Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
Who reminds you of your the happiness within you?
Notice I took slight issue with Proust’s words and didn’t say “makes us happy?”
To really believe that is to give away your power.
The only person with the power to make you happy or sad is you.
Know that truth and let your Soul blossom.
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out. Tennessee Williams The Japanese word Kaizen means (small and continuous) improvement. The making better of things, over time. Rather than confronting issues, problems and long-festering wounds “head-on” with a Hollywood-action-movie-like-grandiosity, what if you identified a particular component of an issue or problem or long-festering wound and took…
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems. – Henry Ford So it is in life. We have no big problems, only lots of little problems that combine and feel like big problems. * * * The only thing between a fulfilled, authentic life is the solving of these little problems….
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping – Carl Jung So often we don’t take risks because we’re afraid things won’t work out. We may not have that conscious thought, but the truth of not taking action or a risk that fear keeps us stuck. There’s a very…
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain I’m pretty sure I’ve riffed on this before, but it’s…
“Do you have habits, or do your habits have you?” – Brian Tracy I heard that this morning while listening to his audio program “Focal Point” (one of my favorite programs of his) in the car. It hit me particularly hard as I know, deep-down, that many of my habits don’t serve me, and they…
Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left. – Hubert Humphrey People discount themselves all the time. Unfortunately many focus on what’s gone wrong or what they don’t have or what seems out-of-reach. It’s the focus that causes the problem. We have…