Neti ! Neti ! Neti !
~Quintessence Of All Vedas
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
~Lord Buddha
Life is the sum of all your choices.
~Albert Camus
There are years that ask questions,
and years that answer.
~Zora Neale Hurston
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness;
looking for peace.
They chase idle dreams,
addictions,
religions,
even other people,
hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them.
The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
~Ramona L. Anderson
Open your heart - open it wide;
someone is standing outside.
~ Mary Engelbreit [Believe: A Christmas Treasury]
Listen to the still, small voice. Every time you finish anything, stop, sit (if possible), relax, and ask "Now what?" Listen for the answer. Then do it.
~Author Unknown
"...God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble."
~1 Peter 5:5
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
~Edith Wharton
Teach Him to Have Sublime Faith In Himself Because,
Then He Will Have Sublime Faith in Mankind.
~Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's letter to his son's teacher
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
~Jesse Jackson
Be kind.
Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson
Enjoy when you can,
and endure when you must.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[OTHER VERSION :: Enjoy when you can. Suffer when you should.]
Expect an early death - it will keep you busier.
~Martin H. Fischer
Too many people overvalue what they are not
and undervalue what they are.
~Malcolm S. Forbes
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.
But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself,
and you're the easiest person to fool.
~Richard Feynman
For what is it to die,
But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
~Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet"
Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone -
kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own.
~Adam Lindsay Gordon
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~Edmund Hillary
Lend yourself to others,
but give yourself to yourself.
~Michel de Montaigne
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves.
~Edwin Way Teale
Action springs not from thought,
but from a readiness for responsibility.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Be more dedicated
to making solid achievements
than in running after swift
but synthetic happiness.
~Dr. Abdul Kalam
Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and
imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary.
~Cecil Beaton
[ANOTHER CONTEXT :: Being & Staying "Ordinary" is Special. ~Sufi Thought]
[ALSO :: Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee]
And while it takes courage to achieve greatness,
it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary.
~Marilyn Thomsen
NAMASTE[n. Hindi] :: I Salute The Divinity In You !
There is a wisdom of the head,
and... a wisdom of the heart.
~Charles Dickens
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them.
~Math. 25:2:3
Before Enlightenment :: Cut Wood, Carry Water.
After Enlightenment :: Cut Wood, Carry Water.
~Lord Buddha
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
~Paxton Hood
कोई हाथ भी न मिलाएगा, जो गले मिलोगे तपाक से
ये नये मिजाज का शहर है, ज़रा फासले से मिला करो।
Koii haath bhii na milaayegaa, jo gale miloge tapaak se
Ye naye mizaaj kaa shahar hai, zaraa faasale se milaa karo.
~Dr. Bashir Badr
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
~Albert Einstein
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
~Swami Vivekananda
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~Author Unknown
[Forgiveness is a crude form of acceptance!]
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~Dave Tyson Gentry
Silences make the real conversations between friends.
Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy,
even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
~Author Unknown
The difference between ordinary and
extraordinary is that little extra.
~Jimmy Johnson
[First advised by Kunal Sharma a then IIT Roorkee IIIrd year student & a friend of mine in 2001-2002.]
Tough and funny and a little bit kind ::
that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Owning your burdens is half the battle.
~Scrubs [TV Show]
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
It takes years to build up trust, and it only takes suspicion - not proof - to destroy it.
~Author Unknown
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
~Will Durant
I have been wrong many times in my life.
But it was never long before I realised.
And till I admit my having done wrong.
I am still alive.
~Soami Rajatacharya
Nothing fails like past success.
~Author Unknown
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
~Noam Chomsky
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim ... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!
~Sylvia Levi
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~Leonardo da vinci
People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days?
~Robert M. Young
[ALSO :: Forever is composed of nows. ~Emily Dickinson]
जब तूँ आया जगत में, लोग हँसे तू रोये।
ऐसे करनी न करी, पाछे हँसे सब कोए।
jab tun aayaa jagat men, log hanse too roye.
aise karanii Na karii, pache hanse sab koye.~Kabir Das
[When you were born in this world Everyone laughed while you cried. Don't do anything such that they laugh when you are gone.]
[ALSO :: When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ~Cherokee Proverb]
As a man thinks in his heart,
so is he.
~Proverbs 23:7
[About his 1980 suicide attempt]
You know something I noticed?
When you run down the street on fire,
people will move out of your way.
~Richard Pryor (1940-2005) U.S. comedian and actor
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
~Teddy Roosevelt
Success is no accident. It is hardwork, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
~Pele
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Less is more.
~Mies van der Rohe, Dutch-American "Modernist" architect [1886-1969]
[Same is what, is the essence of the Sufi Thought!]
[ALSO :: Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault]
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.
~Jim Rohn
I dream for a living.
~Steven Spielberg
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
~Aristotle [384 BC - 322 BC]
मॅन जीतै जग जीत!
Mann Jeetai Jugg Jeet![Self-conquest is the conquest of the world!]
~Guru Nanak Dev [Sikh Guru]
The non-permanent nature of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and dis-appearance of winter and summer seasons. They rise from sense perception, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
~Sri Krishna to Arjun, Bhagvat Gita Chap-II-14
The end of Wisdom is Freedom.
The end of Culture is Perfection.
The end of Knowledge is Love.
The end of Education is Character.
~Author Unknown
Laugh when you can.
Apologize when you should.
Let go of what you can't change.
And, have no regrets.
~Author Unknown
Strange is our situation here upon earth. each of us comes for a short visit not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the stand point of daily life, however, there is one thing that we do know, that we are here for the sake of others... For the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day i realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly i must exert myself in order to give in return as much as i have received.
~Albert Einstein
He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak and in the diseased, really worships Shiva; and if he sees Shiva only in the image , his worship is but preliminary.
~Swami Vivekananda
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~Mother Teresa
There's a way to do it better -
find it.
~Thomas Alva Edison
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MORE ::
Simplicity of all things,
is the hardest to be copied.
~Sir Richard Steele
When one is out of touch with oneself,
One cannot touch others.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
People say 'I want peace'.
If you remove I {ego},
and your want {desire},
you are left with peace.
~Sai Baba
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
~Japanese Proverb
We choose our joys and sorrows
long before we experience them.
~Kahlil Gibran
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
~Zen Saying
As long as we do science,
some things will always remain unexplained.
~Fritjof Capra
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.
~Maya Angelou
To philosophize is nothing else than to
prepare oneself for death.
~Montaigne
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace,
harmony, health, love, and abundance.
Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me,
they will keep getting a busy signal -
and soon they'll forget my number.
~Edith Armstrong
The difference between
genius and stupidity is that
genius has its limits.
~Albert Einstein
I have learnt silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange,
I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Khalil Gibran
The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
~Confucius
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Herald Whitman
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little course,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail,
and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice.
Up again,
you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue;
he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent,
even though he is in the right.
~Cato
Life moves on,
whether we act as cowards or heroes.
Life has no other discipline to impose,
if we would but realize it,
than to accept life unquestioningly.
Everything we shut our eyes to,
everything we run away from,
everything we deny,
denigrate or despise,
serves to defeat us in the end.
What seems nasty, painful, evil,
can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength,
if faced with an open mind.
Every moment is a golden one for him
who has the vision to recognize it as such.
~Henry Miller
A loving person lives in a loving world.
A hostile person lives in a hostile world;
everyone you meet is your mirror.
~Ken Keyes, Jr.
Slow down and enjoy life.
It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast -
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
~Eddie Cantor
The ocean is made of drops.
~Mother Teresa
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
~Madame De Girardin
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.
~Henri Frédéric Amiel
This - this was what made life ::
A moment of quiet,
The water falling in the fountain,
The girl's voice...
A moment of captured beauty.
He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
~Louise L'Amour
Creativity is essentially a lonely art.
An even lonelier struggle.
To some a blessing.
To others a curse.
It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself
and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
~Lou Dorfsman
[ALSO :: Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear. ~Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching]
The glory of friendship is
not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile,
nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when you discover that someone else believes in you
and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]
... that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of
kindness and of love.
~William Wordsworth
Let the first impulse pass,
wait for the second.
~Baltasar Gracian
You're only given a little spark of madness.
You mustn't lose it.
~Robin Williams
~Quintessence Of All Vedas
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
~Lord Buddha
Life is the sum of all your choices.
~Albert Camus
There are years that ask questions,
and years that answer.
~Zora Neale Hurston
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness;
looking for peace.
They chase idle dreams,
addictions,
religions,
even other people,
hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them.
The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
~Ramona L. Anderson
Open your heart - open it wide;
someone is standing outside.
~ Mary Engelbreit [Believe: A Christmas Treasury]
Listen to the still, small voice. Every time you finish anything, stop, sit (if possible), relax, and ask "Now what?" Listen for the answer. Then do it.
~Author Unknown
"...God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble."
~1 Peter 5:5
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
~Edith Wharton
Teach Him to Have Sublime Faith In Himself Because,
Then He Will Have Sublime Faith in Mankind.
~Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's letter to his son's teacher
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
~Jesse Jackson
Be kind.
Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson
Enjoy when you can,
and endure when you must.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[OTHER VERSION :: Enjoy when you can. Suffer when you should.]
Expect an early death - it will keep you busier.
~Martin H. Fischer
Too many people overvalue what they are not
and undervalue what they are.
~Malcolm S. Forbes
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.
But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself,
and you're the easiest person to fool.
~Richard Feynman
For what is it to die,
But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
~Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet"
Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone -
kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own.
~Adam Lindsay Gordon
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~Edmund Hillary
Lend yourself to others,
but give yourself to yourself.
~Michel de Montaigne
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves.
~Edwin Way Teale
Action springs not from thought,
but from a readiness for responsibility.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Be more dedicated
to making solid achievements
than in running after swift
but synthetic happiness.
~Dr. Abdul Kalam
Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and
imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary.
~Cecil Beaton
[ANOTHER CONTEXT :: Being & Staying "Ordinary" is Special. ~Sufi Thought]
[ALSO :: Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee]
And while it takes courage to achieve greatness,
it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary.
~Marilyn Thomsen
NAMASTE[n. Hindi] :: I Salute The Divinity In You !
There is a wisdom of the head,
and... a wisdom of the heart.
~Charles Dickens
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them.
~Math. 25:2:3
Before Enlightenment :: Cut Wood, Carry Water.
After Enlightenment :: Cut Wood, Carry Water.
~Lord Buddha
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
~Paxton Hood
कोई हाथ भी न मिलाएगा, जो गले मिलोगे तपाक से
ये नये मिजाज का शहर है, ज़रा फासले से मिला करो।
Koii haath bhii na milaayegaa, jo gale miloge tapaak se
Ye naye mizaaj kaa shahar hai, zaraa faasale se milaa karo.
~Dr. Bashir Badr
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
~Albert Einstein
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
~Swami Vivekananda
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~Author Unknown
[Forgiveness is a crude form of acceptance!]
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~Dave Tyson Gentry
Silences make the real conversations between friends.
Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy,
even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
~Author Unknown
The difference between ordinary and
extraordinary is that little extra.
~Jimmy Johnson
[First advised by Kunal Sharma a then IIT Roorkee IIIrd year student & a friend of mine in 2001-2002.]
Tough and funny and a little bit kind ::
that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Owning your burdens is half the battle.
~Scrubs [TV Show]
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
It takes years to build up trust, and it only takes suspicion - not proof - to destroy it.
~Author Unknown
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
~Will Durant
I have been wrong many times in my life.
But it was never long before I realised.
And till I admit my having done wrong.
I am still alive.
~Soami Rajatacharya
Nothing fails like past success.
~Author Unknown
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
~Noam Chomsky
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim ... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!
~Sylvia Levi
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~Leonardo da vinci
People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days?
~Robert M. Young
[ALSO :: Forever is composed of nows. ~Emily Dickinson]
जब तूँ आया जगत में, लोग हँसे तू रोये।
ऐसे करनी न करी, पाछे हँसे सब कोए।
jab tun aayaa jagat men, log hanse too roye.
aise karanii Na karii, pache hanse sab koye.~Kabir Das
[When you were born in this world Everyone laughed while you cried. Don't do anything such that they laugh when you are gone.]
[ALSO :: When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ~Cherokee Proverb]
As a man thinks in his heart,
so is he.
~Proverbs 23:7
[About his 1980 suicide attempt]
You know something I noticed?
When you run down the street on fire,
people will move out of your way.
~Richard Pryor (1940-2005) U.S. comedian and actor
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
~Teddy Roosevelt
Success is no accident. It is hardwork, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
~Pele
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Less is more.
~Mies van der Rohe, Dutch-American "Modernist" architect [1886-1969]
[Same is what, is the essence of the Sufi Thought!]
[ALSO :: Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault]
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.
~Jim Rohn
I dream for a living.
~Steven Spielberg
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
~Aristotle [384 BC - 322 BC]
मॅन जीतै जग जीत!
Mann Jeetai Jugg Jeet![Self-conquest is the conquest of the world!]
~Guru Nanak Dev [Sikh Guru]
The non-permanent nature of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and dis-appearance of winter and summer seasons. They rise from sense perception, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
~Sri Krishna to Arjun, Bhagvat Gita Chap-II-14
The end of Wisdom is Freedom.
The end of Culture is Perfection.
The end of Knowledge is Love.
The end of Education is Character.
~Author Unknown
Laugh when you can.
Apologize when you should.
Let go of what you can't change.
And, have no regrets.
~Author Unknown
Strange is our situation here upon earth. each of us comes for a short visit not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the stand point of daily life, however, there is one thing that we do know, that we are here for the sake of others... For the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day i realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly i must exert myself in order to give in return as much as i have received.
~Albert Einstein
He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak and in the diseased, really worships Shiva; and if he sees Shiva only in the image , his worship is but preliminary.
~Swami Vivekananda
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~Mother Teresa
There's a way to do it better -
find it.
~Thomas Alva Edison
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MORE ::
Simplicity of all things,
is the hardest to be copied.
~Sir Richard Steele
When one is out of touch with oneself,
One cannot touch others.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
People say 'I want peace'.
If you remove I {ego},
and your want {desire},
you are left with peace.
~Sai Baba
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
~Japanese Proverb
We choose our joys and sorrows
long before we experience them.
~Kahlil Gibran
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
~Zen Saying
As long as we do science,
some things will always remain unexplained.
~Fritjof Capra
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.
~Maya Angelou
To philosophize is nothing else than to
prepare oneself for death.
~Montaigne
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace,
harmony, health, love, and abundance.
Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me,
they will keep getting a busy signal -
and soon they'll forget my number.
~Edith Armstrong
The difference between
genius and stupidity is that
genius has its limits.
~Albert Einstein
I have learnt silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange,
I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Khalil Gibran
The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
~Confucius
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Herald Whitman
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little course,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail,
and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice.
Up again,
you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue;
he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent,
even though he is in the right.
~Cato
Life moves on,
whether we act as cowards or heroes.
Life has no other discipline to impose,
if we would but realize it,
than to accept life unquestioningly.
Everything we shut our eyes to,
everything we run away from,
everything we deny,
denigrate or despise,
serves to defeat us in the end.
What seems nasty, painful, evil,
can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength,
if faced with an open mind.
Every moment is a golden one for him
who has the vision to recognize it as such.
~Henry Miller
A loving person lives in a loving world.
A hostile person lives in a hostile world;
everyone you meet is your mirror.
~Ken Keyes, Jr.
Slow down and enjoy life.
It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast -
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
~Eddie Cantor
The ocean is made of drops.
~Mother Teresa
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
~Madame De Girardin
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.
~Henri Frédéric Amiel
This - this was what made life ::
A moment of quiet,
The water falling in the fountain,
The girl's voice...
A moment of captured beauty.
He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
~Louise L'Amour
Creativity is essentially a lonely art.
An even lonelier struggle.
To some a blessing.
To others a curse.
It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself
and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
~Lou Dorfsman
[ALSO :: Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear. ~Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching]
The glory of friendship is
not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile,
nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when you discover that someone else believes in you
and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]
... that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of
kindness and of love.
~William Wordsworth
Let the first impulse pass,
wait for the second.
~Baltasar Gracian
You're only given a little spark of madness.
You mustn't lose it.
~Robin Williams
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