Poem: Do It Anyway
Do It Anyway
Written by Mother Theresa
People are often unreasonable,
illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind,
people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful,
you will win some false friends and true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you;
Be honest anyway.
What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Sex and the City Quote
Carrie: “Maybe mistakes are what make our fate… without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn’t fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it’s comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart… and if you’re very lucky, a plane ride away.”
~ from TV show “Sex and the City”
Quote about Getting Over Someone
— from “The Holiday” (2006)
Iris: “…What I’m trying to say is I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn’t know you had inside you. And it doesn’t matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends… you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he’ll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you’ll go somewhere new. And you’ll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.”
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)
Inspirational Quotes
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
~ William Irwin Thompson
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
~ Mary Kay Ash
You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’
~ George Bernard Shaw
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
American Beauty (1999)
LW’s Words:
What a beautiful, inspiring and optimistic message it carries for our discovery… There are so much beauty in this world, so much to be grateful for.
Don’t wait till the last minute of our lives to see the beauty and feel the joy; don’t wait till it’s too late to appreciate and feel gratitude for the simple moments of our little lives.
Movie: American Beauty (the Ending)
[Youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYrgHju3d-E%5D
“I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die.
First of all, that one second isn’t a second at all. It stretches on forever, like an ocean of time.
For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout Camp, watching falling stars.
And yellow leaves, from the maple trees that lined our street.
Or my grandmother’s hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper.
And the first time I saw my cousin Tony’s brand new Firebird.
And Janie… and Janie…
And Carolyn…
I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world.
Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst.
And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain.
And I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.
You have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sure. But don’t worry… you will someday.”
~ Beauty ∙ Love ∙ Joy ∙ Abundance ~ 