Men and women

Men and women have the choice as to what they will do with this power within them. Shall they exhaust it in the various self-indulgences, both mental and physical, or shall they use it to become creative in the realms of the spirit and higher mind – a force for good? It is this tremendous choice which every human being has to face.

~Vera Stanley Alder

It appears

It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom….I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

~ Freeman Dyson

Man has

Man has the privilege and possesses the possibilities of choosing the good.

~Zolar

We can choose

We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children.

~Cesar Chavez

Perception

Perception rests on choosing.

~A Course in Miracles

The ancients did not doubt

The ancients did not doubt that men could choose and, through choice, exercise some control over the disposition of their lives. Tacitus, for example…claims that ‘the wisest of the ancients leave us the capacity of choosing our life'.

~Mortimer J. Adler

One's character

One’s character is a matter of self-determination. It is a matter of the form that the person gives to his or her attributes of both nature and nurture.

~Thomas P. Rausch

Every situation

Every situation represents a choice: do we prefer to stay with ego-based patterns of thought and behavior, or do we choose to play life in a higher, more loving way? Will we tread the path of limitation and fear, though that path has grown painful and boring and old, or do we choose to give birth to a higher mode of expression.

~Marianne Williamson

The world

The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved.

~Chronicles 16:30

The sun

The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.

~Ecclesiastes 1:5“

The revolution

The revolution is a movement to bring man's thinking, his society, and his life to terms with the revolution of technology and science that has already taken place. Technology demands of man a new mind - a higher, transcendent reason - if it is to be controlled and guided rather than to become an unthinking monster. It demands a new individual responsibility for values, or it will dictate all values. And it promises a life that is more liberated and more beautiful than any man has known, if man has the courage and the imagination to seize that life.

The transformation that is coming invites us to re-examine our own lives. It confronts us with a personal and individual choice: are we satisfied with how we have lived; how would we live differently? It offers us a recovery of self. It faces us with the fact that this choice cannot be evaded, for as the freedom is already there, so must the responsibility be there. At the heart of everything is what we shall call a change of consciousness. This means a "new head" - a new way of living - a new man. ...

~Charles Reich

Mankind will always

Mankind will always have the choice and the challenge to express its highest self or fall prey to its darker desires.

~Elizabeth Clare Prophet

The choices you make

The choices you make are always and only motivated by either faith or fear.

~Caroline Myss

Because we can choose

Because we can choose our inner feelings and thoughts, we have the possibility of self-control and self-direction. This gives us some control over our environment and our world. Our evolution is now self-induced, through our own decisions and efforts. Although the full development of self-consciousness and choice is not yet apparent, we are capable to some extent of choosing what we wish to express and be and what our world will be.

~Shirley Nicholson

Beer

Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink.

~Whitstran Brewery sign

If God

If God had intended us to drink beer,
He would have given us stomachs.

~David Daye

Not all chemicals

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

~Dave Barry

Sometimes when

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”

~Jack Handy

Without question

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

~Dave Barry

Beer is proof

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

~Benjamin Franklin

beer

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case.
Coincidence?

~Stephen Wright

The supreme happiness

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

~Victor Hugo

I like flaws

I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

~Augusten Burroughs

Never

Never above you
Never below you
But always with you.

~Ruth Rose

The morning wind

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

~Rumi

Happiness is

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

~George Burns

Listen

Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot.

~jack kerouac

Move outside

Move outside the tangle of fear thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

~Rumi

I always wanted

I always wanted to be somebody,
I should have been more specific.


~Lily Tomlin

There is no answer

There is no answer.
There never has been an answer.
There never will be an answer.
That's the answer.

~Gertrude Stein

What is

What is to give light must endure burning.

~Viktor Frankl

Remember

Remember that you cannot hold on to something and surrender it.

~Joel Goldsmith

Serene

Serene, I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea:
I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate,
For, Lo! my own shall come to me.

~Burroughs

There is

There is no great; there is no small, in the mind that causeth all.

~The Hermetica

There is not

There is not one who is Fatherless nor Motherless in the universe.

~The Kybalion

Under and back of

Under, and back of, the Universe of Time Space and Change, is ever to be found the Substantial Reality - The Fundamental Truth.

~The Kybalion

Gender is in everything

Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; gender manifests on all planes.

~The Kybalion

Every cause has it's effect

Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to Law. Chance is but a name for Law Not Recognized; there are many planes of causation; but nothing escapes the law.

~The Kybalion

Nothing rests

Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.

~The Kybalion

As above

As above, so below;
as below, so above.

~The Kybalion

The lips of wisdom

The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding.

~Hermetic Aphorism

When

When the ears of the students are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom.

~The Kybalion

Atum sows immortality

Atum sows immortality in heaven and change on earth.

~The Hermetica

Wise words

Wise words although written by my decaying hand, remain imperishable through time.

~Hermes

The ALL is

THE ALL is MIND;
The Universe is Mental.

~The Kybalion.

The wise ones

The wise ones serve on the higher, but rule on the lower. They obey the laws coming from above them, But on their own plane, and those below them they rule and give orders. And, yet, in so doing, they form a part of the Principle, instead of opposing it. The wise man falls in with the Law, and by understanding its movements he operates it instead of being its blind slave. Just as does the skilled swimmer turn this way and that way, going and coming as he will, instead of being as the log which is carried here and there-so is the wise man as compared to the ordinary man-and yet both swimmer and log; wise man and fool, are subject to Law. He who understands this is well on the road to Mastery.

~The Kybalion.

Mind

Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted from state to state degree to degree. condition to condition pole to pole; vibration to vibration.

~The Kybalion

To destroy

To destroy an undesirable rate of mental vibration, put into operation the principle of Polarity and concentrate upon the opposite pole to that which you desire to suppress. Kill out the undesirable by changing its polarity.

~The Kybalion

To change

To change your mood or mental state-change your vibration.

~The Kybalion

The possession of knowledge

The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals-a vain and foolish thing. Knowledge, like wealth, is intended for Use. The Law of Use is Universal, and he who violates it suffers by reason of his conflict with natural forces.

~The Kybalion

The vow of silence

The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... [i] t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it! It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode!

~Northern Exposure

Soar

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen;
depart, be lost, but climb.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

You're alive

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

~Barbara Hall,

I have been

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

~Real Live Preacher

This isn't

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

~Real Live Preacher

God, I don't have

God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

~Real Live Preacher

My life

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

~Real Live Preacher

I believe love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

~Real Live Preacher

Fidelity

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

~Real Live Preacher

The only comfort

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.



~Real Live Preacher

You can always choose

You can always choose to open yourself, in the midst of a thousand graces and setbacks, to the oneness with God that is the reality of all that is real.

~James Finley

The hardest

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

~Helen Hayes (at 73)

I refuse

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

~Janette Barber

My second favorite

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being -- hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

~Erma Bombeck

Old age

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

~Bette Davis

Inside me

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies.

~unknown

I'm not

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

~Roseanne Barr

And after death

And after death...you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and also touches thousands of lives.

~ Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The secret

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

~The Buddha

To hold

To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.

~Tao Te Ching

We can

We can choose to live in joy.

~Joseph Campbell

We choose

We choose. We choose what carries energy in our lives. We choose what we pay attention to. We choose what mental and emotional impulses and responses drive us.

~Christina Baldwin

At any given moment

At any given moment you can choose to grow where you are planted. You can yield to the subtle inclination that tugs at your heart to open yourself to the presence of God that is always there.

~James Finley

Every choice

Every choice we make, every thought and feeling we have, is an act of power that has biological, environmental, social, personal, and global consequences.

~Caroline Myss

We always have

We always have a choice. We can let the garden of our life grow wild and unattended until it fills with weeds, or we can take up the proper tools and tend to our garden until we create a place of unimaginable loveliness.

~John Marks Templeton

You feed something

You feed something every time you think, so you must decide what it will be. Do you want to feed your separation, your alienation? It will increase. Do you want to feed your Wholeness? It, too, will increase. You are the way to Truth and Light. You are the way! Gather up your awareness and place it where you wish it to be and it will stay there, fixed, until you move it again. It’s really up to you.

~Mary-Margaret Moore

We are continually

We are continually engaged in the evolution of self and world – and we have the power to choose, moment by moment, between that which gives life and that which deals death.

~Parker J. Palmer

We choose

We choose the god-like splendor
Of the best-beloved Sun
To inspire us;
May the shining Sun
Brighten your life!

~The Ramayana

We choose

We choose our lives, we make them, we cocreate them, we give birth to them by the ‘inward’ choices we make.

~Matthew Fox

What is dark

What is dark clings to what is light and so enhances the brightness of the latter. A luminous thing giving out light must have within itself something that perseveres; otherwise it will in time burn itself out. Everything that gives light is dependent on something to which it clings, in order that it may continue to shine.

Thus the sun and moon cling to heaven, and grain, grass, and trees cling to the earth. So too the twofold clarity of the dedicated man clings to what is right and thereby can shape the world. Human life on earth is conditioned and unfree, and when man recognizes this limitation and makes himself dependent upon the harmonious and beneficent forces of the cosmos, he achieves success.

~I Ching

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One need remain

One need remain in hell no longer than one chooses to; we can rise to any heaven we ourselves choose; and when we choose so to rise, all the higher powers of the Universe combine to help us heavenward.

~R. W. Trine

You can choose

You can choose to think positive thoughts or negative thoughts. You can choose to feel happy or sad. You can choose to see the positive in a negative situation, or the negative in a positive situation.

~Rabbi Shoni Labowitz

We're here

We’re here to learn to love more fully, to be God or angels in disguise for one another, to show our love, to show our compassion, to be active in creation. That is the reason and the meaning behind our lives. Each of us has a choice about how to love the world in our unique way.

~Bernie Siegel

Joyousness

Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes a man has joy. Often a man finds himself weighing the choice between various kinds of pleasures, and so long as he has not decided which kind he will choose, the higher or the lower, he has no inner peace. Only when he clearly recognizes that passion brings suffering, can he make up his mind to turn away from the lower pleasures and to strive for the higher. Once this decision is sealed, he finds true joy and peace, and inner conflict is overcome.

~I Ching

True joy

True joy must spring from within. But if one is empty within and wholly given over to the world, idle pleasures come streaming in from without. This is what many people welcome as diversion. Those who lack inner stability and therefore need amusement, will always find opportunity of indulgence. They attract external pleasures by the emptiness of their natures. Thus they lose themselves more and more, which of course has bad results.

~I Ching

The depth

The depth of the psyche, the unconscious, is not made by man but is divinely created nature.

~C. G. Jung

All paths

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy—it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.

~Carlos Castaneda

Your pain is

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

~Kahlil Gibran

Choose to be

Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.

~Wayne Dyer

I'm not

I'm not going to live forever...
I just wanna live while I'm alive.

~John Bon Jovi

The past

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we find greatness.

~Pierre Trudeau

The intuitive mind

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

~Albert Einstein

Within each soul

Within each soul is a passion: an inner fire born of love and the intellegence profoundly immersed in the wholeness of creation--therefore, an intelligence burning with compassion. A blessing is this very soulfire made manifest.

~David Spangler

Twenty years from now

Twenty years from now, you will be more
disappointed in the things you didn't do than
by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore...Dream...Discover.

~Mark Twain

In life

In life you must choose between bordom and suffering.

~Madam de Stael

Iron rusts

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen - so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

~Leonardo da Vinci

I'm not

I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot.

~Billie Joe Armstrong

Every normal man

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

~H.L. Mencken

Age is not

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

~George Macdonald

As we explore

As we explore the extraordinary interplay of energies between the many aspects of our personality -- our needs, unconscious reactions, repressed emotions, aspirations and fears -- with the functioning of our physical system and its capacity to maintain itself, we soon realise how very wise the body is. With its intricately detailed systems and operations it portrays infinite intelligence and compassion, constantly giving us the means to understand ourselves further, to confront issues we are not looking at, and to go beyond that which is holding us back.

~Deb Shapiro

God delights

God delights to isolate us every day, and hide from us the past and the future... "you will not remember," he seems to say, "and you will not expect."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself, must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you think

If you think you came into being for the purpose of taking an important part in the administration of events, to guard a province of the moral creation from ruin, and that its salvation hangs on the success of your single arm, you have wholly mistaken your business.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole object

The whole object of the universe to us is the formation of character.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

All our progress

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end, it shall ripen into truth and you shall know wny you believe...

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world

The world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will, of one mind; and that one mind is everywhere active, in each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool; and whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled, because things are made so, and not otherwise.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will so trust

I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart appoints.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must

We must be our own before we can be another's.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

~Vincent Van Gogh

Coincidences

Coincidences have never been idle for me, instinctively, but as meaningful as I was to find they were to Jung. I have always had a hunch that they are a manifestation of a law of life of which we are inadequately aware and which in terms of our short life are unfortunately incapable of total definition, and yet however partial the meaning we can extract from them, we ignore it, I believe, at our peril. For as well as promoting some cosmic law, coincidences, I suspect, are some sort of indication to what extent the evolution of our lives is obedient or not obedient to the symmetry of the universe.

~Laurens van der Post

Human beings

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

~Laurens Van der Post

Happy Halloween!

"What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts, boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, specters, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks necks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins Gyre-carling, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties, and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost.

Nay, every lone tenement, castle, or mansion-house, which could boast of any antiquity had its bogle, its specter, or its knocker. The churches, churchyards, and crossroads were all haunted. Every green lane had its boulder-stone on which an apparition kept watch at night. Every common had its circle of fairies belonging to it. And there was scarcely a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit!"

~Michael Aislabie Denham

The struggle of the mind

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.

~Gardner Murphy

Often we do not

Often we do not know what is really going on. Our perspective can barely accommodate another person’s point of view, no less the forward march of evolution or the eternal mind of God. Better to admit not knowing and to relax in the mystery of life than to try to force our minds where they can’t go.

~Elizabeth Lesser

What we have

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

~Helen Keller

I believe

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

~Dalai Lama

Develop interest

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself.

~Henry Miller

Often we do not know

Often we do not know what is really going on. Our perspective can barely accommodate another person’s point of view, no less the forward march of evolution or the eternal mind of God. Better to admit not knowing and to relax in the mystery of life than to try to force our minds where they can’t go.

~Elizabeth Lesser

Nothing in the world

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

~Calvin Coolidge

Congratulations

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

~Yogi Berra

You should

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

~Yogi Berra

In theory

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

~Yogi Berra

Baseball

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

~Yogi Berra

If you ask

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

~Yogi Berra

All pitchers

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

~Yogi Berra

How

How can you think and hit at the same time?

~Yogi Berra

So I'm ugly

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

~Yogi Berra

If the world

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

~Yogi Berra

If the people

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

~Yogi Berra

The future

The future ain't what it used to be.

~Yogi Berra

If there is

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

~Henry Ford

Don't just listen

Don't just listen to what someone is saying, listen to why they are saying it.

~Anonymous

If you look

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

~C.S. Lewis

Please

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Oh, the comfort

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

~George Eliot

When we honestly

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

~Henri Nouwen

Advice

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

~Erica Jong

No one wants

No one wants advice — only corroboration.

~John Steinbeck

Computers

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.

~Albert Einstein

Computers

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

~Pablo Picasso

I have not failed

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

~Thomas Alva Edison

A positive attitude

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

~Herm Albright

By trying

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity - another man's I mean.

~Mark Twain

Every man

Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him - which may be regarded by others as being useless - yet it is his dream, it is his lodestar, it is his master. That, whatever it is seized upon me, made me its servant, slave - induced me to set aside the other ambitions - a trail of glory in the heavens, which I followed, followed with a full heart... When once I am convinced, I never let go...

~Walt Whitman

I believe

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

If you want

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

~Carl Sagan

When you have

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

~Chinese Proverb

You think Nature is some Disney movie?

You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

~Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure

Honesty may be

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

~George Carlin

Scientists announced

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

~George Carlin

Only put of

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

~Pablo Picasso

The artist is

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

~Pablo Picasso

Only those

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

~T S Elliot

No matter how hard

No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

~Baudjuin

Every Warrior

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. Every Warrior of the Light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say "no". Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved. That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

~Paulo Coelho

Always you have been told

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.

~Kahlil Gibran

Increasingly

Increasingly, we need to make our decisions from the larger perspective provided by serving the One Life.

~William Metzger

I teach you

I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

If you don't

If you don't make mistakes you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's the biggest mistake.

~F. Wizelek

When you come

When you come to the end of everything you know, and the next step is into the depths of darkness of the great unknown, you must believe one of two things: Either you will step out onto firm ground or you will be taught to fly.

~Patrick Overton

It's a dangerous business

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

~Bilbo Baggins, from Lord of the Rings

I wish

Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.

~from Lord of the Rings

I know

I know what I must do. It's just... I'm afraid to do it.

~Frodo, from The Lord of the Rings

Even the smallest

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

~Galadriel, from The Lord of the Rings

We are built

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

~Maxwell Maltz

Obstacles will look

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

~Orison Swett Marden

Stand up

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

~Norman Vincent Peale

For every mountain

For every mountain there is a miracle.

~Robert H. Schuller

Patience and preserverance

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

~John Quincy Adams

History has demonstrated

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

~B. C. Forbes

It's the constant

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

~Claude M. Bristol

You are

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.

~Les Brown

An optimist

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

-Winston Churchill

The thirst after happiness

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People who say

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

~George Carlin

As long as

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the mountain

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

~Sir Edmund Hillary

When man meets

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

~Ryszard Kapuscinski

It still holds

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

~Eric Hoffer

If you can find

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

~Frank A. Clark

Life's ups and downs

Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

~Marsha Sinetar

Most of our obstacles

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

~Orison Swett Marden

Press on

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

~Robert H. Schuller

One may have

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

~Vincent Van Gogh

My mother said

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

~Pablo Picasso

A painter

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

~Leopold Stokowski

There are always

There are always two persons in each individual. The person without is the picture the person within paints with his mind.

~Charles Filmore

Teach

You can only teach what you need to learn.

~Inyala Vanzant

Deeds of giving

Deeds of giving are the very foundation of the world.

~The Torah

After despair
many hopes flourish.
Just as after darkness,
thousands of suns
open and
start to shine.

~Rumi

Whatever shows up in your life is the answer. Your job is to figure out what the question was.

~unknown

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

~T S Eliot

Life is

Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.

~April Foiles

Time flies

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

~Groucho Marx

A positive attitude

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

~Herm Albright

You've got to

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

~Will Rogers

Time and space

Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is night.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one soul

There is one soul.
It is related to the world.
Art is its action thereon.
Science finds its methods.
Literature is its record.
Religion os the emotion of reverence that it inspires.
Ethics is the soul illustrated in human life.
Society is the finding of this sould by individuals in each other.
Trades are the learning of the soul in nature by labor.
Politics is the activity of the soul illustrated in power.
Manners are silent and mediate expressions of the soul.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

God be

God be between you and harm in
all the empty places you walk.

~Blessing of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty

What is life?

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

~Crowfoot - Blackfoot warior and orator

I may not be

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

~Ashleigh Brilliant

There is no end

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

~Federico Fellini

Test everything

Test everything. Hold on to the good.

~1 Thessalonians 5:21

Self image

Self image sets the level of our expectations.

~William Tully

No one

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

A successful person

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

~David Brinkley

In school

In school you get the lesson and then take the test ... In life you take the test and then get the lesson.

~unknown

Most people

Most people have come to prefer certain of life’s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

~Rachel Naomi Remen

Love the ones

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

Real Live Preacher

Fall not

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

~National Lampoon

Learning to love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

~Michael Masser and Linda Creed

In Kyudo philosophy

In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.

~Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure

Where you used to be

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Is love supposed

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

~Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure

Marriage is

Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself.

"I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you."

~Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

~Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure

To love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

~David Viscott

Love

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

~Peter Ustinov

Love isn't

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.

~Trey Parker & Matt Stone

Love

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

~Toni Morrison

Love is

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

~Lynda Barry

Love

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

~John Barrymore

Marriage

Marriage. Why do we do it? Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness? Partly. Is it teamwork? Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly?...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid.

~Jed Seidel, Northern Exposure,

Nothing is

Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Everything takes longer than you expect.
And if anything can go wrong,
It will, at the worst possible moment.

~Murphy's Law

Our prayers

Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be.

~Morris Adler

Don't find fault

Don’t find fault, find a remedy;
anybody can complain.

~Henry Ford

Be wicked

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live -- live fully, live passionately, live disastrously au besoin.

~Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West

We have the need

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

~Don Miguel Ruiz

When doing becomes

When DOING becomes infused with the timeless quality of BEING that is Success.
Unless Being flows into doing, unless you are present, you lose yourself in whatever you do. You also lose yourself in thinking, as well as in your reactions to what happens externally.

~Eckhart Tolle

What lies behind

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is magic

There is magic in this world if you want the world to be magical. If you want life to be special, it will be. No one wants to be bored or consumed by ordinary drudgery. But what happens, all too often, is that when magic is presented to us, we don’t believe it because we don’t trust ourselves. We don’t realize what can really be accomplished. We don’t realize that if we wish to, we can take other forms. We can sit in the presence of the great masters, angels, or ancient seers of wisdom and find peace and wisdom, but it takes many small deaths, the giving away of old limitations, to get there.

~Lynn Andrews

The sun

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

~Galileo

Milk

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

~Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is a criterion

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them, so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

~Peace Pilgrim

Moving toward

Moving toward an inwardly simple life is not about deprivation or denying ourselves the things we want. It’s about getting rid of the things that no longer contribute to the fullness of our lives. It’s about creating balance between our inner and outer lives.

~Elaine St. James

Freedom

Freedom in the mere sense of independence is meaningless. Perfect freedom lies in the harmony of relationship which we realize not through knowing but in being.

~Rabindranath Tagore

When you have two engines

When you have two engines, you have two engines that can fall to bits. When you have four engines, you have four that can fall to bits. The less engines you have, the safer you are.

~Frank Fickeisen, chief engineer for Boeing

That is true

That is true - but not absolutely true.

~Jean Drapeau

Money

Money is not everything,
but it does make poverty tolerable.

~Moss Evans

Just halfway through

Just halfway through life's journey
I reawoke to find myself in a dark wood
Far off course, the right way lost.
How hard it is to tell what this
Wild, harsh, forbidding wood was like
Whose merest memory brings back my fear;
For only death exceeds its bitterness.
But I found goodness there; I'll deal with that
As I describe the various things I saw.

~Opening lines from Dante's Inferno

When you hear

When you hear the thunder, lightning has already struck somewhere else.

~Sandra Hymel

Man would sooner

Man would sooner have the void for his purpose than be void of purpose.

~Nietzche

Genius is

Genius is an immense capacity for making trouble.

~Carlyle

The moment

The moment anyone bows to an authority outside himself, he blindfolds his inner eye and ceases to create. He becomes a mere assembler.

~Gardner Hunting

Finish each day

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

As I lay

As I lay in my Jacuzzi, watching my thousand dollar dog poop on my carpet, I finally got it? Life is about clearing up the crap, and while you're doing it, being OK with the fact that you have to do it.

~Inyanla VanZant

Remember this

Remember this: every decision you make stems from what you think you are, and represents the value that you put on yourself.

~A Course in Miracles

We can see

We can see our reflection in water only when we bend down close to it; and the heart of one, too, must lean down to the heart of others; then it will se itself within those hearts.

~Hasidic Proverb

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

~Spanish proverb

Compassion

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Discipline

Discipline comes from doing the very thing you keep praying for the discipline to do.

~Inyala VanZant

Your children

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life searching for their own. They come through you but they are not from you. Although they are with you, they do not belong to you.

~Kahlil Gibran

If it is love

If it is love you are looking for, take a knife and cut off the head of fear.

~Rumi

At the age of six

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

~Salvador Dali

Remain open

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

~Iyanla VanZant

Out beyond

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

~Rumi

At your most daring

At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work--the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself.

~Jean Shinoda Bolen

When I dare

When I dare to be powerful -
to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important
whether I am afraid.

~Audre Lorde

Your vision

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

~Carl Jung

It was a great mistake

It was a great mistake my being born a man. I would have been much more successful as a sea-gull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want, is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death.

- Edmund, from Eugene O'Neill Play,
"Long Day's Journey Into Night."

Anything is one of a million

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: "Does this path have a heart?

~Carlos Castaneda

Look

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

~Mel Brooks

If

If you're going through hell, keep going.

~Winston Churchill

Courage is

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

~Mark Twain

It usually

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu
speech.

~Mark Twain

Shallow men

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances – it was somebody's name,
or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of

Instead of telling God how big your mountians are, try telling the mountains how big your God is.

~Alvadean Marcho

Dreams pass

Dreams pass into the reality of action, from the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

~Anais Nin

Dreams

Dreams deferred come true every day. Delay doesn't mean denial.

~Sarah Ban Breathnach

Only the heart

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Half

Half this game is ninety percent mental.

~Yogi Berra

You can

You can observe a lot by watching.

~Yogi Berra

I usually

I usually take a two hour nap from one to four.

~Yogi Berra

Never

Never answer an anonymous letter.

~Yogi Berra

A nice definition

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

~Anthony De Mello

One must still

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

There is

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Obstacles

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal,

~Henry Ford

Tragedy is when

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

~Mel Brooks

Moderation?

Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

~Dan Millman

A boy can learn

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

~Robert Benchley

I like pigs

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

~Sir Winston Churchill

Everything begins

Everything begins with loving kindness towards oneself, which in turn becomes loving kindness to others.

~Pema Chödrön

Many more quotes, and quotes with pictures can be found at my new website, Way Cool Quotes.

If you don't

If you don't do what you love you are not going to be good at it. And if you are not good at it you are not going to make any money doing it.

~Donald Trump

Life

Life involves risks; you can't score a touchdown when you're still in the huddle.

~Unknown

God writes

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.

~Martin Luther

Hold

Hold a true friend with both hands.

~Nigerian Proverb

Constant attention

Constant attentention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

~Dag Hammarskjold

I will persist

I will persist until I succeed.

I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destingy.

I will persist until I suceed.

~Og Mandino

Brother

Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal.

~Rumi

If you are

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

~Marcus Aurelius

His disciples

His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?" "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."

~Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas

The dread

The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is, at bottom, the fear of the journey to Hades.

~C.G. Jung

A man

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

~George Gurdjieff

Personally

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

~Jean Dubuffet

A warrior

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

~Carlos Castaneda

Patience

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

~Thomas Henry Huxley

Our greatest weakness

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

~Thomas A. Edison

Each friend

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

~Anais Nin

Please know

Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

~Amelia Earhart

Do not wait

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

~Napoleon Hill

Although the way

Although the way of God is before all people, the fool cannot find it.

~The Husia

This is my simple religion

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

~Dalai Lama

Every man

Every man is an impossibility until he is born, every thing is impossible until we see it a success.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

No pessimist

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

~Helen Keller

When people start to meditate

When people start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow they're going to improve, which is a sort of subtle aggression against who they really are.

It's a bit like saying, “If I jog, I'll be a much better person.” “If I could only get a nicer house, I'd be a better person.” If I could meditate and calm down, I'd be a better person.”…

... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website, Meditation, and can be found in its entirety here: When people start to meditate

A bit of advice

A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: "As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It’s not as wide as you think."

~Joseph Campbell

Go confidently

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

~Henry David Thoreau

The Lord

The Lord set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.

~Psalm 104:5

What we hear

What we hear from a source we accept as authoritative is given far more weight than the same statements if heard from what is to us at the time a less credible source. What we see, hear, or experience with intensity has added weight. And what we hear repetitively from authoritative sources has even more weight.

~Maxwell Malts

Human beings

Human beings always act, feel, and perform in accordance with what they imagine to be true about themselves and their environment.

~Maxwell Malts

The greatest gift

The greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made.

~Virginia Sati

Do I

Do I contradict myself? Very well then. I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.

~Walt Whitman

The trick is

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

~Carlos Castaneda

A foolish consistency

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall...

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any fact

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

~Norman Vincent Peale

This is

This is my life, and that which is my life, I must do.

~Kahlil Gibran

Experience

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

~Aldous Huxley

The quieter

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

~Ram Dass

There is no

There is no spirituality without herosim. If I could too soon be released from the furnace of suffering, and admitted into the Temple of Bliss, my character would lack the necessary admixture of steel, which is the product of endurance, and also the means of climbing the heights that tower above me.

~Sri Gyanamata

We cause

We cause our own suffering, building it up bit by bit in our minds.

~Sri Gyanamata

Every positive change

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

~Dan Millman

If you ask me

If you ask me what I have come to do in this world, I who am an artist, I will reply: I am here to live my life out loud.

~Emile Zola

Japanese proverb

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.



~Soichiro Honda

Things don't change

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

~Carols Casteneda

The only thing

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

~Frida Kahlo

Forget

Forget the answers, stick with the questions.

~Richard W Chilson

The heavy

The heavy is the root of the light,
The still is the Lord of the restless.

~unknown

There is

There is nothing that cannot happen today.

~Mark Twain

It is good

It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

~Ursula Le Guin

You too

You, too, withhold the very things you complain are missing from the world.

~Stephen C. Paul

The 50-50-90 rule

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

~Andy Rooney

Be careful

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

~Mark Twain

I had a rose

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."

~Eleanor Roosevelt

It's only when

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

When you perform

When you perform... you are out of yourself - larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours, nightly.

~Agnes de Mille

Truth

Truth is within ourselves.
There is an inmost center in us all,
Where the truth abides in fullness; and to know
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.

~Robert Browning

The past

The past is never where you think you left it.

~Katherine Anne Porter

If you can learn

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

~Carolyn Kenmore

The soul

The soul is here for its own joy.

~Rumi

Tao exists

Tao exists, Tao is, but where It came from I do not know.

~Lao-tzu

A physician says

A physician says to his patient, "This is a very serious case; I'm afraid you're allergic to yourself."

~unknown

There is

There is a deep tendency in human nature to become like that which we imagine ourselves to be.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

As long as

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

~Thoreau

Personality

Personality is not so much like a structure as like a river - it continuously flows, and to be a person is to be engaged in a perpetual process of becoming.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Happiness is

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

~Dr William H Sheldon

I have had

I have had more trouble with D L Moody than with any other man I know.

~D L Moody

You only live once

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.

~Joe E Lewis

Remember

Remember, decisions don't have to be made perfectly. We don't have to be perfect. We don't even have to be nearly perfect! We can just be who we are. We can make mistakes in our choices. We're not so fragile we can't handle making a mistake. It's no big deal! It's part of living. We can learn from our mistakes, or we can simply make another decision.

~Melody Beattie

If you don't

If you don't get what you want, it is a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.

~Rudyard Kipling

Often people attempt

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, and then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

~Margaret Young

Sometime in your life

Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.

~Katherine Sharp

What

What was hard to endure can be sweet to recall.

~Occidental Proverb

All that I have seen

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love cures

Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it too.

~Karl A Menninger

There isn't much better

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.

~Real Live Preacher

My mother

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

~Dame Edna Everage

Every once in a while

Every once in a while, a woman will wake up with no ambition save for a wish to creep around quietly in her socks. And it must be a rule of the universe that this is a day when she will be required to go out into the world and act, interact, and be acted upon, in spite of - perhaps even because of - her extreme vulnerability. May I add then, this delicacy will be likely be expressed in a violence of temper over some inconsequential hurt, with feelings so raw as to be immediately exposed by virtue of the fact they are so terribly tender. Be kind then, to this raging woman, be she you or some other miserable creature - she is wide open and utterly naked, a state no man could imagine or endure.

~Grace Gibson, From the Diary of a Lady Beloved

Let me

Let me listen to me and not to them.

~Gertrude Stein

It's surprising

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

~ Sydney J. Harris

You say

You say I am mysterious
Let me explain myself
In a land of oranges
I am faithful to apples.

~ Elsa Gidlow

Everything is dual

Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has it's pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.

~The Kybalion

Start by doing

Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

~St Francis of Assisi

To know

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

~Copernicus

Curiouser

Curiouser and curiouser!

~Lewis Carroll

Your theory

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

~Niels Bohr

I

I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the waters, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.

~Hildegard of Bingen

Call it a clan

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

~Jane Howard

You cannot

You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it.

~Charlotte Joko Beck

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm literally means "being filled with spirit."

~Stephen Larson

You are

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!

~Bob Richards

There are three

There are three kinds of people and three kinds of richness:

• people who want to have, to collect
• people who want action, work and labor
• people who want to be

The real richness is in be-ness. People can take all that you have, all that you collected. People can stop your labor, or an accident can stop you. When you are, you never lose what you are.

~Torkom Saraydarian

Every human action

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

~Dalai Lama

It is

It is the artist's mission to penetrate...in the womb of nature, in the primal ground of creation where the secret key to all things lies hidden.


~Paul Klee

What is always

What is always speaking silently is the body.

~Norman Brown

Your body is

Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.

~Gabrielle Roth

Many people

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

~Chungliang Al Huang

I don't believe

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

~Dr Frederick Lenz

He is

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

~John Bright

I am enclosing

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one." ~George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one." ~Winston Churchill

I've been thinking

I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum: what's the sound of one hand clapping? My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point? The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else.

~Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

He is

He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.

~Samuel Johnson

Those who seek

Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]

~Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas

When you are

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

~Kahlil Gibran

We cannot

We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water.

~Rabindranath Tagore

Forget the resolutions

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.

~Dale Dauten

I know that

I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate - but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza.

~Alf Whit

Love is

Love is always Loving you. Without this Love you cannot breathe, as without air you cannot live. Love is meditation, meditation is Love. Heart has no frontiers; meditate on This. You are this Love. You are That. Simply be Quiet and stay as such. Thank you. I love you.

~Sri H. W. L. Poonja

The power to love

The power to love is God's greatest gift to man, for it never can be taken from the blessed one who loves.

~Kahlil Gibran

The most beautiful thing

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

~Albert Einstein

If we could

If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

~John Steinbeck

Calmness is

Calmness is the soil, and the only soil, in which all that we most desire to be will grow.

~Sri Gyanamata

Nobody

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

~unknown

There is

There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart.

~Elizabeth J. Canham

We forget

We forget about the space between the stars, the pure and perfect space that's also the eye of God. To penetrate the mystery is to become the mystery; to penetrate infinity is to become infinity; to penetrate light is to become light.

~Dr Frederick Lenz

Let the waters

Let the waters settle
you will see stars and moon
mirrored in your Being.

~Rumi

Please note

Please note that letting fireworks off in the hotel guestrooms is strictly prohibited.

~sign posted
at the Hyatt Hyatt Regency, Macao

You know

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named, "Bush," "Dick," and "Colon." Need I say more?

~Chris Roc, April 6, 2003

I'm not

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

~Yogi Berra

It was

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

~Yogi Berra

In theory

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

~Yogi Berra

If you ask

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

~Yogi Berra

If nobody

If nobody ever said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

~Alan Herbert

When we run

When we run from our fears, we often run right into them.

~Dr John F Demartini

To defend

To defend one's self against fear, is simply to ensure that one will one day be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

~James Baldwin

Procrastination

Procrastination means you know what you need to do and you don't do it. If you don't know what to do, you aren't procrastinating, you are thinking.

~Lynn Lively

We're

We're not dust, we're magic.

~Richard Bach

Language is

Language is inadequate
The Gods sing a hymn of silence
And I am silently singing.

~The Hermetica

In

In the movement of each animal, all animals move.

~Tom Brown Jr

Give me

Give me the silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

~Walt Whitman

Life

Life seeks order but it uses messes to get there.

~Margaret Wheatley

Some people

Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

~Alphonse Karr

Finish

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The optimist

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

~James Branch Cabell

What

What you would seem to be, be really.

~Ben Franklin

Is prayer

Is prayer your steering wheel, or your spare tire?

~Corrie ten Boom

Ideas

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

~John Steinbeck

Opportunity

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

~Thomas Edison

The most beautiful

The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness.

~Albert Einstein

Can anybody remember

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To find

To find yourself, think for yourself.

~Socrates

To love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

~David Viscott

If you want

If you want to have any success in life; to achieve anything, you must bring all your thoughts together. You must have one-pointedness. Then you will know there is not anything in the world in which you will not succeed. Success does not belong to any special people... success belongs to those people who can bring their whole attention to one-pointedness. If you focus on anything, it will open its heart to you.

~C Raman

Without a mission

Without a mission, life has no meaning. It is only eating, drinking, sleeping and surviving; an animal can do these things.

~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhana

There is no better way

There is no better way to unravel the mystery than to watch it move.

~Tom Brown Jr

Time

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

~Japanese Proverb

Your joy is

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self same well from which your laughter rises was often times filled with your tears.

~Kahlil Gibran

I have learned

I have learned that the ecstasy of mango juice on my tongue and union with Spirit are not as different as I once thought.

~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Joy

Joy doesn't happen to us. Joy happens within us, and that means joy can be ours anytime, anywhere.

~Donna Miesbach

We are

We are all in this together -- by ourselves.

~Lily Tomlin

When I was younger

When I was younger, I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.

~Mark Twain

Conscience

Conscience: that little spark of celestial fire.

~George Washington

Even after

Even after all this time,

the Sun never says to Earth,

"You owe me."

Look what happens with a love like that...

It lights up the whole sky.

~Hafiz

The person who says

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

~Chinese Proverb

Things which matter

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not know

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

~Isaac Newton

Mutton

Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer.

~Bert the Troll, from The Hobbit

Trees know

Trees know: "If I want new leaves, I have to give up the old ones."

~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu

Dance

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

~William Purkey

What happens

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

~Steven Wright

I've just learned

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

~Irvin S. Cobb

I feel so miserable

I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here.

~Stephen Bishop

He has never

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

~William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

I have

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

~Richard Diran

If this is coffee

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

~Abraham Lincoln

My grandmother

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-five now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

~unknown

In order to

In order to profit from your mistakes, you must first get out and make some.

~unknown

The place

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily where it ends.

~Tom Brown Jr

The time comes

The time comes when we have to see our pain and call a halt to running away from it.

~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu

I like

I like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

~Mae West

For disappearing acts

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

~Doug Larson

You are never

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.

~Richard Bach

Everything flows

Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left, rhythm compensates.

~The Kybalion

When we tell our mind

When we tell our mind to do something;
it will immediately do something else.

~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu

Mysteries

Mysteries are by nature shy and secretive, and most often, the closest you get to them is the traces left behind by movement and the disturbances left by action.

~Tom Brown Jr

When a ship

When a ship misses a harbor, it's rarely the harbor's fault.

~unknown

Love is a fire

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

~Joan Crawford

It will not do

It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one.

~JRR Tolkein

It is better

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

~Samuel Johnson

There was a time

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

~Adlai Stevenson

Look I am living

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future
grows any smaller... Superabundant being
wells up in my heart.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Some of the world's greatest

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

~Doug Larson

I never

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

~Albert Einstein

There are

There are good days, and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

~Lawrence Welk

Take courage

Take courage, mortal; death can't banish thee out of the universe.

~Ben Franklin

My mind

My mind is hushed in a wide and endless light, my heart a solitude of delight and peace.

~Sri Aurobindo

The space

The space for what you want is already filled with what you settle for instead.

~Stephen C. Paul

Our true prayers

Our true prayers are the way we live.

~Charles Templeton

I write down everything

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

~Beryl Pfizer

If all else fails

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

~John Kenneth Galbraith

Trust yourself

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

~Benjamin Spock

Love is not blind

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less.
But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

~Rabbi Julius Gordon

The first great silence

The first great silence in the life of Jesus holds all His years of growth. It meant study in the shadows of the synagogue, meditation on the upland pastures, prayer beneath the evening stars. The first great silence for every life should be, know thyself. God has given to every individual soul some gift that is unique, peculiar to itself; some delicate tint that it alone can add to the great picture; some tone that no other soul can sound forth.

~unknown

When we feel stuck

When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slip backward -- we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

~Dan Millman

The first duty

The first duty of love is to listen.

~Paul Tillich

When I write

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

~MFK Fisher

There are

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

For sleep

For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

~Jean Paul Richter

Fear is

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

~Michael Pritchard

If only

If only I could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything.

~unknown

Ours is

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

~unknown

You don't choose

You don't choose the things you believe in, they choose you.

~unknown

Wrinkles

Wrinkles are God's little way of saying "I'm stepping on your face."

~unknown

Delegate

Delegate your weaknesses, you're not good at them anyway.

~unknown

Finish each day

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

We must be willing

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

~Joseph Campbell

We don't always know

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

~Julia Cameron

Get up

Get up and make an effort. Don't lie around like a bum.

He who throws himself at the Beloved's feet is like a workhorse and will be rewarded with boundless pastures and eternal rest.

~Hafiz

Every blade of grass

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow."

~Talmud

Peace

Peace.
It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.

~unknown

When our eyes see

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed within us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

~Michael Bridge

There is no difference

There is no difference in the destination,
the only difference is in the journey.

~Inayat Khan

In the pursuit

In the pursuit of learning,
every day something is acquired.
in the pursuit of Tao,
every day something is dropped.

~Lao Tzu

I see now

I see now
that all creatures
have perfect enlightenment
- but they do not know it.

~Buddha

We think having faith

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

~Real Live Preacher

If you don't know

If you don’t know the answer, surrender.

~from Gems of Wisdom

So long as we are loved

So long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

~George MacDonald

I should know

I should know myself better, if there were not so many of me.

~unknown

God put us on earth

God put us on Earth so that we will accomplish certain things in a lifetime - so far, I am so behind I will never die.

~unknown