Quotes to Inspire
 

I have several good quote books. I use to post a new quote or 2 a day when I first got serious about my new weight loss adventure. Those were the dayz!!! Anyways...Most of them will be coming from Keep it Simple, OA-For Today, and Modivating Quotes for Modivating People. Don't want to be bad and pretend I made these up!!!!

"To make the world a friendly place
One must show it a friendly face" - James Whitcomb Riley

Action for the day-Today, I'll spread friendliness. I will greet people with a smile. (from KIS)

If only we could live our life as if each moment were our last...
we would connect with that essential part of ourselves that does not die. Ask yourself, is my life equipping me for my death?
Because you become what you practice. What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you are now.

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Today: I do not think "tomorrow" or "later" or "another time". I think NOW. Do it now, say it now, commit myself now. What can be done "someday", I can do today-just for the fun of it. {OA-For Today}

"The only sin is mediocrity. " Martha Graham

"Mediocrity is for monks. Everything to excess!"

- Lazarus Long

"In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations--it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir."

Stuart Keate

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"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Luckily this is not difficult."

Charlotte Whitton
Mayor of Ottawa, 1962

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"I have always had the twin ambition to have at least one hundred million and to get away from Canadian winters."

Conrad Black

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"It's going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it."

Andrew H. Malcom (1989) on Canada

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"The wit of a graduate student is like champagne.
Canadian champagne."

Robertson Davies

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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, then you are truly rich."

From the Book of Tao Te Ching

"The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them"~Confucius

For today: I am ready to change-to be rid of my faults that are hampering my recovery. (OA)

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
~Shakespeare

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
~John Lennon

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
~Alfred North Whitehead

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."~Ralph Waldo Emerson

For today: I cannot will myself to have peace of mind, but I can re-examine my priorities. Am I putting enough time and effort into activities that nuture my spirit? {OA}

"You cannot plan the future by the past" Edmund Burke

Don't wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it. {MQFMP}

"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." John F Kennedy

For Today: Fears are not facts. I can take the steps necessary to change my life in spite of my fears. {OA}

"You have nothing to fear, but fear its self."- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"To know what we do not know is the beginning of wisdom."-Maha Sthavira Sangharakshita

"Power of the mind is infinite while brawn is limited."- Koichi Tohei

"Those in a hurry do not arrive."- Zen saying

"Trying to reach a goal is like a guided missile's path. It's off course more than it's on, but it keeps going and eventually bam it hits it's target"- Peter Tork of The Monkees (yeah, that Peter Tork)