To Be

To Be

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

(Solomon Schecter, in The Color of Light, Perry Tilleraas, 11 Dec)

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

(Epictetus, Philospher, in Words That Matter by the Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 9)

Dick Henthorn

6 July 2020

Success

Success

Success is a journey, not a destination. 

The doing is often more important than the outcome.

(Arthur Ashe, tennis champion, Words That Matter, editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 8)

Dick Henthorn

20 May 2020

Clutter

Breakthroughs occur when you suddenly see something on the other side of the clutter that you desperately, vividly want. So let me give you an assignment. Ask yourself what is on the other side of your clutter? Are you ready to embrace it? Because the skills it takes to get organized are simple. Beyond that clutter, I promise you'll find the space and the time to fulfill your dreams.

(Julie Morgenstern, organization expert, Words That Matter, by The Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 97)

16 February 2016

The Great Secret

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
(Doris Lessing, novelist, in Words That Matter by the Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p, 145)
10 February 2016

Spirituality

Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am part of it -- and it is always part of me ... Allowing the truth of who you are -- your spiritual self -- to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.
(Oprah Winfrey, Words That Matter, by The Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 133)
7 February 2016

Fear

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive and to express what we really are. We have learned to live our lives trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of our fear of not being accepted.
(Don Miguel Ruiz, author, in Words That Matter by the Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 128)
5 February 2016

Clarity

Photo by: Mr. Dickie

Doctor's Hospital, Lanham, MD

Every day the path to your own spirituality starts with clarifying who you are and what you want. Not just things ─ things are easy. I mean the stuff that really matters. Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give. What kind of person do you really want to be?
(Oprah Winfrey, Words That Matter, The Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 121)
20 January 2016

Everything

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. I hope you'll tell yourself the truth about what matters most to you, know that your hours in this life are limited for attaining it ─ Then decide how you’ll use your most precious resource.

(Oprah, Words That Matter, by The Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 117)

12 January 2016

Stamps on a Passport

I look at my very imperfect body and see its patches of history, like stamps on my passport. The stamps aren't the kind of thing that would make me throw off my towel at the gym or be the first to jump naked into a lake. But like a good story, they remind me of where I've been, and the annoying and endearing people I've met along the way.
(Betsy Carter, writer, in Words That Matter by the Editors of the Oprah Magazine, p. 86)
29 December 2015

Money

Money often compounds unhappiness because, mistakenly, we think that spending will make us feel better ... When you're happy, you create your own financial stability by living within you means.
(Suze Orman, finance expert, in Words That Matter, by The Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 74)
19 December 2015

True Joy In Life

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
(George Bernard Shaw, playwright in Words That Matter by The Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 65)
13 December 2015

Voting Rights

There is continued evidence that people's right to vote is under attack or being denied.

Here's what Senator Edward Kennedy had to say about voting. (In my case the women denied the right to vote were my grandmothers and my mother and her sisters.)

Our great-grandmothers marched, were arrested, and suffered heroically in jail to obtain the vote for women. People walked the dusty back roads of the South, and sometimes died, to ensure African-Americans the right to vote. We should be humbled by that. We have progressed to where we are because we stand on all their shoulders, and we must never forget it. Voting says thank you.

(Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator in Words That Matter by the Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 61)
28 November 2015

Conflict

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different -- as the saying goes, if two people agree about everything, one of them is superfluous. Conflict is the mechanism by which we set boundaries around these differences, so that each party feels safe with the other.
(Martha Beck, life coach, in Words That Matter by the Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 53)
18 November 2015

Being Married

It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement -- and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair.
(Amy Bloom, writer in Words That Matter by The Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 23)
6 October 2015

Failure

One of the things that's great about failure is, it's never as bad as you think it's going to be. You think it's going to be the end of the world, and it's really not.
(Lina Rau, writer in Words That Matter by the Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 8)
3 October 2015

Imagination

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.
(George Bernard Shaw, playwright, in Words That Matter by the editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 2)
13 September 2015