If you’re looking for any of the Weekly Quotes from 2014 – 2019, you’ll find them all here!
2014
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods. – Emerson
August 10 – 16
Fear grows in darkness: if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. – Dorothy Thompson
August 17 – 23
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never let the world within assert itself. – Hermann Hesse
August 24 – 30
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but look around in awareness. – James Thurber
August 31 – September 6
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. – Erica Jong
September 7 – 13
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out. – Laurence J. Peter
September 14 – 20
As you look at many people’s lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one. – Ram Dass
September 21 – 27
I live in possibility. – Emily Dickinson
September 28 – October 25
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. – James F. Bymes
October 26 – November 1
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
November 2 – 8
People go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. – Saint Augustin
November 9-15
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience. – Frederick Franck
November 16 – 22
A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But IN you is the presence that will be, when the stars are dead. – Rainer Maria Rilke
November 23 – 29
Every moment is a golden one for those who have the vision to recognize it as such. – Henry Miller
November 30 – December 6
You become what you think about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 7 – 13
I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. – John Donne
December 14 – 20
I want to sing like birds sing, Not worrying about who hears or what they think. – Jelaluddin Rumi
December 21 – 27
The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent. – Albert Einstein
December 28 – January 3
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Kahlil Gibran
2015
Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. – H. Jackson Browne
January 11 – 17
Be like the bird, pausing in its flight, on limb too slight, feels it give way, yet sings, knowing it has wings. – Victor Hugo
January 18 – 24
The other side of every fear is a freedom. – Marilyn Ferguson
January 25 – 31
The words “I am…” are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. – A. K. Kitselman
February 1 – 7
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. – Jean-Paul Sartre
February 8 – 15
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – The Buddha
February 16 – 21
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. – The Serenity Prayer
February 22 – 28
I salute the Divinity in myself. I am strong and able. I can do all that I need to do this day. My mind is alert, my body vital and healthy and my way will be strewn with golden opportunities. No matter what this day will bring to me there is that in me that is great enough to meet it, overcome it and be blessed by it. –Eric Butterworth, Discover The Power Within You
March 1 – 7
Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. –Henry Ford
March 8 – 14
The entire world is a mirror. The only thing you can ever experience is yourself. Everything you think, feel, do and see is you. Your thoughts, feelings, ideas, values, philosophies and opinions create your world. Everything you experience is as it is because that’s how you experience it. We experience the world the way we do because of who we are, not because of how it is. –from The Key and the Name of the Key Is Willingness
March 15 – 21
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles. –Sophocles
March 22 – 28
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 29 – April 4
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours. –Richard Bach
April 5 – 11
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 12 – 18
I don’t want to tiptoe through life just to arrive safely at death. –Author unknown
April 19 – 25
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom. –Anais Nin
April 26 – May 2
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. – Dorothy Thompson
May 3 – 9
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. – Charles C. West
May 10 – 16
Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – John Watson
May 17 – 23
All that is is the result of what we have thought. – The Buddha
May 24 – 30
Even if you live to be 100, it’s really a very short time. So why not spend it undergoing this process of evolution, of opening your mind and heart, connecting with your true nature – rather than getting better and better at fixing, grasping, freezing, closing down? – Pema Chödrön
May 31 – June 6
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. – William James
June 7 – 13
For emotional healing to prevail, we must enter fully into whatever is left unprocessed and ride it all the way through until the pent-up energy is drained off the issue. Then, it is finished, never to command your attention or psychic energy again.- Jacquelyne Small
June 14 – 20
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – e. e. cummings
June 21 – 27
If you think that you know much, you know little. – The Upanishads
June 28 – July 4
The remarkable thing is that we really do love our neighbor as ourselves. We do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. – Eric Hoffer
July 5 – 11
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine. This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine. This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.
Every day, every day, every day, every way, Gonna let my little light shine.
Light that shines is the light of love, Hides the darkness from above,
Shines on me and it shines on you, Shows you what the power of love can do.
Shine my light both bright and clear, Shine my light both far and near,
In every dark corner that I find, Let my little light shine.
July 12 – 18
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. – Wayne Dyer
July 19 – 25
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. – Rumi
July 26 – August 1
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Marianne Williamson
August 2 – 8
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius
August 9 – 15
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
August 16 – 29
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Jelaluddin Rumi
August 30 – September 12
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
September 13 – 19
We who lived in concentration camps can remember those who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Viktor Frankl
September 20 – 26
We cannot choose WHETHER to engage with the world, only HOW to. – Stephen Batchelor
September 27 – October 3
Love until it hurts. – Mother Teresa
October 4 – 10
Do not be afraid. – Jesus
October 11 – 17
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
October 18 – 24
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. – William Blake
October 25 – 31
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. – Virgil
November 1 – 7
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Gustav Jung
November 8 – 14
From the beginning, all beings are Buddha. – Zen Master Hakuin
November 15 – 21
What you are looking for is who is looking. – St. Francis of Assisi
November 22 – 28
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
November 29 – December 12
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. – Wayne Dyer
December 13 – 19
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. – Rachel Carson
December 14 – 26
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie
December 27 – January 2
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -Nelson Mandela
2016
All that is is the result of what we have thought. – The Buddha
January 10 – 16
January 17 – 23
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison
January 24 – 30
Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda
January 31 – February 6
I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process. – Diana Nyad
February 7 – 13
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Pablo Picasso
February 14 – 20
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. – Nelson Mandela
February 21 – 27
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. – Albert Schweitzer
February 28 – March 5
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
March 6 – 12
How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it. – George Elliston
March 13 – 19
Each day, death strikes, and we live as though we were immortal. This is the greatest marvel. – The Mahabharata
March 20 – 26
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
March 27 – April 2
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. – Henry David Thoreau
April 3 – 9
There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. – Robert Louis Stevenson
April 10 – 16
There are never enough “I love you’s”. –Lenny Bruce
April 17 – 23
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life? – Rumi
April 24 – 30
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. – Eden Ahbez
May 1 – 7
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott
May 8 – 14
There is only one great adventure and that is inwards towards the self. -Henry Miller
May 15 – 29
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. -Michelangelo
May 30 – June 4
Do what you do best, just be yourself. -Spirit
June 5 – 11
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world. – Eleanor Roosevelt
June 12 – 18
Don’t forget to love yourself. – Soren Kierkegaard
June 19 – 25
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. – Oscar Wilde
June 26 – July 2
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. – Louise Hay
July 3 – 9
Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you. – Steve Maraboli
July 10 – 16
Each place along the way is somewhere you had to be to be here. – Wayne Dyer
July 17 – 23
The world is a looking glass and gives back to each of us the reflection of our own face. – William Makepeace Thackeray
July 24 – 30
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
July 31 – August 6
When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving. – Kim McMillen
August 7 – 13
Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different. – Stacey Charter
August 14 – 20
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln
August 21 – 27
The thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences. – Louise L. Hay
August 28 – September 3
You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. – Diane Von Furstenberg
September 4 – 10
I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be. – Kristen Neff
September 11 – 17
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. – Maxwell Maltz
September 18 – 24
Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul. – Walt Whitman
September 25 – October 1
Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good. – Louise Hay
October 2 – 8
Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness. – Amy Leigh Mercree
October 9 – 15
If love is universal, no one can be left out. – Deepak Chopra
October 16 – 22
Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. – Victoria Moran
October 23 – 29
A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life. – Andrew Matthews
October 30 – November 4
Loving yourself…does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion. – Margo Anand
November 5 – 12
If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated. – Victoria Moran
November 13 – 19
I am light
I am not the color of my eyes
I am not the skin on the outside
I am not my age
I am not my race
My soul inside is all light
I am light
I am divinity defined
I am the god on the inside
I am a star, a piece of it all
I am light
– India.Arie
November 20 – 26
All is connected to one, and so we are all connected to each other as one. Within you and I shine the same light of God that relates us all greater than that of blood. Search the light within yourself and that of others to see truth beyond the illusion of a divided world. It is within love for all that is, to where you find God. – Luke Gruden
November 27 – December 3
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. – Steve Maraboli
December 4 – 10
Above everything else, genuinely love yourself first. Self-love is powerful and it’s the best love that you will ever have. When you love who YOU are, your relationships will be healthier and your life will be happier. Self-love sets the standard in how we allow others to treat us and how we treat ourselves. Your happiness and well-being is important. Protect it by always valuing who you are! – Stephanie Lahart
December 11 – 17
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. – Alan Cohen
December 18 – 24
I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise. – Steve Maraboli
December 25 – 31
Always remember
You are loved
You carry the love
You spread the love
You radiate the love
And the love is returned to you
– Karen Hackel
2017
The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.
– Louise Hay
January 8 – 14
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. – Robert Frost
January 15 – 21
When I create peace, harmony, and balance in my mind, I find it in my life. – Louise Hay
January 22 – 28
Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall. ― Vironika Tugaleva
January 29 – February 4
A smile is the light in the window of your face, that shows that your heart is home.
– Unknown
February 5 – 11
The way you treat yourself, sets the standard for others. ― Sonya Friedman
February 12 – 18
What you tell yourself every day will lift you up or tear you down. Choose wisely. – Unknown
February 19 – 25
Love yourself first. You can’t pour from an empty vessel. ― Susan Somerset-Webb
February 26 – March 4
You must love yourself, before you love another. By accepting yourself and joyfully being what you are, you fulfill your own abilities, and your simple presence can make others happy.– Seth via Jane Roberts
March 5 – 18
You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made. ― Abiola Abrams
March 19 – 25
If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others’. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world. – Jennifer DeLucy
March 26 – April 1
Child it’s time to break the shell
Life’s gonna hurt, but it’s meant to be felt
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
You cannot fly until you break the shell.
– India.Arie
April 2 – 8
You won’t get perfect by beating yourself up; you’ll only get dented. ― TemitOpe Ibrahim
April 9 – 15
From the ordinary, to the extraordinary. – Wayne Dyer
April 16 – 22
Spring is coming… Time for some cleaning. Remove all the self-doubt, worry, jealousy, regret, anger, guilt, or any other negative emotions that are holding you back from your happy, fulfilled life. ― Nanette Mathews
April 23 – 29
It is better to give and receive. – Bernard Gunther
April 30 – May 6
I am here on my way to there. ― Abraham via Esther Hicks
May 7 – 13
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
May 14 – 20
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day. ― Louise Hay
May 21 – 27
Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind. – Roy T. Bennett
May 28 – June 3
Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for. – Roy T. Bennett
June 4 – 10
Self-love, self-respect, self-worth. There is a reason they all start with “self”. You can’t find them in anyone else. – Unknown
June 11 – 17
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ― Howard Thurman
June 18 – 24
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Benjamin Spock
June 25 – July 1
The earth laughs in flowers. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
July 2 – 8
You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of that doesn’t even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. – C. JoyBell C.
July 9 – 15
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ― Mary Dunbar
July 16 – 22
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
July 23 – 29
The first problem for all of us is not to learn, but to unlearn. ― Gloria Steinem
July 30 – August 5
There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice. – Po Bronson
August 6 – 12
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. ― Steve Maraboli
August 13 – 19
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit. – Christopher McCandless
August 20 – 26
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down. – Roy T. Bennett
August 27 – September 2
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
― Mahatma Gandhi
September 3 – 9
Today is the future I created yesterday. – Louise Hay
September 10 -16
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. ― Nelson Mandela
September 17 – 23
The outer world, and everyone in it, is just a mirror of our inner world. – Dan Brule
September 24 – 30
Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the ‘other self” is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror. ― Napoleon Hill
October 1 – 7
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. – Wayne Dyer
October 8 – 14
You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are. – Yogi Bhajan
October 15 – 21
As you think, you vibrate. And it is your vibrational offering that equals your point of attraction. So what you are thinking and what is coming back to you is always a vibrational match. – Abraham – Hicks
October 22 – 28
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. ― Robert Tew
October 29 – November 4
Part of the journey here on Earth is learning how to discipline ourselves to set aside all of the voices and get to that deep voice within. – Echo Bodine
November 5 – 11
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny – Alan Cohen
November 12 – 18
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr.
November 19 – 25
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. – Thich Nhat Hanh
November 26 – December 2
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. – Wayne Dyer
December 3 – 9
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. – Nathaniel Branden
December 10 – 16
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
– Louis Armstrong
December 17 – 31
Today, I give myself permission to be greater and stronger than my fears. – Maitreya
2018
I salute the Divinity in myself
I am strong and able
I can do all that I need to do this day
My mind is alert, my body vital and healthy and my way will be strewn with golden opportunities
And no matter what this day will bring to me, there is that in me that is great enough to meet it, overcome it and be blessed by it.
-Discover The Power Within You by Eric Butterworth
January 7 -13
You want to build yourself up, not beat yourself up. – Louise Hay
January 14 – 20
Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realize. -Sylvia Clare
January 21 – 27
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo F. Buscaglia
January 28 – February 3
The world is filled with “haters” and “toxic people”. It’s filled with people who are hurting and trying, ineffectively, to give themselves relief. So distance yourself if you must, but try to do it with empathy, not judgment. The only cure for “haters” is love, so try to show them more kindness than they showed you. This is how we can slowly make the world a more loving place. – Lori Deschene
February 4 – 10
The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you. – Alan Cohen
February 11 – 17
When you’re at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive. – Wayne Dyer
February 18 – 24
Learn to love yourself enough so that when someone enters your life that treats you negatively, you can stand up for yourself and have the strength to let them go. You can learn that it is okay to say no to anyone who is not willing to treat you with the love and respect you not only want, but also deserve. Have the courage to walk away from anything that does not serve you well. Search for your highest good. – Unknown
February 25 – March 3
One step at a time. One step at a time. One step at a time. – Spirit
March 4 – 10
No misstep is ever wasted; they are all just lessons in disguise. – Unknown
March 11 – 17
Change is inevitable and a person’s ability to adapt to change determines their level of success. – Joyce Meyer
March 18 – 24
It’s getting better and better every day. It’s getting better and better in every way. – Laura Gentner
March 25 – 31
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you. – Eric Butterworth
April 1 – 7
Human potential is amazing…We have the capacity to create a world that is peaceful…one that spreads kindness and love rather than hatred. If we believe it to be so, it will be our truth, and we will create it. – Kristi Bowman
April 8 – 14
Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we ‘should’ do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority. – Shakti Gawain
April 15 – 21
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
April 22- 28
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. – Jonathan Safran Foer
April 29 – May 5
I’d rather break my arm patting myself on the back, then break my leg kicking myself in the butt. – Unknown
May 6 – 12
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. – Deepak Chopra
May 13- 19
The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth. – Roshan Sharma
May 20 – 26
We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world.
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
May 27 – June 2
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. – Mahatma Gandhi
June 3 – 9
Life can be awkward at times. It is part of the growing process. – Jim Fargiano
June 10 – 16
God made me phunky
And I’m glad he made me that way
God made me phunky
And I’m glad he blessed me that way
– Mike Dunn
June 17 – 23
Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept. – Anna Taylor
June 24 – 30
Nourish your life with empowering ingredients. – Steve Maraboli
July 1 – 7
As I began to love myself
I freed myself of anything
that is no good for my health – food, people,
things, situations, and everything
that drew me down and away from myself.
At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.
Today I know it is
“LOVE OF ONESELF”.
– Charlie Chaplin
July 8 – 14
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
July 15 – 21
Know and believe that anything is possible. – Lailah Gifty Akita
July 22 – 28
There is one grand lie — that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe. – Wayne Dyer
July 29 – August 4
Paradise is where I am. – Voltaire
August 5 – 11
This too shall pass. — Unknown
August 12 – 18
Your beliefs become your thoughts.
Your thoughts become your words.
Your words become your actions.
Your actions become your habits.
Your habits become your values.
Your values become your destiny.
– Mahatma Gandhi
August 19 – 25
Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison. – Steve Maraboli
August 26 – September 1
It is time to wake up… and fight isolationism, protectionism and nativism. – Sen. John McCain
September 2 – 8
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. – Henry Thoreau
September 9 – 15
Aging isn’t about getting old it’s about LIVING… Learning that you can age well, will actually help you to age better… let’s start celebrating and living an engaged life, and stop punishing ourselves for not looking a certain way, and instead holding ourselves accountable for actually taking care of ourselves inside first, knowing the results on the exterior will be a shining side effect. – Cameron Diaz
September 16 – 22
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That’s why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn’t. It’s called the “nocebo” effect. – Bruce H. Lipton
September 23 – 29
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. – Hippocrates
September 30 – October 6
See yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. – Abraham-Hicks
October 7 – 13
Feelings are something you have; not something you are. ― Shannon L. Alder
October 14 – 20
Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier. ― Sabaa Tahir
October 21 – 27
There’s nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated. – Iskra Lawrence
October 28 – November 3
Are you under the misimpression that negative emotion is a bad thing? Negative emotion is not a bad thing. Negative emotion is guidance to help you redirect and refocus. It’s all part of the dance. – Abraham-Hicks
November 4 – 10
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. – Toni Morrison
November 11 – 17
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. ― Shannon L. Alder
November 18 – 24
When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love. – Alan Cohen
November 25- December 1
You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. ― Anthon St. Maarten
December 2 – 8
With each choice that you make to align yourself with the energy of your soul, you empower yourself. Authentic power is built up step by step, choice by choice. – Gary Zukav
December 9 – 15
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.– Steve Jobs
December 16 – 29
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others. – Abraham Maslow
December 30 – January 5
Pull over to the side of your journey and look how far you’ve come. – Danielle LaPorte
2019
January 6 – 12
It’s worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart. – Roy T. Bennett
January 13 – 19
Focus on what you have in common, not on your differences. – God
January 20 – 26
Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun and laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life. – Anita Moorjani
January 27 – February 2
If we were talking to you on your first day here, we would say, “Welcome to planet Earth, there is nothing that you cannot be or do or have, and your work here, your lifetime career is to seek joy.” – Abraham – Hicks
February 3 – 9
Pain in inevitable. Suffering is optional. – Unknown
February 10 – 16
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – E.E. Cummings
February 17 – 23
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw
February 24 – March 2
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. – Nancy Friday
March 3 – 9
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again. ― Thich Nhat Hanh
March 10 – 16
The more you believe it, the more it starts to become real for you. This is why it is so very important to believe in positive things, rather than negative things. Whatever you believe, you will find that you are correct. The universe has a way of presenting to you exactly what you believe. If you think life is great, you are correct. If you think life is tough, you will be proved correct too. – Anita Moorjani
March 17- 23
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
“I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong.”
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What’s right for you–just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
― Shel Silverstein
March 24 – 30
Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn’t make me mean, selfish, or uncaring (just) because I don’t do things your way. I care about me, too. ― Christine Morgan
March 31 – April 6
If you do nothing different in the present moment, then your future is going to arrive looking a lot like your past. -Nancy Levin
April 7 – 13
It’s never too late to change your life for the better. You don’t have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes
to your daily routine can make a big difference to your life. – Roy T. Bennett
April 14 – 20
I am in the process of positive change. – Louise Hay
April 21 – 26
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ― Buckminster Fuller
April 27 – May 4
Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.
― Roy T. Bennett
May 5 – 11
Did you know the average age of a gamer is thirty-two? Now, I don’t see anything inherently wrong with diversion and games, but that is certainly telling about our culture, isn’t it? Instead of raising families or creating culture, we are sitting around in our living rooms with our eyes glued to the television, simulating life… We are avoiding the truth that screams at us from the stillness: ‘There is more. You are more than this.’ So we anesthetize the truth with busyness. Maybe if we just do more, this feeling of emptiness will go away. And we won’t actually have to do any real work. ― Jeff Goins
May 12 – 18
We live in an interconnected world of exploding information density where a million things are clamoring for our attention all the time. ― Steve Woodruff
May 19 – 25
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it. – Sharon Salzberg
May 26 – June 1
Keep making a difference out there! Don’t let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you. – Farshad Asl
June 2 – 8
Life is not a journey from cradle to grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to come skidding in sideways, bruised, battered, totally worn-out, yelling “Wow! What a Ride!” – Mark Frost
June 9 – 15
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? – Mary Manin Morrissey
June 16 – 22
Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu
June 23 – 29
If you’re not excited about it, it’s not the right path. – Abraham-Hicks
June 30 – July 6
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more. – John Kabat-Zinn
July 7 – 13
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. – Albert Einstein
July 14 – 20
Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what’s working and what’s not, so that we can make changes for the better. ― Sarah Breathnach
July 21 – 27
People tend to make meditation more complicated than it needs to be. Simply put, it is taking the time to listen to the Universe, God, your Source, or whatever you want to call it, so that you feel centered and directed. – Echo Bodine
July 28 – August 3
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. ― Stephen Richards
August 4 – 10
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. – William Shakespeare
August 11 – 17
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. – Mother Teresa
August 18 – 24
There is such a thing as Enough. Because you are enough. Just the way you are. Which is why there is only one you in the world. Because only you can do what only you can do. Be you. ― Purejoojoo
August 25 – 31
If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around. – From the movie Love Actually
September 1 – 7
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work. – Leo F. Buscaglia
September 8 – 14
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? – Rumi
September 22 – 28
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. — Anne Frank
September 29 – October 5
Laugh at yourself. It tones your facial muscles and attitude. – Kelly Rudolph
October 6 – 12
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. – Dalai Lama
October 13 – 19
I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that’s icing on the cake. – Jonathan Van Ness
October 20 – 26
There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are. ~ Deepak Chopra
October 27 – November 2
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. – L.M. Montgomery
November 3 – 9
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that i lived just the length of it. I want to get to the end of it and find that I lived the width of it as well. – Diane Acherman
November 10 – 16
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William Mauldin
November 17 – 23
Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. – Lord Byron
November 24 – 30
If you don’t love something, then don’t do it. — Ray Bradbury
December 1 – 7
It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy…Let’s go exploring! – Calvin & Hobbes
December 8 – 14
I saw this painted on a wall in Denver as my friend and I drove past it last week. It touched something in me and I asked her to swing back around so I could get a picture. Robin made so many people smile and laugh. He made the world brighter by being himself and sharing it with others. Imagine a world where we all are our authentic selves and share it fearlessly with the world. Where/how are you holding yourself back?
December 15 – 21
Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – Friedrich Nietzsche
December 22 – 28
Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn’t something you earn, it’s something you recognize. – Mike Dooley
December 29 – January 4
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. — Voltaire
With the end of 2019 comes the end of Quote of the Week. Thank you to everyone who followed, commented on and liked the quotes the 5 years I did them! Starting in 2020 there will be a Weekly Affirmation. Be sure to check it out on the A-musing page!