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I'm Jonathan Lockwood Huie and my life-intention is, "Joyful Living for All through Conscious Choice." I am an author, speaker, personal coach, lover of life, and have been called, "The Philosopher of Happiness."
Every day, I share carefully selected inspiring quotes and my motivational insights on having a positive attitude and living a happy life in my Daily Inspiration, which is available on-line, and by email through a free subscription. I include famous motivational and inspiring quotes, as well as my own encouraging sayings and articles on choosing to live happier through acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, courage, and intention.
Happiness is not about the events of our lives, but about our emotional reactions to those events. Our responses are partly genetic and partly cultural. Over the years, these emotional patterns have become bad habits, but the great news is that the habit of unhappiness can be broken.
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** Smile. Today would be a wonderful day not to take life so seriously. Today may end up the way you prefer - and it may not. Happiness is not about being a winner - it's about being gentle with life - being gentle with yourself. Let life be a dance, and choose the kind of dance you want for today - perhaps a gentle loving dance.
** Welcome the Unexpected. Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises - often with great intensity. Be open to new ways; sometimes newness just knocks on our door; welcome it.
** Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair." Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be. Demanding that life meet our expectations is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence. Life is a game with no rules. Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions. Our only path to happiness lies in being open to receiving whatever life throws at us - with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
** Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar. Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory. Don't wait. Do it Today - and again tomorrow.
** Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning. We give our own meaning to time as to life. Urgent? Why?
** Forgiveness is not a reprieve that we give to someone else. Forgiveness for another's act or omission is a gift that we give ourselves. We are the one who suffers the upset and the anger when we feel that we have been wronged. It is our own blood pressure that rises when we hold on to resentment.
** Forgiving others is a gift to yourself, given not because they deserve pardon, but because you deserve the serenity and joy that comes from releasing resentment and anger, and from embracing universal forgiveness.
** Our "Rainbows & Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life - the little things that are so easy to overlook, yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment to notice and to pay attention. Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies, for all God's creatures - large and small, for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain, for the tree veiled in the season's first frost, for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Life is a Book of Riddles, with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- Meister Eckhart
