"The secret of letting go is forgetting to hold on." - Lamb [Music Group] [7] "It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth." - Aleister Crowley [9] "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery [10] "Evolution cannot be stopped, it can only be embraced." - Axonn Echysttas [9] "Truth is a multi-dimensional riddle that changes its definition and solution from one perspective to another, and from one target to the other." - Axonn Echysttas [4] "Don't trust every wise saying you come across. Wise people can sometimes go off-track. This is not to say that what they say shouldn't be valued (it's their experience after all and should be respected), but one must always tune in to one's center and truly feel if a wise saying is worth following or integrating." - Axonn Echysttas [7] "The most important spiritual growth doesn't happen when you're meditating or on a yoga mat. It happens in the midst of conflict - when you're frustrated, angry or scared and you're doing the same old thing, and then you suddenly realize that you have a choice to do it differently..." - Anonymous [10] "Love yourself instead of abusing yourself." - Karolina Kurkova [8] "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin [6] "Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery." - Douglas Horton [9] "You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate." - Gerald Nicosia [8] "Slow down. Life is crossing the road." - Debasish Mridha [10] "To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things." - Terry Tempest Williams [7] "Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you." - John De Paola [8] "An eye for an eye, will only make this world go blind." - Deep Forest (music artist) [8] "The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato [10] "Having expectations is strangling yourself with the future, hooked to a ceiling that can sometimes be as far away from you as never." - Axonn Echysttas [8] "Happiness equals reality minus expectations." - Tom Magliozzi / others [10] "Don't you ever tame your demons / But always keep them on a leash." - Hozier [7] "Eternity. Scary. Enought time to run out of everything." - Miron Bialoszewski [7] "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs [8] "The difference between imagination and creation is in how they are shared." - Axonn Echysttas [7] "Only good questions deserve good answers." - Oscar Wilde [1] "Code reviews are both great and necessary. But before asking anybody to examine my code, I draw diagrams of what I've done and how it relates to other code. I write stories about what I've done, why and how. This often time-consuming process forces the brain to handle the code with a non-coding-mind, which can lead to revelations no code review can show." - Axonn Echysttas [2] "All good things come to those who wait. And the happiest people are those who find something good to do while waiting. Aside from meditation, this Universe offers near-endless play possibilities. While you wait for one game, you can build steadily and consistently towards other goals and games." - Axonn Echysttas [7] "Be happy for what you have now, because NOW is all you got." - Axonn Echysttas [4] "The path of excess leads to The tower of Wisdom." - Enigma, paraphrase from William Blake (see below) [8] "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom... You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough." - William Blake [8] "Addiction (where I also include being a perfectionist, being addicted to complaining or blaming or uncontrollable sexual lust) cannot be cured with brute-force decisions, promises (no matter how holy they are) or medical intervention of any kind. Not without leaving a lasting scar that almost always causes an infectious relapse of one's addiction. This is because addiction isn't there to be fought against. Addiction is there to force you to learn something about yourself." - Axonn Echysttas [10] MENTATUL 2020 "The only way to cure addiction is to engage in: 1) Deep and patient self-analysys and deconstruction, with or without the help of mental professionals, sometimes relying on medicine, whose aim should never be to be administered for the rest of one's life (that's simply another addiction), 2) Focused and comitted work towards correcting social corruption caused by poor upbringing, inoportunous entourage / enacting automated behaviors that can counteract genetic preconditions and 3) Self-forgiveness love and respect, the alchemy of which is the only fuel that can power through major life changes. The result of this work should be a level of understanding of one's addiction that will, in an instant, *transform it* into something else altogether." - Axonn Echysttas [10] MENTATUL 2020 "Addiction is a teacher. That's exactly why so many people have problems dealing with addiction, because rather than understanding and growing through it, they try all sorts of combat strategies. But society and culture will always bring the new seeds of all sorts of new addictions. /// "You can do anything you set your mind to..." - Eminem / "@Review of Steve Angelo - Rejoice at Mentatul.com" - Axonn Echysttas. " - Axonn Echysttas [10] MENTATUL 2020 "Small business isn't for the faint of heart. It's for the brave, the patient and the persistent. It's for the overcomer." - Unknown [8] "As a human, I have the right to remain imperfect." - Axonn Echysttas [6] "At this point in time, I see our technology as coin spinning in the air. On one side, there's Utopia. On the other, a bunch of useless mechanisms that are stuck in a repeat playback of recordings of extinct species, destroyed ecosystems and dead civilizations." - Axonn Echyttas [10] "God is a word and it means somewhat different things to different traditions but there's actually some consistent ideas about God. All the different traditions describe God as being unlimited in what... creativity, intelligence, beauty, love. What happens to entities as they evolve through any kind of evolution? Biological evolution or technological evolution. They become more complicated, they remember more, they become smarter, more creative, more beautiful. They move in the direction that God is described as having qualities without limit. So you can say that evolution is a spritiual process where entities become more godlike, never reaching that ideal but moving in that direction exponentially." - Ray Kurzweil [10] "Everything that can be imagined exists" / "Everything that can exist, exists" / "There is no god that doesn't exist." - Axonn Echysttas [5] "Wisdom is an exponential equation." - Axonn Echysttas [5] "To flow on the river of life means to be that which completes your partner, the hero your child needs, the sibling your friends dreamed of and the spark of love the world seeks." - Axonn Echysttas [10] "All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him." / This can also be found online as: "What we think, we become." It's shorter and easier to quote, but I haven't verified if it's not just somebody's shortening of the original quote. - Gautama Buddha [10] "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African proverb [10] "Lies are more flexible." - GusGus [3] "The secret of parenting is not in what a parent does but rather who the parent is to a child." – Gordon Neufeld [5] "People will forget what you said; People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou [7] "If every time adults jump in and bring in their version of what is right, the children learn either to depend on them or to defy them. The more we trust they can solve, the more they do learn to solve." - Magda Gerber, Infant Specialist in "Dear Parent – Caring For Infants With Respect" [7] "The dance of ego reconstruction is twenty steps forward, forty steps sideways and nineteen steps back." - Axonn Echysttas [6] "Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form." - Kafka and the Doll, The Pervasiveness of Loss "People should learn how to feel happiness by helping other people who are in need." - Buddhist monk, quoted by Scott Myers [8] "Present is the time including all times. Each second is eternity as eternity is now. And now... now is forever..." - Samael, Metal Band [10] "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness." - Albert Einstein [10] "Where there's a will, there's a way." - Albert Einstein [8] "It's the little moments that make life big." - Anonymous [9] "Respect the child. Be not too much his parent, but also his pupil..." - Ralph Waldo Emerson [7] "Life changes. That’s what it does for a living." - Axonn Echysttas [9] "A bird sitting on a branch is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not in the branch, but in her wings." - Anonymous [5] "The world belongs to those who see it." - Axonn Echysttas [8] "Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture." - A musician after I asked him about his band's genre [4] "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell [7] "The frog lives by the side of the fragrant lotus, but it is the bee who gets the honey." - Ramana Maharshi [0] "What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give." - Phyllis Dorothy James [8] "Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy." - Oscar Wilde [2] "Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change." - H.G. Wells [5] "Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth." - H.G. Wells [6] "In times of change, the learner will inherit the earth while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer [7] "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Robertson Davies, "Tempest-Tost", 1951 [7] "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity." - Khalil Gibran [5] "Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty." - Jean de La Bruyere [7] "No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth." - Goethe [8] "The one real object of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions." - Bishop Mandell Creighton [6] "Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself." - OSHO [10] "A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets." - Arthur C. Clarke [7] "The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do." - Michael Porter [3] "The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined." - Joseph Priestley [6] "One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur with some degree of probability. To put it simply and crudely: Anything that can happen does happen." - Kenneth W Ford [9] "To choose a road, to stop habitually and ask whether you have not gone astray, that is the true method." - Louis Pasteur [4] "Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right." - Simon Sinek [3] "The adventurer is within us, and he contests for our favor with the social man we are obliged to be." - William Bolitho [4] "We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object." - Sherry Turkle [4] "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci [7] "He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign." - Victor Hugo [6] "Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework." - Jim Rohn [8] "There is no such thing as a miracle which violates natural law. There are only occurrences which violate our limited knowledge of natural law." - Saint Augustine [10] "It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau [7] "The world is a projection of your mind. Good mind, good world. Bad mind, bad world. No mind, no world." - Swami Parthasarathy [5] "There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken [5] "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." - Pablo Picasso [8] "The hours when we are absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live [...] .These are the only hours that absorb the soul and fill it with beauty. This is real life, and all else is illusion, or mere endurance." - Richard Jefferies [10] "Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." - Rabindranath Tagore [4] "The knowledge which lies behind is our natural help to that which lies before." - Peter M Latham [0] "Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more." - Terry Pratchett [5] "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene [8] "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke [6] "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton [9] "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr [9] "If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty." // "Dacă vrei să faci din viaţa ta o verigă a eternităţii şi să rămâi lucid până în toiul delirului, iubeşte… Iubeşte cu toate puterile tale, iubeşte ca şi cum n-ai şti nimic altceva să faci, iubeşte într-atât încât să-i faci geloşi pe prinţese şi zei… pentru că în dragoste toată urâţenia îşi descoperă frumuseţea." - Yasmina Khadra [10] "We're so poor we can't even pay attention." - KMFDM, Dogma [4] "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein [8] "Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and being comfortable with not knowing." - Eckhart Tolle [8] "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." - Philip K. Dick [7] "Search a beautiful heart, not a beautiful face. Beautiful things are not always good, but good things are always beautiful." - Sufi Saying [9] "The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself." - Michel de Montaigne [6] "Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. - D. T. Suzuki [4] "Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony." - Thomas Merton [7] "Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered." - Orson Scott Card, Xenocide, 1991 [6] "Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn’t require being unethical." - Tim Ferriss [7] "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela [3] "Once you realize that the road is the goal, and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple. In itself an ecstasy." - Nisargadatta Maharaj [8] "When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus [6] "Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness." - John Harricharan [8] "Keep the company of those who seek the truth - run from those who have found it." - Vaclav Havel [8] "Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation." - Saint Augustine [10] "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." - René Descartes [5] "Approximate truth is the only truth attainable, but at least one must strive for that, and not wade off into arbitrary falsehood." - George Eliot [6] "Knowledge is the highest good, truth the supreme value, all the rest is secondary and subordinate." - Aldous Huxley [6] "To realise the constancy and steadiness in your life is to realise the deep nature of the universe. This realisation is not dependent on any transitory internal or external condition, rather it is an expression of one’s own immutable spiritual nature. The only way to attain the Universal Way is to maintain the integral virtues of the constancy, steadiness and simplicity in one’s daily life." - Lao Tzu [5] "The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course." - Michelangelo [8] "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." - Francis Bacon [5] "The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself to study the rest of it, and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities." - John C. Lilly [8] "If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with a success "unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau [4] "The most inspiring leaders are not those who do their job, but those who pursue a calling." [And let it be a honorable calling, not a shallow pursuit.] - Chris Gardner [6] & Axonn Echysttas "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart " - Helen Keller [8] "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken [6] "Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation." - Humberto Maturana [7] "If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love." - Carl Jung [8] "I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can." - Lucille Ball [7] "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist [7] "One is never so strong as when one is broken." - Hazrat Inayat Khan, Thinking Like The Universe: The Sufi Path Of Awakening [7] "There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess." - Luis Marques, Book of Orion [10] "Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength." - Theodore Roosevelt [7] "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it." - Victor Hugo [7] “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” - Bill Gates [7] "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken [6] "Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm." - Benjamin Disraeli [7] "Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt." - Meša Selimovic [8] "And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'" - Kurt Vonnegut [7] "The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is really fear." - Mahatma Gandhi [10] "Democracy without education is like capitalism without capital." - Axonn Echysttas "... there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare [10] "Wisdom is knowing we are all One. Love is what it feels like and Compassion is what it acts like." - Ethan Walker III "If you really want to be free, you've got to be prepared to lose your world -- your whole world. If you're trying to prove your world view is right, you might as well pack your bags, and go home. If you want to wake up and find, "Hallelujah! I was right about it all," just go on vacation or back to work, and don't drive yourself crazy on spiritual matters. But if it's slightly appealing to think about waking up and realizing, "Oh I was totally wrong, I was totally wrong about myself and about everybody else. I was totally wrong about the world," you might be in the right place." - Adyashanti [7] "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch [10] "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - H. P. Lovecraft [7] "He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast." - Leonardo da Vinci [1] "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove." - Samuel Johnson [4] "Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes." - Henry Ward Beecher [9] "Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith." - Heraclitus [3] "Stop choosing between chaos and order and live at the boundary between them where rest and action move together." - Rainer Maria Rilke [4] "When we want to understand something we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand." - Thich Nhat Hanh [6] "Truth is no more a true notion than reality is real." - Jean-Yves Girard [4] "Inconsistency with past views or conduct may be but amark of increasing knowledge and wisdom." - Tryon Edwards [5] "No guts, no glory." - Christo-Western saying [4] "Patience is a virtue." - Christo-Western saying [7] "There is something good to be found in any misfortune." [And something bad to be found in any good fortune.] - Christo-Western saying, paraphrased [8] & Axonn Echysttas [4] "All good things come to those who wait." - Christo-Western saying [7] "If you have a problem that can be fixed, then there is no use in worrying. If you have a problem that cannot be fixed, then there is no use in worrying." - Buddhist proverb [9] "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion." - Frank Herbert, Dune, Mentat Piter de Vries [4] "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." - Frank Herbert [9] "The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes." - Soren Kierkegaard [4] "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible." - M. C. Escher [5] "Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind." - David G. Allen [6] "The mind has power over the body and speech, and therefore any training of body and speech must begin with the mind." - Dalai Lama, Stages Of Meditation [5] "Your mind is the garden, your thoughts are the seeds, the harvest can either be flowers or weeds." - William Wordsworth [7] "What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice." - Albert Einstein [8] "I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind." - Terence McKenna [10] "You don't need eyes to see, you need vision." - Maxwell Fraser (as Faithless, Musical Project) [10] "God has no religion." - Ghandi [9] "As long as the mind is busy with its contortions, it does not perceive its source." - Nisargadatta Maharaj [4] "Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?" - Lao Tzu [6] "A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you." - Tony Robbins [7] "Seek that wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek that path that demands your whole being. Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent." - Rumi [6] "Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell." - Shams Tabrizi [7] "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." - Martin Buber [4] "Never fear the shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby." - Ruth E Renkel [5] "Sometimes the greatest acts of love are the hardest to commit." - Solace [4] "Balance is the all-important factor in a fighter’s attitude or stance. Without balance at all times, he can never be effective." - Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do [5] "Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less." - Rumi [6] "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." - Frank Herbert [8] "I warn you, whoever you are... Oh, you who wish to probe the arcanes of nature, if you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither shall you be able to find it outside. If you ignore the excellencies of your own house, how do you intend to find other excellencies? In you is hidden the treasure of treasures. Oh, man, know thyself and thou shall know the Universe and the Gods!" - Phrase inscribed in the ancient Temple of Delphi [8] "He who makes no mistakes never makes anything." - English Proverb [9] "Who gave us this crazy idea that we should know how to live? Does a tree know how to grow? Does a cloud know how to float? Does the wind know where it is blowing? Does a road know that it is going somewhere? Don't know how to live, just recognise that you are life, and life just is." - Mooji [8] "If you quit, quitting will become easier and easier for the rest of your life." - Osman Minkara [7] "They order because you obey." - Anonymous [8] "Time is a face on the water." - Stephen King [8] "Side effects are not a feature of reality but a sign that our understanding of the system is narrow and flawed." - John Sterman [6] "Renunciation is not giving up the things of this world, but accepting that they go away." - Shunryu Suzuki-roshi [7] "The universe is a fractal. Whatever energy signature we carry will be repeated infinitely, again and again...until we change that vibration." - Paige Bartholomew [8] "There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." - Henry Ford [2] "A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere." - Charles F. Kettering [3] "The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment." - Deepak Chopra [6] An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." - Native American Story, Cherokee [8] "Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots." - Rumi [4] "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." - Chuang Tzu [7] "The root of compassion is compassion for oneself." - Pema Chodron [6] "As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you." - Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace [3] "Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon." - Hui Neng [6] "In the age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still." - Pico Lyer [5] "Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively." - Dalai Lama [7] "Hurt me with the truth but never comfort me with a lie." - Anonymous [3] "Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being." - Rumi [4] "Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl [6] "Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity." - Pema Chodron [3] "Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them." - Constantin Brancusi [6] "We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness." - Thich Nhat Hanh [7] "Bringing joy to one heart with love is better than one thousand repetitive prayer recitings." - Sufi saying [4] "In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." - Albert Camus [6] "Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man." - Goethe [8] "If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money." - Guy McPherson [7] "Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them." - Elvis Presley [5] "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." - George MacDonald [4] "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill [7] "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin [5] "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung [7] "Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is." - Alan Watts [5] "If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless." - Rumi [6] "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens [8] "It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." - Chuck Palahniuk [9] "God is wearing billions of socks and we are these socks. These socks don't know that they are part of a bigger whole yet their purpose is to experience the ground beneath them, keep their socks fresh and clean; and find the missing pair. Cheezy :D." - Ruslan Fedasyuk [7] "The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." - Marianne Williamson [6] "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran [7] "We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless." - Rumi [4] "In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way — and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." - Bertrand Russell [6] "It is useless to fight against people’s rigid ways, or to argue against their irrational concepts. You will only waste time and make yourself rigid in the process. The best strategy is to simply accept rigidity in others, outwardly displaying deference to their need for order. On your own, however, you must work to maintain your open spirit, letting go of bad habits and deliberately cultivating new ideas." - Robert Greene [7] "We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." - Buckminster Fuller [10] "It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival." - Buckminster Fuller [7] "F-E-A-R has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours." - Zig Ziglar [6] "We are surrounded by masters, we must learn how to listen. At the same time we are surrounded by followers, we must learn how to act." - Gianluca Sartori [8] "You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly." - Andrew Solomon [7] "We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding." - Edward Teller [3] "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." - Carl R Rogers [8] "A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." - Michel de Montaigne [4] "Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne [4] "What worries you, masters you." - John Locke [8] "Realizing that our inability to control life is not the same as having no way to navigate it, leads to freedom and liberation. Just because I can't control the sea doesn't mean I can't learn how to swim in it." - Rami Shapiro [8] "With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love." - Rumi [7] "Happiness is in a warm embrace and the smell of pancakes in the morning." - Adrian Kajcsa [6] "Fear is a distraction from ‘what is', from the present actual moment, preventing us from existing, from being what we are." - Vanda Scaravelli [4] "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." - Albert Einstein [8] "Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else." - Shunryu Suzuki [7] "To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of the idea of what it means to be truly happy or content." - Confucius [4] "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu [5] "Farewell dear summer, farewell dear past. May we meet once more, in the future, at last." - Adrian Kajcsa [4] "Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves." - Edwin Way Teale [6] "We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm consciousness without possessing virtue." - St Lambert [6] "To be empty means to be empty of ego, not in the sense that one functions as a vegetable or a wild animal, but in the sense that one ceases to gauge the events, the persons and the things of one's environment in terms of 'I' or 'me' or 'mine'" - Hsu Yun [7] "A miracle does not happen in contradiction to nature, but in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature." - St Augustine [8] "Give man the consciousness of what he is, and he will soon be what he ought." - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling [3] "Only great minds are capable of estimating the magnitude of little things." - M. Rayon [5] "Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows." - Nisargadatta Maharaj [2] "The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can’t remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts." - Shams Tabrizi [6] "No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place." - Zen saying [7] "In an age that prides itself on its achievements in the fields of communication technologies, men and women are suffering from loneliness and solitude as never before, due to a simple lack of communication." - Lambros Kamperidis [4] "The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves" - Roald Dahl [0] [0 means that this can be terribly right, or beautifully wrong, but overall I do not agree with it.] "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu [8] "The power of imagination makes us infinite." - John Muir [6] "Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning." - Edsger W. Dijkstra [6] "Reading doesn’t mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read." - Amit Kalantri [3] "Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end." - Bob Marley [5] "When faced with any difficulty of life, resolve it by following these four steps: face it, accept it, deal with it and let it go." - Sheng Yen [6] "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius [6] "Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear." - Hippocrates [8] "True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them." - Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign [3] "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides [5] "Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations." - Dr. Gerald Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear, 1979 [6] "Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time." - Thomas J. Watson, Sr. [5] "The things that we love tell us what we are." - Thomas Aquinas [5] "Don't be conceited about your own knowledge. Take advice from the ignorant as well as the wise, since there is no single person who embodies perfection nor any craftsman who has reached the limits of excellence. The perfect word is as rare as an emerald, yet it may be found among the maidservants working at the millstone." - Ptah-hotep [5] "Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human." - Viktor E. Frankl [7] "The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it." - Chuck Palahniuk [6] "Every behavior is the mind, the manifestation of the Buddha-nature. There is no need to perform any special act in order to achieve the Tao. To be natural is the Way. Let the mind be free: do not purposely do evil; nor purposely do good. Maintain a free mind and cling to nothing: that is the Way." - Ma-tsu, Chan Master 8.c. [4] "Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos." - Will Durant [4] "All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." - Sai Baba [7] "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children" - Khalil Gibran [6] "The problem with introspection is that it has no end." - Philip K. Dick [6] "Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity." - Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom [5] "Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [4] "Nothing can cure the Soul but the Senses, just as nothing can cure the Senses but the Soul." - Oscar Wilde [3] "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." - Vladamir Lenin [9] "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Unknown [10] "Have we taken seriously something we are only allowed to play with, or vice versa?" - Walter Vogt [9] "We don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather we get educated out of it." - Sir Ken Robinson [8] "Every child is an artist. The problem is remaining an artist as we grow up." - Pablo Picasso [10] "If for company you cannot find a wise and prudent friend who leads a good life, then, like a king who leaves behind a conquered kingdom, or like a lone elephant in the elephant forest, you should go your way alone. Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest." - Buddha [6] "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." - Eleanor Roosevelt [3] "Forever is composed of nows." - Emily Dickinson [5] "The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment." - Lauren Kate Fallen [3] "The Way cannot be grasped with your senses and thoughts. Look for it in front and it will sneak behind you. Seek it with good intentions and it is everywhere. If you are insincere, it will never reveal itself." - Lieh Tzu [5] "If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind." - Xinxin Ming - Faith in Mind [6] "Cleansing the mind does not require water. Practicing generosity does not require wealth." - Sam van Schaik, Tibetan Zen [8] "Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge." - Wilson Kanadi [9] "Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn." - Rumi [8] "Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self." - Dogen [5] "I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul." - Rumi [8] "Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness." - Katherine Henson [6] "Don’t feel bad if people remember you only when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness!" - Anonymous [7] "There are 3 intensities of love, in the order of their power: to love and not be jealous, to love and be jealous, and, to love somebody so much, that you wish his or her good no matter how much it pains you, thus completely eradicating jealousy." - Axonn Echysttas [4] "A relationship is started by the qualities you see in the other. However, a relationship is only kept alive by the defects of both parties involved. If you can accept and even love the defects, the relation can live, otherwise, it will be strained to the point of breaking." - Axonn Echysttas [7] "The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think." - Harper Lee [5] "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird [7] "Quiet people have the loudest minds.'' - Stephen Hawking [9] "We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand [8] "Even if a dream is not accomplished, hoping that one day it will be, keeps you working for that goal with explosive passion and endless determination. It will give your life more meaning and you may be surprised to once see that the dream is closer than you could ever guess! You will accomplish things that you would never have done. You will push yourself to reach the dream, and even if you fail, you will surely have progressed more than if you would have gave up on the dream in the first place!" - Axonn Echysttas [8] "Change yourself... then try to change the world!" [Actually, changing the world might not be required anymore after changing yourself.] - Axonn Echysttas & Axonn Echysttas [6] "One can compare anything with anything, as long as one's mind has enough abstraction capability." - Axonn Echysttas [5] ""Live like it's YOUR last day alive" is a fine principle... "Treat the people around you like it's THEIR last day alive" is an excellent principle." - Axonn Echysttas [10] "I got just enough evil in me to know it well enough as to do battle with it in the extreme situation when I will have no other choice." - Axonn Echysttas [8] "Love is a natural kind of meditation. And meditation is a supernatural kind of love." - OSHO [6] "Everything craves its contrary, and not for its like." - Socrates [7] "In the life cycle of every conflict, there is a point when it’s large enough to be recognized, but small enough to be resolved." - Daniel Dana [5] "The life of this world is made up of three days: Yesterday has gone with all that was done. Tomorrow, you may never reach but today is for you so do what you should do today." - Hasan al-Basri [4] "What we perceive and what we understand depends upon what we are." - Aldous Huxley [6] "We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home. " - Aboriginal Proverb [10] "Hope is the fuel of dreams." - Axonn Echysttas [9] "Every creature in its turn is the head of nature, because it creates the world in its own image." - Alan Watts ("07 01 Philosophy and Society - The Veil Of Thoughts 1") [10] "Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside." - Ramana Maharshi [6] "When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about." - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore [4] "One falsehood spoils a thousand truths." - Ashanti saying [3] "All great things have their origin in that which is small." - Lao Tzu [6] "Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." - Carl Jung [8] "Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place." - Rumi [7] "Nothing is a waste, everything adds up to your experience." - Alizah Spivak [6] "I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves." - Louise L. Hay [2] ''A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.'' - Felipe A Coronel (Immortal Technique) [3] "Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we’ll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect." - Charles F Glassman [6] "Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty." - Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows [7] "Using someone else’s ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short." - Charles F. Glassman [4] "Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective." - Hunter S. Thompson [8] "One thought can make your day, or break your day. Therefore, happiness can be just one thought away." - Charles F. Glassman [10] "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." - Hunter S. Thompson [6] "Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous." - Charles F Glassman [5] "We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are." - Gene Roddenberry [9] "Before searching for happiness in others, we must first find it in ourselves." - Charles F Glassman [8] "To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not." - Akhenaton [6] "It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection." - Bhagavad Gita [6] "When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power." - Alston Chase [8] "Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself." - OSHO "What do you hang on the walls of your mind?" - Eve Arnold "Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer "Experience life in all possible ways - good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become." - OSHO "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." - Sophocles "If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults." - Sarada Devi "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: 'What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?'" - Marcus Aurelius "The gift you offer another person is just your being." - Ram Dass "Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." - Ludwig Börne "Eventually soul mates meet, for they have the same hiding place." - Robert Brault "Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance." - OSHO "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." - Albert Camus "Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." - John Muir "There are gaps between the fingers; there are gaps between the senses. In these gaps is the darkness which hides the connection between things." - Idris Parry "Force without wisdom falls of its own weight." - Quintus Horatius Flaccus "Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation." - Sid Taylor "If you wish to be a warrior prepare to get broken, if you wish to be an explorer prepare to get lost, and if you wish to be a lover prepare to be both." - Anonymous "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." - Goethe "Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go." - Henri Nouwen "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." - Charles Spurgeon "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." - Judy Garland "Your desires and passions are just like this. If you try and fight with them, if you chop them, they will spill blood, and with every drop, a hundred or a thousand will come up. There is no point fighting them. Just educate your passions, educate your desires to flow in the right direction, that is all. You can never fight them. Fighting them will be futile, it will be a waste of life." - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." - Voltaire "The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill "To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence." - Cesar Chavez "Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." - James F. Byrnes "Knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity." - Imam al-Ghazali "Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life." - Viktor Frankl "My destination is no longer a place, but a new way of seeing." - Marcel Proust "Thinking will not overcome fear but action will." - W. Clement Stone "The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats "Thinking and doing, doing and thinking, these are the sum of all wisdom. Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out. Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road." - Goethe "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" - Maurice Freehill "There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures." - James Thurber "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." - Umberto Eco "Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." - Maori saying "Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light." - Norman B. Rice "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche "In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." - Aaron Rose "True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even the smallest, least significant thought, word and action has real consequences throughout the universe." - Sogyal Rinpoche "Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light." - Rumi "Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light." - Goethe "Courage is having a love affair with the unknown." - OSHO "In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." - Blaise Pascal "What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly." - Thomas Paine "Love is the bridge between you and everything." - Rumi "We come to love not by finding the perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." - George Bernard Shaw "Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer." - Joseph Campbell "Comparison is the thief of joy." - Theodore Roosevelt "The problem with a good book is that you want to finish the book, but you don't want to finish the book." - Anonymous "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." - Henry David Thoreau "An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." - Sydney J. Harris "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein "To endure the unendurable is true endurance." - Japanese saying "I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gaugin "Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." - Epicurus "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." - Horace Walpole "Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt to you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will." - Jawaharlal Nehru "Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." - Epicurus "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." - Horace Walpole "Be in love with your life. Every minute and detail of it." - Jack Kerouac "You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts." - Philip Arnold "In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most." - Epicurus "Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." - Christian Nestell Bovee "There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity." - General Douglas MacArthur "Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray "Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win." - Bobby Knight "I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau "It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities." - Helen Keller "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Gandhi "In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer "We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us." - Friedrich Nietzsche "The greatest enemy of the individual is the individual himself." - Saul Alinsky "Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?" - Gandhi "It is better to wear out than rust out." - Millard Fillmore "People who exude love are in every way like rivers - they stream. And when they collect possessions and things that they like, they are apt to give them to other people. Did you ever notice that when you give things away, you keep getting more? That, as you create a vacuum, more flows in?" - Alan Watts "Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish." - Ovid "The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." - Carl R. Rogers "Nature is not a force over which we must triumph, but the medium of our transformation." - Marilyn Ferguson "To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none." - Francis Bacon "It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself." - Miles Davis [8] "Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none." - Albert Einstein "To change our realities we have to change our myths." - Riane Eisler "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke, Law of Prediction #3 "It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." - Claude Bernard "Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." - Winston Churchill "[…] there are no backwaters. There is only one river, and we are all in it." - Scott Russell Sanders, Writing from the Center, 1997 "There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one’s identity by falling in love." - Lukas Foss "If you look for the truth outside yourself, it gets farther and farther away." - Tung-shan "Growth itself contains the germ of happiness." - Pearl S. Buck "The obstacle is the path." - Zen saying "Everything is but what we think it." - Marcus Aurelius "If one will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too, is but a single day." - Hagakure "You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it." - Dr. Robert Anthony "Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty." - John Finley "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest." - Dalai Lama "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 "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." - François de La Rochefoucauld "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman "I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen "Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves." - Bonaro Overstreet "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." - Swami Vivekananda "Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." - Thomas Aquinas "Fear is the highest fence." - Dudley Nichols "Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." - Samuel Smiles "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharlal Nehru "Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true." - William Ralph Inge "If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much." [On the other hand, the point of life is not necessarily "doing".] - Lewis Carroll & Axonn Echysttas "Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day." - Alice Morse Earle "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There is always room for improvement, you know - it’s the biggest room in the house." - Louise Heath Leber "So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." - Norton Juster "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." - Jane Smiley "You will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it." - Freya Stark "Everything happens." - Axonn Echysttas "In times of change, learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer "A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." - Seneca the Younger "If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits." - Don Ward "Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you." - Kabir "Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire." - Anatole France "We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more." - Pico Iyer "Touch the hole in your life, and there flowers will bloom." - Zen Proverb "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet." - Helen Keller "Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore N. Vail "It takes the last breath of one's ego to join breathless love." - Gianluca Sartori "Stand up to your obstacles; do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have." - Zen Proverb "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou "Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark." - Zen Proverb "Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." - Anatole France "Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves." - William Gilbert "Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it." - Zen Proverb "I'm not searching for my other half because I'm not a half." - Unknown "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol "The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations." - Eli Khamarov "Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them." - Zen Proverb "True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." - Samuel Johnson "Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth." - Tom Barrett "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov "To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is formidable." - Chinese Proverb "Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know." - Enrico Fermi "Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action." - B. K. S. Iyengar, Light on Life "Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life." - William Feather "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau "The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful." - Osho "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it." - Andy Rooney "The journey is the reward." - Chinese Proverb "All problems are imagined." - Byron Katie "He that despiseth small things, shall fall by little and little." - Ecclesiasticus "We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don’t." - Frank Howard Clark "Adventure is worthwhile." - Aesop "You learn more from getting used to things than from studying." - Japanese saying "How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you." - Sarah Reijonen "You change your life by changing your heart." - Max Lucado "Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable." - Pythagoras "Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely that you will step up and take responsibility for making it so." - Noam Chomsky "Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." - Leo Buscaglia "We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points. But we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, Human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. it is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more." - Woody Allen "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." - Samuel Johnson "Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." - Dalai Lama "Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company." [Maybe YOU are unable to love... doesn't necessarily apply to everybody.] - Milan Kundera & Axonn Echysttas "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau "Failure changes to success when one acquires self-knowledge." - Louise A Vernon "Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself." - Deborah Reber "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before." - Stewart B. Johnson "Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be." - Alan Watts "Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time." - Paulo Coelho "The greatest thing of all is to be a master of the metaphor. It is the only thing which cannot be taught by others; and it is also a sign of original genius, because a good metaphor implies the intuitive perception of similarity in dissimilar things." - Aristotle "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds." - Nicholas Sparks "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it." - Mary Engelbreit "Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true." - attributed to Buddha "Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." - C. S. Lewis "You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." - Albert Camus "Forgiving someone doesn’t give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on." - Charles F Glassman "Suffering is a challenge; when you suffer you are challenged, when there is a problem you are challenged. When you encounter the problem, only then do you grow. More insecurity, more growth; more security, less growth. If everything is secure around you, you are already in your grave, you are no longer alive. Life exists in danger, life always exists in the possibility of going astray. But one who goes astray can come back, one who fails can succeed." - OSHO "Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity." - Henri Nouwen "Do not destroy what you cannot create." - Leó Szilárd "Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." - Gandhi "An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." - Orlando Aloysius Battista "We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar Bradley "Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven... Build, therefore, your own world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836 "It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test." - Elbert Hubbard "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost." - H. Jackson Browne "The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Don't worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?" - Rumi "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas H. Huxley "Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." - Abbe Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928 "Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don’t pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute." - Shams Tabrizi "The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." - Antisthenes "Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love." - Shams Tabrizi "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." - Loretta Young "If you hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." - George Bernard Shaw "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient." - Eugene S Wilson "Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience." - Deepak Chopra "The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done, not merely something believed, or known or experienced." - Mary McDermott Shideler "Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal." - BKS Iyengar "Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there." - Bonnie Raitt "The journey for an education starts with a childhood question." - David L Finn "Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." - G. M. Trevelyan "All education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth." - Alvin Toffler "Some people study all their life, and at their death have learned everything but to think." - Demergu Dewar "One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never." - Alexandre Dumas, père "Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give." - United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1959) "What would you dream for if you knew you couldn't fail?" - Schuller "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." - Peter Marshall "An educated mind is useless without a focused will, and dangerous without a loving heart." - Winfried Deijmann "Those who love peace must learn to organize as well as those who love war." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance." - John Lennon "Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost." - Khalil Gibran "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky, 1943 "The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future." - Gifford Pinchot "Humanity seeks self-sufficiency, while nature demands relationship. Humanity wants to be invulnerable, but nature reminds it that it is bonded to all other things." - Jeremy Rifkin "Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever." - Joan Marques "The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. Thus, visible effects of the invisible are manifest." - I Ching "There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore be content." - Swami Sivananda "If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." - Andy Rooney "People who pride themselves on their 'complexity' and deride others for being 'simplistic' should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth." - Thomas Sowell "Love is where you find it." - Kurt Vonnegut "No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare "Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves." - Rainer Maria Rilke "The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity." - Ram Dass "The attainment of enlightenment from ego’s point of view is extreme death, the death of self, the death of me and mine, the death of the watcher. It is the ultimate and final disappointment." - Chogyam Trungpa from The Myth of Freedom "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Victor Frankl "And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning." - Isaac Asimov "Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent." - Carl Sandburg "To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France "I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees." - Pablo Neruda "You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." - Ray Bradbury "The power of imagination makes us infinite." - John Muir "To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." - Marcus Aurelius "Inspiration exists, but it must find you working." - Pablo Picasso "The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth." - Jalaluddin Rumi "Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses." - Marilyn vos Savant "There’s a way to do it better - find it." - Thomas Edison "The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score." - Bill Copeland "The only difference between existing and living is passion." - Adrian Kajcsa "We do not remember days; we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." - Khalil Gibran "He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger." - Japanese proverb "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." - Colin Wilson "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can." - Siobhan Fahey "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." - William Blake "Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness." - John Sterling "The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination." - Carl Rogers "Any person capable of angering you becomes your master." - Epictetus "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." - Galileo Galilei "The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt "Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists." - Japanese Proverb "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit." - E. E. Cummings "If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." - Benjamin Franklin "The most important food for a child doesn't have anything to do with nutrition and everything to do with life experience. Parents, feed your children quality knowledge, they are the leaders (or terrorists) of tomorrow. Become proper examples for your offspring, because they're probably going to be around your death bed; make sure you'll like what you see." - Axonn Echysttas "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll "Don’t wait. The time will never be just right." - Napoleon Hill "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." - Orison S. Marden "Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin "Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow." - Horace "All great changes are preceded by chaos." - Deepak Chopra "The chiefest action for a man of spirit is never to be out of action; the soul was never put into the body to stand still." - John Webster "Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic." - Robert G. Allen "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - André Gide "Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." - Rumi "Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." - Robert H. Schuller "You are the only person on earth who can use your ability." - Zig Ziglar "The only real disability in life is a bad attitude." - Scott Hamilton "Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb "A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children." - John James Audubon "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." - Tony Robbins "Life is full of obstacle illusions." - Grant Frazier "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Saint Francis of Assisi "Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street." - Zig Ziglar "If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail." - Heraclitus "To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain "You are no bigger than the things that annoy you." - Jerry Bundsen "I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." - Albert Camus "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back." - Albert Camus "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt "The healthiest response to life is joy." - Deepak Chopra "As long as you keep thinking as you’ve been thinking, you’ll keep feeling as you’ve been feeling, doing as you’ve been doing, and getting what you’ve been getting." - Marcia Grad, Charisma: How to Get that Special Magic "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily." - Plato "To find yourself, think for yourself." - Socrates "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried." - Frank Tyger "Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing." - Brian Tracy "You are greater than you know, and all is well." - Kahlil Gibran "New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become." - Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward "No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage." - Epictetus "Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day." - Indian Proverb "The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer." - Nolan Bushnell "Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money - in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one." - Bel Kaufman "Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture." - Frank Gifford "Whoever makes you laugh helps you live." - Menander "Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute." - John Adams "An affectionate disposition not only calms the mind, it’s good for our physical well-being too. On the other hand, hatred, jealousy and fear disturb our peace of mind, they make us agitated physically and mentally. Such agitation is disturbing, which shows that the need for peace of mind is in our blood." - Dalai Lama "Whenever we can manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven." - Rumi "Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation." - Stephen R. Covey "Until you are committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, ineffectiveness. It is true: the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves. All sorts of things begin to happen to help you that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from that decision, raising in your favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which you couldn't have dreamt would come your way." - W. H. Murray "Too often our behaviour is dictated by obligation to others; in the process, we forget the primary obligation: to be ourselves." - Arthur Miller "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo "Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture." - William James "Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end." - Oliver Goldsmith "If we wait until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of our lives." [Not necessarily true.] - Lemony Snicket & Axonn Echysttas "Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists." - Anita Brookner "The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life." - Seneca the Younger "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau "It is not wise to be wiser than necessary." - Philippe Quinault "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and create a new ending." - Maria Robinson "Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability." - Plautus "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." - David Russell "You should study more to understand that you know little." - Michel de Montaigne "Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness." - Stephen Covey "Life is the sum of all your choices." - Albert Camus "Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable." - John Patrick "The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper." - Friedrich Nietzsche "There is only one real knowledge: that which helps us to be free. Every other type of knowledge is mere amusement." - Vishnu Purana, Indian Wisdom "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi "Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably." - Bertolt Brecht "Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory." - Henry David Thoreau "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next." - John Stuart Mill "Negative people don't want solutions. Solutions mean they have to work to find something else to be negative about." - Tom Ziglar "Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being." - Orison Swett Marden "If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave." - Mo Willems "To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being." - Ray Manzarek "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 "Make no mistake about it - enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true." - Adyashanti "You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." - Deepak Chopra "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." - Walter Lippmann "Action should culminate in wisdom." - Bhagavad Gita "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." - Suzy Kassem "One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time, to do things you've always wanted. DO IT NOW." - Paulo Coelho "Don't try to trust; simply trust that you cannot trust right now. Don't force gratitude; just be grateful that you aren't grateful, love that the demand for gratitude is illusory. Love your inability to love fully, accept your non-acceptance, surrender to your absolute failure to surrender today. This is freedom, right where you are - the freedom to feel unfree, to taste life totally at the point of creation, to be exactly what you are, no matter what. Whatever arises, however unwanted, however disappointing, however ephemeral, say, "This is none other than Life Itself!"." - Jeff Foster "When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new." - Dalai Lama "I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket." - Bruce Lee "Simplicity is the key to brilliance." - Bruce Lee "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." - Seneca. "Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life changing." - Zig Ziglar "People rarely succeed unless they have fun at what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie "Growth begins when we accept our own weakness." - Jean Vanier "It is by acts and not by ideas that people live." - Anatole France "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." - Bruce Lee "There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder." - Ronald Reagan "If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee "Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily." - Zig Ziglar "Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge." - Arthur Rimbaud "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." - Mark Twain "The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little." - Zig Ziglar "There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship." - Nayyirah Waheed "You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds." - Barbara Marciniak "If you can’t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly." - Ashleigh Brilliant "Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius "Time doesn’t heal you when you’re not ready to move on." - Unknown. "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." [No Max buddy, we are built to understand the environment, live in the environment and take care of the environment. Conquering is for frustrated little men.] - Maxwell Maltz & Axonn Echysttas "The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." - Joseph Priestley "If you don’t feel like quitting sometimes, then you’re not doing it right." - Nate St. Pierre "Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more." - Mother Teresa "God's wisdom made us lovers of one another.In fact, all the particles of the world are in love and looking for lovers." - Rumi "Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all." - William Temple "The company of the good will make you good. The company of the bad will make you bad. Those who are of the same nature will fly off together. Eagles soar with eagles, pigeons flutter with pigeons." - Rumi "Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be." - Sonia Ricotti "We are so accustomed to disguising ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves." - François de La Rochefoucauld "Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It's ordinary to love the beautiful, but it's beautiful to love the ordinary." - Anonymous "A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles." - Tim Cahill "True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you." - Brad Warner "We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld "Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary." - J. M. Barrie "Life is a long lesson in humility." - J. M. Barrie, The Little Minister "When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion." - Herbert Spencer "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." - Mark Twain "Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible." - Rumi "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 "Before you assume, learn the facts. Before you judge, understand why. Before you hurt someone, feel. Before you leave, commit to staying." - José Sánchez "Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive." - Eliphas Levi "Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change." - José Sánchez "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'." - Mary Anne Radmacher "Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting." - José Sánchez "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail." - Julie Walters "The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away." - Alysia Harris "For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand." - Anselm of Canterbury "Focus on opportunities rather than problems. Problem solving prevents damage, but exploiting opportunities produces results. Exploit change as an opportunity, and don’t view it as a threat." - Peter Drucker "The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the moral courage to use it." - Margaret Heffernan "Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on." - Maxwell Maltz "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt "We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting." - Kahlil Gibran "No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?" - Hugh Mackay "When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower." - Maxwell Maltz "Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill." - Charles Swindoll "Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel." - Maxwell Maltz "The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back." - Ram Dass "Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can, I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi "Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy." - Paulo Coelho "I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." - Mark Twain "To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior." - Maxwell Maltz "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa "In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy." - J. Paul Getty "People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to - to work for and hope for." - Maxwell Maltz "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury "Never grow old in your mind. Your true age is how you feel inside." - Valerie J Hayward "You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." - Charles F. Kettering "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in." - Alan Alda "No matter what kind of journey we make of life, where we started out will always be part of us. But only part." - Sir Alex Ferguson "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." - Oscar Wilde "Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most." - Al Capp "Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act." - Maxwell Maltz "The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply." - Unknown "To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Jules Henri Poincaré "One day I finally realized I no longer needed a personal history – so I gave it up." - Carlos Castaneda "Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer." - Denis Waitley "A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself." - Louis L'Amour "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs "Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even." - Horace "It's not a problem that we have a problem. It's a problem if we don't deal with the problem." - Mary Kay Utech "A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all." - Dalai Lama 2014 "A mind grows by what it feeds on." - Josiah Gilbert Holland "The day a person stops accepting the challenge of life he is dead - as of that very moment. Life is accepting challenge every moment. But this acceptance of challenge can be of two types: it can be with anger, and then it becomes a reaction; or the acceptance can be with great delight, pleasure and joy - then it becomes a response." - OSHO "The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference." - Naveen Jain "Don't waste your time trying to control the uncontrollable, or trying to solve the unsolvable, or think about what could have been. Instead, think about what you can control and solve the problem you can solve with the wisdom you have gained from both your victories and your defeats in the past." - David Mahoney "The day a person stops accepting the challenge of life he is dead - as of that very moment. Life is accepting challenge every moment. But this acceptance of challenge can be of two types: it can be with anger, and then it becomes a reaction; or the acceptance can be with great delight, pleasure and joy - then it becomes a response." - OSHO "Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal." - Isocrates "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou "Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom." - Merry Brown "There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge." - Napoleon Hill "People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up." - George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings "The human mind will not be confined to any limits." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty." - Shinichi Suzuki "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise." - Quintus Ennius "To believe in something and not to live it, is dishonest." - Ghandi "The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow." - George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings "Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life." - Herman Hesse "When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." - Bhagavad Gita "We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters." - Robert E. Lee "What is Love? Love is the absence of judgment." - Dalai Lama "Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them." - François de La Rochefoucauld "The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time." - Bruce Lee "Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." - Thomas J. Watson "Who is wise? One who learns from all." - The Talmud "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it." - Winston Churchill "Spiritual Practice is not just sitting and meditating. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating, and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves." - Thich Nhat Hanh [3] "Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives." - Anthony Robbins [8] "Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will." - Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare [7] "Motivation is the single most important factor in determining whether your experience is conditioned by suffering or by peace." - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche [1] "There is always something in a situation that can cheer you up, but you have to discover and understand it yourself. There is no point in me telling you how to cheer up. It is up to you to find the intrinsic cheerfulness which exists in you. You have to actually experience it. If somebody simply puts an idea in your head, it is not good enough. You can cheer yourself up much better than somebody talking you into something." - Chögyam Trungpa [3] "After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure." - Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare [7] "Alone but happy, happy but alone..." - Adrian Nastase [8] @M "The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it." - Konstantin Stanislavsky [8] "Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted it to, doesn't mean the future can't be better than you ever imagined." - Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare [8] "We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way. If we practice like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice." - Ajahn Chah [4] "There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were." - Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare [9] "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind." - Friedrich Nietzsche [8] "For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice." - Dr. Michio Kaku [8] @M "Everyone you meet comes with baggage, find someone who cares enough to help you unpack." - Ziad K. Abdelnour [9] "Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness." - Ziad K. Abdelnour [3] "If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy." - Dalai Lama [5] "A great change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over and release control over what you don't." - Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics [6] "Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give." - Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare [8] "It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification." - Dr. Michio Kaku, The Future Of The Mind, The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind, 2014 [6] "Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot." - Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics [4] "People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..." - Elizabeth Gilbert [1] "Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories." - Ziad K. Abdelnour [4] "Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life." - Ziad K. Abdelnour [7] @M "Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment, fully alive and fully aware." - Thich Nhat Hanh [4] "Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility." - Sir William Osler [6] "The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principal disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth." - Alan Watts [7] "Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal." - Ziad K. Abdelnour [5] "Silence is beautiful only if it is rooted in awareness; If it is not rooted in awareness, then it is utterly empty. With awareness silence has a depth, a plenitude, a fulfillment, a contentment, an overflowing joy. With awareness silence blooms, release great fragrance; without awareness the silence is utterly empty and dark, dismal, sad." - Osho [4] "One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder." - Ziad K. Abdelnour [9] @M "Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong." - Terence McKenna [10] "To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape." - Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity [3] "Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not." - Isaac Asimov [6] "Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself - and there isn't one." - Wei Wu Wei, Ask The Awakened [8] "This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play." - Alan Watts [8] @M "It's funny because we ask God to change our situation, not knowing he put us in the situation to change us." - Unknown [10] @M "Your state of mind is the most important factor in the outcome of your life." - Ziad K. Abdelnour [8] @M "Be OK with what you ultimately can't do, because there is so much you CAN do." - Sam Berns [3] "You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury [7] @M "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli [3] "I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them." - Charles Chaplin [6] @M "Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?" - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer [4] @M "The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with joy." - Proverb [4] "We are born in one day. / We die in one day. / We can change in one day. / And we can fall in love in one day. / Anything can happen in just one day." - Gayle Forman [6] @M "If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the present, for that is the past’s effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the present, for that is the cause of the future." - Majjhima Nikaya [7] @M "The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small." - Lao Tzu [8] @M "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give." - Eleanor Roosevelt [6] @M "Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel, The Private Journal of Henri Prédéric Amiel, 1889 [6] @M "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love." - Thornton Wilder [4] "The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think." - Stephen King (Different Seasons) [8] @M "Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Norman MacEwan [4] "Life, is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer [0] "And you will well remember that a lot of times when you thought you were in charge and doing something sensible you did something extremely foolish, and when you thought you did something extremely foolish it turned out to be a blessing." - Alan Watts [4] "I don't suffer from my insanity - I enjoy every minute of it." - Sherrilyn Kenyon [4] "Our scientific capabilities have outrun our spiritual capabilities. We now have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr. [9] @M "What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind." - Wendell Phillips, abolitionist and orator, 1811AD-1884AD [4] "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Moon [7] @M "In ancient times, the Trojan armies would burn the ships they sailed in on. The message was clear: there’s no alternative to success. If you know there’s an escape route, you will half-ass it. So eliminate your escape routes." - Mark Manson [2] "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein [6] @M "Sometimes, even the most illogical ideas that we bounce between each other could turn out to be the exact piece that was missing from understanding the puzzle of Existence. You can't know it until you complete more of that puzzle. Never dismiss another person's ideas, regardless of social stratification." - Axonn Echysttas [5] "A loving person lives in a loving world, a hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror." - Ken Keyes, Jr. [5] "A way to avoid doing something wrong towards somebody is to verbalize what you are doing, when you are doing it or thinking about it. You don't need to actually vocalize, it's ok if you speak the words inside your head. If you would feel ashamed by what you hear or if it is wrong, stop it then!" - Axonn Echysttas [1] "Wealth is the ability to fully experience life." - Thoreau [7] @M "Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it." - Benjamin Franklin [7] @M "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King Jr. [7] @M "If you can’t find pleasure in the simple or the mundane then you won’t find pleasure anywhere." - Mark Manson [5] "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Frank Herbert (Dune) [8] "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Ghandi [8] "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill [10] "Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself ‘Is it true?’ At the second gate ask, ‘Is it necessary?’ At the third gate ask, ‘Is it kind?’" - Sufi saying [10]