Monday, May 14, 2012

WEDNESDAY'S THOUGHT
Strive for perfection but never assume a state of perfection; else life becomes stripped of all sweetness.

(Excerpted from "The Unspoken Thoughts of Okeibunor B. Molokwu")

- Okeibunor B. Molokwu

REFLECT
It is in striving to attain that life derives the energy for its motion.

Good morning.
THURSDAY'S THOUGHT
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

- Harold B. Melchart

REFLECT
Never get too busy to enjoy the issues of your labour; and let not enjoyment shift your goal from focus.

Good morning.
FRIDAY'S THOUGHT
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

- Thomas Alva Edison

REFLECT
And be sure to pray along.

Good morning.
SATURDAY'S THOUGHT
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

- Thomas Edison

REFLECT
No man would be poor who is solving the problems of society.

Good morning.
MONDAY'S THOUGHT
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin

REFLECT
Hold on a little while longer, advancing in the direction of your dreams: That's Courage.

Good morning.
TUESDAY'S THOUGHT
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

- David Viscott

REFLECT
Only after we've found our life's purpose can we make meaning of existence.

Good morning & Happy new month.
WEDNESDAY'S THOUGHT
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

REFLECT
Love is the foundation of all enduring legacies and inspirations.

Good morning.
Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Jesus was misunderstood, and Pythagoras and Socrates, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

REFLECT
Are your pure intents being misunderstood today? Look to the examples above and pursue your cause with a fuller assurance.

Good morning.
FRIDAY'S THOUGHT
All relationships, affiliations, and connections would be severed, and necessarily crumble, if sincerity were not built into their very foundations.

(Excerpted from "The Unspoken Thoughts of Okeibunor B. Molokwu")

- Okeibunor B. Molokwu

Good morning.
SATURDAYS'S THOUGHT
We begin to lose our sense of distinction – and subsequently, direction – the moment we are fixed in the habit of comparing ourselves with others.

(Excerpted from "The Unspoken Thoughts of Okeibunor B. Molokwu")

- Okeibunor B. Molokwu

REFLECT
Be yourself; do your deeds; live uniquely. Live your life.....Fulfil your destiny.

Good morning.
MONDAY'S THOUGHT
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

- Napoleon Hill

REFLECT
Each of us, no matter how insignificant we may appear before our own eyes, has the potential to impact all of humanity.

Good morning.
We may want to love oda pple wtout holding bck,to feel authentic,to breathe in the beauty arnd us,to dance and sing.Yet each day we listen to inner voices that kip our life small.
- Tara Brach
REFLECT
As children,we expressed ourselves freely;bt as we grow older,our passions get drowned in the noises dat filter in2 our consciousness frm wtout.Our duty,to be all we shld be,is to shut out those limiting noises.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

REFLECT
Speaking less and listening more was well intended in God's creation of one mouth and two ears.
THURSDAY'S THOUGHT
“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

- Maya Angelou

REFLECT
Experiences - no matter how grave - should help us to evolve into higher and better, and not meaner, beings.

Good morning.
FRIDAY'S THOUGHT
No man is free whose mind is not like a door with a double-acting hinge swinging outward to release their own ideas and inward to receive the worthy thoughts of others.

- Validivar

REFLECT
Even the most unlikely fellow, when given the chance, may provide a clue to a puzzle hitherto unimagined.

Good morning.
SARTURDAY'S THOUGHT
There’s no task too great; neither is there any too small, so long as it makes, or fulfils, those who stand the chance to benefit therefrom.
- Okeibunor B. Molokwu
(Excerpted from The Unspoken Thoughts of Okeibunor B. Molokwu)
REFLECT
As much as you aspire to be happy by the benevolence of others, extend benevolence-be it but little-to someone and you will reap first from the kind act planted.
MONDAY'S THOUGHT
“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. ”

- Margaret Mead

REFLECT
How oft we proceed to view success from the angle of material acquisitions - certificates, houses, cars, companies, etc. while souls languish around us.

Think again!

Good morning.