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"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best."
– Marva Collins
Posted: 11-16-08
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
– Joan Didion
Posted: 11-8-08
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
--Carl Jung
Posted: 11-7-08
"Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl."
– Saadi
Posted: 11-2-08
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
Confucius
Posted: 10-29-08
"YESTERDAY IS HISTORY...TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY, TODAY IS THE PRESENT, THAT IS WHY THEY CALL IT A GIFT"
Posted: 10-28-08
"Living well and beautifully and
justly are all one thing."
– Socrates
Posted: 10-23-08
Love back with all you might, live each day as if there is no tomorrow, and happiness and the glory of life will be yours....
A. Y. Collins
Posted: 10-21-08
"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."
– Norman Cousins
Posted: 10-15-08
"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."
– Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Posted: 10-12-08
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
– Sarah Bernhardt
Posted: 10-9-08
"Act the way you want to feel and pretty soon you'll feel the way you act."
- John Addison
Posted: 10-9-08
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
– Steve Jobs
Posted: 09-27-08
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Emerson"
Posted: 09-23-08
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
Posted: 09-21-08
"What we hope ever to do with ease
we may learn first to do with diligence."
– Samuel Johnson
Posted: 09-20-08
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Darwin
Posted: 09-17-08
"When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
And that is my religion."
– Abraham Lincoln
Posted: 09-17-08
"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
– Victor Borge
Posted: 09-14-08
"An Ounce of Prevention
is Worth a Pound of Cure"
-Ben Franklin
Posted: 09-9-08
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
-Theodore Roosevelt
Posted: 08-27-08
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
– Victoria Holt
Posted: 08-23-08
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
– Anatole France
Posted: 08-20-08
"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca,
Posted: 08-15-08
"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
– St. Francis De Sales
Posted: 08-11-08
"There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so"
Shakespeare
Posted: 08-7-08
"Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
-Ancient Indian Proverb
Posted: 08-2-08
"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more."
– Louis L'Amour
Posted: 07-30-08
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
– Helen Keller
Posted: 07-27-08
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience."
-Henry Miller
Posted: 07-23-08
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
-Carl Jung
Posted: 07-17-08
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do."
- Marianne Williamson
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
– Mohandas Gandhi
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."
Joseph Campbell
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
Voltaire
"Effect Change before change affects you."
I'd rather be hated for who I am...
Then loved for who I'm not...
"When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.”
– Jiminy Cricket
"To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace."
Morihei Ueshiba
Know God
Know Peace
No God
No Peace
"A sacred place is never empty."
- Russian proverb
"The words we Speak is the Law of our lives, and nothing hinders its operation, except ourselves."
-Ernest Holmes
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, either way, you're right.
-Henry Ford
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
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"Be faithful to that which
exists within yourself."
Andre Gide
“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future”
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist thinks it'll change soon.
The realist adjusts the sails.
A couple are 2 sharp stones. The longer you grind at each other, the smoother you get.
Silvana Miller
Water which is too pure has no fish.
-Ts'ai Ken T'an
Spiritual education is the light of the world of humanity and its absence in the world is darkness itself.
-'Abdu'l-Baha
"If the universe has a beginning, then we can suppose it has a creator. But if the universe is infinite, having no boundaries or edges, then it can neither be created, nor destroyed."
- Stephen Hawkins
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--dr. seuss
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
"An ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of the cure."
- Ben Franklin
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac
Both the universe and stupidity are infinite. AE
Be the change you wish to see in the World
~Mahatma Ghandi
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
Lewis Carroll
“Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.”
Barack Obama quote
A wise man will not proselytize you. If you are willing and eager, he may guide you to find your own answers. He will not push you because he is on his own quest.
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- Winston Churchill
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
W. Clement Stone
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God”
-Voltaire
May we live to learn well and learn to live well.
Unknown
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."
- Maurice Macterlinck
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I have enough HYPOCRISY in my life without religion!"
Joe Saunders
"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships are built.”
—John Shedd
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mohandas Gandhi
“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”
- Bernard Edmund
"Look not from the mind, but from the soul. For the Life that is coming is already before us, waiting to open up the world. Just look more closely. Find the eyes to see." - Celestine Prophecy
The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
Charles West
"You must be the change
you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
- Bertrand Russell
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”
wolfdyke Edward Abbey
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
Bo Bennett
Think Globally, Act Locally.
Free your mind and the rest will follow.
-En Vogue
"Our Lives are but a drop of water. I intent to make a splash."
"Counter all negative thoughts with an affirmation"
- Karysa
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
- William James
“Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kind of people”
Mark Twain quotes
"The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Dreams are real while they last. Can't you say the same about life?"
'Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.'
Noela Evans
* Everything takes time, even instant coffee: nothing comes right now! And the higher the goal, the longer it takes. Be patient and it shall reward you big time.
Pascal Gillon, BAS
infogatherer.com
Roll on the day when our hospitals have all the resources they need and the army runs a jumble sale to buy a missile.
Ken Sprague
Zen saying goes " A master in the art of living makes little distinction between work and play, between labor and leisure, between love and religion. Hardly knowing which is which, a master is always doing both!"
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha
"Just as iron sharpens iron, so too does man sharpen man."
-Bible
"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen."
- Henry David Thoreau
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty
things I dabble in."
-- Washington Gladden
If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands,
but a continent that joins them.
-- Francis Bacon
Fortune favours the bold.
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
Carl Jung
1/2 of the world lives on less than $2/day/person
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
- Henry Ford
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
- Malcolm Forbes
"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
-George Eliot
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the
success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult
task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy
in overcoming obstacles.
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never
were; and I say "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
-- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. --Bill Cosby
It's never too late to be what you might have been ~ George Elliot
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will
know peace.”
~ Jimi Hendrix
All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are
keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take
advantage of a situation.
-- Unknown
The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every
time we fall.
-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher
Attitude: It's the difference between adventure and ordeal.
"If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss Stares back at you"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose."
--Henry David Thoreau
The world is full of hate and yet the seeds of hope, truth, and justice still are allowed to blossom in patches of love
The road we walk is winding and long...but it becomes straight when your life path merges with the one you love
"From the ashes of disaster,
grow the roses of success."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
"Dance like no one is watching, love like you'll never be hurt,sing like no one is listening,and live like it's heaven on earth." -William Purkey
"That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure."
Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
Storm Jameson
"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
Jacob Braude
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
Gerald R. Ford (1913 - )
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80)
"To have what others don't
you must do what they woun't"
"War makes robbers, and peace hangs them."
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
- Proverbs
"Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret."
Laurence J. Peter
"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
-John Ruskin
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."
-Buddha
Super Tibetan Racer:
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"The distance between madness and genius is measured only by success."
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
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