More than simply wishing that 2009 is an inspiring, inspired, healthy, prosperous and peaceful year for you, I want to share several quotations, some words of wisdom that have inspired me and provided me with food for thought, and guidance in my life. Thoughts are energy. Indeed, everything is energy, as Wayne Dyer suggests. I hope some of these thoughts will inspire you and provide the seeds for success and happiness in your life this year.
Eric Nemeyer and the Writers, Contributors, Staff at Jazz Improv Magazine, Jazz Improv NY
SUCCESS & CHALLENGES
“What baffles and even frightens most people are mere smokescreens. You’ll see these events as simply the illusions they actually are and begin to walk right through them. You’ll understand that your success lies just beyond your thoughts about these ‘walls’” - Ken Roberts (A Rich Man’s Secret)
INTEGRITY
"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will." - Unknown
CHARACTER
"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character..." -- Stephen R. Covey
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden
PROBLEMS
"The weight of any trouble in your life is determined by the degree to which you fear it. The weight of any fear is in direct proportion to how much you are trying to push it away." - Guy Finley
FEAR
Whatever the magic bullet is that you are seeking to overcome your fear and provide security is the source of your next fear. - Guy Finley
RESPONSIBILITY
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." - Sigmund Freud
FEELINGS TOWARD OTHERS
“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.” - Sydney J. Harris
LOVING THE SELF
…”no matter what their problems seem to be, there is only one thing I ever work on with anyone, and this is Loving the Self. Love is the miracle cure. - Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life
ANGER & RAGE
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. - Will Rogers
PATIENCE & MATURITY
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. - Peace of Mind: Insights on Human Nature That Can Change Your Life – Joshua L. Liebman
LEADERSHIP
Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." — Peter F. Drucker
TRUTH
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. - Sir Winston Churchill.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. - Steven Soderbergh
“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a brave and scarce man, hated and scorned. When the cause succeeds, however, the timid join him...for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” - Mark Twain
BEING YOURSELF
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; And never stop fighting. – e.e. cummings
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.” -- Mark Twain
Remember, when things get down...the only way left to go is up!! :-)- Your Good Samritan
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