Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James, 1842-1910
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
-Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
-Failure is only a postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
-Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible
Dalai Lama
-Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.
Wayne Teasdale
-You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jack Kornfield
-We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
-He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.
Philip Jason
-Children dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
William Stafford
-All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up...
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
-Life is what you do with it, so follow your heart!
-Small-minded people are hazards to the dreamer.
-Those who've abandoned their dreams, will discourage yours.
-And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
-We will have meaning beyond meaning and happiness beyond happiness because we will keep looking and doing what is needed...
Darin Lang
-Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
-Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
Zen
-You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
Marcia Wieder
-Love is not an emotion; it is your very nature. Learn to live in the mystery.
Ravi Shankar
-True friendship means knowing your needed even without being told.
-If I had a rose for every time I think of you, I would walk in my garden forever.
Rose Macaulay (1889 - 1958)
-Knowledge is Power, But Wisdom is Eternal.
Bonnie Hefner
-We walk in beauty and we blossom in wisdom, we swim in truth and we fly in joy.
Darina Stoyanova
-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
-Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb
-Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert Redford
-The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
Rosabeth Moss Cantor
-The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann von Goethe
-Your happiness is not determined by weather. It is determined by whether or not you choose it.
-Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
-Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Vincent van Gogh
-Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow, 1908-1970
-We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer
-Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Lyndon B. Johnson
-It's not about what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
-What you find tells you what you are looking for.
Alan Cohen
-Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
Ram Dass
-A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
-Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
-The ego creates and maintains the subconscious. When you let go of your feeling of separation, that identity is love in its highest form. You are going to have to realize that when you become everything and feel that you need nothing, then the slightest thought for something will bring it to you immediately. The proof of this subject is the result you get.
Lester Levenson
-Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don’t like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!
Neale Donald Walsch
-In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent that love?
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
-The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
-Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
-Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
-As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John Kennedy
-It is Love and the Lover that live eternally
-Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.
Mevlana Rumi (1207 – 1273
-Ten years from now you’ll laugh at whatever’s stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?
-What’s stressing you out right now? You really think you’re still going to be stressed about it in 10 years? right. Wanna laugh now or wait?
-Start with yourself and then move out into the world and the world will welcome you with open arms.
-Life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny.
Paulo Coelho
-Happiness depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius 121-180, Roman Emperor
-Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
-Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
-All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.
Neale Donald Walsch
-The best year of our life begins today.
Alan Cohen
-If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not “want” it choose it.
-May I do all things in the HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL LIFE EVERYWHERE?
-When love is unexpressed, the world is dimished by its absence.
Karen Kelsay
-Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.
-Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
-The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.
Neale Donald Walsch
-Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness.
-Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
George Sand (1804 ~ 1876)
-The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
-No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
Jean Paul Getty
-Take time this week to look within. When you find what you want inside you, you will find what you want outside you.
Alan Cohen
-There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Very often we think our problems make us sad. But the reality is, we’re sad and therefore we have problems. Waiting for any external force to awaken our joy and happiness is precisely what keeps us lacking in joy and happiness.
-Today, think about what you are waiting for before you can allow yourself to be truly happy. How would it feel if you had what you wanted right now?
Epictetus (c. 50 - 120)
-When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
Pema Chodron
-Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.
Leo F. Buscaglia
Anything created with fake intention or pretense cannot last long.
Henry Chang
-The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul, helping them ripen, blossom, and bear fruit, allowing us to bring forth the unique gifts that are ours to offer in this life.
John Welwood
-When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
Roy Disney
-When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them.
Neale Donald Walsch
-Love is not an emotion; it is your very nature. Learn to live in the mystery.
Ravi Shankar
-Sit down, shut up and ask yourself, "What's true?" until you know.
Jed McKenna
-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
-Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
-Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
Seneca
-The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
-The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.
Tom Bradley
-Get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. You wouldnt be driving with your brakes on.
-Everything passes, everything.
-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.
-Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
-Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling
Anthony de Mello, 20th century Jesuit priest
-Love is not an emotion, it is your very nature. Learn to live in the mystery.
Ravi Shankar
-The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
-Those who know when to stop do not find themselves in trouble.
Tao Te Ching
-To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
-Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it: the fear of it.
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
-Hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than hardening of the arteries....
Franklin Field
-Be kind whenever possible...It is always possible.
-Dalai Lama
-The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Confucius
-Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
-As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
-Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?
Leo F. Buscaglia
-Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hil
-If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
Pema Chodron
-I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1998)
