Lars Toomre

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The Four Agreements

Lars Toomre in Pink Shirt

Be Impeccable With Your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Don't Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Don't Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

Author of best-selling book "The Four Agreements"

I'll Always Be With You

Sexy nude blonde laying in white bed talking

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.

Edward Lucas on Napping

Sexy blonde napping in bed

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Robert Frost on Banks

Gil Elvgren painting of sexy pin-up holding umbrella

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Vance Havner on Vision and Venture

Sexy brunette with long hair making first step at stairs

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs.

American Baptist preacher (born 1901)

Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

Brunette waits in front of roaring fireplace

Aren't the "good things that come to those who wait" just the leftovers from the people that got there first?

Marianne Williamson on Fear and Love

Anna Kournikova sitting in black dress

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.

Best-selling author and speaker

Elizabeth Gilbert on Intimacy

Blonde in pink lingerie leaning against a post

One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. When it isn't there (as I have learned in the past, with heartbreaking clarity) you can no more force it to exist than a surgeon can force a patient's body to accept a kidney from the wrong donor. My friend Annie says it all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever — or not?

American writer most well known for her autobiography Eat, Pray, Love

Eleanor Roosevelt on Fear

Photo of Eleanor Roosevelt with hand on her chin

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Humor: Two Blonde Carpenters

Blonde carpenter working on home

Two blondes were working on a house. The one who was nailing down siding, would reach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail and either toss it over her shoulder or nail it in. The other blonde, figuring this was worth looking into, asked, "Why are you throwing those nails away?"

The first blonde explained, "If I pull a nail out of my pouch and it's pointed TOWARD me I throw it away 'cause it's defective. If it's pointed toward the HOUSE, then I nail it in!"

The second blonde got really angry and yelled, "You moron! The nails pointed toward you aren't defective! They're for the OTHER side of the house!"

Judge Through Eyes of Others

Blonde in black bikini standing by pool

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Elizabeth Gilbert on Thoughts

Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert on Thoughts

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life — whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

American writer most well known for her autobiography Eat, Pray, Love

Humor: Blonde Carpenter

Blonde Carpenter in Pink Hard Hat

A blonde carpenter was giving evidence about an accident she had witnessed. The lawyer for the defendant was trying to discredit her and asked her how far away she was from the accident.

The carpenter replied, "Twenty-seven feet, six and one-half inches."

"What? How come you are so sure of that distance?" asked the lawyer.

"Well, I knew sooner or later some idiot would ask me. So I measured it!" replied the carpenter with a coy smile.

Geoffrey F. Abert on Living Life

Sunset Sail for Geoffrey F. Abert Quote on Living Life

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer a need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.

French philosopher and priest

Supreme Justice: A Novel of Suspense

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Supreme Justice: A Novel of Suspense, Margolin, Phillip , New York, New York, p.320, (2010)

I Don't Think I Am Beautiful

Photograph of Melanie Griffith from 1976 Playboy issue

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me — and, I'm pretty used to me.

American actress

Physical and Moral Courage

Book cover for Moral Courage by author Rushworth M. Kidder

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities (1780–1832)

Humor: Blondes Really Are Smart

Sexy blonde in white dress and heels kneeling down

A blonde and a lawyer are seated next to each other on a flight from LA to NY. The lawyer asks if she would like to play a fun game? The blonde, tired, just wants to take a nap. Politely she declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun.

He explains, "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5.00, and vise versa."

Again, she declines and tries to get some sleep. The lawyer, now agitated, says, "Okay, if you don't know the answer you pay me $5.00, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $500.00." This catches the blonde's attention and, figuring there will be no end to this torment unless she plays, agrees to the game.

The lawyer asks the first question. "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?" The blonde doesn't say a word, reaches into her purse, pulls out a $5.00 bill and hands it to the lawyer.

Choices and Ripple Effect

Water drops causing ripples in standing water

Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.

Editor of Inspiration Line

Humor: Blonde on Aircraft Flight

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On a plane flight from Seattle to Chicago, a blonde was sitting in economy class. About half way through the flight, she got up and moved to an empty seat in first class. A flight attendant who observed this, went over to her and politely explained that she had to move back to economy class because that was what her ticket was for. The blonde replied, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Chicago and I'm staying right here."

After several attempts to explain to the blonde why she had to return to economy class, the flight attendant gave up. She went to the cockpit and explained the situation to the pilot and co-pilot. The co-pilot said, "Let me try." He went up to the blonde and politely tried to explain to her why she needed to return to her seat in economy class.

But the blonde only replied, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Chicago and I'm staying right here." Frustrated, the co-pilot returned to the cockpit. He suggested that perhaps they should have the airline call the police and have her arrested when they land.