We will take a look at some famous inspirational quotes from around the globe.  Quotes that will stop and make you think, that may bring a tear to your eye, and even some that are truly words to live by.  It is up to you how you use this knowledge, bettering yourself, calming conflict (internal and/or external), realizing that you aren’t alone, or inspiring you to make changes in your life, your heart and your world.

What type of inspirational quotes are you looking for: Life – Love – Religion – Death – Success

Quotes for Life:

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”  Albert Einstein

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today” James Dean

“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

“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” Oscar Wilde

“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything” Win Borden

“The difference between school and life?  In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test.  In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”  Tom Bodett

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you have gained, you lose something else.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”  Flora Whittemore

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”  Erma Bombeck

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” Robert Byrne

“Life is simple, its just not easy.”  Anonymous

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.”  Abraham Lincoln

“I like living.  I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”  Agatha Christie

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”  Albert Einstein

“Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.”  Alice Walker

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”  Anais Nin

“The most decisive actions of our life… are most often unconsidered actions.”  Andre’ Gide

“Life is a process.  We are a process.  The universe is a process.”  Anne Wilson Schaef

“Wars and elections are both too big and to small to matter in the long run.  The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.”  Barbara Kingsolver

“Dost thou love life?  Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.”  Benjamin Franklin

“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”  Bertrand Russell

“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”  Kevin Arnold

“The most important things in life aren’t things.”  Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”  Alex Tan

“Here is the test to find whether  your mission on earth is finished.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.”  Richard Bach

“Life’s not always fair.  Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.”  Cherralea Morgan

“If we could see the miracle of a singe flower clearly, our whole life would change.”  Buddha

“Life is like an onion:  You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”  Carl Sandburg

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude toward us.”  John N. Mitchell

“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”  Keri Russell

“Carpe diem!  Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have.  It is later than you think.”  Horace

Quotes for Love:

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live” Anonymous

“Love life and life will love you back.  Love people and they will love you back.”  Arthur Rubinstein

“In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than o not know and always wonder.”  Anonymous

“I don’t want to live.  I want to love first, and live incidentally.”  Zelda Fitzgerald

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”  Mother Teresa

“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.”  Charles Morgan

“Love has no desire but o fulfill itself.  To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.  To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”  Kahlil Gibran

“I hold it true, whatev’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”  Alfred Tennyson

“Love at first sigh is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”  Amy Bloom

“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack.  If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.”  Ann Landers

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”  Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“Love and kindness are never wasted.  They always make a difference.  They bles the ne who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”  Barbara De Angelis

“Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.”  Bible – I Corinthians 13:4-8

“Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”  Dale Evans

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”  Anonymous

“Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”  Anonymous

Quotes for Religion and Faith:

“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.”  Albert Einstein

“There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  Albert Einstein

“Patience with others is Love,
Patience with self is Hope,
Patience with God is Faith.”  Adel Bestavros

“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.”  Albert Einstein

“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”  George Seaton

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle.  I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”  Mother Teresa

“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”  Carl Sandburg

“True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.”  A. Powell Davies

“The problem to be faced is:  how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.”  Abraham Joshua Heschel

“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad.  That’s my religion.”  Abraham Lincoln

Quotes for Death and Grief:

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”  Amelia Burr

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”  Anais Nin

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”  From a headstone in Ireland

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break.”  William Shakespeare

“Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect.  The wisest know nothing.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”  C. S. Lewis

“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them.  The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”  Rita Mae Brown

“Grief can’t e shared.  Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.”  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.”  Jareb Teague

Quotes for Success:

“Take up one idea.  Make that one idea you life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.  Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone.  This is the way to success, that is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”  Swami Vivekananda

“Life is a succession of moments.  To live each one is to succeed.”  Corita Kent

“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.  The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore.” Dale Carnegie

“There are three ingredients in the good life:  learning, earning and yearning.”  Christopher Morley

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”  Vincent T. Lombardi

“Success is a journey, not a destination.”  Ben Sweetland

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”  Abraham Lincoln

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”  Albert Einstein

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck sows a poverty of ambition.  It asks to little of yourself.  And it will leave you unfulfilled.”  Barack Obama

“There are no gains without pains.”  Benjamin Franklin

“Yesterday I dare to struggle.  Today I dare to win.”  Bernadette Devlin

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”  David Brinkley

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”  George Sheehan

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”  Pablo Picasso

There is one last thought I would like to leave you with, and it is possibly the most important and famous inspirational quote of all times —Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

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Around our house, recycling plays a very large roll in our lives. We attempt to recycle anything and everything we can get our hands on including plastic(sorted by numbers), aluminum, glass and even food which we turn dinner scraps into compost for our plants. Old cellphones are shipped off to Cell Phones for Soldiers and other electronics are either donated or recycled in the proper manner.

I will be the first to admit that this recycling “craze” we have takes a fair amount of our time, but I also believe that it is well worth the effort if for nothing more than we are doing our part to protect the planet. We have spent a lot of time teaching our kids to recycle and the benefits of doing so, in hopes that when they are older and move out on their own, they will make the choice to recycle as well. All of our friends have been converted to savvy recyclers along with family members and neighbors.

Facts about garbage and the benefits of recycling

• Americans throw away on average 694 plastic bottles every second in this country. At this rate, over the course of a single day 59,961,600 plastic bottles will be thrown out.
• The average American will produce 4.6 pounds of garbage every single day, which means there is 1,679 pounds of garbage produced annually by a single person. If you live in a typical 4 person household, your family alone is producing 6,716 pounds of garbage each year.
• The U.S. is home to a mere 6% of the worlds population, yet we produce half of the worlds garbage.
• Waste paper is New Yorks single largest export. If a single ton of that paper had been recycled, they would have saved 17 trees.
• Approx. 25 – 30 percent of Americans garbage is plant matter and could easily be composted.
• It takes only six weeks for the average aluminum can to be recycled, remelted and back on the shelves of your local grocery store.
• The U.S. throws away 40 million tons of paper each year rather than recycling it and saving trees.
• Recycling can reduce the amount of waste that enters landfills and incinerators by 25% – 50%.
• Manufacturing aluminum cans from recycled aluminum requires 90% less energy than making new ones.
• If you were to recycle 1 ton of cardboard, it would save over 9 cubic yards of landfill space.

Are you starting to see the bigger picture yet? There are a lot of benefits to recycling your waste and as you can see above a lot of negative side affects if you don’t. There are numerous ways to reduce your carbon footprint, don’t you think its at least worth a shot.

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The History of Tarot Cards

According to Wikipedia:

The tarot (also known as tarocchi, tarock or similar names) is a set of cards typically featuring twenty one trump cards, the fool, and an extra face card per suit, in addition to the usual suit (face and pip) cards found in ordinary playing cards. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games.^[1] In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards are utilized primarily for divinatory purposes^[1][2] with the trump cards plus the Fool card comprising the twenty two major arcana cards and the pip and four face cards the fifty six minor arcana.

Evidence shows that the first Tarot playing cards entered Europe between 1410 and 1430, though Tarot readers would argue that these cards were created much earlier. These new Tarot cards were originally called carte da trionfi or triumph cards. As of current, the oldest known surviving Tarot cards are fifteen hand-painted decks, created in the mid 15th Century for the Visconti-Sforza family, which at the time were the rulers of Milan.

No documented examples exist prior to the 18th century of the tarot being used for divination. However, divination using similar cards is in evidence as early as 1540; a book entitled The Oracles of Francesco Marcolino da Forli shows a simple method of divination using the coin suit of a regular playing card deck. Manuscripts from 1735 (The Square of Sevens) and 1750 (Pratesi Cartomancer) document rudimentary divinatory meanings for the cards of the tarot, as well as a system for laying out the cards. In 1765, Giacomo Casanova wrote in his diary that his Russian mistress frequently used a deck of playing cards for divination. -Source

Learning to Read Tarot Cards

You can find plenty of great books on the subject of learning to read tarot cards at your local bookstore, but I also found the video below very helpful to understand the meaning of each card and how they each play such a significant role in a tarot card reading.

Tarot card reading guide

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So to better understand why we dream, we first have to understand what happens when we dream. According to Brady Riedner, a researcher with the UW-Madison Center for Sleep and Consciousness, “What we do know is that during dreaming sleep, the brain is just as active as it is during waking, but in a different way.” The University of Wisconsin-Madison followed up on Brady Riedner’s research by saying,

He explains that because the sleeping brain is mostly disconnected from the rest of the world, its activity can be more spontaneous, bouncing around to any number and combination of thoughts, in no apparent logical order. That’s why dreams – though seemingly very real – tend to progress in weird and unpredictable ways.

At the same time, dreams aren’t totally random. They often relate to events and thoughts from waking life. Why? Scientists know the brain’s structure is shaped by the stimuli it takes in while awake; for example, thoughts and experiences are known to strengthen the connections between certain neurons. Dreams, therefore, might merely be echoes of these daytime changes.

In reality, all of this makes sense. Dreams may simply be a reflection of the thoughts and activities we experience throughout the day, although many people would disagree with this completely. Consider the people that believe in spirituality and higher powers, may argue that dreams are a method of transporting our minds outside of our bodies or even a window into the past and/or future, which would also make sense from their prospective.

The problem with what I say above, is that it again brings us back to theory, nothing more. There is no evidence that would back up or coincide with what was said, they are only peoples thoughts on the subject. Which leads to me to the next portion of this article, theories on why we dream. Read over the theories below and decide which one you may be inclined to believe and let me know.

Theories on Why We Dream

Alfred Adler believed: “Dreams attempt to solve problems according to the individual style of life and they are not to be interpreted as common sense. It has been shown that the ancients always considered dreams in connection with a problem of life. That they were right in doing this is shown by the fact that the more satisfied a person becomes, that is, the less his problem disturbs him, the less he will dream. It has also been shown by Individual Psychology that in dreams we attempt to ‘fool’ ourselves. The two ideas are not contradictory. We fool ourselves into an inadequate solution of a problem, inadequate from the standpoint of common sense but adequate from the standpoint of the style of life. We do this by dismissing important facts and leaving only a small part of the problem which can, if everything is put into figurative form, be solved easily.”

Ernest Hartman believes: “Activation patterns are shifting and connections are being made and unmade constantly in our brains, forming the physical basis for our minds. There is a whole continuum in the making of connections that we subsequently experience as mental functioning. At one end of the continuum is focused waking activity, such as when we are doing an arithmetic problem or chasing down a fly ball in the outfield. Here our mental functioning is focused, linear and well-bounded. When we move from focused waking to looser waking thought–reverie, daydreaming and finally dreaming–mental activity becomes less focused, looser, more global and more imagistic. Dreaming is the far end of this continuum: the state in which we make connections most loosely.”

Sigmund Freud wrote in his book, “The Interpretation of Dreams” that: “Dreams are disguised fulfillments of repressed wishes.” “He also described two different components of dreams: manifest content and latent content. Manifest content is the actual images, thoughts and content contained within the dream, while the latent content is the hidden psychological meaning of the dream.”

Jung: “believed that archetypes such as the animus, the anima, the shadow and others manifested themselves in dreams, as dream symbols or figures. Such figures could take the form of an old man, a young maiden or a giant spider as the case may be. Each represents an unconscious attitude that is largely hidden to the conscious mind. Although an integral part of the dreamers psyche, these manifestations were largely autonomous and were perceived by the dreamer to be external personages. Acquaintance with the archetypes as manifested by these symbols serve to increase one’s awareness of unconscious attitudes, integrating seemingly disparate parts of the psyche and contributing to the process of holistic self understanding he considered paramount.”

“Jung also believed that material repressed by the conscious mind, postulated by Freud to comprise the unconscious, was similar to his own concept of the shadow, which in itself is only a small part of the unconscious.”

By now you should be able to see just how widely these dream theories tend to vary from expert to expert, which makes sense as to why no single person has the ability to point to a direct cause for dreaming. So what are your theories on why we dream, or which one of these theories do you lean more towards believing?

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My daughter (2 yrs old) absolutely loves fish! Ask her what she wants to do when we go out and the answer is almost always “go to the pet store and look at fishies”. So I thought it would be fun to get her a pet fish and her and I took a little trip down to the local Petco to buy her new friend. After almost an hour of searching and talking to store clerks about the best choice for us, we happily walked away with a beautiful blue Betta fish, now named Snuggles.

While Snuggles is definitely a funny name for a pet fish, since you can’t really snuggle with it, it was a long process coming to that final choice. In the midst of my daughters decision making we came up with Mr. Bubbles, Henry, Blueberry, Felix, Fluffy and Fido are the ones I can remember. Yeah it was a lot of fun and my daughter has quite the imagination.

If you find yourself in the situation of naming your child’s pet fish, you can get some ideas from:

About.com

AquariumFish.net

The Pet Directory

I would love to hear what funny pet names for fish you have, you can share them in the comment section below.

p.s. We also have a guinea pig named Cookie!

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