I love this quote “O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.” Saint Augustine
 

What started as a necessary evil, Twitter, has turned into a fun social media experiment. At last count, my Twitter ( @EnlightenYurDay ) had 2,153 followers. I Tweet and Retweet inspiring and eye-catching quotes along with current Social Media Trends from TweetDeck. I use #HashTags  and referral sites like MrTweet to cast my net wider. My Twitter philosophy is simple: share truth and beauty. Here is list of my favorite Retweets and Tweets. Kindest Regards to all my Twitter contributors.

RT Inspiring Tweets and Zen Retweets from my Twitter Contributors

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Zen ReTweets

• RT @MarkIsMusing: For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream” Van Gogh #quote
• RT @joyfrequencies: Awesome! “It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet” Jack Kerouac #quote #quotes
• RT @beiruta: Great #quote “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win” Mahatma Gandhi
• RT @fitwriter Now that my house has burned down, I have a much better look at the sky–Zen saying
• RT @traveleverywher: RT @Ladyalana: It’s not what if, it’s what now. ~Author Unknown #quote
• RT @ScreamingEagle1: “We make our world significant by the courage of our questions & the depth of our answers” ~ Carl Sagan #quote
• RT @allaboutenergy: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. ~ John Milton #quote
• RT @screamingeagle1 Great quote thanks irenerencsi: RT: “Be realistic: Plan for a miracle”— Osho?

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Lovely ReTweets

• RT @MarkIsMusing: To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead” Bertrand Russell #quote #zen
• RT @lovepeaceunity: RT @MARCOME: “Love’s the only engine of survival.” ~ Leonard Cohen (via @mscator)
• RT @SusanCosmos: “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee #quote
• RT @quotesource: “The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.” #quote
• RT @AlexKaris #QUOTE At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you~ Goethe
• RT @NoTwidiot: “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius & it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring…” ~unknown?

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Social Media ReTweets

• RT @alvinyudistira: RT @unmarketing: The key to understanding “social media” is to focus on the first word of the term.
• RT @lululemon: “How would you start loving your body if you stopped comparing it to others?” Love your body!
• RT @1800GOTJUNK: RT @Earth911 Google got rid of individual employee trash cans to minimize waste & encourage recycling http://snurl.com/k6rlo from TweetDeck ?

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Self-Actualization ReTweets

• RT @quotesource: I like that. RT @ColaAllen: Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” Henry David Thoreau #zen
• RT @SusanCosmos: In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality” Kristian Kan #quote
• RT @NadiaKoligman: RT @ImproveLife: “The only place where your #dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking” Robert Schuller #quote
• RT @ScreamingEagle1: “Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher #quote zen
• RT @JavierChua: #Quote: “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” ~ William Shakespeare
• RT @Montsterr: RT @MarkIsMusing: It is not our abilities that show what we truly are…it is our #choices. Albus Dumbledore #quote #zen
• RT @NDFootballFan1: It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” Lou Holtz #quote #ND #quotes
• RT @quotesource: RT @mariaporter RT @TeddyShabba “Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.” Dr. Wayne W. Dyer #quote. Agreed!!
• RT @ghostcrabby: RT @thewebchild “#Success comes in cans, not cant’s.” – Unknown #quote #quotes #zen
• RT @SusanCosmos: Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. U cannot stand still. U must go forward” Robert Collier #quote
• RT @JazmineSpirit: Intense desire not only creates its own possibilities-but its own talents -Kobi Yamada #quote
• RT @brandisco: RT @MurrayMelb: #Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton. #quote

Funny Tweets From @EnlighenYurDay

“I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.” Woody Allen #quote #love #movie

• Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.” Steven Wright #quote #humor
• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use” Wendell Johnson #quote #quotes #zen
• Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do” George Lucas #quote
• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones” John Wooden #quote #quotes #books
• Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” Mae West #quote
• A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice” Bill Cosby #quote #humor
• “Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.” Jerry Garcia #music #quote

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Dreamy Tweets From @EnlighenYurDay

#Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” Alfred, Lord Tennyson

#Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” Marsha Norman #quote

The robber of your free #will,” writes Epictetus, “does not exist” Marcus Aurelius #quote

There is no snooze button on a #cat who wants breakfast.” Unknown #Zen #quote

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.” ~Keith L. Brooks #quote #mother #day

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Sexy Tweets From @EnlighenYurDay

• For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul” Judy Garland #quote
• After the first blush of sin comes its indifference” Henry D Thoreau #quote
• We have to believe in #free-will. We’ve got no #choice” Isaac B Singer #quote
• The question is not whether we will die, but how we will #live” Joan Borysenko #quote #zen
• #Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean #quotes #quote #zen
• People living deeply have no fear of death” Anais Nin #zen #quote #quotes
• Never pretend to a #love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command” Alan Watts #quote #zen

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Enlightened Tweets From @EnlighenYurDay

• The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.” James Dean #quote #quotes #zen
• The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #quote #zen
• I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. Paul Theroux #quote
• “If U can concentrate always on the present, U’ll be a #happy man. #Life will be a party for U, a grand festival” The Alchemist #Coelho
• No man was ever wise by chance.” Seneca #quote #wisdom
• Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” #Zen #Proverb #quotes

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Beauty Tweets From @EnlighenYurDay

• If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” Anatole France #quote #zen #beauty
• “Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony” Seneca #quote #peace
• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful” Victor Hugo #quote #art
• A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it” Michelangelo #quote
• The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer” Oliver W Holmes #quote
• “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude” Friedrich Nietzsche #quote #art
• #Love and Compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them #Humanity cannot survive” Dalai Lama #quote
• There are no days in #life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the #imagination” Ralph Emerson #quote
• I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be” Bob Dylan #quotes

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Money Tweets From @EnlighenYurDay

• Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” H. Jackson Browne #quote #zen
• He makes no friends who never made a foe” Tennyson #quote #friends #zen #quote #quotes
• My #motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. Charles Lamb #quote
• #Money is everywhere but so is #poetry. What we lack are the #poets ” Federico Fellini #quote
• #Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” Goethe #quote
• “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable” Seneca #quotes #quote
• If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” Woody Allen #quote
• “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” Winston Churchill #quote
• Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.” Zig Ziglar #quote
• The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” Stephen Covey #quote
• All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity.” but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible” T. E. Lawrence #quote

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