Batch 28

*Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

*Remember that you’re not on this earth to be perfect. We’re here to love well, to realize our unity and our connection. - Adyashanti

 

*Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. - Anonymous

*How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? — Satchel Paige

*A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin

*When we close the windows and doors of our house and stay inside, we feel very secure, we feel safe, unmolested. But life is not like that. Life is constantly knocking at our door, trying to push open our windows that we may see more; and if out of fear we lock the doors, bolt all the windows, the knocking only grows louder. The closer we cling to security in any form, the more life comes and pushes us. The more we are afraid and enclose ourselves, the greater is our suffering, because life won’t leave us alone. We want to be secure but life says we cannot be; and so our struggle begins. —J. Krishnamurti

*If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts. - Steven Wright

*Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. - Khalil Gibran

*I have lived a long life and have had many troubles, most of which have never happened. - Mark Twain

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt. - Leo Buscaglia

*The heart of thee

is the heart of all;

not a valve, not a wall,

not an intersection

is there anywhere in nature,

but one blood rolls

uninterruptedly an endless

circulation through all men,

as the water of the globe

is all one Sea, and truly seen,

its tide is One.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul

"The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there." - Steven Wright

*What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Batch 27

 The secret of life is to have no fear. - Fela Kuti

Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope. - Alain de Botton

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. - Guillaume Apollinaire

I consider we are all the same as human beings, mentally, emotionally and physically. In order to ensure a more peaceful world and a healthier environment we sometimes point a finger at others saying they should do this or that. But change must start with us as individuals. If one individual becomes more compassionate it will influence others and so we will change the world. - HH Dalai Lama

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is a banquet of common enchantment waiting for our alchemist’s eyes to notice. - Jacob Norby

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. - Confucius

You become, It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.

But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. - Margery Williams - The Velveteen Rabbit

Free thinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless. - Leo Tolstoy

*The first day we all pointed to our own countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth. - Prince Sultan bin Salman al-Saud, astronaut, STS-51-G

My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work. – Unknown

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. - Jerry Seinfeld

*Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

*I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. - Steven Wright

*I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it. - Steven Wright

*When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. - Krishnamurti