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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Monday, May 25, 2026
Breathe; Let Go; Relax; Forgive - and Smile
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Breathe; let go; relax; forgive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
[Inner] Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Further reading: Focus on Peace
A Life of Harmony
Bring Peace
Forgiveness: Path to Inner Peace
Choose Inner Peace
The War Within Yourself
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Your Legacy to Future Generations
We have an obligation to live in harmony with God's creation.
- Bruce Babbitt
Everything you do, and everything you do not do,
is your legacy to future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Further reading:
Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren
The World We Leave Our Children
The Seeds You Plant
All Life
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Do What You Can
If you don't like the way the world is,
you change it.
You have an obligation to change it.
You just do it one step at a time.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Further reading: Simply Do Your Best
Step Up to the Plate
Take Charge of Your Life
How to Feel Good About Yourself
Friday, May 22, 2026
Ask Yourself What It Means To "Win"
Be Selective.
Choose to do a few things really well,
and let others do the rest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If Taoism is a river flowing effortlessly, Zen is a sword cutting through illusion.
- ChatGPT
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about
God while one is peeling potatoes.
Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
- Alan Watts
By letting it go, it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try,
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu
Aspiration and Vision certainly have their time and place,
but mostly life consists of choosing to be joyful
while peeling the potatoes and taking out the trash.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Stillness
Paradox
Gratitude for THIS Moment
Stay Adaptable
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Heaven is Within Us
Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau
Affirmation:
I am one with Spirit. Spirit is within me.
Spirit permeates me and surrounds me.
Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
I am one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Be at Peace
Attitude of Gratitude
Serving Others
Welcome to Our Family
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Value Mystery
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Be thankful that life is a mystery.
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Mystery creates wonder,
and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Further reading: Nothing is Certain
Cherish Mystery
Childlike Wonder
Magnificent Mystery
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Vision Plus Action
Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison
A dream doesn't become reality through magic;
it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
- Colin Powell
If you dream of something worth doing
and then simply go to work on it
and don't think anything of personalities,
or emotional conflicts, or of money,
or of family distractions;
it is amazing how quickly
you get through those 5,000 steps.
- Edwin Land
Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world.
- Joel A. Barker
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Further reading: You Are What You Do
Walking Your Path
Fulfilling Your Dreams
Action Beats Inaction
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