Daily Dose 28-2-2009

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart.

-- Pearl S. Buck

Daily Dose 27-2-2009

Should is an ordinary, everyday word -- except when it is used to indicate an order that may not be refused. Then should becomes a finger waving under the nose. …Should users build prison cells for themselves. They are so focused on what they should do -- that they cannot think about what they can do, what they might do in the future.

-- Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose Dewolf

Daily Dose 26-2-2009

I wonder if, before we were born, we were as afraid of life as we are now of death.

-- Jay Williams

Daily Dose 25-2-2009

Self esteem is the foundation of our self confidence and self motivation. Self esteem is how we feel about ourselves at any given moment.

Almost everyone of us has been taught to base and build our self esteem on the wrong foundations. We build it on something external instead of something internal. We are taught to tie it to our position, possessions and pay, and by how much regard we receive from others. This is why we very seldom meet people who have rock solid self esteem.

Most of us learn how to disguise our fragile self-esteem. Eventually the disguise takes its toll, we surrender to the tension and then collapse somewhere in a heap. Each and every one of us will have to go back to school to learn this inner lesson and find our true inner strength. Life will give us many signals and offer many opportunities to do this, but most of us either avoid the message or shoot the messenger, preferring to live with the tension and keep up the deception.

-- Brahma Kumaris

Daily Dose 24-2-2009

My rule is always to do the business of the day in the day.

-- Arthur Wellesley Wellington

Daily Dose 21-2-2009

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

-- John Barrymore

Daily Dose 20-2-2009

You are a unique and magnificent human being. Of all the billions of people on the planet, there is not another you, and your very existence is vital to the functioning of our universe, because you are one part of the whole universe. All that you see and all that there is could not exist without you.

-- Rhonda Byrne

Daily Dose 18-2-2009

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Daily Dose 17-2-2009

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

-- Khalil Gibran

Daily Dose 16-2-2009

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it’s been.
-- Wayne Gretzky