Inspirational Quotes – “Optimist Creed”
Optimist Creed
(Quoted from the book “Your Forces and How to Use Them” (published in 1912) by Christian D. Larson.) – Free e-book available here:
http://www.bthompson.net/quotationlinks/yourforces.pdf
Promise Yourself…
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature you meet.
To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
(Printable version of “Optimist Creed” modified by The Secret — click here)
The Thorn Birds – Anywhere The Heart Goes
I re-published this post with the lyrics to Anywhere The Heart Goes. The original post contents (my words and quotes) have been moved to the other The Thorn Birds post.
The Thorn Birds – Anywhere The Heart Goes
Lyrics
You know I will follow
Anywhere the heart goes
I will go until I know
All life can be
Love can hurt when you go
Anywhere the heart goes
Don’t you know it isn’t easy
Being me
I hold you inside where my love never dies
And you will always live somewhere in me
If you want to follow
Anywhere the heart goes
I will be here when you want me
Any way you want me
And good years bad years
Would all fall away
If I knew that your heart
Would follow my heart
Someday
The Thorn Birds (Part One)
[Youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYJltP_6Ogk%5D
LW’s Words:
I first watched this movie when I was 12 and have watched it countless times since then… Every time I watch it, I get different lessons/messages out of it; but one thing remains the same – it brings me to tears every single time.
It’s a story about love – unattainable love, forbidden love, but also the kind of love that last forever ~
It’s a story about being human – our emotions, struggles, conflicts, desires, strengths & weaknesses ~
And, it’s a story about the life – faith, the choices we make, and the journey, through time, to find peace ~
Here is one message that binds everything together – “For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain”…
The mini-series was adapted from The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough.
2007.04.21: Check out another post The Thorn Bird – Anywhere The Heart Goes
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Dialogues from the movie:
Archbishop: When your rose fell to the ground, I understood at last, the sadness you always wear like a holy mantle.
Ralph de Bricassart: Oh Vittorio, I have tried so hard to get her out of my heart.
Archbishop: You think I don’t know that?
Ralph de Bricassart: Then why?
Archbishop: Ralph, our God has given us freewill. And with that freewill comes the burden of choice. It is time, far past time that you took up that burden, because until you do, you cannot go on.
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Quote from the book:
Long ago, there was a bird to sang just once in its life.
From the moment it left its nest, it searched for a thorn tree.
And it never rested until it found one.
Then it began to sing more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth.
And singing, it impaled its breast on the longest, sharpest thorn.
But as it was dying, it rose above its own agony
to out-sing the lark and the nightingale.
The thornbird pays its life for that one song
and the whole world stills to listen
and God, in His heaven ~ smiles.
As its best was bought only at the cost of great pain.
Driven to the thorn, with no knowledge of the dying to come.
But when we press the thorn to our breast,
We know……
We understand……
And still…… we do it.
Do you know “The Secret”?
LW’s Words:
“What you think and how you feel shape your future.”, a friend told me. “…When you’ve modified your thought processes into positive ones, your entire life will change. I very firmly believe that we get what we think and say. There are spiritual powers in the universe that see to that. When we think negative thoughts, we get negative results in our lives. When we think and say positive things, we get positive results in our lives. It works every time.”
He also suggested that I watched “The Secret” dvd.
The message of “The Secret” is basically to understand the Law of Attraction – you attract what you think about – and use the power of intention to manifest the things you want in your life. So by thinking positive thoughts, seeing the beauty in the world, and feeling the love and joy in everyday life, we are more likely to bring all these things to our lives.
It’s about having a positive attitude and outlook on life… “Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming.”
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“We are like magnets – like attract like. You become AND attract what you think.”
“Choose your thoughts carefully .. you are a masterpiece of your life.”
~ quotes from The Secret
“What We Think, We Become…”
~ Buddha
“you get what you think about; your thoughts determine your destiny.”
“…our thinking creates our reality”
~ Louise Hay
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The Secret to You… .
[Youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phL0RLKL8bc%5D
– A Gift From The Secret Dedicated To Someone Very Special
Today is the beginning of my new life
I am starting over today
All good things are coming to me today
I am grateful to be alive
I see beauty all around me
I live with passion and purpose
I take time to laugh and play everyday
I am awake, energized and alive
I focus on all the good things in life
And give thanks for them
I am at peace and one with everything
I feel the love, the joy, the abundance
I am free to be myself
I am magnificence in human form
I am the perfection of life
I am grateful to be… ME
Today is the best day of my life ~
Quotes from Illusions by Richard Bach
– Quotes from “Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah” by Richard Bach
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A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion….this is the place to go now.
But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons..
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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.
You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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You are never given a wish without being given
the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Dorian Gray
The song I posted earlier “Tears and Rain” is, IMHO, the best song from James Blunt‘s debut album, Back to Bedlam. The lyric is deep and it touched my heart in a special way the very first time I heard it.
But I have to admit I did not know who Dorian Gray was or was referring to, so I googled it… Dorian Gray is a character from the book The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. There are too many interesting and thought-provoking dialogs between the characters in the book, so I’m just going to share one of the more famous with you:
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
The Invitation –
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from the book The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love, for your dreams,
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain,
mine or your own,
without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own,
if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy
fill you to the tips of your fingers
and toes without cautioning us
to be careful, be realistic,
remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty every day,
and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine,
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me to know where you live,
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair,
weary and bruised to the bone,
and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what
or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
~ Beauty ∙ Love ∙ Joy ∙ Abundance ~ 