For December 27, 2009 "When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." Joseph Campbell

For December 20, 2009 "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller

For December 13, 2009 "At any moment you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it." Thich Nhat Hanh

For December 6, 2009 "Is there anything more satisfying, more healing, more enjoyable, more important in your life than your next breath? Don't let it go by unnoticed. Take your time and savour it." Beth Johnson

For November 29, 2009 "We don't always get what we want, but we do always get what we choose." John C. Maxwell

For November 22, 2009 "We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen." Paulo Coelho

For November 15, 2009 "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson

For November 8, 2009 "If you call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."  James Russell Miller

For November 1, 2009 "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Author J.K. Rowling

For October 25, 2009 "Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live." Yogananda

For October 18, 2009 "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo

For October 11, 2009 "Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." W.J. Cameron

For October 4, 2009 "Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?" Dennis & Wendy Mannering

For September 27, 2009 "Worry is a prayer for what you don't want." John Assaraf & Murray Smith from "The Answer"

For September 20, 2009 "It's possible!" Cindy Fisher

For September 13, 2009 "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 the errand."  Woodrow Wilson

For September 6, 2009 "Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves. They shall never cease to be entertained." Chinese Proverb

For August 30, 2009 "If you believe in yourself, you can accomplish anything." Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin from "Three Cups of Tea"

For August 23, 2009 "I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best. I know I drive some people crazy with what seems to be ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked out for me." Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets

For August 16, 2009 "Our brains become 'magnetized' with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds. And that by means which no one fully understands, these dominating thoughts, like magnets, attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts." Napoleon Hill from "Think and Grow Rich!"

For August 9, 2009 "If you never change your mind, why have one?" Edward De Bono

For August 2, 2009 "Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." Thomas Jefferson

For July 26, 2009 "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." Goethe

For July 19, 2009 "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." James Bryant Conant

For July 12, 2009 "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." Ty Boyd

For July 5, 2009 "Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy." Mother Teresa

For June 28, 2009 "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." Henry Ward Beecher

For June 21, 2009 "Sometimes getting pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!" Peter de Jager

For June 14, 2009 "Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence." Henry David Thoreau

For June 7, 2009 "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." Aesop

For May 31, 2009 "The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in two - common sense and perseverance." Owen Flethman

For May 24, 2009 "Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." Will Rogers

For May 17, 2009 "The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." Martha Washington

For May 10, 2009 "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." Christopher Reeve

For May 3, 2009 "Whatever good things we build end up building us." Jim Rohn

For April 26, 2009 "Consult not your fears, but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do." Pope John XXIII

For April 19, 2009 "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw

For April 12, 2009 "Establishing goals is alright if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours." Doug Larson

For April 5, 2009 "Life is not about having and getting, but being and becoming." Mathew Arnold

For March 29, 2009 "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." John Wooden

For March 22, 2009 "Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day." Francis Gray

For March 15, 2009 "You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself." Alan Alda

For March 9, 2009 "If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams." Les Brown

For March 1, 2009 "Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more. But if you concentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough." Oprah Winfrey

For February 22, 2009 "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."  Mark Twain

For February 15, 2009 "May you live all the days of your life."  Jonathan Swift

For February 8, 2009 "Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it." Paul De Rapin

For February 1, 2009 "My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out." Ronald Reagan

For January 25, 2009 "Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." Maxwell Maltz

For January 18, 2009 "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." H. Jackson Brown

For January 11, 2009 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." Aldous Huxley

For January 4, 2009 "We must BE the change we wish to see in the world." Ghandi

For December 28, 2008 "Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute, is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them." Robert R. Updegraff

For December 21, 2008 "It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so." William Shakespeare

For December 14, 2008 "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver." Barbara De Angelis

For December 7, 2008 "You create your own universe as you go along." Sir Winston Churchill

For November 30, 2008 "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

For November 23, 2008 "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." Harold Whitman

For November 16, 2008 "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Oliver Wendell Holmes

For November 9, 2008 "Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way." Jon Kabat-Zinn

For November 2, 2008 "In any given moment, we are either practicing mindfulness or, de facto, we are practicing mindlessness. When framed this way, we might want to take more responsibility for how we meet the world, inwardly or outwardly, in any and every moment." Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

For October 26, 2008 "You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

For October 19, 2008 "If you chronically avoid what you feel, eventually you do not know what you are feeling at all." Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.

For October 12, 2008 - Thanksgiving Day, Canada "God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?" William A. Ward

For October 5, 2008 "For self is a sea boundless and measureless." Kahlil Gibran

For September 28, 2008 "Some men see things as they are and ask "Why?" I dream things and ask "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw

For September 21, 2008 "Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives." Trinidad Hunt

For September 14, 2008 "If a problem has a solution, there is no need to worry about it. If there is no answer for the problem, worry will do no good." Tibetan Proverb

For September 7, 2008 "Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates." Thomas Szasz

For August 31, 2008 "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For August 24, 2008 "Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination." Norman Vincent Peale

For August 17, 2008 "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward in your life." Dr. David M. Burns

For August 10, 2008 "You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost." Martha Graham

For August 3, 2008 "I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." Jim Rohn

For July 27, 2008 "Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these." Nathaniel Hawthorne

For July 20, 2008 "Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease." Hippocrates (460-357 BC)

For July 13, 2008 "The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every time we fall." Confucius (551-479 BC) - Chinese Philosopher

For July 6, 2008 "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try." Dr. Seuss

For June 29, 2008 "Celebrate what you want to see more of." Thomas J. Peters

For June 22, 2008 "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John Wooden

For June 15, 2008 "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." Goethe

For June 8, 2008 "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success." Norman Vincent Peale

For June 1, 2008 "Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." Isak Dinesen

For May, 2008 "Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve." W. Clement Stone

For April 27, 2008 "Be strong. Pain is temporary but quitting lasts forever." Lance Armstrong

For April 20, 2008 "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie

For April 13, 2008 "Be silly. Be honest. Be kind." Ralph Waldo Emerson

For April 6, 2008 "Spend time alone every day." Dalai Lama

For March 30, 2008 "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." Henry David Thoreau

For March 23, 2008 "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." Hugh Downs

For March 16, 2008 "You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give." Eleanor Roosevelt

For March 9, 2008 "Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness." James Thurber

For March 2, 2008 "If you truly want to make a big change, you've got to learn to tolerate the "in-between" time. That's the period in which we let go of who we know ourselves to be in order to allow for the possibility of who we might become." Katherine Woodward Thomas

For February 24, 2008 "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes

For February 17, 2008 "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye