Sunday Inspiration: Welcome Spring!
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” -Pablo Neruda Spring has sprung here in Asheville — daffodils, tulips, and cherry trees are blooming — and I hope that you are least well on your way to the warmth and vitality of this season. It’s true that you cannot keep…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: An Irish Blessing
May love and laughter light your days, And warm your heart and home, May good and faithful friends be yours, Wherever you may roam. May peace and plenty bless your world, With joy that long endures. May all life’s passing seasons Bring the best to you and yours.love and laughter light your days, And warm…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Water Flows
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Be a tornado!
“You don’t have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude, and acceptance. You will change the world just by being a warm, kind-hearted human being.” – Anita Krizzan
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Happy Valentine’s Day
“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.” –Eric Fromm Years have passed since I read Eric Fromm’s The Art of Loving, but I still find his notions of love to be inspirational. Fromm doesn’t sugar coat love and…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: What the World Needs
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But what the world needs most of all is dreamers who do. -Sarah Ban Breathnach
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Great Minds
“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” -Mark Twain
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Don’t prioritise your looks!
Don’t prioritise your looks, my friend, they won’t last the journey. Your sense of humour though, will only get better. Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom. Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection. Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom. And…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: The Promised Land
“We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now because I’ve been to the mountaintop… I’ve looked over and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” -Martin…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Gratitude
“No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. But any amount of gratitude changes the present.” -Ann Voscamp The holidays are over, and no matter how perfect or imperfect they were, I hope each of us finds much to be grateful for and that we carry that with us…
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