Daily Mood Quote - September 11, 2011

 

Daily Mood Quote

Day 131 – September 11, 2011

One day at a time-this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.”

~Unknown

In the movie Remember Me, Tyler (played by Robert Pattinson) said, “If you could hear me, I would say that our finger prints don't fade from the lives we've touched.” As I write this, the names of those lost in the 9/11 attacks are being read on TV and I realize that those lost have touched us all as a nation and to some respect the rest of the world. I understand that terror attacks have touched almost every country, but the one we remember today, 9/11 is one that will long stand as one of our nation's defining moments. The stories of sudden loss and of extreme heroism have echoed long after the lost were placed to rest and the damage repaired. Those who sought to tear the nation down only succeeded in pulling it closer together. The terrorist names and evil will be lost in the fog of time, but the everyday people who became heros of that day, those who put their lives at risk to save others, will live long in our memory. Their fingerprints are now woven into everyone of our lives. They reveal the strongest treads in the fabric of America.

Perhaps that's what those who hate America do not understand, we are a nation of various colors and dreams, workers and thinkers, all woven together over the course of the last 240 years into a strong and resilient fabric. The country isn’t a single ideology, or a nation of affluent fluff balls. We are an ever growing and changing tapestry, that deals with the realities of now and continues onward into the future, together. If you have ever ridden a bus or a subway on a normal day, (as I did on the morning of September 11, 2001) you will see this and feel the unity among the differences; it is palpable. We may agree to disagree, but we are forever united in our larger purpose of freedom and democracy.

The lives of those who were lost on that day will be remembered, celebrated and mourned for years to come. The tapestry, the view, may be forever changed, but we as a nation united will continue to grow.

Abraham Lincoln said in his 1860 Cooper Union Speech, "Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Governement, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

What stories will you share today about 9/11?

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Daily MOod Quote - August 14, 2011

 

Daily Mood Quote

Day 103 – August 14, 2011

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yesterday, I was in a bit of a sour mood. I had reached my limit of disappointments with people and rejections on the job search for the week, so, it came out in my words. I was always told; let it out, get mad, voice your disappointment; because holding it in only creates bigger problems. Sometimes it even spawns health problems. Well, I don't need those kinds of problems, so I got mad and used my words to express my frustration in the disappointments and rejections of the week. I got it out and I feel better now. Thank you.

It rained last night and after the sour day yesterday, I took the rain as a sign of washing away all the old and bringing in all the new chances and opportunities that this week will offer. Sounds a little like “pie in the sky” but without a little “pie in the sky” thinking, where would hope come from? You need hope; especially after a grumpy, sour day. When rain follows...don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Take it for what it is, renewed hope, renewed opportunity for growth and a chance for your dreams to come true.

In the movie A Cinderella Story, Hillary Duff (Sam) is told by her father (Whip Hubley), “Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game.” All right, this statement is about fear. But, isn't it fear that gets in the way of hope, or at least stops us from hoping? Just a thought.

Winston Churchill, a great dispeller of fear, once said: “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope”. I believe he deliberately placed hope in the final and most memorable position, because hope is the mechanism that makes all the other great things possible. It provides the chance for freedom; for without hope we are all enslaved, even within ourselves. Hope is the core of justice, because it lives in the aspiration of fairness and truth winning out. Hope lies deep within honor and duty, in that what you are doing has a worthwhile and noble goal. And hope is at the heart of mercy. That from the wellspring of human kindness and mercy, a better world for all will grow. So hope, in all its shades, forms and descriptions, is the foundation of all that is good and right with humanity and without it; then fear and despair win and we are truly lost. In that light, I wish us all hope first, then all good to follow. With this week we begin anew; hope in heart and a new day to start again.

Where will you find hope this week?

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