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Daily Inspiration - Thought for the Day

May today's Daily Inspirational Thought for the Day uplift your spirit, and may my collection of Words of Inspiration and inspirational thoughts of the day help you to focus on the positive in life.


Daily Inspiration for Tuesday December 3, 2024

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela


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Daily Inspiration for Monday December 2, 2024

I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Daily Inspiration for Sunday December 1, 2024

laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
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Daily Inspiration for Saturday November 30, 2024

Know that you can have whatever you want,
when you ask from a compassionate heart.
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Daily Inspiration for Friday November 29, 2024

Know that you hold the power to
bring peace into moments of chaos.
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Daily Inspiration for Thursday November 28, 2024

Know that you can always choose your own inner peace -
regardless of circumstances.
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Daily Inspiration for Wednesday November 27, 2024

Know that unconditional forgiveness
holds immense power to relieve your suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thoughts of the Day - Inspirational Messages

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Anonymous

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- Buddha

He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus

Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland

We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- Buddha

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- Buddha

What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs

From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu

Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous

RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

Today, I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.
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The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Dalai Lama

The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson

When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Dalai Lama

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Everyone is the keeper of a dream
- Oprah Winfrey

We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch

We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer

The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous

Kindness is better than piety.
- Anonymous

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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