Fwd: Quotation of the Day

Here is a response regarding the quotation below I think you'd all enjoy, thanks so much Thomas.

 

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."       Mahatma Gandhi

 

Excellent quotation, Jacky Bell, and I love your article! 

 

In this huge case I have been representing for the past six years, that is exactly what happened.  Just like Gandhi said; first they ignored us, then they mocked us, then they fought us, and then - - - we won. 

 

Now we are at it again. This time, they skipped the ignoring and mocking stage and went straight to fighting us. Guess they are taking us more seriously. 

 

Too bad for them – we are about to win again!

 

I love your treatment of this quotation. I especially appreciate that you gently identified the most dangerous enemy; an enemy more insidious and powerful than those who actively oppose us - - - an enemy even greater than ourselves (J). That greatest "enemy" is often a parent, a loyal friend, a caring neighbor (even, oddly enough, sometimes a mental health counselor). It is usually someone who loves us – someone who doesn't want to see us lose or be hurt or be embarrassed – someone who tries to protect us by discouraging us from trying. 

 

I love how you point out that since it tends to be that particular person's nature to "protect us" by discouraging us from trying something risky, we often talk ourselves out of the venture even whilst on our way to talk to them to share our dream and get their advice. 

 

It is also sad that when we try anyway, that caring person may be constantly saying, "Now be careful." "Don't work too hard." "Be sure you have other options." "Why don't you just do it part time, until you know it will work?" 

 

Seems like sound advice, but it's not usually good advice.

 

But your advice was right on target – to not be that loving person who inadvertently becomes (insert dramatic scary organ music) The Greatest Enemy.

 

Thanks for your quotation of the day, Jacky – and your great article. It is a wonderful way to end the year and start the new one with firm resolve to never BE the "Greatest Enemy." 

 

I will share it with my client who is winning for the second time (the State of Utah just can't seem to learn!).  He will love it.

 

Have a wonderful 2010 – the year of perfect vision

xoxox+

Thomas

 

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Quotation of the Day

"First they ignore you,then they laugh at you,then they fight you,then you win."       Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

Have you noticed when you had a dream, an idea of doing something not necessarily on the beaten path like starting a business rather than getting a job or wanting to be an actor or wanting to do something that seems to be BIG, that this quotation applies.  When we run through our minds simply telling our parents, our spouses, our confidants about our idea, we almost always talk ourselves out of our dream, our idea, before we even pose it to someone because of the response simply anticipate we'll receive?   

 

I wonder if my daughters, my friends, those who may have come to me for inspiration and support, received from me what I may have justified as common sense, or protecting them from being hurt, that I participated in the demise of their dreams.  

 

Books I have read and interviews of watched of people who have achieved great things always talk about those who laughed at them, those who tried to protect them from dreaming too loftily and being hurt perserveered and achevied something great.  Something big in their own right.  That needs to be the example.  

 

Fostering dreams is fostering all that seems impossible at this moment.  That is what I want to do, foster dreams!

 

Happy New Year

 

Anything you'd like to add?

 

Love you all,

 

Jacky

 

 

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Quotation of the Day

"We're all sustained by relationships."       Meryl Streep

 

 

What a wonderful quotation I came across this morning to share.  As we all work together, exchange with one another and go about our day this is truly what it all comes down to.  Relationships.  The day at work is either ruined or cherished because of relationships.  Family get together's, ruined or cherished.  To be sure, there are times my actions may not have been sustaining to others in fact maybe the opposite, making others suffer, making them contract from me.  

 

At this time of year, some joyfully gather others dread it.  I know that I can work harder to be the family member who unites and sustains for others, be the friend who listens and cares, be the co-worker who is solution oriented.  In all, I could point out others mistakes less, promote their attributes, own my own mistakes and look forward taking the best of qualities forward and forgetting, truly forgetting the rest. 

 

I wish you all the most wonderful Christmas Holiday and very Happy New Year. 

 

Reach out and share the best of yourself all who sustain you.

 

Any thoughts you'd like to share?  I'd love to hear them.

 

Love you all,

 

Jacky

 

 

You can see this and other wonderful quotations at:

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Dec 21 09 Quotation of the Day

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."     Carl Jung

 

 

I had the most wonderful experience of having my father with me for seven and half years.  It was quite a learning experience to live with your parent as an adult.  As we lived our lives day to day I learned many my traits that I got from my father.  My internal clock was a gift from him, we went to bed around the same time each night and woke around the same time each morning. 

 

There were some difficult personality traits that I felt were difficult for me deal with for us to live together peacefully.  Some were irritating.  Over time my lesson was that I saw myself in these particular traits.  This, I came to know later, was the source of my irritation.  I was grateful to have had that much time with my father as it took me all that time to figure this out and begin to admit these unattractive traits of my own, and own up to them.  What else could I have learned had I had 15 years.  Well, that is my job to continue the learning.  But now, I know the first trigger to identify these things in myself, what is it I find irritating in others?  I know it is not always the case however, I do know know it is often true.  So, I'll always question, is my irritation because it is reflection of myself.  

 

I am sure that where I find I am impatient and don't posses an understanding of someone and I feel irritation; it is simply another form of an unattractive, nonfunctional part of myself, be it prejudice, supreriority, lack of knowledge or understanding.  No matter what, my irriatation is most likely a repsonse generated from a rather non flattering quality of me!! 

 

I'd love to hear anything you have to share.  

 

Love you all,

 

Jacky 

 

P.S.
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Quotation of the Day

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."

John E. Southard

 

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."    Rabindranth Tagore

 

"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."   Henry Ward Beeche

 

 "The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good."

Ann Landers

 

I received an email this morning from a very good friend with a wonderful Christmas card that brought home all the wonder and expression of love this time of years is all about.  So, I included a few quotations today that I feel represent some of the ideas I need to be focusing on to assure I am creating for everyone I come in contact with the same feeling she just created for me in sending the card. 

With it I include a challenge to you, how many acts can you create before Christmas that will generate the response I felt from her loving message.  I will challenge myself to heed the messages of these quotations and include my family, friends, etc. but my challenge well be to include my perceptions of the world, my judgement of those who may not share my beliefs, morals or ideals.  I will go out of my way to express kindness and acceptance to someone I don't know and has no effect in my daily life and of course for those who do as well; in an effort to continue the flow of love and warmth my friends email gave me this morning. 

And I am sure I can find something I don't need, or may need less than someone else, give it up and share my richness.  

 

Merry Christmas everyone. 

Share you thoughts or experiences, I can't wait to hear from you.

 

Love you all,

Jacky

 

P.S.

You can see this and other quotations as well as share your thoughts with others at:

http://jackyabell.blogspot.com/

Quotation of the Day

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."

John E. Southard

 

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."    Rabindranth Tagore

 

"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."   Henry Ward Beeche

 

 "The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good."

Ann Landers

 

I received an email this morning from a very good friend with a wonderful Christmas card that brought home all the wonder and expression of love this time of years is all about.  So, I included a few quotations today that I feel represent some of the ideas I need to be focusing on to assure I am creating for everyone I come in contact with the same feeling she just created for me in sending the card. 

With it I include a challenge to you, how many acts can you create before Christmas that will generate the response I felt from her loving message.  I will challenge myself to heed the messages of these quotations and include my family, friends, etc. but my challenge well be to include my perceptions of the world, my judgement of those who may not share my beliefs, morals or ideals.  I will go out of my way to express kindness and acceptance to someone I don't know and has no effect in my daily life and of course for those who do as well; in an effort to continue the flow of love and warmth my friends email gave me this morning. 

And I am sure I can find something I don't need, or may need less than someone else, give it up and share my richness.  

 

Merry Christmas everyone. 

Share you thoughts or experiences, I can't wait to hear from you.

 

Love you all,

Jacky

 

P.S.

You can see this and other quotations as well as share your thoughts with others at:

http://jackyabell.blogspot.com/

Quotation of the Day

Scars remind us of where we've been, they don't need to dictate where we are going.    Author Unknown

 

 

There is no author for this quotation as it was simply a statement I heard spoken and I don't the name of the person who said it.  But I found this profound.

 

I remember allowing the pain of my scars to dictate my emotions of the day.  Because I lived there, in the past, in the pain.  And I choose to allow these past experiences to injure my present self esteem, spoil my present decision making ability, break my spirit and therefore, dictate my future.  As a result, I did not feel worthy of anything good that may have been an opportunity for me in the present.  I avoided the things that were possible opportunity's, not because the opportunity didn't exist but because I didn't feel I deserved it.  What I believed I deserved was the event that created the scar! 

 

My memory logged the event as one where the opportunity never existed.  Because, I did not see myself as one who would pass up a good opportunity.

 

There comes a time when we must take responsibility for today, today.  We must realize the miracle we are each moment and the current moment is "ours" to spend, to live, how we choose, happy, sad, indifferent, inspiring.  And ttomorrow is whatever we choose to make it.     

 

Any thoughts you'd like to share?

 

Love you all,

 

Jacky

 

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Fwd: Quotation of the Day

"The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment."     Art Spander

 

"The Lord has no patience with anger!  Anger stems from pure selfishness."          Spencer W. Kimball

 

Hello Everyone: 

 

These two quotations give me the opportunity to put into words a way of thinking that has stretched my capacity for humility, increased my acceptance of others and opened my mind to what I may be able to learn about the things I think I already know.  

 

Just yesterday I read Spencer Kimball's quotation, and the moment I read it I knew it to be true.  My previous level of understating of anger would not have included "selfishness" as a quality involved in this manner.   This opened a entirely new dimension to this common human response.  So,now I know when "anger" is my response I have closed off to the other possible perspectives involved in the situation.  Wow what a revelation.  

 

The first quotation relates for me because, while anger is a common emotion to all of us, and my believing I understood it, a simple quotation altered this everyday word and emotion in a way that will change my response to others who are angry, my response to my anger and deepened my ability to understand many situations more effectively.  

 

Yet another reason for me to be willing to fight the comfort and ease of complacency and enter the world of change and growth saving myself  from my own disillusionment.  

 

Any thoughts you'd like to share?

 

Love you all,

 

Jacky

 

 

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Fwd: Quotation of the Day

"Whatever we feel we most need is what we most need to give."      Unknown

 

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
— Maya Angelou

 

I remember a time when I believed the "love" I possessed was limited and I should give that love to only those special people in my life.  I am very thankful for Krysta's (my daughter) father, as I watched him, he gave so much caring, love and compassion to everyone.  I learned by watching him the cup in my soul filled with love is bottomless.  As soon as some love has been given, the cup is refilled. 

In those years, I yearned to be loved.  Now, that I know "love" is naturally generated, with out effort, and I give it spontaneously to everyone, my life is filled with love from a multitude of sources.  My cup runneth over.

Anything you'd like to share.  I'd love to hear what you have to say. 

All of my quotations are posted on my blog at http://jackyabell.blogspot.com/.  Visit there, there are two feeds that provide new quotations each day that are inspirational and I'd love for you to post your comments there for others to learn and responds to.  Or you can respond to this email to share you thoughts, which ever makes you more comfortable. 

Love you all,

Jacky