December 2012 Blog Posts (18)

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves.

The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Here we are New Year’s Eve and the end of…

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

Swedish Proverb

I am worn out from too much hibernation. Snow kept me in for the last two days and so this morning I am busting out on my newly plowed driveway and trekking over…

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Christmas is now behind us and I hope yours was as good as ours was. Now we are in the final days of another year, a good time to…

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to ones fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.

Isabel Currier

Here we are Christmas…

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.

Michael Josephson

We may have different religious beliefs, we may live in different cultures and we may even…

“The beginning is always today.”

Mary Shelley

I have written often recently about how much enjoyment I get out of life because primarily because I have come to realize how much I have to be thankful for. I do because of my greater appreciation of…

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

I had breakfast recently with a friend I really appreciate. We got started talking about happiness when we…

“Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.”

Arthur Jersild

My country is still reeling from…

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

Voltaire

I have been concerned lately by some of the questions I either get or hear asked of someone else. One that really disturbed me some time ago was when I was asked why I put so much time…

The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have

Leonard Nimoy

I have come to appreciate acts of kindness and goodwill more and more each day. I am finding that there are those who seem…

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

Mother Teresa

I was somewhat overwhelmed with the response to yesterdays Daily entitled “I have been given great gifts.” I received a number of…

“The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it”

In my country it is a custom to give gifts to friends, colleagues, family and others in keeping with the holiday spirit. For…

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.”

Tom Blandi

As…

Have a magical holiday season.

I am off early this morning to my weekday workout after three days of answering phones at a radio station logging in contributions to the Salvation Army’s Christmas drive. My days at the station started at 5:30 AM and I am still…

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

Tahereh Mafi

If you have been reading the Daily lately you know that I am really concerned about how there are so many people who have lost…

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well”

Voltaire

We have talked about appreciation before but it is always worth revisiting for I am dismayed as to how little people seem to appreciate each…

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

Benjamin Franklin

One of the ways that many of my friends and acquaintances believe I prove that I am somewhat insane is my commitment to leave the house…

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

E.E. Cummings

I had breakfast with a new friend the other day who I like a lot. She has chosen to work for a foundation that allows her to help hundreds, if not thousands of people by funding…