Cherish Your Dreams and Aspirations

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations,
and small needs.
- William Howard Stein

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
- Sugar Ray Leonard

Today's exercise:
Reexamine that to which you aspire.
Do you need different goals?
Or perhaps the same destination,
but a better way to get there?

Further reading: Don't be Limited by what is "Reasonable"

Do more of what inspires you

Don't Try To Please Everyone

Success Tip: Drive Change

Stand Up To Your Obstacles
       

Inner Peace Conquers Depression and Fear

Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is a criterion by which you can judge
whether the thoughts you are thinking
and the things you are doing
are right for you.
The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
- Peace Pilgrim

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu

If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.
- Lao Tzu

Inner Peace Conquers Depression and Fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: God Grant Me The Wisdom

Appreciate Today

Choose to Live in Peace

Find Peace in Forgiveness
    

May You Be Blessed With Inner Peace

When you have inner peace, you have everything.
When you do not have inner peace, you have nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao Tzu

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha

Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional

Good health is not the absence of symptoms,
it is the presence of peace.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

May you be blessed with inner peace now and always.

Further reading: Surrender

Living in Peace

Breathe In, Breathe Out

Forgiveness: Path to Inner Peace

Inner Smile
    

The Pain of Envy

Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb

Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house;
you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.
- Exodus 20:17

The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
- Joseph Epstein

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

Further reading: Comparisons are Odious

Burden of Jealousy

Zero-Based Gratitude

Disappointment (Unmet Expectation)

How to Be Yourself