With October being our birthday month I thought I'd bring back some of our favorite inspiring, empowering and encouraging quotes used in the iGnite weekly journals. As you know, words either build up or tear down, and throughout the past 14 years (and moving forward) our goal is to always build up, inspire, empower and encourage you to live your very best life. My hope is the quotes below will resonate with you, causing you to pause and think, smile, laugh and have an awesome week.
Love, Neissa
Health & Self-Care
"Exercise is a celebration of what you CAN do, not a punishment for what you ate."
"Taking care of YOU means the people in your life will receive the best of you, rather than what's left of you." - Carl Bryan
"Boundaries are part of self-care. They are healthy, normal and necessary."- Doreen Virtue
Growth & Transformation
"Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decision that you are going to do something, or stop doing something." - Anonymous
"What you tell yourself matters. The most important conversations you'll ever have are the conversations you have with yourself. You wake up with them, you walk around with them, you go to bed with them, and eventually you act on them--whether they are good or bad."- David Goggins
The secret of change is to focus all your energy not fighting the old, but building the NEW." - Dan Millman
Loving Yourself and Others
"Be LOVE--so much love that when others are with you they are love too." - Unknown
"Let us consider how to inspire each other to greater love, and to righteous deeds, not forgetting to gather as community and encourage one another." - Hebrews 10: 24-25
"Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty, it's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not egotism. It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success." - Bobbe Sommer
Mother Nature
"The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go."- Unknown
"Mother Nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nurture one's soul." -Anthony Douglas Williams
"Morning is God's way of saying one more time, go make a difference, touch a heart, encourage a mind, inspire a soul and enjoy the day."- Unknown
Happiness, Joy & Fun
"PLAY- whenever, wherever and as often as you can." - Unknown
"The best things in life are the people you love, the places you go and the memories you make." - Unknown
"It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips." - Fred Allen
Gratitude
"When life is sweet say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter say thank you, and GROW." - Shauna Neiquist
"Give thanks for the unknown blessings already on their way." - Native American Proverb
"Gratitude is our best weapon--an ally to counter these internal and external threats that rob us of sustainable joy." Robert Emmons