Coffee Thoughts \ Happy New Year

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher


This is my wish for all of you for the New Year. Happy 2013

Coffee Thoughts \ Don't Settle For Less

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ” ― Maureen Dowd

Don’t let fear lead. When you believe that you can never have love or abundance then you have sealed your fate. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Enjoy The Holiday

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
-- Bertrand Russell

Don’t take yourself or your work too seriously, it’s a good way to loose the joy of life.

Coffee Thoughts \ Be In The Moment

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.” ― Fulton Oursler

The present is all we have and in the moment you have a chance to make new choices. You are a work-in-progress, don’t give up, enjoy the process. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Head & Heart

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” ― Horace Walpole

The merging of head and heart makes for the best life and the greatest intelligence. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Keep Your Spirit Alive

“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.” ― Henry David Thoreau

Don’t let your spirit die; give it freedom and a voice. Don’t give in to fear, limitations and the judgments of others. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Perfect Order

“Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” ― Valery Satterwhite“

When you can accept what you can’t change, you see the moment differently. New options and opportunities present themselves. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Know Your Friends

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” -- Alice Walker

Know who your friends are and those are the people you bring close to you. Everyone else should be looked at with limits and boundaries.

Coffee Thoughts \ Look Within

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you want from life cultivate within yourself. When you become what you want you will have it wherever you go. 

Coffee Thoughts \ What Do You See?

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau

Do you see yourself and the world around you, or are you just looking at the exterior and accepting the image it offers. Go deeper and surprise yourself.

Coffee Thoughts \ Listen

The less you talk, the more you're listened to. --  Abigail Van Buren

Listening is a lost art. When you listen you learn and others love you.  It’s a win win choice.

Coffee Thoughts \ No One Can Hurt You

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” -- ― Mahatma Gandhi

If you own who you are, including all your mistakes and idiosyncrasies, then there is no way anyone can get to you. Be who you  are with pride.  

Coffee Thoughts \ Strength Is Passion

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” ― Mark Twain

When you have the soul and the passion for what you want, no one can stop you.

Coffee Thoughts \ A Balanced Life

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. --Maya Angelou

A great life has balance, it includes the good and the bad, the joy and the happiness. So embrace it all. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Make Mistakes

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

The need to be perfect is the most limiting and self-sabotaging attitude we can embrace. Just get the job done.