This weekend, our family will join millions of others in celebrating America. We will enjoy the glow of fireworks, the taste of barbeque, and the company of good friends. As we all celebrate this weekend, let's also remember the remarkable story that led to this day.
Two hundred and thirty-three years ago, our nation was born when a courageous group of patriots pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the proposition that all of us were created equal.
Our country began as a unique experiment in liberty -- a bold, evolving quest to achieve a more perfect union. And in every generation, another courageous group of patriots has taken us one step closer to fully realizing the dream our founders enshrined on that great day.
Today, all Americans have a hard-fought birthright to a freedom which enables each of us, no matter our views or background, to help set our nation's course. America's greatness has always depended on her citizens embracing that freedom -- and fulfilling the duty that comes with it.
As free people, we must each take the challenges and opportunities that face this nation as our own. As long as some Americans still must struggle, none of us can be fully content. And as America comes ever closer to achieving the perfect Union our founders dreamed, that triumph -- that pride -- belongs to all of us.
So today is a day to reflect on our independence, and the sacrifice of our troops standing in harm's way to preserve and protect it. It is a day to celebrate all that America is. And today is a time to aspire toward all we can still become.
With very best wishes,
President Barack Obama
July 4th, 2009
P.S. -- Our nation's birthday is also an ideal time to consider serving in your local community. You can find many great ideas for service opportunities near you at
http://www.serve.gov
"Remember, happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
Dale Carnegie
1888-1955, Writer and Lecturer
'Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.'
A sharp tongue can cut your own throat.
If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn't oversleep.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
The best vitamin for making friends.. B1.
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.
One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.
You lie the loudest when you lie to yourself
If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Ideas won't work unless ' You' do.
Your mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open..
The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime! It is never too late to become what you might have been.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right.. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away. Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong. Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late. .
Mother Teresa
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley
Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.
Tom Wilson
Regardless of our present of past circumstances, the important thing is ... everything that is happening or has happened is for a reason. In reality, there are no victims. We each have a different sad story to tell. But the common thread that run thru them all, is that we have at some point lost our power, or it has been taken away from us, or we have just plain given it away.
What can YOU do today to start empowering yourself?
Now, regardless of your present or past circumstances. At any time you choose, you can take a bold step and awaken the Empowered person that already exists within you.
Wisdom:
*Every time we rely on someone or something outside of us to provide us with love, success or happiness, we hand our power over. As soon as they don’t provide it we are defeated.
Ironically, when we decide to be love, success and happiness, we easily attract the people, events and objects that enhance this state.
As you continue to decide what matters most, be honest with yourself.
Stop ignoring the urge to get on with the work you know you should do or to finally redefine relationship: That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention. Make it your intention to pursue only what is honorable, what is good, and what is true and the results will be a life grander than you could every have imagined. When you're true to who you are and what your spirit is telling you to do, that truth will indeed set you free.
You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it.
There is no need to try to work out what something means.
You decide what it means.
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” --M. Scott Peck
You have to take action in order to bring about change.
Many times you are faced with different opinions, suggestions and strategies and sometimes it can get a bit confusing on what actions you should take.
My friend Louis Lautman has found a way to conquer the confusion by going straight into the front-line trenches...
Traveling the country on a quest for knowledge and entrepreneurial insight, Louis interviewed 35 successful millionaires, CEO's and many of the most respected young entrepreneurs and master level mentors of our time.
Tired of the sugar-coating and quasi-revealing strategies, Louis put the squeeze on each and every one of these entrepreneurial superstars and compelled them to let down their guard and tell all.
They confessed hundreds of tactics they used on their road to success - and Louis caught every second, of every interview ON FILM and created a BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE that will directly affect the way entrepreneurs like you and I do business forever!
Please take a moment and click here to look at the trailer.
All the best,
Brian Proctor
Acting within your limitations, those “comfort zones”, is not risking and will produce predictably mediocre result.
The “stopper” is fear and if you want to be in charge of your own life and what you create, then fear must be faced and you must act through it. It takes courage and commitment, nothing more and nothing less.
"The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal."
Deepak Chopra
Author and Speaker
Quotations about Attitude & Outlook
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There is no failure. Only feedback.”
Unknown
“The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.”
H. G. Wells
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
Hugh Downs
“The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.”
Unknown
“If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”
Marie Osmond
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”
Roy Goodman
One day, the father of a very wealthy family took their son on a trip to the
country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what
would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from their trip, the father asked his son,
'How was the trip?'
'It was great, Dad.'
'Did you see how poor people live?' the father asked.
'Oh yeah,' said the son.
'So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip' asked the father.
The son answered:
'I saw that we have one dog and they had the four.'
We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and
they have a creek that has no end..
We have imported lanterns in our garden and
they have the stars at night.
Our patio reaches to the front yard and
they have the whole horizon.
We have a small piece of land to live on and
they have fields that go beyond our sight..
We have servants who serve us, but
they serve others.
We buy our food, but
they grow theirs.
We have walls around our property to protect us,
they have friends to protect them.'
The boy's father was speechless.
Then his son added, 'Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are.'
Isn't perspective a wonderful thing??
Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for
everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have.
Appreciate every single thing you have,
especially your family and friends!
'Life is too short and friends are too few.'
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