Can You Hear Me?: The Flame Within Us...

November 7, 2013

The Flame Within Us...

by Daniel Jacob, MSW: Founder of Can You Hear Me?

The Flame Within Us... Our flame may extinguish from time to time, but there will always be an opportunity to reignite it with some gratitude by our side. I pass this lesson on to you as another opportunity to help you help yourself. May this find you well out there, keep doing that self work that will always support you as you strive to support those in need!

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Daniel Jacob, MSW Email
Founder of Can You Hear Me? External Field Instructor at University of Southern California School of Social Work MSW@USC. Daniel has a Masters in Social Work (Families and Children Practice/School Social Work). He is currently nearing the completion of the LCSW testing process. More about the man behind the mission⇢

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Words To Live By!

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has over come.

Booker T. Washington

It is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

Jim Collins

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

Henry Ward Beecher

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

Unknown

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Carl Sandburg

When you get give, when you learn teach.

Maya Angelou

Go on. Move on. Do what needs to be done. Care for those who require care. Spread love wherever you walk. Spread love whenever you talk.

Cornel West

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

John Wooden

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Pat Riley

There is a solution to every problem as long as you don't fear the path to the solution.

Alonzo Mourning

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding , mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

If your initial reaction to something is to say "no" say "let me think about it" instead.

Unknown

When there are no obvious paths to achieve your dreams, make up your own.

Tavis Smiley

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Anonymous

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Make your work play, and your play work.

Phil Jackson

Your greatness is not what you have, it's what you give.

Unknown

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone this question. Does this path have a good heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Carlos Castaneda

When you look at a life changing situation, it's your second opportunity to live. You should do things differently than before.

Alonzo Mourning

What is the delivery system for resilience? In part, it's the loving, caring adult who pays attention. It's the community of unconditional love, representing the very "no matter whatness" of God.

Father Greg Boyle (G-Dog)

You can be more successful in two months by becoming really interested in other people's success, than you can in two years trying to get other people interested in your own success.

Dale Carnegie

Determination, Dedication, and Discipline.

Anonymous

Work and Love- these are the basics, waking life is a dream controlled.

George Santayana

Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path yet, as people are walking all the time in the same spot, a way appears.

Lu Xun

When you are in tune with the unknown, the known is peaceful.

Unknown

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honore de Balzac

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.

JFK

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

Unknown

We are what we believe we are.

C. S. Lewis

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

Wisdom becomes knowledge when it is personal experience.

Unknown

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Irving Berlin

Don't let the difficult times determine all the times. There will be hard and happy moments. Let the happy times carry you through the hard ones, not the other way around.

Unknown

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Von Goethe

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Oscar Wilde

What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul. One must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Paramahansa Yogananda

To be satisfied with what one has, that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

Mark Twain

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Morihei Ueshiba

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain!

Vivian Greene

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

MLK

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Our greatest disability is fear, our greatest strength is courage.

Naomi Levy

Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.

Andy Andrews

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

No choice is also a choice.

Yiddish Proverb

We have to put effort into being honest, truthful & compassionate towards others.

Dalai Lama

Success without fulfillment is failure.

Anthony Robbins

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you towards success- or are they holding you back?

Clement Stone

To learn, read, To know, write. To master, teach.

Unknown

We need to interpret setbacks as guides, and not as brakes.

The Influencer

Change happens with a choice, instead of I should, you say I must.

Anthony Robbins

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Johann von Goethe

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

Be not afraid of growing slowly. be afraid of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

When you know better you do better.

Maya Angelou

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Denis Waitley

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

C. S. Lewis

Life is not how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.

Vivian Komori

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

William Saroyan

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

An invisible thread connects those that are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break.

Ancient Chinese Proverb

A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas.

Maharaji

Luck is just another word for hard work.

Craig Robinson

Knowledge acquired can never be taken away.

Marian Robinson

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion then you have in your own.

Andy Andrews

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

To feel compassion for all beings, to give of one self, and to pass on knowledge to all beings like the Buddha.

Anonymous

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The Flame Within Us...

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