Daily Zen - Friday, May 31

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

~ Walt Whitman

It's Friday AND it's Uncle Walt's birthday. Yawp it up! 

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 30

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

                                ~ Walt Whitman

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 29

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

                               ~ Melissa Etheridge

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 28

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Daily Zen - Monday, May 27

You must never be afraid to go there.

~ Harlan Ellison

Weekend Zen, May 25-26

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

~ Jean Cocteau

Daily Zen - Friday, May 24

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. 

 ~ Eckhart Tolle

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 23

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

                                  ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 22

If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

~ Art Buchwald

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 21

Life is better when we don’t try to do everything. 

Learn to enjoy the slice of life you experience, and 

life turns out to be wonderful.

~ Leo Babauta

Daily Zen - Monday, May 20

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no 

opinions for or against anything.

         - Sosan

Weekend Zen, May 18-19

Do little things in an extraordinary way. 

- Paramahansa Yogananda

Daily Zen - Friday, May 17

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

        ~ Ernest Hemingway

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 16

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

 

~ Richard Carlson

Daily Zen, Wednesday May 15

Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

~ Nido Qubein

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 14

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones. 

~ Henry David Thoreau

Daily Zen - Monday, May 13

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. 

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Weekend Zen (Mom Week), May 11-12

Find people who will make you better.

~ Michelle Obama

Daily Zen (Mom Week) - Friday, May 10

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

~ Judy Garland

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Daily Zen (Mom Week) - Thursday, May 9

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

~ Grandma Moses

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