Quotes About Reflection

Whenever anything excellent or mediocre or lame or annoying happens to you, meet it with the statement, "This is good because . . . " and fill in the blank. Once you make this a regular practice, you'll see how much easier it is to be in gratitude for much more than you realized.

Die meisten Antworten ergeben sich aus Taten, nicht aus Grübeln.

Figure out the things you get lost in in your business and your personal life. Then figure out how you can be doing more of those things more of the time. Hire someone and delegate the tasks you hate doing. Partner up with someone who's good at, and enjoy doing the things you're not that into.

Every night before you go to bed, review your day and either write down or mentally note ten things you can be grateful for in your life. These

Gratitude is a state of being.

This is good because… If you instead look for ways to be grateful for everything in your life, it not only raises your frequency, but it allows you to grow by opening you up to the lesson.

Be grateful for all you are and all that you're becoming.

If something negative happens in your life, feel it, learn from it, let it go and get back to focusing on the life you're excited to live.

Love Yourself. While you've still got the chance.

We relive our worst moments over and over and over instead of letting them go, we pick at the emotional scabs and refuse to let the healing happen and the pain subside.

Forgiving isn't about being nice to them, it's about being nice to yourself.

Meanwhile, the truth is, the only questions you ever need to consider when making decisions about your life are:     1. Is this something I want to be, do, or have?     2. Is this going to take me in the direction I want to go (not should go)?     3. Is this going to screw over* anybody else in the process?

I'm assuming if you're reading this that there are some areas of your life that aren't looking so good either.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles

One of the best ways to blast past the noise in our brains and discover what's going on underneath is through meditation. Sitting in purposeful silence.

Meanwhile, the truth is, the only question you ever need consider when making decisions about your life are: 1. Is this something i want to be, do, or have? 2. Is this going to take me in the direction I want to go (not should go)? 3. Is this going to screw over anybody else in the process?

A wise man once said nothing.

artist, thinker, blurter of brilliance Many

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. —Lao Tzu; ancient Chinese philosopher

One week later, he lies in the hospital room, his breath moving deliberately in and out of his body. He feels as if he has been in this small room forever, that his home life is a blurry dream he cannot really remember. He moves his feet in circles, first the left, then the right. Their swelling has not stopped., and he knows that soon he will be unable to move them at all.

This is nice," Dylanna commented. "Almost like old times," Kamarie said. "Almost," Oraeyn chuckled, "except we're not outside in that rain. We're not hungry, wet, cold, or lost, and there are no enemies chasing us. Except for that, it's exactly like old times!" Kamarie chuckled. "You left out being terrified out of our minds.

Laugh at yourself, high and mighty king, laugh at yourself or despair!

I think, perhaps, that I begin to understand how much I do not know.

Dojhur listened carefully, not interrupting, until the story had finished. "You're lucky," he said at last. "At least you knew your parents." Olifur frowned. "Didn't you?" Dojhur shook his head, his expression melancholy. "Both died before I was born, I think." Olifur nodded, then paused, tilting his head to one side as he pondered how such a thing might be possible.