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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 2, 2013 0:30:25 GMT -5
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”--Mary OliverMost of us here at SOoS have a lot of dreams. In fact, all of us ended up here because of the dream of finally having a clean and orderly home. But our members are far too creative to be such single-minded dreamers. We multi-task when it comes to imagination.
But sometimes people become so focused on attaining one objective, they begin to let other goals that are just as important to them fall away. That's a huge mistake because success is contagious. If you begin to make positive strides toward accomplishing one goal (like starting to learn another language), you start to realize that you have it within yourself to achieve and live all your dreams, even the ones that once looked impossible (like turning your house into the home you've always wanted).
So this month we're going to focus on living all your dreams because each and every one of them is an important part of who you are and what you can become. Remember, no matter what it is..."If you can dream it, you can do it."--Walt Disney"Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be."--Joy Page“You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It’s by taking chances that you’ll learn how to be brave.”--Nikita Koloff"It starts with a dream. Dreams are how we figure out where we want to go. Life is how we get there. Allow time for traffic.”--Kermit the Frog
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 2, 2013 13:39:26 GMT -5
"The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility."--Dr. Ian K. Smith, Happy: Simple Steps for Getting the Life You Want
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."--Dale Turner
"Don't look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."--Henry Ward Beecher
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”--Leon Suenes
"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”--Richard DeVos
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 3, 2013 1:12:08 GMT -5
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”--Henry David Thoreau
“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.”--Greg Anderson
"Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet."--Unknown
"Dreams never hurt anybody if he keeps working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as he can."--Frank W. Woolworth
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 4, 2013 1:52:48 GMT -5
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”--Paulo Coelho
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death."--Betty Bender
"Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life."--Adele Brookman
"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows."--Japanese proverb
“I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”--Jonas Salk
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 5, 2013 0:39:02 GMT -5
“Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of energy. Most things are out of our control. We are surrounded by danger, frustration, grief, and insanity, as well as love, hope, ecstasy, and wonder. Being fully human is an exercise in humility, suffering, grace, and great humor. Things and people all around us die, get broken, or are lost. There is no safety or guarantees."
"The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage freely, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.”--SARK
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature...Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”--Helen Keller
“Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.”--Shirley Hufstedler
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 6, 2013 14:11:41 GMT -5
"You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream."--C.S. Lewis
"We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to be used up, so that the older we get, the less life we have left. Life is the accumulation of wisdom, love and experience of people encountered and obstacles overcome. The longer we live, the more life we possess."--Rabbi Harold Kushner, Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World
"I don't think you should let your age stop anything you want to do. Don't put an age limit on your dreams."--Dara Torres, 41, only swimmer to medal in five Olympics and author of Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 7, 2013 21:37:56 GMT -5
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."--Henry David Thoreau
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."--Albert Einstein
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."--Stephen R. Covey
"Thanks to imagination, we don't have to be who we were or do exactly what we did yesterday. We can change ourselves and thus, the future."--Edward Grinnan, The Promise of Hope: How True Stories of Hope and Inspiration Saved My Life and How They Can Transform Yours
"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."--Gloria Steinem
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 8, 2013 13:25:50 GMT -5
"Obstacles are fears that need to be transformed. When you have successfully released and transformed them, you are one step closer to your dream."--Aleta St. James, Life Shift: Let Go and Live Your Dream
"See the rocks in your path not as obstacles, but as opportunities to climb higher."--Eleanor Wiley
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."--Moliere
"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 9, 2013 14:58:22 GMT -5
"Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living."--Unknown
"One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever."--Robert Holden, Shift Happens
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."--Anais Nin
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."--Eleanor Roosevelt
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 11, 2013 0:27:08 GMT -5
"I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams."--Vincent Van Gogh
"Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality."--Unknown
"It's not too late... the angel said. Even though the world's a mess... Even though you're not as young... Even though you've made mistakes and have been afraid It's not too late... And then I saw the world through the angels' eyes... I saw the colors I could paint The bridges I could build The lives that I could touch The dreams that could still come true And it became very clear to me... That it's not too late."--Ron Atchison
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Post by ramatama on Jan 11, 2013 8:53:26 GMT -5
This quote from Jan 5th: “Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of energy. Most things are out of our control. We are surrounded by danger, frustration, grief, and insanity, as well as love, hope, ecstasy, and wonder. Being fully human is an exercise in humility, suffering, grace, and great humor. Things and people all around us die, get broken, or are lost. There is no safety or guarantees." explains why I try so hard to see humour in most situations, without it, I would have given up decades ago.
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Post by ramatama on Jan 11, 2013 8:57:25 GMT -5
“If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar A hoper, a pray-er, a magic-bean-buyer, If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!” ― Shel Silverstein
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.” ― Carl Sagan
“Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. ” ― Paul Rogat Loeb, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
“We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders.” ― Chris Wooding, Poison
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Post by Freedom on Jan 11, 2013 15:16:56 GMT -5
"I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams."--Vincent Van Gogh Thanks, DDragon
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 12, 2013 1:01:40 GMT -5
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s 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
"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching."--Unknown Ramatama, thank you for all the wonderful quotes. I am very ill as I type this and have felt that I've been a bit scattered with my quote posting, so I'm thrilled to see that you've covered my slack with some contributions from your own marvelous collection. Your timing was absolutely perfect. (And I, like you, believe that trying your best to find the humor in every situation is an excellent survival strategy. I certainly know that without it, I would've thrown in the towel long ago.) Freedom, I'm so glad you loved the quote by Van Gogh. I'm always so pleased to know that one of the quotes has inspired or touched someone and reading that today helped me to feel a bit better about my health issues. Thank you!
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Post by ramatama on Jan 12, 2013 9:10:26 GMT -5
I am very ill as I type this and have felt that I've been a bit scattered with my quote posting, [snip] I'm always so pleased to know that one of the quotes has inspired or touched someone and reading that today helped me to feel a bit better about my health issues. Thank you! Comfy jammies, cozy bed, big soft pillow for your head. Worry not, the world can wait, take your time and recuperate...If knowing that someone cares helps the healing process...then you should be feeling better already.
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