RB'S QOTD: February 28, 2011: What do you think is your greatest experience of this life so far???

What do you think is your greatest experience of this life so far?
Did you have success with it?? 
Are you still working on it???
Or did it not work out?
If it didn't work out, can it yet be salvaged??

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley

RB'S QOTD: February 27, 2011: If you only had one wish, what would you ask for?

If you only had one wish, what would you ask for?

What do you spend most of your time trying to get now?

RB'S QOTD: February 26, 2011: I think I get the greatest happiness from peace in my life. How about you???

I think I get the greatest happiness from peace in my life.
How about you?

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

~Norman MacEwan, 1881-1953, Senior Commander-Royal Air Force

RB'S QOTD: February 24, 2011: How would you say your days usually go? Do you think they might be better if you followed the little advice below??

How would you say your days usually go? 

Do you think they might be better if you followed the little advice below?

“Into each day, put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor!” 

~H.M.S

RB'S QOTD: February 23, 2011: The below inspirational says our deepest fear is...

The below inspirational says our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Do you find that your greatest fear?
Do you realize, if you have any fear at all, as a child of God - it should be?

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually who are you not to be?
You are a child of the universe.
You were born to manifest the glory of the universe that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.”
~Marianne Williamson, born 1952, author, lecturer

RB'S QOTD: February 22, 2011: Do you feel words are adequate to explain your faith???

Do you feel words are adequate to explain your faith?

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
- Kahlil Gibran

RB'S QOTD: February 21, 2011: Do you think we always receive what we believe we will receive???

Do you think we always receive what we believe we will receive?

"As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for."

-James Cash Penney

RB'S QOTD: February 20, 2011: For fun, how many cavities or root canals have you had in your lifetime? How many teeth are you missing?? Now, how many good teeth do you have???

For fun, how many cavities or root canals have you had in your lifetime?
How many teeth are you missing? 

Now, how many good teeth do you have? 

"Ask anyone how many teeth they are missing, how many cavities or root canals they have and they usually can tell you. Ask someone 'how many good teeth do you have?' Usually people don't know. They have never counted them. It is a natural tendency to magnify the negative and minimize the positive."
~"Wings Over The Mountains of Life"
www.MountainWings.com

RB'S QOTD: February 19, 2011: Do you take time daily to sit quietly and listen...

Do you take time daily to sit quietly and listen, just listen, for that "still small voice"?

“Great ideas...come into the world as gently as doves...if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar...a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. ”

~Albert Camus, 1913-1960, author and philosopher

RB'S QOTD: February 18, 2011: Do you ever find yourself so beset by the busyness of life...

Do you ever find yourself so beset by the busyness of life, that you find later you have missed blessings along the way?
What do you do when you find that has happened to you?

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
~Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918, poet, playwright, art critic

RB'S QOTD: February 17, 2011: Do you know there's a difference between doing well and doing good...

Do you know there's a difference between doing well and doing good - sometimes a BIG difference?
What is that difference to you?

“Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good. ”
~Minor Myers Jr., 1942-2003, Author-Scholar-Composer

RB'S QOTD: February 16, 2011: Can you think of a time when failure helped you gain a success (or learn an important lesson)???

Can you think of a time when failure helped you gain a success (or learn an important lesson)?

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
-Dale Carnegie

RB'S QOTD: February 15, 2011: How can you give more time to what's important???

How can you give more time to what's important?

"Time is not a line but a series of NOW points."
~Taisen Deshimaru

"You're writing the story of your life one moment at a time."
~Doc Childre and Howard Martin

RB'S QOTD: February 13, 2011: I believe the following quote with all my heart. Do you???

I believe the following quote with all my heart.

Do you?

The greatest motivational act one can do for another is to listen.
- Roy E. Moody

RB'S QOTD: February 12, 2011: Have you ever met anyone who embodied the following quote???

Have you ever met anyone who embodied the following quote?

“Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit.”

~McCallister Dodds

RB'S QOTD: February 11, 2011: Have you found the following quote to be true in your life???

Have you found the following quote to be true in your life?

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

RB'S QOTD: February 10, 2011: Do you think everyone (or even a majority of the people in the world) will ever agree on what/who God is?

Do you think everyone (or even a majority of the people in the world)
will ever come to agree on what/who God is?
Do you believe that is what it will take to accomplish peace on earth?

When [all of] our eyes are opened and our hearts are purified, the work of the same divine influence unfolding the same divinity in every human heart will become manifest.
- Swami Vivekananda

RB'S QOTD: February 9, 2011: Have you ever had this happen to you???

Have you ever had this happen to you?

"When one door closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one that has opened for us."
- Helen Keller

RB'S QOTD: February 8, 2011: What was your most significant insight this past week???

What was your most significant insight this past week?

"Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success."
~Richard Carlson

RB'S QOTD: February 7, 2011: What changes can you make to yourself to make the world a better place?

What changes can you make to yourself to make the world a better place?

"Every day, in every way, we have the opportunity to make the world a better place by working to make ourselves a better person."
~RB Redmond

RB'S QOTD: February 6, 2011: I received the following quote a few days ago...

I received the following quote a few days ago, and I find myself in a bit of controversy regarding it.
I have believed the first duty of love is respect, but now I'm unsure.
What do you believe the first duty of love is?

The first duty of love is to listen.
-Paul Tillich

RB'S QOTD: February 5, 2011: Have you ever found the following quote to be true in your life???

Have you ever found the following quote to be true in your life?
Would you like to share about it?

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” 

~Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864, writer

RB'S QOTD: February 4, 2011: What do you do to turn the tide when you find discouragement, defeat or despair trying encroach upon you???

What do you do to turn the tide when you find discouragement, defeat or despair trying encroach upon you?

“In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to. Little things usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind-in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved. No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles. When they are lighted, darkness goes away-and a touch of wonder remains.”
~These Small Candles - tombstone inscription in Britain

RB'S QOTD: February 3, 2011: Do you feel your time for exploring, dreaming and discovering...

Do you feel your time for exploring, dreaming and discovering is just beginning, is in mid-stream or has passed?
If you feel it has passed, why do you believe you feel that way??
I mean, is it ever passed, or are the things that represent them really just changed from things perhaps more dynamic to things perhaps more restive???

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], 1835-1910, author, humorist

RB'S QOTD: February 2, 2011: Which do you find most challenging...

Which do you find most challenging, your beginnings or your failings?

“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose ... not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”
~Anne Sullivan Macy, 1866-1936, teacher

RB'S QOTD: February 1, 2011: How convinced are you that the following statement is true???

How convinced are you that the following statement is true?
Is there anything within you that ever causes any doubts??
What would that be???
Are you successful in dealing with it, and how do you deal with it???

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson