No Excuses ...

“We have a tendency to look at things as they are, without seeing the wonderful opportunities that are available. It is really our choice, nobody else’s. Almost everything that happens to us, either good or bad, is a result of the decisions we make. It is popular to point a finger and blame everybody else for the situations we find ourselves in, but everybody has the opportunity to make the choices that govern their lives. We choose whether we are going to be happy or sad, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal, work or loaf, succeed or fail.”

Coach Lou Holtz

words to live by ...

Light from within ...

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

inspiration from the rain ...

reminder to self ...

Live to make the child you were, proud of the person you are.

-Taro Gold



gift of teachings ...

People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given the gift of teachings in the form of life, to give you everything you need to open further. "

-Pema Chodron