Shining My Lantern: father's day

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Father's Day Tribute

I absolutely love this father's day tribute. It's beautifully written, and inspiring. I've been looking for inspiring models for how to tell some stories about my own family.

Favorite Quotes

"Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot."
~ Cormac McCarthy

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Life will send you whatever is needed for the evolution of your concsciousness.
~Eckhart Tolle

You become what you think about all day long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness is the fragrance a violet leaves on the heel that has crushed it.
~Mark Twain

It is, and always was, all perfect.
~Wayne Dyer

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~Anatole France

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
~Margaret Atwood

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
~Wayne Gretzky

My advice to all is this: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
~T.H. Huxley