We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am determined to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
CHOOSE Your Response to Life's Provocations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice
Life as a Dance
Your attitude determines the quality of your life
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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
Saturday, July 4, 2026
Friday, July 3, 2026
I Hope You Dance with Life
Today is your day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows and butterflies out to play,
soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life within God's arms,
Your dance within God's arms,
Is already Perfect!
- Hafiz
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack
Further reading: How to Find Joy in Our Troubled Lives
Choose to Love Life
Appreciate Today
Today is Your Day (long form of my poem)
Thursday, July 2, 2026
Your Life is Not Defined by Age
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
You are only as old as you think you are.
- Anonymous
What is age but a number.
What you can dream, you can become, at any age.
Live your best life, not your age.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Growing Up Without Growing Old
Never Too Late
Ways to Stay Young
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Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Clearly Understand What You Want; THEN Take Action
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Read: How to Choose Your Life Purpose
If you don't know what port you are steering for,
no wind is favorable to you.
- Seneca [paraphrase]
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Further reading: Where Are You Going?
Choosing Your Destination
To Live, Not Merely To Exist
What is my happiness supposed to look like?
Creating Your Own Future
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
How to Deal with Anger and Frustration
When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out?
Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more
than when we have nothing and want some.
We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than
when we seem to lack but one thing.
- Eric Hoffer
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration:
set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes,
cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell,
simmer down and go about business as usual.
- Phyllis Diller
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right
about face which turns us from failure to success.
- Dorthea Brande
Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration
and turn it into positive,
effective, unstoppable determination.
- Ralph Marston
Further reading: How to be Positive Around Negative People
s How to Move On and Let Go
When You Feel Sad for No Apparent Reason
How to Think Positive
Monday, June 29, 2026
Hold Peace Toward ALL in Your Own Heart
Always hold peace toward all in your own heart.
If you are healthy, support those who are sick.
If you have a job, support those who have lost theirs.
If you are strong, support those who are feeble of body or mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me:
I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
...
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these
my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 25:35-40
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Further reading: Feed Just One
Commitment To Service
The Good Samaritan
Help Others
Encourage Others
How Helping Others Helps You
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Never Ignore the Beauty in Life
Even those things which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing true anywhere,
The true is nowhere to be seen;
If you say you see the true,
This seeing is not the true one.
- Abraham Lincoln paraphrasing Lao Tzu's Tao te Ching
Always Look, with Gratitude, for the Best in Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
- Douglas Horton
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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