“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” — Winston Churchill
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” – Winston Churchill
Gratitude is a Super Power!
Gratitude is a choice, not just a feeling. You must choose to live a life in gratitude and therefore gratitude is an attitude and virtue. Gratitude is a virtue you choose to live your life by.
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues but the parent of all the others.” Cicero (106-43bc), Roman Philosopher
Angeles Arrien wrote: “The practice of offering gratitude bestows many benefits. Anger, arrogance, and jealousy melt in its embrace. Fear and defensiveness dissolve. Gratitude diminishes barriers to love and evokes happiness, keeping alive what has meaning for us.”
Gratitude is recognizing the fact that everything good that happens in your life is a gift. Not something we’re entitled to, or should expect, but actually a very sweet gift.
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” ~Eckart Toll
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.”– Robert Collier
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” -William Jennings Bryan
“Minimalism isn’t about removing the things you love. It’s about removing the things that distract you from the things you love.” ~Joshua Becker Over
“In every season of our life, we’re tempted to focus on our present burdens and miss the opportunities and blessings.
We love it when we receive the blessing, the promotion, the new house, the baby, but with the blessing comes new burdens, responsibilities, payments, cares.
Rather than enjoy where we are on the way to where we’re going, we get so caught up in the challenges that we miss the beauty of this moment.
You could be in one of the best seasons of your life, but you don’t realize it because you’re focused on the struggles, on what you don’t like, on what’s taking so long.
At some point you have to put your foot down and say, “This is the day the Lord has made”, and I will not allow my burdens to steal my joy, my peace and my enjoyment of my blessings.
Change your perspective and attitude. Shift your focus from life’s burdens to the blessings and opportunities, from what’s wrong to what’s right, from what you don’t have to what you have.
Make the most of abundant joy and peace every day.
“Being grateful all the time isn’t easy. But it’s when you least feel thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you: perspective. Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration, moving you from negative energy to positive. It’s the quickest, easiest most powerful way to effect change in your life — this I know for sure.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
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It’s a lot harder to get somewhere in life if you don’t know where you want to go…no Definiteness of Purpose.
Take some time and think about what you really want in life. When you know, the wind will start blowing.
“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.” — Winston Churchill
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, a German-born physicist, has been widely regarded as one of the greatest minds and physicists of all time. In December 1932, he emigrated to the United States, renouncing his German citizenship after Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany.
In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics and discovery of the photoelectric effect.
Einstein was best known for developing the theory of relativity and the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, often dubbed “the world’s most famous equation”.
#WednesdayWisdom: “May the conscience and the common sense of the people be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers.” – Albert Einstein pic.twitter.com/kuxNuCiBeb
— Albert Einstein (@AlbertEinstein) March 9, 2022
During his life, he made many sayings about science, education, religion and life that continue to resonate today:
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
“Logic will get you from A to Z, imagination will get you everywhere.”
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Einstein’s words have inspired generations around the world to live life fully, and in a more positive, self aware and rewarding manner.
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“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.” How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! “And this, too, shall pass away.’’ ~ Abraham Lincoln, 16th POTUS in remarks before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859.
In today’s unpredictable world, this quote of Abraham Lincoln is very relevant.
“This too shall pass away” are good words to remember when you encounter an unexpected challenge. They are also good words to remember when you have just experienced an unexpected success.
Basically, nothing is permanent. “This too shall pass away” is a phrase that is often used as encouragement to remind someone that a bad or unpleasant situation will eventually end.
“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.” Ann Landers
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“So smile when you read a headline that says ‘Investors lose as market falls.’ Edit it in your mind to ‘Disinvestors lose as market falls—but investors gain.’ Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.” Warren Buffett, billionaire investor, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Berkshire-Hathaway
“The most common cause of low prices is pessimism—some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It’s optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.” Warren Buffett
Additionally, Buffett said, “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest, we have to be more disciplined than the rest.”
Why Warren Buffett’s ‘Bible of investing’ still matters more than 70 years later https://t.co/9xhgOA2gYc
— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) April 18, 2021
More from Warren Buffett:
“Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth. Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.”
Sir John Templeton, an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. He created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years.
“There is a saying that an injustice to one is an injustice to all. No one is truly equal and free until everyone is equal and free. When a society allows anyone to be treated as less than equal and therefore less than fully human, we not only rob those people of their full humanity, we also become complicit in their mistreatment. Sometimes people think they can look the other way as long as ‘their group’ isn’t harmed. But that is an illusion because we are all connected by our humanity, and as history has proven over and over again, harsh and autocratic power will inevitably spread like cancer to maintain itself…”
— Helen Zia