There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.   Nelson Mandela You may have heard me utter a time or two, "Less is more" (particularly after watching an episode of Hoarders) but in the case of today's quote I'm uttering, "Less is NOT more."  :)  I love it when my little theories get upset in the most delightful ways. Mandela has it right - when we settle for less life than what is out there waiting for us to reach it then we lack passion.  We lack zeal.  We lack fullness .  We lack satisfaction. What makes us settle for less life?  The belief that we don't deserve more life.  The belief that we aren't worth more to live more.  The fear of the unknown of a fuller life.  The fear of failing at living a fuller life.  The fear of passion.  Those are just the reasons that popped into my head, there's probably a hundred more excuses for settling for less when there is so much more. Wha

In 1965 Paul Harvey spoke these words... I heard this a few months back and just thought it was so interesting that Paul Harvey said these things over 40 years ago but it is pretty much exactly where America seems to be today.  Things that make me go hmmmmmmmm.... 

"Our danger is to water down God's word to suit ourselves. God never fits His word to suit me; He suits me to fit His word." O. Chambers Do I really need to say anything more than the quote above?  Do I really need to expound with some sort of commentary?  For a lot of you I don't.  For some of you I do, even though you'll get a bitter taste in your mouth. (That's your warning btw, if you want to quit reading now so you don't feel mad at me...or whomever!)  See we humans have a problem.  We think it's all about us.  We think that God should be and is who we want him to be, whatever that is.  When he's not, or so it seems in our estimation, we get offended with him.  We decide he's not real.  We begin to pick and choose parts of the Bible that apply and don't.  We begin to make the Bible fit our "all about me" beliefs rather than allow the Bible to become weaved into the very fiber of our beings.  We do what Chambers so correct

live with intention. walk to the edge. listen hard. practice wellness. play with abandon. laugh. choose with no regret. continue to learn. appreciate your friends. do what you love. live as if this is all there is.   mary ann radmacher I've had a magnet on my fridge for years with this quote on it.  It's a great reminder to me - and I need these reminders - of what a full life consists of.  Even if I just put into practice one or two of these each day I'm better off.  How?  Well take, for example, "walk to the edge".  Living my life backing away from the edge and playing it safe leads to regrets.  It does.  I don't know of anyone who was happy they played it safe in the end.  We learn and grow the most when we walk right up to the edge of what brings us fear and we look over and make a move to conquer it.  Today's quote reminds me that I want to live each day developing my character and living a full life.  I hope you do too.

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I can remember, and remember more than I have seen.   Benjamin Disraeli I'm back and that means the "365" can resume!  :) I've just spent the past few weeks traveling parts of Italy and Greece with a stop in Turkey as well.  I saw today's quote a while back and held on to it until now because of how true it is.  And if you have traveled outside of your normal domestic country then you know it's true as well.  It's why we take pictures, maybe more than we need to and of things we maybe wouldn't at "home".  We do it to try and jog our memories about the things we have seen because it was so much, perhaps too much, to really remember.  That's why it can be fun to travel in groups because everyone remembers something different and you throw it all together and almost a complete picture of the trip comes out! And then there's the moments that happened that you didn't really see but so

Things have been a little crazy around my life the past week and a half.  Last time I posted a 365 quote was Monday, June 25.  Since then I've had evacuated parents living with me, a 20th reunion weekend, working more hours and been trying to wrap up loose ends to leave for Italy and let's not forget the packing that has needed to be done for said trip to Italy. Originally when I started the 365 I thought, I planned, to blog a quote a day all the way up until tomorrow and then break for the time we are in Italy (That whole scheduling a post to publish a certain time/day?  Yeah, that didn't work for me.  Operator error or technology hates me?  I like the second thought personally.).  But it seems that my life introduced the break early. So.  365 quote picks back up when I return from Italy, with a few more days added to 365 than I had wanted.  But that's life.  :)