Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley
The tragedy
of life does not lie in not reaching your goals, the tragedy lies in not having
any goals to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it
is a calamity not to dream. - Dr. Benjamin Mays
Don't say
you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day
that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa,
Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - H. Jackson Brown
Jr.
The work
will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait
while you finish the work. - Pat Clifford
The
greatest gift you will ever receive is the gift of loving and believing in
yourself. Guard this gift with your life. It is the only thing that will ever
truly be yours. - Tiffany Loren Rowe
The
difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to
solve most of the world's problems. - Mahatma Gandhi
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them. - Bob Dylan
The
important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The
essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. - Baron de
Coubertin, The Olympic Creed
Too often
we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the
potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia
Even if
it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which
you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. - Albert Schweitzer
The
problem with a lot of the [transformation] experiments in the sixties and
seventies was that they were quick-fix, big-bang type experiments. But to
really change, you’ve got to be willing to stay on what I call the
"plateau." That’s where we have found the best results. I call it the
"mastery curve” and it means that you stay on a plateau for a long time
when you're learning any new skill. And then, every so often, you'll have a
little spurt upward. . . [W]hen that spurt occurs . . . they’ll often say,
"Okay, now I’m learning." But what we have to teach people is that
that’s actually not when they’re learning. They’re learning on the plateau. And
that takes patient, diligent, long-term practice. That’s when things are being
programmed into them. - George Leonard
I do believe it is possible to create,
even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding ones
inner life. And that too is a deed. -
Etty Hillesum
We can
never be the better for our religion if our neighbor is the worse for it. –
Unknown
You've got to continue
to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread--stale and dry. - Loretta Lynn
Whether you and I and a few others will
renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew
it each day. - Herman Hesse
Nothing makes you like other human beings
so much as doing things for them. -
Zora Neale Hurston
Love means to love that which is
unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is
unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. -
G.K. Chesterton
Whoever can see through all fear will
always be safe. - Tao Te Ching
You wake up in the morning, and your purse
is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the
universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No
one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you
receive. - Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
Believe those who seek the truth; doubt
those who find it. - Andre Gide
I can't
understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old
ones. - John Cage
Think for yourself and let others enjoy
the privilege of doing so too. –
Voltaire
Beauty, truth, friendship, love,
creation – these are the great values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain
them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives. - Jesse Herman Holmes
When love and skill work together, expect
a masterpiece. - John Ruskin
All comes at the proper time to him who
knows how to wait. - Saint Vincent de
Paul
The only difference between stumbling
blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them. – Unknown
I can't believe that God put us on this
earth to be ordinary. - Lou Holtz
The wishbone will never replace the
backbone. - Will Henry
The Promised Land always lies on the other
side of a Wilderness. - Havelock Ellis
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander
Time, for that's the stuff Life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
There are very few monsters who warrant
the fear we have of them. - Andre Gide
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we
should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would
be giving as the angels give. - George
MacDonald
To exist is to change, to change is to
mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but
rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
What we must decide is how we are valuable
rather than how valuable we are. -
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Use your imagination not to scare yourself
to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman
If you want happiness for an hour take a
nap. If you want happiness for a day go fishing. If you want happiness for a
month get married. If you want happiness for a year inherit a fortune. If you
want happiness for a lifetime help others. - Chinese Proverb
We can never live in the past as if it
were our true home. And it is a good thing that God draws this veil over the
past even without our asking. In so doing, He allows us to live today for
tomorrow with just the few memories we need of what was. - Karl Barth
When you carry out acts of kindness you
get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body
responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. - Rabbi Harold Kushner
"How does one become a butterfly? You
must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” - Trina Paulus
“If God created us in his own image, we
have more than reciprocated.” - Voltaire
It takes courage to grow up and turn out
to be who you really are. - e.e. cummings
To be alive, to be able to see, to
walk,...it's all a miracle. - Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Polish Pianist
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you
why? To find a good one, you must a hundred try. - Claude Mermet
When we tire of well-worn ways, we
seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb,
and to seek the mountain view.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To live only for some future goal is
shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. - Robert M. Pirsig
The hero is the one who kindles a
great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of
life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths
of the world, himself a light. - Felix Adler
There is a transcendent power in example.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. - Anne Sophie Swetchine
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just
as I am, then I can change. - Carl
Rogers
