Obstacles viewed from a higher point of view
are invariably stepping stones to success.

Dr. Raymond Holliwell
American Author

Loving people live in a loving world.
Hostile people live in a hostile world.
Same world.

Dr. Wayne Dyer
American Author and Lecturer

Contributed
by
Ron Atchison
Fellow Star Traveler and Creator of
InspirationPeak.com



Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain


Mondays are here
so we can appreciate Fridays.

Bill Marin


What you see and hear
depends a good deal on where you are standing;
it also depends on what sort of person you are.

C. S. Lewis


Everything you are against weakens you.
Everything you are for empowers you.

Dr. Wayne Dyer

It's not what you are that holds you back,
it's what you think you are not.

Denis Waitley

Trials, temptations, disappointments -
all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly.
They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it.
Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit
makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

 James Buckham


Every disappointment
has the seed of a new, and perhaps different, opportunity buried inside
just waiting to be discovered.

Jace Carlton


When we feel stuck, going nowhere,
even starting to slip backward,
we may actually be backing up
to get a running start!

Dan Millman


Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns;
I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr





THE PHOENIX

When everything around you
seems to make you feel like all that's left is ashes,
remember the Phoenix.
It rose from the ashes in a glorious new beginning,
to a life that was better and brighter
than anything it had known before.

You can, too!

Jace Carlton





POSSIBILITIES

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture,
or to carve a statue,
and so make a few objects beautiful;
but it is far more glorious to carve and paint
the very atmosphere and medium through which we look.
To affect the quality of the day ...
that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau


Each of us is great
insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities
which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

James Harvey Robinson


Some look at things that are, and ask why.
I dream of things that never were,
and ask why not?

George Bernard Shaw


It's the possibility of having a dream come true
that makes life interesting.

Paulo Coelho
from
"The Alchemist"


Resolve to succeed.
The greatest discovery one can make
is that nothing is impossible.

Anonymous





Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Marcus Aurelius


Know thy ideal and live to that.
For each soul must give account for its own self.

Edgar Cayce

Contributed
by
Marilyn Karr





Leo Buscaglia





THE POWER OF THE HEART
  
We cannot change the cards we are dealt,
just how we play the hand.

Randy Pausch
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University


I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul;
I know that the answer to what we need to do next
is in our own hearts.
All we have to do is listen,
then take that one step further and trust what we hear.
We will be taught what we need to learn.

Melody Beattie





PRAYER

God has three answers for prayer
and none of them is "no".
They are "Yes", "Wait", and "I have another plan".

Anonymous

Contributed
by
Sally Fox


Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.
You can pray with purpose when you realize who you are
and what Heavenly Father wants you to become.

Thomas S. Monson





LIVING IN THE PRESENT

Don't let yesterday
use up too much of today.

Will Rogers





PRICELESS

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill in the room of 200.
He asked, "Who would like this $20.00?"  Hands started going up.

He said, "I'm going to give this to one of you, but first, let me do this."  He proceeded to crumple the bill up.
He then asked, "Who still wants it?"  Still the hands were up in the air.

"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?"
He dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.  "Now, who still wants it?"  Still hands went into the air.

"My friends, you all have learned a very valuable lesson.  No matter what I did to the money,
you still wanted it, because it did not decrease in value.  It is still worth 20 dollars.

Many times in our lives we are dropped, crumpled and ground into the dirt
by the circumstances that come our way and the decisions we make.  We feel that we are worthless,
but, no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value,
dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you.
The worth of our lives comes not in what we do, or who we know,
but who we are.
You are special, don't ever forget it!"

Contributed
by
Dawn Hunt





BEWARE OF PRIDE

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.
But deep down below the surface of the average conscience
a still, small voice says to us,
"Something is out of tune."

Carl Jung





PRINCIPLES

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
Think only on those things that are in line with your principles
and can bear the full light of day.

Anonymous





PRIORITIES
  
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was,
the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove ...
but the world may be different
because I was important in the life of a child.

Forest E. Witcraft
Scholar, Teacher and Boy Scouts of America Administrator
1894 - 1967


God said, "Your task is to build a better world."

Overwhelmed I replied, "How?  This world is such a large, vast place,
and there's nothing I can do that seems to matter."

But God in all His wisdom said, "Just build a better you."

Anonymous


Dust if you must,
but wouldn't it be better to paint a picture,
or write a letter, bake a cake, or plant a seed.
Ponder the difference between want and need.

Dust if you must,
but there is not much time,
with rivers to swim and mountains to climb!
Music to hear, and books to read,
friends to cherish and life to lead.

Dust if you must,
but the world's out there with the sun in your eyes,
the wind in your hair, a flutter of snow,
a shower of rain, this day will not come round again.

Dust if you must,
but bear in mind, old age will come and it's not kind.
And when you go, and go you must,
you, yourself, will make more dust!

Anonymous

Contributed
by
Marilyn Karr


That we do a lot may not be so important.
That we focus the energy of our minds, our hearts, and our souls
on those things of eternal significance,
that is essential.

Joseph B. Wirthlin





PROBLEMS

The significant problems we face
cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at
when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Contributed
by
Bill Marin





PROGRESS

No matter what business you're in,
you can't run in place or someone will pass you by.
It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

Jim Valvano


Restlessness and discontent
are the first necessities of progress.

Thomas Alva Edison





A PROMISE

I promise you that at this precise moment next year,
your life will be better or worse than it is right now.
It will not be the same;
the choice to improve it or let it decay is wholly and undeniably yours.

Dr. Phil McGraw
from
"Self Matters: Creating Your Life From The Inside Out"

Contributed
by
Dawn Hunt





PURPOSE

Any child can tell you
that the sole purpose of a middle name
is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

Dennis Fakes


Our purpose is hidden in our joy, our inspiration, our excitement.
As we act on what shows up in our life,
our purpose shows up.

James King


Begin each day
as if it were on purpose.

from the movie
"Hitch"


When you are inspired by some great purpose,
some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bonds.
Your mind transcends limitations,
your consciousness expands in every direction,
and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world.

Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive
and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali


To desire and strive to be of some service to the world,
to aim at doing something
 which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind -
this is a choice which is possible for all of us;
and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Henry Van Dyke





THE PURPOSE OF LIFE

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible,
to be honorable, to be compassionate.
It is, after all, to matter:
to count, to stand for something,
to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Contributed
by
Audrey Doyle


You are not here merely to make a living.
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply,
with greater vision,
with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
You are here to enrich the world,
and you impoverish yourself if you forget your errand.

Woodrow Wilson




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