Mind Integrity

"Nothing is at last sacred except that of the integrity of your own mind."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Positive Expectancy

"Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being...There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance."

- Denis Waitley -

Happy and unhappy

"Then it hit me -- being unhappy was something I'd been doing, and when I stopped doing it, I reverted to my natural state, which is happy."


-- Orson Bean --

Trying

"Trying is failing with honor."

Without a trace

"We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace."

Achieving success

"Most people are content to just coast along. Many really don't like to apply their talents and abilities, or to put in long hours of work. But to achieve any dream, and to make something truly remarkable happen in our lives, we must face adversity head-on. And we must overcome all of the obstacles in our pathway."

- John M. Huntsman -

Blind Faith

"Do not throw yourself blindly over the cliff's edge in faith; walk to the edge and be directed by the Lord to the invisible path that lies across the chasm."

- Christy Campbell -

Discipline

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."

Delay and Procrastination

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

- C. Northcote Parkinson -

Sand Art

 I love this!

Work funnies - suggestions

"That's not the way the suggestion came down."

- Jim Zohrn

Not afraid of storms

Quote from Louisa May Alcott:

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

Answers to prayers

Quote

"When He answers yes, it is to give us confidence. When He answers no, it is to prevent error. When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth. We are expected to assume accountability by acting on a decision that is consistent with His teachings without prior confirmation."

- Richard G. Scott, November 1989

Service

We gain more substance to our souls as we serve.

Do what we can

"When we do what we can, God will do what we can't."

No Regrets

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain -

Moments and Christmas Thoughts

Someone posted this great little post on Facebook:

"If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, when will we have the time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi? ... For each one of us, there is a desert to travel. A star to discover. And a being within ourselves to bring to life."

 - Author Unknown -

Orderly and Original

Quote on someones email signature:

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." 

 -Gustave Flaubert, French writer-

Babylon

"We need to give up our summer cottage in Babylon."

Giving

"We will not have less by giving away."

Mourn

"Mourn with those that mourn and stand in need of comfort."

Forgiveness

"If we do not forgive, it does not matter what we do right."

Adversity

Your reaction to adversity is what matters.

Notable Quotables - when there are too many for separate entries

"In difficulty, I look up."

"He who has no faith experiences the full range of pain to satisfy the demands of justice." - Bruce R. McKonkie

"Hard to explain, but not difficult to feel."

"Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually."

Voicemail quote - "Please hold through the silence."

Service - be not spectators, but be participants.

Execute Innovation

Not trying to get in your eyelash

So, a director at work was telling people he didn't want to get in the way of something we were doing.

Instead he said:

"Not trying to get into your eyelash."

Never heard this quote before, but that is representative of how I feel sometimes. A little piece of dust in an eyelash. Or, like a gnat swarming around me - small and annoying.

Dramastically

Someone at work was trying to say that something would "dramatically" impact something at the same time that they were thinking the word "drastically."

Thus was born the word "dramastically."

Just sharing...

Quote - Tithing

"We aren't giving up 10% of what is ours, but rather we are allowed to keep 90% of what is His."

Quote - making the best of things

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."


-John Wooden