Wings of Hope

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope
for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it
from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. -- Barbara
Kingsolver

Recent quotes

Every life has a story. What's yours? --Autobiography Project Tagline

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. --Leo Buscaglia

I am a part of all that I have met. --Alfred Tennyson

When we were hungry, the masters were eating, but they had not the eyes to see that we were hungry. --Sahiful Mondal

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. --Oscar Wilde

Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve. --Rainer Maria Rilke

We go to movies, we watch television, we see photographs, and as the images pour into us, we believe we can choose between those we wish to absorb and those we don't. We assume that our rational processes protect us from implantation, or brainwashing. What we fail to realise is the difference between fact and image. Our objective processes can help us resist only one kind of implantation. There is no rejection of images. --Jerry Mander

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. --Charlotte Bronte

Reduce Stress

An Angel says, "Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what mayhappen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if itdoes happen, you have to worry twice."

1. Pray
2. Go to bed on time.
3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed.
4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule, or that willcompromise your mental health.
5. Delegate tasks to capable others.
6. Simplify and unclutter your life.
7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.)
8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places.
9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time;don't lump the hard things all together.
10. Take one day at a time.
11. Separate worries from concerns. If a situation is a concern, find outwhat God would have you do and let go of the anxiety. If you can't doanything about a situation, forget it.
12. Live within your budget; don't use credit cards for ordinary purchases.
13. Have backups; an extra car key in your wallet, an extra house key buriedin the garden, extra stamps, etc.
14. K.M.S. (Keep Mouth Shut). This single piece of advice can prevent anenormous amount of trouble.
15. Do something for the Kid in You everyday.
16. Carry a Bible with you to read while waiting in line.
17. Get enough rest.
18. Eat right.
19. Get organized so everything has its place.
20. Listen to a tape while driving that can help improve your quality oflife.
21. Write down thoughts and inspirations.
22. Every day, find time to be alone.
23. Having problems? Talk to God on the spot. Try to nip small problems inthe bud. Don't wait until it's time to go to bed to try and pray.
24. Make friends with Godly people.
25. Keep a folder of favorite scriptures on hand.
26. Remember that the shortest bridge between despair and hope is often agood "Thank you Jesus."
27. Laugh.
28. Laugh some more!
29. Take your work seriously, but not yourself at all.
30. Develop a forgiving attitude (most people are doing the best they can).
31. Be kind to unkind people (they probably need it the most).
32. Sit on your ego.
33. Talk less; listen more.
34. Slow down.
35. Remind yourself that you are not the general manager of the universe.
36 . Every night before bed, think of one thing you're grateful for that you've never been grateful for before.

GOD HAS A WAY OF TURNING THINGSAROUND FOR YOU. "If God is for us, who can be against us?"(Romans 8:31)

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are. --Richard Le Gallienne

Be The Change:The next time you take a trip, whether it is to another country, a neighboring town, or even just the grocery store -- see if you can look at the whole experience through "new eyes".

In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble. --Yun-Men

We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. --Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. --St Augustine

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. --e.e. cummings

Once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence. --Waking Life (Movie, 2001)