Preparation - Eleanor Roosevelt

Shay Pausa

"If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can...you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears."
Eleanor Roosevelt

Love and Laughter May 24 2007

Shay Pausa

"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." -- Agnes Repplier

How interesting? When our relationships become bogged down with "stuff" it becomes difficult to laugh as we did in the early days. Make time to laugh and play EVERY DAY with your lover to ensure that you stay in love.

Pessimist - Helen Keller

Shay Pausa

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Helen Keller

Today, try a dose of extra optimism. Expect the best and smile at everyone you meet.

Scarcity

Shay Pausa

"There is no scarcity except in our souls."

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Money ebbs and flows in our lives. To stress about finances robs us of daily joy. Focus on what you have. Find ways to simplify your life and take time to learn how you can get out of debt, add income, lower expenses. Abundance in your heart is most important aspect of joyful living.

Your Destiny 1122007

Shay Pausa

“You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny.”

Vedic Text

kathleen Norris 1122007

Shay Pausa

"Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable."
Kathleen Norris

Judy Garland - First Rate 1122007

Shay Pausa

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
Judy Garland

Today fully appreciate how wonderful and special you are just by being yourself.

Opportunity Ryan 1152007

Shay Pausa

"Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating."
M.J. Ryan

The pause between then notes 1152007

Shay Pausa

"The notes I handle no better than any pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides."
Arthur Schnabel

Do you take time to pause each day? Today take 5 minutes to do nothing but dream, meditate, breathe, slip in to the gap. It is the pause between the notes of our life that help us stay centered and find joy. Without the pause between notes there can be melody.

Conviction in yourself

Shay Pausa

Always have conviction for what you believe and who you are. Never let someone discourage you from what is true to you.

Decision

Shay Pausa

There is more lost because of indecision than wrong decisions. Make a decision and then make it right.

Inspiration London 1272007

Shay Pausa

Don't loaf and invite inspiration.
Light out after it with a club.

Jack London (1876-1916)

A Womans Charm Ellis 1272007

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"Charm is a woman's strength, just as strength is a man's charm."

Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)

Sharing joy

Shay Pausa

"When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame."
St Augustine (354-430)

What a powerful thought. Our joy and happiness impacts those around us. When that joy is shared, the happiness just grows. Yet think about the impact when we share joy with someone who is down, unhappy or angry. Joy cannot be present with anger or sadness. Find joy in your daily life and share it without reservation.

Love - Goodall 02142007

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"I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering of all human emotions." -- Jane Goodall

Tact Abraham Lincoln May 24 2007

Shay Pausa

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

--Abraham Lincoln,
16th U.S. president

Do you consider yourself a tactful person?

Live by your heart - Eleanor May 24 2007

Shay Pausa

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

--Eleanor Roosevelt,
former first lady and American political leader

In appreciation May 29 2007

Shay Pausa

"Appreciation has a way of smoothing out life's lumps and bumps. It puts things into perspective, reducing the heaviness and density of stressful thoughts and feelings. In a moment of sincere appreciation, your day no longer feels like the burden it used to be. You're free to see and acknowledge the good things in life for a change." Doc Childre

Open your heart Jane Fonda May 29 07

Shay Pausa

"The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that...I had to step up to the plate...." -- Jane Fonda

What good things have you experienced by opening your heart to another?

Love May 29 2007 Oprah

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"As far as living a healthy, happy life goes, I hold loving and being loved right up there with fresh air and water." -- Oprah Winfrey

Pessimist Churchill June 2 2007

Shay Pausa

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

--Winston Churchill,
British prime minister

How do you look at situations in your life?

The trick in life June 4 2007

Shay Pausa

"The trick in life is not in getting what you want but in wanting what you get after you get it."

Warren Beatty in the movie Love Affair (1994)

Your good qualities June 5 2007

Shay Pausa

"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."

--Judith Martin,
columnist and etiquette authority

Oprah on Love June 7 2007

Shay Pausa

"I guess that's the thing about love: You talk and you listen, and suddenly you're not alone." -- Oprah Winfrey

Get out of the way...Chnese Proverb June 8

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Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb

make a mistake June 8 2007

Shay Pausa

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

--George Bernard Shaw,
Nobel laureate in literature

What have you learned from your mistakes?

Say to yourself...

Shay Pausa

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

What do you say to yourself?

Happiness

Shay Pausa

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

Love and Admiration June 12 2007

Shay Pausa

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Théophile Gautier (1811—1872)

To live is like love - June 12 2007

Shay Pausa

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler

Laughter June 18 2007

Shay Pausa

"Where there is laughter, there is always more health than sickness."

--Phyllis Bottome,
English author

Study after study demonstrates that laughter is good for our health. What tickles your funny bone?

Security June 26 2007

Shay Pausa

"Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk."

--Shirley Hufstedler,
former Secretary of Education

Our Impulses June 26 2007

Shay Pausa

"The impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness." -- Gertrude Atherton American writer (1857-1948)

Soar June 28 2007

Shay Pausa

"Let me arise and open the gate, / To breathe the wild warm air...." -- Violet Fane

Rewards for those who persevere June 28 2007

Shay Pausa

"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory."

--Karen Bliss Livingston,
professional cyclist

Lose Yourself...July 1 2007

Shay Pausa

"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves." -- Henry Miller

Love unconditionally July 3 2007

Shay Pausa

"The best thing we can do for ourselves and the people in our lives is to love them unconditionally, forgive them without reservation and to accept them exactly as they are."
Iyanla Vanzant

Imagine the energy we would save if we stopped trying to change others and just loved and accepted them "as is.

Courageous to share dreams July 3 2007

Shay Pausa

"It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else."
Erma Bombeck

So let's be courageous - what are some of your dreams?

How we cope July 3 2007

Shay Pausa

"Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
Virginia Satir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Satir

Action Grace Ogot July 4 2007

Shay Pausa

"When you're frightened, don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage." -- Grace Ogot

Inhibitions July 10 2007

Shay Pausa

"Imagine how high you could soar if you were to clear away all those inhibitions that come between you and the sky." -- Oprah Winfrey

Is there something inhibiting you? What is it and can you clear it away?

Wisdom and folly July 13 2007

Shay Pausa

"Wisdom at times is found in folly." -- Horace

Is this ever true for you?

Your future and your past July 13 2007

Shay Pausa

"Failure is only permanent if you allow it to be. Your future is not measured by your past."

--Tracey Stewart,
wife of professional golfer Payne Stewart

Tracey's husband Payne was tragically killed on Oct 25, 1999 in a plane crash.

Self Esteem Self Respect July 16 2007

Shay Pausa

"In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned."

--Jane Haddam,
author

Jane Haddam (born 1951) is an American mystery writer.

Hope July 18 2007

Shay Pausa

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes."
St. Clement of Alexandr

Regret July 23 2007

Shay Pausa

"Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can't build on it; it is only good for wallowing in."

--Katherine Mansfield,
New Zealand writer

Live for today July 25 2007

Shay Pausa

"If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year...Today should always be our most wonderful day."
~ Thomas Dreier, Author

Be yourself July 25 2007

Shay Pausa

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

John Adams Wasted Time July 27 2007

Shay Pausa

"This wasted time I have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep." -- John Adams

Anne Morrow Lindberg August 14 2007

Shay Pausa

"One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!" -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gilda August 27 2007

Shay Pausa

"My life...is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." -- Gilda Radner

Live in the present without the need to know what is going to happen next.

Dance Wayne Dyer Aug 28 2007

Shay Pausa

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”

Wayne Dyer, PhD

Steps Goals August 29 2007

Shay Pausa

"It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise." -- Goethe

It truly is the journey, not the destination that is most important.

Beauty Sept 4 2007

Shay Pausa

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." -- Confucius

What beauty is surrounding you?

Internal beauty Sept 5 2007

Shay Pausa

"We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us." -- Ernesto Cardenal

Are you able to see the beauty within yourself? Those around you?

Serve humanity Sept 5 2007

Shay Pausa

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
-Leo Tolstoy

To Think Sept 6 2007

Shay Pausa

"What is the hardest task in the world? To think."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was youngSept132007

Shay Pausa

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people."

--Abraham Joshua Heschel,
Polish Jewish theologian

sept 26 2007

Shay Pausa

"I love the dark hours of my being. / My mind deepens into them. / There I can find, as in old letters, / the days of my life, already lived, / and held like a legend, and understood." -- Rilke

Quiet mind Sept 27 2007

Shay Pausa

"The quiet mind is richer than a crown..." -- Robert Greene

15 minutes of meditation each day will help you through out the day. Quieting your mind can you give peace and energy to do all that you desire. Take the time! You deserve it!

Sept 28 2007 Challenge

Shay Pausa

When you face a challenge truly, there is no thought. There is just the looking...you see what needs to be solved at that moment, and that looking is fierce and gentle at the same time. And there is an activation of a greater intelligence than whatever you have learned." -- Eckhart Tolle

Fortune Oct 1 2007

Shay Pausa

"Fortune favors the brave."

--Terence,
Roman playwright

Ask October 1 2007

Shay Pausa

"You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep." -- Rumi

Ask - Take Inspired Action - Allow it to Happen

October 1 2007

Shay Pausa

"When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instinct is, 'I'm going to prove you wrong.'"

--Picabo Street,
Olympic gold medalist

Who am I? Oct 3 2007

Shay Pausa

"One's life, viewed as a whole, is always the answer to the most important questions...Questions such as who are you?...What did you actually want?...What could you actually achieve?...And one answers as best one can." -- Sandor Marai

Who you are Oct 4 2007

Shay Pausa

"Do not think of what you are / Still less of / What you may one day be / Rather / Be what you are...be / The unthinkable one / You do not know." -- Thomas Merton

Your life

Shay Pausa

"Throughout your life, there will be many little endings, every day. It is these endings that somehow give shape to the fragments of your life that are called experience. And it is this 'experience' that makes up one's life." -- James V. Cunningham

Henry Ford Oct 9 2007

Shay Pausa

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --Henry Ford

Happiness Oct 9 2007

Shay Pausa

"The happiness of the body consists in the possession of health; that of the mind, in being sensible of that blessing." -- Anonymous

The master work of growing older Oct 8 2007

Shay Pausa

"To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living." -- Henri Amiel

Discomfort Oct 9 2007

Shay Pausa

"Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But ... feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back." -- Pema Chodron

The beginning Oct 9 2007

Shay Pausa

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

--Plato,
ancient Greek philosopher

Sometimes it just takes getting started!

Remembering October 10 2007

Shay Pausa

"In the heat of action, the mere ability to remember our principles, our goals and the specific reasoning behind the course we have taken is an element of courage." -- Robert Grudin

Priniciple of growth

Shay Pausa

"I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." -- George Eliot

Love Oct 14 2007

Shay Pausa

"What we need is to love without getting tired."

--Mother Teresa,
Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian

The little things Oct 15 2007

Shay Pausa

"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." -- Alvin Toffler

meaning of life is up to you Oct 15 2007

Shay Pausa

"People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be." -- Joseph Campbell

Try something new Oct 19

Shay Pausa

"So, I try to do one new thing every day--if its picking up a book by an unfamiliar author or even sitting in a different chair with my morning coffee, if only to see my house from a fresh perspective to keep the mind alert and alive." --Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Its all in your attitude Oct 23 2007

Shay Pausa

"You can be an old 30 or an extremely young 50, depending on your attitude. There's no point at which you say, 'Okay, now it's all downhill.'"--Mary Steenburgen

October 27 2007

Shay Pausa

"So often in time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key." -- The Eagles

Youth October 27 2007

Shay Pausa

"Youth has no age." --Pablo Picasso

life unexamined October 30 2007

Shay Pausa

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living." - Plato

As you examine your life, is it what you want it to be? What do you want to change?

Authentic self Oct 30 2007

Shay Pausa

"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Have you learned who you really are? Are you being true to your authentic self?

A womans beauty November 5 2007

Shay Pausa

"A woman is beautiful at any age if she feels good about herself." --Rose Morgan

To make a living Nov 5 2007

Shay Pausa

"We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand." ~ Woodrow Wilson

The difference is making a life instead of just making a living.

Aging by Cher Nov 8 2007

Shay Pausa

"Some guy said to me, 'Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?' And I said, 'You'd better check with Mick Jagger.'" --Cher

Tradition November 13 2007

Shay Pausa

"Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing." --Jose Bergamin

What are the traditions in your life worth keeping? What would you like to give up?

Wasted talent Nov 13 2007

Shay Pausa

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. Share with the world your special and unique gifts.

Right door Nov 13 2007

Shay Pausa

It's not knocking on the right door at the right time; it's knocking on all of the doors all of the time. So get to knocking.

Real power

Shay Pausa

Real powers is not based on money or position. Real power is the freedom to make choices and decisions that are true to your authentic self, all of the time. Don't ever give away your power and if you already have, reclaim what is rightfully yours!

Listening November 14 2007

Shay Pausa

"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."
--Margaret J. Wheatley,writer and management consultant

Today make it a point to listen and be present for someone you care about.

Dreams November 16 2007

Shay Pausa

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

--Jesse Owens,
Olympic track and field athlete

What are your dreams? Do you believe they will come true? Are you taking steps to make them a reality?
_________________

Optimism November 26 2007

Shay Pausa

"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."

--Irv Kupcinet,
columnist and TV personality

Traditions November 26 2007

Shay Pausa

"What an enormous... magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory, in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it." --Thomas Carlyle

Imagination November 26 2007

Shay Pausa

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."

--Carl Sagan,
astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author

November 29 2007

Shay Pausa

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." -- Paulo Coelho

Ornaments November 29 2007

Shay Pausa

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Transcendentalist poet and essayist

Laughter November 30 2007

Shay Pausa

"Laughter is by definition healthy."

--Doris Lessing,
Nobel Prize in Literature recipient

Listen to solve November 30 2007

Shay Pausa

"Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution."

--Mary Kay Ash,
founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

Rich and poor Dec 3 2007

Shay Pausa

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."

--Anne-Sophie Swetchine,
Russian-French writer

We are here to December 4 2007

Shay Pausa

"We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand." ~ Woodrow Wilson

Discover December 5 2007

Shay Pausa

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi,
Hungarian physiologist

Blessings Dec 10 2007

Shay Pausa

"Say that blessings come because we let them..." --Karen Harryman

Insanity Cary Grant Dec 11 2007

Shay Pausa

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."

--Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant)
"Arsenic and Old Lace," 1944

Whats on your chair December 13 2007

Shay Pausa

"It isn't so much what's on the table that matters as what's on the chairs." W.S. Gilbert

a positive attitude December 13 2007

Shay Pausa

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worthwhile."

--Herm Albright,
writer

Trust December 13 2007

Shay Pausa

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."

--Frank Crane,
minister, speaker and columnist

How much do you trust?

Optimism December 13 2007

Shay Pausa

"Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose."

--Harold Helfer,
writer

Limitations December 19 2007

Shay Pausa

"We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth." --Helen Keller

Inspiration and genius December 19 2007

Shay Pausa

"Inspiration and genius -- one and the same."

--Victor Hugo,
French poet and playwright

Define strength December 27 2007

Shay Pausa

"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces."

--Judith Viorst,
author and journalist

December 27 2007

Shay Pausa

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

--Joan Didion,
journalist, essayist and novelist

If you wait December 29 2007

Shay Pausa

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older." – Larry McMurtry

January 2 2008

Shay Pausa

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

--Charles Darwin,
English naturalist

friendship jan 2 2008

Shay Pausa

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."

--Katherine Mansfield,
New Zealand fiction writer

Rule to live by January 8 2008

Shay Pausa

"I want to be a good person and live my life the right way, keeping in mind that there might be a little kid who's watching what I do."

--Rebecca Lobo,
U.S. Olympic basketball player

Your mission Jan 8 2008

Shay Pausa

"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it."

--W. Clement Stone,
businessman and philanthropist

What is your mission? Do you feel enthusiasm and a burning desire?

All you can do January 11 2008

Shay Pausa

"About all you can do in life is be who you are." -- Rita Mae Brown

Worry january 12 2008

Shay Pausa

"There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying."

--Stanley C. Allyn,
former CEO of National Cash Register Co

Serenity January 22 2008

Shay Pausa

"I kept myself calm by making sure I didn't concentrate on anything I couldn't control."

--B.J. Bedford,
Olympic swimmer

MLK January 21, 2008

Shay Pausa

"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

To Love January 23 2008

Shay Pausa

"To love someone deeply gives you strength." -- Lao Tzu

Love is January 25 2008

Shay Pausa

"I only learned, last year, that love is infinitely more interesting, and more exciting, and more powerful, than really winning or really losing a fight." -- June Jordan

Learn all you can February 2008

Shay Pausa

"Learn and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you can; enrich and inspire all you can." -- William Arthur Ward

Do Not See Feb 10 2008

Shay Pausa

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."

--Matsuo Basho

Always do right Feb 10 2008

Shay Pausa

"Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."

--Mark Twain

Feb 10 2008

Shay Pausa

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

--Marcus Aurelius,
Roman emperor, stoic philosopher

Greatness February 10 2008

Shay Pausa

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
poet and author

Drama Feb 10 2008

Shay Pausa

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."

--Alfred Hitchcock,
film director and produce

Wisdom Feb 10 2008

Shay Pausa

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

--Plato,
ancient Greek philosopher

Wise February 10 2008

Shay Pausa

"Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise."

--Baltasar Gracian,
Spanish writer

Friends February 10 2008

Shay Pausa

"Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."

--Cicero,
Roman orator

Goodness Feb 10 2008

Shay Pausa

"Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable."

--Matthew Henry,
English nonconformist clergyman

Relationships February 11 2008

Shay Pausa

"Relationships are difficult, time-consuming, baffling, and sometimes heartbreaking. They're also what make life worth living."
--Martha Beck

True Happiness Feb 13 2008

Shay Pausa

"True happiness is an acceptance of life as it is given to us, with its diminishment, mystery, uncontrollability, and all." -- Michael Gellert

Step Feb 13 2008

Shay Pausa

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -- Lao Tzu

Failure February 20 2008

Shay Pausa

"I've failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

--Michael Jordan

Solitary Joy Feb 21 2008

Shay Pausa

"[There is a need] to discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self." -- Barbara Lazear Ascher

Answers will come Feb 22 2008

Shay Pausa

"As long as one keeps searching the answers come." Joan Baez

Delay of dreams Feb 22 2008

Shay Pausa

"Delay of your dream is not a message of denial. Never give up."

Shay

Variety February 25 2008

Shay Pausa

"Variety's the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour."

--William Cowper,
English poet

Laugh at yourself February 27 2008

Shay Pausa

"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous;anyone who can consistently laugh at him(her)self does not."
Vaclav Havel

Thought Feb 27 2008

Shay Pausa

"Thought is free."
William Shakespeare

Doing Good Feb 29 2008

Shay Pausa

"Doing good is the greatest happiness." -- Chinese proverb

Happiness is right here March 3 2008

Shay Pausa

"Why go further and further, / Look, happiness is right here." -- Goethe

Humor March 5 2008

Shay Pausa

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." James Thurber

Pick your battles March 5 2008

Shay Pausa

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
Jonathan Kozol,
American nonfiction writer and educator

Our path March 17 2008

Shay Pausa

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark." ---Barbara Hall

Decisions

Shay Pausa

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

--Theodore Roosevelt

hope March 21 2008

Shay Pausa

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." -- Christopher Reeve

Insight March 25 2008

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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Failure March 25 2008

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"Failing is good as long as it doesn't become a habit."

--Michael Eisner,
former CEO of Disney

Being Content April 1 2008

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"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

--Benjamin Franklin,
U.S. inventor, statesman

You brain

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"If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
- Tom Robbins

The gift you give April 10 2008

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"The gift you offer another person is just your being." -- Ram Dass

Friends April 11 2008

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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends...
To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives." -- T.S. Eliot

True spirituality April 20 2008

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"True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time." -- Dalai Lama

How you live April 30 2008

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"It matters not how long you live, but how well."
-Publilius Syrus

May 15 2008 Erma Bombeck

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"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

--Erma Bombeck

in the light May 24 2008

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"And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can."

--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You June 11 2008

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"The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you."

Tom Bradley

Never too old! June 11 2008

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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S Lewis

Nothing happens June 11 2008

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"Nothing happens unless we first dream."
Carl Sandburg

The future June 11 2008

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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear and Faith June 11 2008

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"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."

Mary Manin Morrissey

Heart August 5 2008

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"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jobs August 6 2008

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"Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead."

--Julia Morgan,
American architect

The purpose of art August 26 2008

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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

--Norman Mailer,
American novelist