Doing Something That Matters?
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March 30, 2018Enjoy Every Day
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March 27, 2018What Do You Practice?
The Pleasanton Express, a Texas newspaper just quoted Prem Rawat -- an inspiring quote about the power of practice.
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March 24, 201821 Quotes on Appreciation
1. "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Theresa
2. "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." Meister Eckhart
3. "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." - William James
4. "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." -- William Arthur Ward
5. "I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." - Elbert Hubbard
6. "Celebrate what you want to see more of." - Tom Peters
7. "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Cicero
8. "Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower." - Goethe
9. "The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them." - G.K.Chesterton
10. "Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune." - Sam Walton
11. "Next to excellence is the appreciation of it." - William Makepeace Thackeray
12. "Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least." - Anonymous
13. "Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." - Seneca
14. "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia
15. "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement." - Charles Schwab
16. "You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink." - G.K. Chesterton
17. "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder
18. "In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong." - John Ruskin
19. "There are two things people want more than sex and money -- recognition and praise." - Mary Kay Ash
20. "Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins
21. "Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." - Buddha
Big thanks and a flying chest bump to Val Vadeboncoeur for finding these great quotes.
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March 22, 2018I Came Here to Be Inspired
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What you get when you google "inspiration"
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March 13, 2018Unwavering Focus
Excellent TED talk about the power of unwavering focus and concentration.
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March 10, 2018New Song from Geoff Bridgford
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March 09, 2018Mother Teresa Speaks
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
"I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there."
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones -- the ones at home."
"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."
"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."
"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
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March 04, 2018Who Do You Need to Forgive Today?
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March 02, 2018A Feeling That Defies Definition
Premlata from Nic Askew on Vimeo.
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