Daily Inspirational Quotes

[Zhenya Roitman]

One other thing that I wanted to start, my beloved Optionicians (sounds
better then Optionists). This would be specifically for Quotes of the
Day. Just like the previous topic "Dialogue Requests & Offers", you can
reply to this topic by sending an email or manually posting through the
website.

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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein

[Donna Beal]

Right back at ya.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of
mind.
- Wayne Dyer

[elaine Shaw]

Hi Roommate;  It's Elaine/Mountain climber/Butterfly from Baltimore!    How are you? 

[mark walker]

How about
" For there is nothing either good or bad , thinking makes it so"
Shakespear  Hamlet

Mark    
www.seaimages.co.uk

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> Subject: Daily Inspirational Quotes
> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:34:40 -0700

[Joy]

"If"

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

By Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).

[Donna Beal]

Wow, Joy! I had never heard that quote. I have printed it out.

Thanks and love,

Donna

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I - not events - have the
power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today,
and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx

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To: "Option Circle" <option...@googlegroups.com>

[Zhenya Roitman]

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do
not burn until brought to a focus." by Alexander Graham Bell (Inventor)

[Tam Lindsay]

Joy, my stepfather gave me this poem when I was 19 just before I
shipped off to boot camp for the navy. I red it then and though it was
"cool" but I realized, just now after reading it again, everything that
he was trying to say in that one moment when he gave it to me. I wonder
if he would give it to me again now... maybe he doesn't need to. :)
THNANK YOU! :)
-Tamsin

[emmy zappa]

oooo, good one!!!! me likey! :)

xo emmy xo

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[emmy zappa]

wow, joy. where did you find that?? that is awesome!!! thank you, oooo so much for sharing that with me. i am currently working on my "senior project" something, i don't know if ALL school's in the U.S do, but anyway, basically it is a huge, 13 page research paper on something you: want to be later in life, something you're really interested in, something your "good" at i.e. a hobby or sport, and i'm doing "the option process: all option thoughts and realizations" yes, yes, it has not yet been perfected in any means, for i have only just started school, today! but my first essay (due tomorrow) in my college prep english class is:

 

 a personal essay detailing literature that has influenced you or (perhaps) that is lacking in your life. discuss the types of literature that have affected you positively or negatively, from "prereading" (if your memory serves you) to the present day.

 

note the judgements of everyday life. hahaha neg. or pos. affects ON US, not that we coose to be affected by. lol, that's my ENGLISH teacher. hahaha

 

anywho, this exert will most definately help me in ways, so thank you, joy!!!! i'll let you know what i get on the paper! ;)

xo emmy xo

Joy <anita_...@hotmail.com> wrote:

[emmy zappa]

hahah thank you, too donna... anyone else with helpful quotes??

 

xo emmy xo

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[Joy]

Hi Emmy.
I got the poem from Nick (PD) as a response to the poem I send to him.
I love Kipling's Book of the jungle.

My your essay be excellent - outstanding.
Joy

Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.
A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons
Shudders hell through all its regions.
A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.
A horse misused upon the road
Calls to heaven for human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre from the brain does tear.
A skylark wounded in the wing,
A cherubim does cease to sing.
The game-cock clipped and armed for fight
Does the rising sun affright.
Every wolf's and lion's howl
Raises from hell a human soul.
The wild deer wandering here and there
Keeps the human soul from care.
The lamb misused breeds public strife,
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
The bat that flits at close of eve
Has left the brain that won't believe.
The owl that calls upon the night
Speaks the unbeliever's fright.
He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be beloved by men.
He who the ox to wrath has moved
Shall never be by woman loved.
The wanton boy that kills the fly
Shall feel the spider's enmity.
He who torments the chafer's sprite
Weaves a bower in endless night.
The caterpillar on the leaf
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
Kill not the moth nor butterfly,
For the Last Judgment draweth nigh.
He who shall train the horse to war
Shall never pass the polar bar.
The beggar's dog and widow's cat,
Feed them, and thou wilt grow fat.
The gnat that sings his summer's song
Poison gets from Slander's tongue.
The poison of the snake and newt
Is the sweat of Envy's foot.
The poison of the honey-bee
Is the artist's jealousy.
The prince's robes and beggar's rags
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so:
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
The babe is more than swaddling bands,
Throughout all these human lands;
Tools were made and born were hands,
Every farmer understands.
Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in eternity;
This is caught by females bright
And returned to its own delight.
The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar
Are waves that beat on heaven's shore.
The babe that weeps the rod beneath
Writes Revenge! in realms of death.
The beggar's rags fluttering in air
Does to rags the heavens tear.
The soldier armed with sword and gun
Palsied strikes the summer's sun.
The poor man's farthing is worth more
Than all the gold on Afric's shore.
One mite wrung from the labourer's hands
Shall buy and sell the miser's lands,
Or if protected from on high
Does that whole nation sell and buy.
He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mocked in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons.
The questioner who sits so sly
Shall never know how to reply.
He who replies to words of doubt
Doth put the light of knowledge out.
The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Nought can deform the human race
Like to the armour's iron brace.
When gold and gems adorn the plough
To peaceful arts shall Envy bow.
A riddle or the cricket's cry
Is to doubt a fit reply.
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the sun and moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out.
To be in a passion you good may do,
But no good if a passion is in you.
The whore and gambler, by the state
Licensed, build that nation's fate.
The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding sheet.
The winner's shout, the loser's curse,
Dance before dead England's hearse.
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
We are led to believe a lie
When we see not through the eye
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.
God appears, and God is light
To those poor souls who dwell in night,
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.

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[Beth Latimer]

[Brian (aka Superman)]

Loving...is its own reward.

[emmy zappa]

thank you joy, i was thinking about adding that into my paper but i'm not sure yet. here is what i have so far:

 

Emmy Zappa

Mrs. Malcolm

English IV, 6^th period

8/31/06                                    

A World of Understanding

I’ve been living without my mom at home since I was about 2 years old. Every time I had a visit with her she would read Grandfather Twilight, by Barbara Berger, with it’s wide array of imaginative drawings, to my sister, Molly, and I. I found it very captivating so after a while I started to beg her to read it to me even though I had it memorized. That is a fond memory of a “good” book. Mysteries have ALWAYS been fun, now that I’ve grown out of Goosebumps, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boy’s books, I’ve really chosen to be preoccupied by volleyball, friends, adventurous trips and food. I don’t read unless I feel it will be beneficial to me (or I’m told to by a teacher). I do not read all that much, by pleasure. I’ve always been one to only pick up a book if I thought it could help me in some way. Reading, The Island of Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell, in 4^th grade was one of the most moving stories I’ve ever read. It’s explicit details and creative depictions of the words got me so onto the scenes, it to the point where I was crying when the main character’s dog died. I felt very involved and I was thankful of the author for allowing me to have that experience.  To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee was very wise. It’s in-depth life lessons were so fascinating and full of truth I felt, beyond doubt, touched after reading and re-reading this fabulous book.

          I have recently picked up books by Barry "Bears" Neil Kaufman. I would like to start off by saying that I believe that NOTHING in life IS, in fact, negative or positive. Those are judgments and I believe that we make things what we want them to be. I feel that everything we do in life is a choice, including the effects of books. I feel it proper to say, “The effect I choose to have from that book,” not "the way the book effected me was...” If I were to say that I read Dr. Suess books and that they effected me positively, that does NOT mean they are positive books, but that I choose to interpret their meaning/teaching/readings as positive.

With that philosophy in mind, it is a given that I would choose the books, Happiness Is A Choice, To Love Is To Be Happy With, Giant Steps, No Regrets, and Son Rise: The Miracle Continues, by Barry Neil Kaufman as my "positive" book reading experiences. Bears is an extremely intelligent, self-empowered, and authentic human being. His teachings clearly state that he feels we all make our own decisions in life and that our beliefs on "things" are where our responses come from. The main teaching, I feel most crucial of The Option Institute is: Stimulus, Belief, Response or SBR. Although, I feel it is necessary to state my belief that, in life we have been taught Stimulus, Response or SR, which totally cripples us from any knowing/understanding of our actions/choices. An example of SBR:

Bob- "Mary, I think you're fat!" (Bluntly authentic)

Mary- "You're a jerk, Bob. Buzz off!" (Defensively playing the "victim")

Sam- “Mary, I agree with him."

Bob calling marry fat was the "Stimulus". Now skipping over the belief, like "normal" people do. Mary calling Bob a jerk an getting mad because of what Bob said was ONE of the "Responses", Sam overall being neutral but agreeing with Bob was the SECOND "Response". Now, let’s see the beliefs. Mary got mad (I believe, because she had some sort of pre-judgment on herself) and Sam was neutral because he agreed with the stimulus, so he CHOOSE not to get mad, defensive, or happy, etc. the Stimulus was still the SAME in both response situations but the responses were different... Hmmm! Sam and Mary had different beliefs about the Stimulus (Bob calling Mary fat). The only explanation of the response being different between two people who heard the SAME thing is the judgments. Marry was judging what Bob said "negatively" because she had a pre-judgment on what he was saying; a judgment that she really was fat, and possibly uncomfortable with it. “Uncomfortably”, being another feeling we choose to give ourselves, as well as being tired, coincidental, not fair, happy, etc.

Simple sayings like "you make me smile" I find incorrect (also a judgment) because no one can MAKE you mad, make you smile, make you happy. They do things that you interpret based upon your BELIEFS of the situation and then choice to react one way or another.) Before reading these delicious books, I was a “people pleaser”, at least that was the label I was given and graciously took. I had the belief that I could in fact hurt people’s feelings, and in turn, they could hurt mine. Me telling a friend that I dislike the way they are being in a situation is authentic not “mean” and just because I’ve said that to them does not mean I dislike them, only how the are choosing to be at the time.

       Throughout my journey to true happiness, I’ve delightfully stumbled upon some fantastic realizations for myself. Along with always having “the choice”, I’ve also discovered the belief that there are no should’s, ought to’s, must’s, or have to’s. “Should’s” imply that there is a regret. I feel there are NO REGRETS, regretting something that has happened only belittles your journey to where you are now, and now is the best you can do. Just like before, (the regret) was the best you could do, then. And I believe that from a regret, stems a lack of ownership. Ownership is one of my biggest feats!! Once you take ownership of something you’ve done, you’re then allowing yourself to have no judgments and work on the belief you had about what you did, before.

Besides being a “care taker” of feelings, I was really just an unhappy person. Of course I was not, another PAST belief of mine. As soon as I said, being unhappy is not bad, I was then able to choose to be okay with the fact that I was choosing to be unhappy, then, I got happy! I was finally figuring myself out, no, no, no… I was then, WANTING to figure myself out. I have not yet mentioned that over summer I too, took two amazingly helpful programs at The Option Institute, “Empowering Yourself” and “Radical Authenticity”. Bears, his wife, Samahria, and son, Raun were all teachers, along with many other wonderful people, who helped me give myself the tools look at my beliefs. That experience, after being completely enthralled with the readings, was truly life changing, and not just for me, but for many.

 As I have mentioned before that my mom, Zoe, has been living in Connecticut and working at the Institute for fifteen years. The Kaufman’s are like my family, and as a family “normally” is they are loving and supportive. Yet, the reason why I feel their love and truly, gift to life, has been not coming from, “normal” or “deserved” or “lucky” but, choosing to give and get love and being blessed for everything. My gifts, the books, were a blessing that I had been truly, truly wanting for myself for some time now. I am only seventeen years old and I feel invincible. Because before I labeled invincible as “perfect” and now, I see that I can be invincible, untouchable, and wonderful just because I WANT TO!!! As well as, putting everything I was judging myself for not having, I was in fact, putting it on a pedestal that I could not reach with beliefs I was taking before.

     Bears' books are "perfect" examples of literature that "gets" me wanting to read. I have honorably accepted and taken it upon myself to WANT to use his tools of empowerment, authenticity and ownership in my everyday life; I am planning on doing my senior project based on The Option Institute/Bears/his books and teachings; and I would LOVE if the whole "Option Process" would spread and be accepted throughout the world. I will not say that I feel it will be good for the world, because I do not know what the world wants (most people would’ve said “need’s”) but if I were even able to turn one more person onto learning more about Option, I would grasp the blessing with wide-open arms. As a last note I would like to add that my last sentence is arbitrary to my belief that, the world is in your head and not "out there".

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[Zhenya Roitman]

Here is a great quote! There goes one of my dialogue topics

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a
habit."
by Aristotle (Greek Philosopher and Scientist)

[emmy zappa]

oooo, oooo, good shit, thank you, zhenya!!!! yes,  love it!!!

xo emmy xo

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[Zhenya Roitman]

"Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little
difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that
counts."

Denis Waitley
Author of The Psychology of Winning