"I
find the greatest thing in this world not
so much
where we stand, as in what direction we
are moving.
To reach the port ... we must sail
sometimes with
the wind, and sometimes against it, but
we sail,
and not drift, nor live at anchor."
-
O. W. Holmes -
keep beaming
the sun asks no permission
Thom
the World Poet
"The
seven heavens sounded
each one vowel down to earth
and became the creation of all things
that be on earth."
Pythagoras.
"Happiness,
at best, is an illusory goal.
It is not a destination; it is a manner
of traveling.
Happiness is not an end in itself.
It is a by-product of working, playing,
loving, living."
-
Haim Ginott -
"Ring
the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
-
Leonard Cohen -
"The
great pleasure of a dog is that you may
make a fool
of yourself with him and not only will he
not scold you,
but he will make a fool of himself
too."
-
Samuel Butler -
"Dream
as if you'll live forever.
Live
as if you'll die today."
-
James Dean -
"Slow
down and enjoy life.
It's not only the scenery you miss by
going too fast -
you also miss the sense of where you are
going and why."
-
Eddie Canto -
"When
written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is
composed
of two characters - one represents
danger, and the
other represents opportunity."
-
Saul David Alinsky -
"Silent
gratitude isn't much use to anyone."
-
Gladys Berthe Stern -
"When
one door of happiness closes, another
opens;
but often we look so long at the closed
door that we do not see
the one which has opened for us."
- Helen Keller -
"Show
me a person who has never made a mistake
and I'll show you somebody
who has never achieved much."
-
Joan Collins -
"One
of the advantages of being disorderly is
that one is constantly making exciting
discoveries."
-
A.A. Milne -
"The
rule for us all is perfectly simple.
Do not waste time bothering whether you
"love"
your neighbor; act as if you did.
As soon as we do this we find one of the
great secrets.
When you are behaving as if you loved
someone,
you will presently come to love
him."
-
C. S. Lewis -
"Always
love your enemies
nothing annoys them so much."
-
Oscar Wilde -
"Risk!
Risk anything!
Care no more for the opinion of others,
for those voices. Do the hardest thing on
earth
for you. Act for yourself. Face the
truth."
- Katherine Mansfield -
Gamble everything
for love
if you're a true human being
if not, leave this gathering
RUMI
Love is the
Key
This is the true secret of all healing:
seek for harmony in human relationships.
Love your fellow men and women, your
fellow creatures.
Feel in your heart that gentleness of the
Masters.
Love, and your whole body will be
created.
It will shine with light of heaven,
the healing power which is realeased by
love.
White Eagle
"Let
us make one point... that we meet each
other with
a smile, when it is difficult to smile
... Smile at each
other, make time for each other."
-
Mother Teresa -
"The
best and most beautiful things in the
world
cannot be seen or even touched. They must
be felt
with the heart."
-
Helen Keller -
"I'm
not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a
difference.
A happy woman has no cares at all. A
cheerful woman
has cares but has learned how to deal
with them."
-
Beverly Sills -
"The
best cure for worry, depression,
melancholy, brooding, is to go
deliberately forth and try to lift with
one's sympathy the gloom of somebody
else."
-
Arnold Bennett -
"Dreams
are essential to life."
- Anais Nin -
"A pessimist is someone who
complains about the noise
when
opportunity knocks."
-
Michael Levine -
"Do
not save your loving speeches for your
friends
till they are dead; Do not write them on
their tombstones,
speak them rather now instead."
-
Anna Cummins -
May
today there be peace within.
May you trust your highest power that you
are
exactly where you are meant to be....
May you not forget the infinite
possibilities
that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have
received,
and pass on the love that has been given
to you....
May you be content
knowing you are a child of God....
Let this presence settle into our bones,
and allow your soul the freedom
to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of
you....
"Happiness
is not so much in having as in sharing.
We make a living by what we get
but we make a life out of what we
give."
-
Norman MacEwan -
"'On
with the dance, let the joy be
unconfined!'
is my motto, whether there's any dance to
dance
or any joy to unconfine."
-
Mark Twain -
"Instead
of having the rug pulled from under your
feet,
learn to dance on a shifting
carpet."
-
Thomas F. Crum -
"The
most beautiful thing we can experience is
the
mysterious. It is the source of all true
art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can
no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt
in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed."
-
Albert Einstein -
"Life
is a paradise for those who love
many things with a passion."
-
Leo Buscaglia -
"The
only thing that will stop you
from fufilling your dreams is you."
-
Tom Bradley -
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"Everything
that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves."
-
Carl Jung -
before Illumination
- chop wood
after Illumination - chop wood
- or - to put it bluntly -
KEEP YOUR DAY JOB !
Thom
the World Poet
"Whoever
you are, there is some younger person
who thinks you are perfect.
There is some work that will never be
done
if you don't do it.
There is someone who would miss you if
you were gone.
There is a place that you alone can
fill."
- Jacob M. Braude -
"Life
is not what you expect.
It's what you don't expect that makes
life worth living."
-
Lauren Cairns -
"We
act as though comfort and luxury were the
chief requirements of life, when all that
we need to make us happy is something to
be enthusiastic about."
- Charles
Kingsley -
"Twenty
years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you didn't do
than by
the ones you did do ... Explore. Dream.
Discover."
-
Mark Twain -
Learning to really
live actually means
learning to love in the present sense.
True love doesn’t claim rights of
possession.
The only thing that really heals people
is unconditioned love.
Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
"One
must still have chaos in oneself to be
able to
give birth to a dancing star."
-
Friedrich Neitzsche -
"My philosophy is that
not only are you responsible
for your life, but doing the best at this
moment
puts you in the best place for the next
moment."
- Oprah Winfrey -
"One
of the best, beautiful qualities in a
true friendship
is to be understood."
-
Seneca -
"Many
things in life will catch your eye but
few will catch your heart... Pursue
those."
-
Author Unknown -
"Treat
people as if they were what they ought to
be,
and you help them to become
what they are capable of being."
-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
"People
are always blaming their circumstances
for
what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people
who get on in this world are the people
who get up
and look for the circumstances they want,
and, if they
can't find them, make them."
-
George Bernard Shaw -
"An
individual has a healthy personality to
the
exact degree to which they have the
propensity to
look for the good in every
situation."
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
"Even
if you are on the right track,
you will get run over if you just sit
there."
-
Will Rogers -
"Time
is too slow for those who wait, too swift
for those who fear, too long for those
who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice, but for
those
who love, time is eternity."
- Henry Van Dyke -
"The
lesson which life repeats and constantly
enforces
is 'look under foot.' You are always
nearer the divine
and the true sources of your power than
you think.
The lure of the distant and the difficult
is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
Do not despise
your own place and hour. Every place is
under the stars,
every place is the center of the
world."
-
John Burroughs -
"Anyone who thinks sunshine is
happiness
has never danced in the rain."
-
Author Unknown -
"I
believe in the sun even when it is not
shining.
I believe in love even when not feeling
it.
I believe in God even when He is
silent."
-
Author Unknown -
"Human
beings, who are almost unique in having
the
ability to learn from the experience of
others, are also
remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so"
-
Douglas Adams -
"Wear
a smile and have friends;
wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
-
George Elliot -
"Don't
be discouraged by failure. It can be a
positive experience. Failure is, in a
sense, the
highway to success, inasmuch as every
discovery of
what is false leads us to seek earnestly
after what is true,
and every fresh experience points out
some form of error
which we shall afterwards carefully
avoid."
-
John Keats -
"Happiness
lies for those who cry, those who hurt,
those who have searched, and those who
tried,
for only they can appreciate the
importance
of people who have touched their
lives."
-
Author Unknown -
"Far
better to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure, than to
take rank
with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer
much, because they live in the gray
twilight that
knows not victory, nor defeat."
-
Theodore Roosevelt -
"If
you would be a real seeker after truth,
it is necessary that at least once in
your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things."
-
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) -
"The
glory of friendship is not the
outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of
companionship;
it's the spiritual inspiration that comes
to one when
he discovers that someone else believes
in him
and is willing to trust him with his
friendship."
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
"Happiness
is a how, not a what;
a talent, not an object."
-
Herman Hesse -
"You
are here for a purpose. There is not a
duplicate
of you in the whole wide world; there
never has been,
there never will be. You were brought
here now to fill
a certain need. Take time to think that
over."
-
Lou Austin -
"Growing
is a lifetime job, and we grow most when
we're down in the valleys, where the
fertilizer is."
- Barbara Johnson -
"Little progress can be
made by merely attempting
to repress what is evil; our great hope
lies in
developing what is good."
-
Calvin Coolidge -
"If
you weep because the sun has set,
your own tears will never let you see the
stars."
-
Hindu Proverb -
"When
someone shows you who they are,
believe them ... the first time."
-
Maya Angelou -
"Your
present circumstances don't determine
where you can go; they merely determine
where you start."
- Nido Qubein -
"Joy
is what happens to us when we allow
ourselves to recognize how good things
really are."
-
Marianne Williamson -
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