Quote Of The Week List

If you’re looking for any of the Weekly Quotes from 2014 – 2019, you’ll find them all here!

2014

August 3 – 9

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

January 4 – 10

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

January 3 – 9

All that is is the result of what we have thought. – The Buddha

January 10 – 16

Sunbeam

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

January 1 – 7

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

January 1 – 6

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!