[Helpful hint: Don't expect to get through it all in one sitting!]
1. These are the days of miracle & wonder. Don't cry baby, don't cry.
[Paul Simon]
2. Love your art & it will love you back.
[Chris Guillebeau]
(A good blog post about cultivating a writing habit, and easily cross-applies to any passion one might have.)
http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/how-to-write-300000-words-in-1-year
3. You can't find peace by avoiding life.
[Virginia, The Hours]
4. Be.
5. I have sent you nothing but angels.
[Neale Donald Walsch]
6. There is a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.
[A bishop in "Take This Bread" by Sara Miles, a great book discovered while doing research for a paper on Holy Communion.]
7. Whine less.
8. I know you cannot live on hope alone but without it, life is not worth living.
[Harvey Milk]
9. Lift up your hearts; all will come right.
[Winston Churchill]
10. Treasure every beating heart that sets your soul on fire.
[King Charles; one of the best songs I've ever discovered thanks to a phenomenal birthday mix from a friend.]
11. The embrace of someone who cares for you has the power to change your reality.
[Rev. Dr. Jo Hudson]
12. Approach love & cooking with reckless abandon.
[NOT the Dalai Lama]
13. Work it.
14. Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obliged to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
[The Talmud]
(photo by Thomas Boyd)
15. We make our lives out of chaos and hope and love.
[Angela from Bones]
16. Hug longer.
17. Your love will be safe with me.
[Bon Iver]
18. I urge you to please notice when you are happy and exclaim or murmor or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
[Kurt Vonnegut, who said a lot of really great things.]
19. If you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
[Conan O'Brian]
Conan O'Brien Kinetic Typography from Jacob Gilbreath on Vimeo.
20. The Joy that isn't shared, I've heard, dies young.
[From Anne Sexton's poem, "Welcome Morning."]
21. If you chose not to live a beautiful story, it's the same as choosing to die.
[Donald Miller]
(This is a particularly good clip. Watch it. Be inspired.)
22. "Here I am honey, cry to me."
[Solomon Burke]
23. Do what you can " target="_blank">with what you have where you are.
[Theodore Roosevelt]
24. Si se puede.
25. Sing louder.
26. Rule One: never allow a crisis to go to waste.
They are opportunities to do big things.
[Rham Emmanuel (kinda)]
27. Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
[A.A. Milne]
28. Live fully, love extravagantly and forgive abundantly.
[Rev. Dr. Jo Hudson]
29. May we find life so precious that we cannot but share it with the other.
[a Jewish meditation]
30. Evolve.
31. Dance more.
32. Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses. It's entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come true.
[from the book REWORK.]
