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QUOTES OF THE DAY II
How easily we take our freedom for granted. No one can force us from
our homes without cause; no one can keep us from church or dictate our
prayer. No one can even prevent us from denouncing the government that
provides this freedom. We are beneficiaries of a relatively small
number of people, who, more than 200 years ago, did something that
would forever change the course of human history: They declared
independence. Today, we have a responsibility to not only cherish our
freedom, but champion the rights of those here and abroad who continue
to live in fear and persecution. Like our Founding Fathers, we can lay
the foundation for something that will change the course of history.
- Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
Man is made by his belief.
As he believes, so he is.
- Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher.
I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them,
and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
- Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
To talk goodness is not good...Only to do it is.
- Chinese Proverb
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses;
it is an idea that possesses the mind.
- Robert Bolton
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
- William James (1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author)
The biggest mistake people make in life
is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
- Malcomb S. Forbes (1919-1990, American Publisher)
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
- Cherokee Saying
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American Physicist)
Loosen your grasp a little, and remember:
whatever you hold onto is already dead, because it is past.
Die to every moment and you will discover the gate to unending life.
- Deepak Chopra
Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes time.
Vision with action can change the world.
A true leader must first see an idea as opportunity,
then choose to act upon it.
- Joel Barker (American Consultant & Author)
Integrity is the key to your power.
- Stephen R. Covey
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress.
The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation
have a whirling, dynamic interaction.
- Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.)
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)
It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause.
Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that
his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory
nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, 26th President of the United States)
Be willing to be uncomfortable.
Be comfortable being uncomfortable.
It may get tough,
but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
- Peter McWilliams
You vision will become clear
only when you can look into your own heart.
- Carl Jung
The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon
I can honestly say that I was never affected
by the question of the success of an undertaking.
If I felt it was the right thing to do,
I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978, Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-74)
The Wise Woman's Stone
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a
stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise
woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious
stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation.
The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was
worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he
came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give
it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give
me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."
- Author Unknown
Know that in whatever state ye find thyself,
that-at the moment-is best for thee.
- Edgar Cayce
Joy is an inner note that you sound as you move through the day.
You will have joy only when you focus on having it
and settle for nothing less."
- Orin
Submitted by Lykan - Thank you!
Past the seeker as he prayed,
came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten.
And seeing them . . . he cried,
"Great God, how is it that a loving creator
can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"
God said, "I did do something. I made you."
- Sufi Teaching
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.
- Goethe (1749-1832)
You always pass failure on the way to success.
- Mickey Rooney (American Actor)
The amount of power freed by telling yourself
you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable.
Be prepared for extra energy.
- Peter McWilliams
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.
- Kahlil Gibran
BEING REAL
Trusting your intuition means
tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel,
following that energy moment to moment,
trusting that it will lead you where you want to go
and bring you everything you desire.
It means being yourself,
being real and authentic in your communications,
being willing to try new things because they feel right,
doing what turns you on.
- Shakti Gawain, Living in the Light
The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to
make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create
momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me
in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful
man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave
the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive
action toward its attainment.
- Anthony Robbins (American Author, Speaker)
The more you know the less you need to say.
- Jim Rohn (American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher)
"Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world-
indeed it is the only thing that ever has!"
- Margaret Mead
Draw on your fantastic inner power,
for it is there, waiting to be used.
Fantastic is the only adequate description of that power.
And always hold the thought that you can,
if you think you can.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You are a rich and creative spiritual being. You can never be less than
this. You may frustrate your potential. You may identify with that
which is less than what you can be. But within you now and always is
the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and
outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And
you will, if you can believe.
- Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus (c.55-c.135)
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
- Babe Ruth, 1895-1948, American Baseball Player
A gold medal is a wonderful thing,
but if you're not enough without the medal,
you'll never be enough with it.
- "Cool Runnings" (Movie Quote)
I am always going to be true to myself.
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
- Stephen R. Covey
American Speaker, Author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
You may not realize it when it happens,
but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
- Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American Artist, Film Producer
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anais Nin
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
- Wayne Dyer (1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer)
What you are will show in what you do.
- Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of General Electric
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
- Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
God is ready the moment you are.
- Emmet Fox
As the purpose is emptied the heart is filled.
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
All mankind is divided into three classes:
those that are immovable,
those that are movable,
and those that move.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
God gave us love.
He lent us the rest.
- Author Unknown (Submitted by Tamee Syrcle)
What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers.
The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things
differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for
the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify,
or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things. They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change
the world, are the ones who do.
- Apple Computers "Think Different" Advertisement
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives,
and remembering what one receives.
- Dumas The Younger
"At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have
received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have
done.
We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked
and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.'
Hungry not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for
clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only
for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection."
- Mother Teresa, 1910-1997
Roman Catholic Missionary,1997 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.
- Thea Alexander, American Science Fiction Writer
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald 1824-1905, Scottish Novelist
Never grow a wishbone, daughter,
where your backbone ought to be.
- Clementine Paddelford
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree.
- Martin Luther, 1483-1546, German Author, Theologian
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Whence cometh love,
love comes unsought, unsent.
Whence goeth love,
that was not love that went.
- Author Unknown
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Submitted by Linda Roberts
"Friendship is like sound health,
the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
- Author Unknown
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life
is the source from which self-respect springs.
- Joan Didion
Imagine, the next time someone does you harm,
that the person came into this world for the express
purpose of freeing you from suffering.
Imagine that the cruelty or thoughtlessness
is part of a larger design to help you wake up.
- Janet Cedar Spring
For in and out, above, about, below,
'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
Play'd in a Box whose
Candle is the Sun,
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.
- Omar Khayyam (fl. 1100)
To understand the heart of another human being
is the ultimate spiritual achievement.
- M. Buber
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington (1732-1799, First President of the United States)
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them,
make them.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist)
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying a way small stones.
- Chinese Proverb
It is not the critic who counts.
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause.
Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the United States of America)
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
- Chinese Proverb
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them,
make them.
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- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist)
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If people concentrated on the really important things in life,
there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
- Doug Larson
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
- Chinese Proverb
