Be Yourself

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs



It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - e. e. cummings

Possitivity

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

 
Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- jlh

Home

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous

 

The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can go as we are
and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- jlh

If your home is not a place where you can
truly kick-back and be yourself -
both physically and emotionally -
consider making some changes in your way-of-life.

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

Diificulty

Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- jlh

Confidence

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

You can, when you believe you can.

Joy

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
- Theodore H. White

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.

Happiness Now

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles

You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- jlh