“Life is
our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lesson to see
how life continuously have led me to the people I need to met, to the
situations I need to experience, and to the places I need to be. There has
never been any real reason to worry since all small individual rivers are
already on their way to the ocean, to the Whole. It is not about swimming, it
is about relaxing and to float with the river in a basic trust that life
already leads towards the sea of consciousness, towards the Whole.”
-Swami
Dhyan Giten
“All men and women are born, live suffer and
die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be
dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come
about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not
choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate
circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do
we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of
choicelessness, we do choose how we live.”
-Joseph
Epstein
“Do all
the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the
places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as
ever you can.”
-John
Wesley
“All I
can be, I haven't become. All I can do, I haven't done. How far I can reach,
haven't yet been reached. I am a work that hasn't been completed.”
-Woman
Thou Art Loosed! by T.D. Jakes
“Tomorrow
is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's
perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned
something from yesterday.”
-John Wayne
“It is
not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Be who
you are and say what you feel because people who mind don't matter and people
who matter don't mind.”
-Dr. Seuss
“Creating
a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all
odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph
against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.”
-Dean
Koontz, “From the Corner of His Eye”
"Nine
requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth
enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome
them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to
toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your
neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith
enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears
concerning the future."
-Johann
van Goethe
“He who
will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a
slave.”
-Sir William Drummond
“It has
been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time,
the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain
lessens. But it is never gone.”
-Rose Kennedy
“Our job is to love others without stopping
to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in
fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this
love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.”
-Thomas
Merton
“You may
be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”
-Beverly Sills
“Nothing
is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.”
-Charlie Chaplin
“If you
take responsibility and blame yourself, you have the power to change things.
But if you put your responsibility on someone else, then you are giving them
the power to decide your fate.”
-Joy
King, “Dirty Little Secrets”
“It is
often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”
-Francois
de La Rochefoucald
“The guy
who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and the unknown, who
is unafraid of failure, will succeed.”
-,
1912 - 2006, Photographer
"I am easily satisfied
with the very best."
-Winston Churchill
"Everyone is entitled to
his own opinion, but not his own facts."
-Daniel Patrick
Moynihan
"Do the right thing. It
will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
-Mark Twain
“In this life you can't please everyone. There
will always be someone that’s not happy and that’s fine … cause in the end you
have to be happy yourself and no one else has your best interest at heart.”
-Brian Glover
“I’m a
firm believer that revenge is unnecessary because karma stings worse than
anything.”
-Timara
Motley
“Resentment
is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
-Carrie Fisher
“All
things in life are temporary and it’s only our actions that weigh it to the
ground. If you want something, you have to earn it. But if something steps in
the way, negotiate.”
-Patrick Klein
“In religion? I believe in God, in science ... in Sunday
supper. I don't believe in rules that
tell me how I should live.”
-Grissom from CSI, Season 2, Episode 29
“Alter Boys”
“Success
is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
-Maya Angelou
“Every
moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
-Henry Miller
“Human
beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer
aspects of their lives.”
-William James
“The only
way out is the way through.”
–Howard
Nemerov
“For to
be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that
respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
-Nelson Mandela
“Learn as
if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
-Mahatma
Gandhi
“Keeping
yourself from investing emotions in a relationship while hoping to find love is
like expecting to win the lottery without ever buying a ticket.”
-Ravishingangel
from LiveJournal
“The self
is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through
choice of action.”
-John
Dewey
“We are
never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”
-Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
“All
changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave
behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter
another.”
-Anatole
France
“Opportunities
fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that
comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.”
-Jerome K
Jerome
“To carry
a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.”
-William
H Walton
“Man is
what he believes.”
-Anton Chekhov
“If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither
give nor receive.”
-Dorothee Solle
“Nothing
can bring you peace but yourself.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you
do not forgive, you will not grow. If you do not release hatred from your
heart, you will close yourself off from the beauty and enjoyment of life and
love.”
-Natasha
Munson, Life Lessons for My Sisters: How to Make Wise Choices and Live a Life
You Love!
“Treat
others the same way you would want God to treat you – with love.”
-Natasha
Munson, Spiritual Lessons for My Sisters: How to Get Over the Drama and Live Your
Best Life!
“He who
deliberates fully before taking a step, will spend his entire life on one leg.”
-Chinese
proverb
“The
thing that you want most, you must be willing to give.”
-Natasha
Munson, Spiritual Lessons for My Sisters: How to Get Over the Drama and Live Your
Best Life!
“Every cry
to God does not go unanswered; there are just some things God knows you shouldn’t
be crying over.”
-Natasha
Munson, Spiritual Lessons for My Sisters: How to Get Over the Drama and Live Your
Best Life!
“Forgiveness
is a power we can give to ourselves. When we forgive, we are restored. When we
forgive, we take our strength. When we forgive, we set ourselves free.”
-Natasha
Munson, Spiritual Lessons for My Sisters: How to Get Over the Drama and Live Your
Best Life!
“Once you
are able to give what you want, you will receive what you need.”
-Natasha
Munson, Spiritual Lessons for My Sisters: How to Get Over the Drama and Live Your
Best Life!
“If you
are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any
moment.”
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“People
grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is
how character is built.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“The
strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
-George Eliot
“The
greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
-Walter Bagehot
“Blessed
are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.”
-Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
“You
can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. “
-Henry Ford
“Don't
let yesterday use up too much of today.”
-Will Rogers
“God
doesn't give you the people you want,
He gives you the people you NEED.
To help you, to hurt you, to leave you,
to love you and to make
you into the person you were meant to be.”
-Unknown
“A person isn't who they are during the last
conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole
relationship.”
-Rainer Maria Wilke, a German poet.
“This is
a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a
government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.”
-Rutherford B. Hayes
"Love
has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are
expected to give -- which is everything."
-Anon.
"Love
- a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart
which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure
to rise and the lips to pucker"
-Anonymous
“Being
always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being
balanced people, they cannot supply.”
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner
“The
sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”
-Pearl Bailey
"Love
does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love
is a war; love is a growing up."
-James Baldwin
"Love
takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live
within."
-James Baldwin
“As for
me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict
your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is
not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition
alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with
each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“The most
important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we
do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial
human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own
inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply
won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective
interdependence.”
-Stephen Covey
“When you
plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look
for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or
less sun. You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other
person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the
lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade
using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you
show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh
“If we
want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he
must permit us to know him. This would seem to be obvious. Yet most of us spend
a great part of our lives thinking up ways to avoid becoming known.
Indeed, much of human life is best described as impersonation. We are role
players, every one of us. We say that we feel things we do not feel. We say
things we did not do. We say that we believe things we do not believe. We
pretend that we are loving when we are full of hostility. We pretend that we
are calm and indifferent when we are actually trembling with anxiety and fear.
Of course we cannot tell even the people we know and love everything we think
or feel. But our mistakes are nearly always in the other direction. Even in
families -- good families -- people wear masks a great deal of the time.”
-Sidney Jourard, The Transparent Self,
1971
“The
beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to
twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of
ourselves we find in them.”
-Thomas Merton
“Never
say I love you
If you really don't care.
Never talk about feelings
If they aren't really there.
Never hold my hand
If you are going to break my heart.
Never say you're going to
If you don't really plan to start.
Never look into my eyes
If all you do is lie.
Never say hello
If what you really mean is goodbye.
If you really mean forever
Then say you will try.
Never say forever
Cause forever makes me cry.”
-Rebah A. Ward, June 14, 1998
“Love
yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love
yourself to get anything done in this world.”
-Lucille Ball
"You,
yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and
affection."
-Buddha
“Your
sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”
-Joseph Campbell
“Whether
it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have.”
-Art Buchwald
"The
problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of
thinking that created them."
-Albert Einstein, attributed
“To
forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
-Lewis B.
Smedes
“The
future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future
we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future
were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
-Albert Einstein, "Interview, 1930"
"Learn
from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not
to stop questioning."
-Albert
Einstein
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up
your mind to do so. Remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in your mind.”
- Dale Carnegie
May we
never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our
enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let
us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be
happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
- Richard L. Evans
There is
nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in
which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela, "A Long Walk to Freedom"
"Plan
for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The
most difficult things in the world must be done while they are still easy, the
greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small."
- Sun Tzu
"Hold
fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot
fly."
-Langston
Hughes
"Character
cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial
and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success
achieved."
- Helen Keller
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes
