Sunday May 20, 2007
Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
-- Arabic proverb
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-- Franklin P. Jones
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- C.G. Jung
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his
own way.
-- Josh Billings
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
-- Phil Jackson
The road to success is not straight.
There is a curve called Failure,
a loop called Confusion,
speed bumps called Friends,
red lights called Graves,
caution lights called Family.
You will have flats called Jobs.
But, if you have a spare called Determination,
an engine called Perseverance,
insurance called Faith,
a driver called God,
you will make it to a place called Success
-- Fancy
Take yourself and your creative life seriously. Make time for self-expression. Be disciplined. This is the way to develop your unique gifts and talents.
-- Christiane Northrup, M.D.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
-- Corrie ten Boom
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
-- Gary Busey
Death ends a life, but not a relationship.
-- Jack Lemmon
By standing on his own
A man finds happiness.
By standing on his own
A man finds freedom.
By standing on his own
He goes beyond the world.
By standing on his own
He finds the end of the way.
-- Ashtavakra Gita
The supreme Understanding transcends all this and that. The supreme Action embraces great resourcefulness without attachment. The supreme Accomplishment is to realize immanence without hope.
-- Translation by Garma C.C. Chang
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
-- Henry J. Kaiser
The true experience of bliss is without words.
-- Mother Meera
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the
small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily
task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
-- Victor Hugo
If you haven't attained clear true vision, this causes you to lapse into extremes, so that you lose contact with reality.
-- Zen Master Yuawu
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
-- Brian Tracy
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln
The fruit of prayer is the deepening of love, deepening of faith. If we believe, we will be able to pray, and the fruit of love is service. Therefore works of love are always works of peace, and to be able to put our hearts and hands into loving service we must know God, we must know God is love, that He loves us and that He has created us--each one of us--for greater things.
-- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
-- Erma Bombeck
I use my talents, abilities and imagination to their fullest.
- Affirmation by Erma Bombeck
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
-- West Point cadet maxim
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow.
-- Swedish proverb
What is now proved was once only imagined.
-- William Blake
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
-- Clement Stone
Four steps to achievement:
Plan purposefully.
Prepare prayerfully.
Proceed positively.
Pursue persistently.
-- William A. Ward
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself, so always think
positively.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
-- Goethe
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
-- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-- Opher Central
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
-- Zig Ziglar
Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
-- Joe Gibbs
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein, physicist
It's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away.
-- Bono
Your mind is the greatest home entertainment center ever created. It requires contemplative silence to really discover who you truly are. You have immense talents, resources and abilities that are untapped.
-- Mark Victor Hansen
Success is not an accident. It begins with a well-conceived plan.
-- Anonymous
Life Will Not Go According to Plan, If You Do Not Have A Plan!
-- Anonymous
Patience and peace are like the mother and father of love.
-- bkinfo .net
Peace is an energy created inside. When I speak with peace, and you listen to peace, the energy increases.
-- bkinfo .net
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
-- Louis L'Amour
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
-- Charlie Chaplin
Mountains DO Move. . . One Stone at a Time.
-- Rick Beneteau
To solve any problem, there are three questions to ask yourself:
First, what could I do?
Second, what could I read? and
Third, whom could I ask?
-- Jim Rohn
Discovery of a solution consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.
-- Denis Waitley
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, 'What are we busy about?
-- Henry David Thoreau
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
-- Albert Einstein
Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.
-- Brian Tracy
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
-- Theodore Rubin
A problem defined is half solved.
-- Denis Waitley
