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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Position.
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
Related topics: Motivational
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I offer gentle understanding to myself.
I position myself in love, not fear.
I look behind me with forgiveness.
I look forward with festive anticipation.
I embrace this holy moment and assert,
"Now. This moment is the moment to love,
the moment to serve, the moment to seize
the legacy instead of the small.
Now. Now I will live large, love boldly,
reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
The Master teaches that the way of qigong cannot be hurried.
Wuji refers to the time before the creation -
when everything was formless.
Standing in the wuji position, my feet are parallel
to each other, shoulder-width apart.
My knees are slightly bent,
and the tip of my tongue touches the roof of my mouth.
My arms are held in front of me with my elbows bent
and my palms parallel to each other - about four inches apart.
At first I focus on my breathing, and only my breathing.
Later, I visualize the energy or "Qi" between my palms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off.
It is seeing things clearly,
and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
I give thanks for both my bloom and my thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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)
Today, I Dance Lightly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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