Coffee Thoughts \ Set Your Own Boundaries

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. --

Khalil Gibran

You set the boundaries of your life. You can always do more than you think you can; combine your courage with humbleness and the world is yours. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Give Your All

“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.” -- ― Baltasar Gracián

When you put all that you have behind a goal you will overcome obstacles and do the impossible. 

Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away. 
~Tom Wilson

If you are jealous, it is because you don’t believe you deserve love. Give to others what you want to receive and it will be yours. 

Coffee Thoughts \ A Little Vice Is Good

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln

A little shadow in your life is not a bad thing; you’ve got to break the rules a bit to know why they are there. The key is to know which ones to break and when. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Keep The Faith

“What's meant to be will always find a way” ― Trisha Yearwood

When things don’t happen keep the faith; what is yours no one can take from you.

Coffee Thoughts \ Think For Yourself

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ― Coco Chanel

Most people will try and influence you to think their way. It takes great strength to express your originality and risk being different. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Act The Way You Want To Be

“Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.”
--  Leonard Cohen

We learn by repeating our behavior. Pretend to be the person you want to be and you’ll recreate yourself. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Be Yourself

A friend: someone who likes you even after they know you.—Unknown

Don’t be afraid to show others who you really are; it saves a lot of time and the older you get the more valuable time is. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Do Something

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. --Denis Waitley

Take action and don’t be afraid of making a mistake. Some of the best discoveries and lessons have come from a miss-step.

Coffee Thoughts \ Never Explain

“Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” ― Elbert Hubbard

When you explain you give your power away. You inform others that you need their approval and that gives them the opportunity not to give it to you. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Love & Doubt

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.--Khalil Gibran

Love erodes doubt; it can’t live in its presence. The more you love yourself, the less doubt you have about your possibilities and the more confidence you present to the world. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Risk

What you risk reveals what you value. -- Jeanette Winterson

Don’t let fear be what you value. Have faith in your dreams and take a risk to accomplish them. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Play With Life

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. --Khalil Gibran

Open your heart and feel the love. Play with life and let it play with you.  

Coffee Thoughts \ Purpose

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. --Washington Irving

Ask yourself how you want to be remembered rather than what you want to have and you find your purpose. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Challenge Your Perceptions

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust.

It sometimes helps to change your environment when you feel stuck, but the truth is what needs to be changed is how you look at the world and yourself. Challenge your perceptions and your world will change too. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Hope, Faith & Courage

Hope is wishing something would happen. Faith is believing something will happen. Courage is making something happen. Unknown

Embrace them all and things will happen. 

Coffee Thoughts \ You Know Your Destiny

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. -- Pablo Picasso

Follow your heart. Everyone will have an opinion on who you should be, but only you know your destiny. Listen to yourself.  

Coffee Thoughts \ Service

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. --Mahatma Gandhi

So many people wonder who they are and where they are going. When you help others you discover yourself; when you give, you know what you want to receive. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Purpose

"Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose." - Edward de Bono

When your life is without purpose, getting the prize has little value. Find meaning in your life and everything else will fall into place.

Coffee Thoughts \ The Danger Of Power

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln

It is easier to overcome an exterior enemy than fight the one within. Wisdom and self-discipline is required to resist ones own ego and desire for power. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Opposites Are The Same

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

I know this sounds ridiculous, but the truth is opposites are the same and for you to make a “good” choice, you must be able to go to both extremes in order to see the moment clearly

Coffee Thoughts \ There Are No Limits

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. -- Bruce Lee

Limitations are illusions of the mind. What you believe becomes possible, when you keep taking one more step toward your goals.  

Coffee Thoughts \ Embrace Your Mistakes

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. -- Bruce Lee

Don’t be afraid of making a mistake – it’s the best way to learn. When you can embrace the experience instead of the end result, you’ll find yourself a winner every time.