THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Author Unknown

Thought for the Day

Mind is the master weaver, both of the interior garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

James Allen

Thought for the Day

When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs at what it has found.
Sufi Aphorism

Thought for the Day: Success

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
~Author Unknown

The So-Called "Secrets" of Success

The main "secret" of success is perseverance.

So continuing with this month's theme, here are nine secrets of success whose origins range from traditional sayings to anonymous authors.

When all put together, they read like an inspirational poem:

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ~Sarah Brown
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers

Anonymous Voices on Perseverance

Continuing this month's theme, here are three pearls of wisdom on perseverance from 'Authors Unknown':

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
~Author Unknown

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
~Author Unknown

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
~Author Unknown

Two Thoughts on Perseverance

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perseverance Wins

This month's theme is Perseverance.

Here is today's thought of the day.

When the world says, "Give up,"

Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

~Author Unknown

Visit this blog again for more reflections on Perseverance for encouragement, inspiration or food for thought.

Words of Wisdom

Here are some imaginative and inspiring speeches, addresses and general words of wisdom for the young and young-at-heart.

Click to read this speech: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."

Click to read this speech: "Pursue joy, not happiness"

Click to read these lyrics: 'Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)'

Alice Walker on God

When you close your eyes and tune into God, what do you see?
I don’t close my eyes. Why would I close my eyes? It’s everywhere. I mean it just is. What is this if it’s not God?

Do you have a preferred word for God?
I like “Mama.”

Alice Walker (author, The Color Purple)

Read the full interview here.

Words on Water

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman Melville

Snowy Weather

Yesterday, snowy weather threw travel services into chaos in London.
"A little bit of snow," moaned one bus passenger. "And everything grinds to a halt."

"Brace yourselves for a wet and windy weekend,"said the DJ on the radio this morning. Presumably he meant wetter and windier than usual.

Yesterday I staggered through the snow.
Today I slithered through the slush.

Anyway here's a slightly more romantic and meditative spin on snowy weather for reflective contemplation:

Snowflakes

Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Words on Water

Don’t say, don’t say there is no water
to solace the dryness at our hearts.
I have seen
the fountain springing out of the rock wall
and you drinking there.

Denise Levertov

Words on Water

Here are your waters and your watering place.
Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

Robert Frost