from Martin
"The more you know, the less you need." Aboriginal proverb
"I do my thing, & you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if buy chance we find each other - it is beautiful. If not it can't be helped." Fritz Perls A Gestalt Prayer
"Seeking stems from resisting life as it is Right Now; yet only now exists. So we can only feel happy Now or Never." Dan Millman
"Look, I really 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, you've got make lots of noise, because life is the very opposite of death!" Mel Brooks
"What day is it? - 'It's today' - squeaked Piglet. 'My favourite day' - said Pooh." A.A. Milne
from Gara
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot
from Romae
"Life is an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed
through your awareness. Every movement is part of the dance; therefore,
every space-time event is meaningful and necessary. It is the order
within the chaos."
"Real change is accompanied by a new insight."
"The voice of inner truth says, 'I embrace the unknown because it allows
me to see new aspects of myself'." Deepak Chopra
from CHI Nook
"You're either busy being born� or busy dying." Bob Dylan
from Paul
"I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have." Ben Elton
"Traveller, there are no paths. Paths are made by walking." Australian Aboriginal saying.
"For well you know that it's a fool that plays it cool by making this world a little colder." The Beatles
"A thousand mile journey begins with one step." Zen saying
from Laura
"A woman gets lonely, and sometimes she can't wait around for a man to be reincarnated." Agent Scully, The X Files
"I go back so far I'm in front of me." Paul McCartney
"And in the end, The love you take, Is equal to the love you make." The Beatles
"We all walk in the dark. And it is up to each one of us to turn on our own light." Katherine Hepburn
from Martha
"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstine
from Eric
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." Buddha
from Chilly
"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." Henry David Thoreau
from Rita
"Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could fault with it." John Henry Cardinal Newman
from Michaelle
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Dalai Lama
from Kendra Loomis
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." Erica Jong
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis." Margaret Bonnano
"The splendor of a smile can be like a banner first unfurled - Waved gently, each day, a weapon against sadness in the world." Dora Dishroam
from Ellen Clark
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it." Edith Wharton
"Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right." Henry Ford
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what has happened to him." Aldous Huxley
from Lysette Sosa
"Everything you can imagine is real." Pablo Picasso
"Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have." Unknown
from Cathleen Brannon
"Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." Carl Sandburg
from Chris Trem
"Little things affect little minds." Disraeli
"He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." Lao Tsu
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." Anonymous
"Don't find fault, find a remedy." Henry Ford
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." Descartes
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Edison
"Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of which they know nothing." Voltaire
from Marianne Surdich
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions." Kahlil Gibran
from Mary Herndon
"It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson
"Hold fast to your illusions. For without them, you may exist, but you will cease to live." Mark Twain
from Kim Sweet
"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one, that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way." W. H. Murray
from Cathie Sallar
"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." Lewis Carroll
from Kate Bennet
"Those who look outwards, dream but those who look inwards, awake." Jung
from Deborah Helms-Stone
"When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy." Robert Lewis Stevenson
from Stacy Clark
"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." Richard Bach
"I am always in the right place at the right time successfully engaged in the right activity whether I know it or not." Leonard Orr
from Rebecca Ramnytz
"If everyone lit their own candle, the whole world would be lit." Mary Moskovitz
from Pete Hall
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than 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." Commitment by Calvin Coolidge
from Marybeth
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would
still plant my apple tree." Martin Luther
"We must become the change we want to see" Mahatma Gandhi
from Barbara Horner
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." Nelson Mandela
Jeanette Ashmore
"Because reality hardly seems real, why assume that dreams are really dreams?" Saigo
from Melissa Kirkland
"This is the true joy in life...being used for a purpose recognized by
yourself as a mighty one...being a force of Nature instead of a feverish
selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the
world will not devote itself to making you happy...I am of the opinion
that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is
my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be used up when I
die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its
own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch
which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as
brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw
from Paula Malady
"Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon." Masahide
from Dana Christensen
"We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being.
No matter how far apart we are, the air links us." Yoko Ono
"Watch what people are cynical about and one can discover
what they lack." Harry Emerson Fosdick
from Laura Fellman
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." Albert Einstein
from Roxanne
"Since every failure is a lesson, every challenge an opportunity, and every joy a triumph, it's hard to go wrong." Michael Addison Reed
from Vaskie Chinniah
"The Hunger for Love is much more difficult to remove than the Hunger for
Bread" Mother Teresa
from Linda Czerepkowski
"Your focus determines your reality." Qui Gon Jinn
from Suzanne Whallon
"What society does to its children, so will its children do to society." Cicero
from Cynthia Britt
"Kind words may be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Theresa
from Barbara Thompson
"We can do no great things. Only small things with great love." Mother Theresa
from Julieann Delaterre
"All of us are lying in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars." Oscar Wilde
from Timothy & Beatrice O'Brien
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Carrie
"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent." Barbara Bush
from Tina Sheppard
"We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we
are not forced to stand alone." James Dobson
from Joan
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." Buddha, the founder of Buddhism
from David L. Bush
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another is essential to one's own." Robert Heinlein
from Catharina Sheely
I have a saying that is very useful, particulary as I am a Sag.
"Don't wait for the light at the end of the tunnel. Stride down there and light it yourself."
from Heather Jones
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Sir Winston Churchill
from Verna Sanchez
"In the midst of winter, I found within me an invincible summer." Albert Camus
from Connie Wheeler
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt
from Tracy Shaw
"The fourth insight teaches us that we need not resort to stealing additional energy from others. We have at our disposal another source, a divine source of spiritual energy for our ultimate security." James Redfield, The Celestine Prophesy
from James Duncan
"You see things and you say WHY? But I dream things that never were and
I say...WHY NOT?" George Bernard Shaw
from Sue Gardner
"No problem can be solved with the same consciousness that created it." Albert Einstein
from David Jellema
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
from Thelma
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime you just might find, you get what you need." Mick Jagger
from Patricia Vazquez
"Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato
from Richard Paup
"We will be held accountable for all the permitted pleasures we failed to enjoy." Talmud Yerwshalmi
from Dan Jones
"There is not enough darkness in the world to put out the light of one single candle." Kahlil Gibran
"Argue your limitations and, sure enough, they are yours." Richard Bach (Illusions)
from Barbara Broz
"Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more,
talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours."
Swedish Proverb
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate
version of somebody else." Judy Garland
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves
on a rainy Sunday afternoon." Susan Ertz
