I try not to do any resolutions on the New Year, as they inevitable fall flat by February. But, for the last few years I have been choosing a "word" to inspire me throughout the year.... I got the idea from Ali Edwards... her blog is on my sidebar if you want more info.
This year I haven't felt super inspired to choose a word... actually, I haven't felt super inspired about much of anything. But, I went over to Inspiration Peak (which is a really good quote sight) and poked around for a little while anyway because it sounded better than putting away more of my Christmas decorations... and I have an announcement:
My word for 2010 is PLAY.
Here are some quotes I found thought provoking:
No one imagines that a symphony
is supposed to improve in quality
as it goes along,
or that the whole object
of
playing it is to reach the finale.
The point of music is discovered
in every moment of
playing
and listening to it.
It is the same, I feel,
with the greater part of our lives,
and if we are unduly absorbed
in improving them -
we may forget altogether
to live them.
Alan Watts
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and
play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare
feet and the winds long to
play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to
play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ...a church ...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past ...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is
play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ...I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
Charles Swindoll
Play in the forest,
play in the desert, the ocean and the mountains,
play wherever you can find an open piece of land to
play on, but do it lightly. Drink in the sun, the air and the water and when you leave remember you would like your children to be able to do the same and that they too will want the same for their children.
Author Unknown
You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and
play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
Leo Rosten
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? Your are a child of God. Your
playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
