May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Thoughtful Action Defuses Panic
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a
wiser and braver use of the reason,
not a panic flight from it.
- F. L. Lucas
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Further reading: Don't Panic
Take Charge of Your Life
The Nightly News - an expression of fear
Saturday, June 27, 2026
In All Circumstances, YOU Get to CHOOSE How YOU Respond
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances
but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
- Joy Page
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions,
everything we have done, and have not done.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Your RESPONSE to any situation is your own RESPONSibility.
You are given your circumstances; you choose your response.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Don't Give Up
Thoughtful Response, Not Panic
Life is Not Hopeless
Create Happiness
Friday, May 8, 2026
Choose to Create Joy
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Today's affirmation:
I choose to create joy in my life.
Whatever my external circumstances,
I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Your attitude determines the quality of your life
You are the Window
Look Beyond the Cloud
Friday, July 11, 2025
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful
Never yield to Panic (fear so strong it prevents logical thinking).
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a
wiser and braver use of the reason,
not a panic flight from it.
- F. L. Lucas
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Further reading: Don't Panic
Take Charge of Your Life
The Nightly News - an expression of fear
Friday, June 27, 2025
In Every Situation, YOU are Responsible for How You Respond
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances
but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
- Joy Page
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions,
everything we have done, and have not done.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Your RESPONSE to any situation is your own RESPONSibility.
You are given your circumstances; you choose your response.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Don't Give Up
Thoughtful Response, Not Panic
Life is Not Hopeless
Create Happiness
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Attitude Changes Everything
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Today's affirmation:
I choose to create joy in my life.
Whatever my external circumstances,
I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Your attitude determines the quality of your life
You are the Window
Look Beyond the Cloud
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Fear can be Mitigated by Reason
Never yield to Panic (fear so strong it prevents logical thinking).
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a
wiser and braver use of the reason,
not a panic flight from it.
- F. L. Lucas
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Further reading: Don't Panic
Take Charge of Your Life
The Nightly News - an expression of fear
Thursday, June 27, 2024
You are given your circumstances; you choose your response
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances
but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
- Joy Page
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions,
everything we have done, and have not done.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Your RESPONSE to any situation is your own RESPONSibility.
You are given your circumstances; you choose your response.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Don't Give Up
Thoughtful Response, Not Panic
Life is Not Hopeless
Create Happiness
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
It's About Attitude
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Today's affirmation:
I choose to create joy in my life.
Whatever my external circumstances,
I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Your attitude determines the quality of your life
You are the Window
Look Beyond the Cloud
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The True Danger is the Storm Within
Never yield to Panic (fear so strong it prevents logical thinking).
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a
wiser and braver use of the reason,
not a panic flight from it.
- F. L. Lucas
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Further reading: Don't Panic
Take Charge of Your Life
The Nightly News - an expression of fear
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Choose How to Respond
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Today's affirmation:
I choose to create joy in my life.
Whatever my external circumstances,
I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Your attitude determines the quality of your life
You are the Window
Look Beyond the Cloud
Monday, June 27, 2022
Steadfast Heart and Focused Mind
Never yield to Panic (fear so strong it prevents logical thinking).
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a
wiser and braver use of the reason,
not a panic flight from it.
- F. L. Lucas
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Further reading: Don't Panic
Take Charge of Your Life
The Nightly News - an expression of fear
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
We Can Choose Our Responses
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Today's affirmation:
I choose to create joy in my life.
Whatever my external circumstances,
I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Your attitude determines the quality of your life
You are the Window
Look Beyond the Cloud
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Deliverance from Fear
Never yield to Panic (fear so strong it prevents logical thinking).
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful.
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a
wiser and braver use of the reason,
not a panic flight from it.
- F. L. Lucas
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Further reading: Don't Panic
Take Charge of Your Life
The Nightly News - an expression of fear
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Change Your Focus
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Today's affirmation:
I choose to create joy in my life.
Whatever my external circumstances,
I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Your attitude determines the quality of your life
You are the Window
Look Beyond the Cloud
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Be Thoughtful to Avoid Panic
Never yield to Panic (fear so strong it prevents logical thinking).
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful.
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a
wiser and braver use of the reason,
not a panic flight from it.
- F. L. Lucas
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Further reading: Don't Panic
Take Charge of Your Life
The Nightly News - an expression of fear
Monday, May 11, 2020
Life Through Joyful Eyes
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Today's affirmation:
I choose to create joy in my life.
Whatever my external circumstances,
I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Your attitude determines the quality of your life
You are the Window
Look Beyond the Cloud
Monday, April 6, 2020
Deliverance from Fear
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a
wiser and braver use of the reason,
not a panic flight from it.
- F. L. Lucas
Never yield to Panic (fear so strong it prevents logical thinking).
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful.
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Further reading: Take Charge of Your Life
The Nightly News - an expression of fear
Don't Panic
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
How We Respond to Challenges
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances
but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
- Joy Page
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions,
everything we have done, and have not done.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Your RESPONSE to any situation is your own RESPONSibility.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Don't Give Up
Thoughtful Response, Not Panic
Life is Not Hopeless
Create Happiness
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Deliverance From Fear
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never yield to Panic (fear so strong it prevents logical thinking).
Focus, and let your actions be thoughtful.
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a
wiser and braver use of the reason,
not a panic flight from it.
- F. L. Lucas
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Further reading: Take Charge of Your Life
Don't Panic
The Nightly News - an expression of fear



