INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
* The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the
miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
* The mind of a man is more intuitive than logical,
and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
- Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
* You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without
the troubling of a distant star.
- Sir Arthur Eddington
* Wise men learn more from fools than fools from
the wise.
- Cato
* Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- John Watson
* We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not
an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
* Every life is many days, day after day. We walk
through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants,
old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love.
But always meeting ourselves.
- James Joyce ("Ulysses")
* There is no traffic jam on the extra mile.
- Anonymous
* Some people see things as they are and ask,"Why?"
I see things that never were and ask, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw
* Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
- G.K. Chesterton
* I am capable of what every other human being
is capable of. This is one of the great lessons
of war and life.
- Maya Angelou
* If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
Let him step to the music he hears,
However measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
* I sometimes think we are too impressed by the clamor
of daily events. Newspaper headlines and the television
screens give us a short view. . . . Yet it is the profound
tendencies of history, and not the passing excitements,
that will shape our future.
- John F. Kennedy
* Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting
what you have.
- Unknown
* Happiness is not something that happens. It is not
the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not
something that money can by or power command. It does
not depend on outside events, but, rather on how we
interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that
must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately
by each person.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ("Flow")
* What happiness is there which is not purchased with more
or less of pain?
- Margaret Oliphant
* To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to
learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day
out.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ("Flow")
* Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
- Pema Chodron ("Start From Where You Are")
* One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel
that now is not enough.
- Pema Chodron
* Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep
those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
- Pema Chodron
* I love those who go under, for they are those who cross over.
- Nietzsche ("Thus Spoke Zarathustra")
* That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
- Emily Dickinson
* 'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
- Tennyson
* The time will come when winter will ask you what you were
doing all summer.
- Henry Clay
* Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of
fools.
- Napoleon
* The man who masters himself is delivered from the force
that binds all creatures.
- Goethe
* I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
* If you put your hand on a hot stove for a minute,
It feels like an hour,
If a pretty girl sits on your lap for an hour,
It feels like a minute,
That's relativity!
- Albert Einstein
* All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatvever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of LOVE,
And feed his sacred flame.
- Coleridge ("Love")
* After all there is but one race - humanity.
- George Moore ("The Bending of the Bough")
* It is easy to have principles when you are rich. The important
thing is to have principles when you are poor.
- Ray Kroc (Founder of McDonalds)
* What's beautiful in science is that same thing that's beautiful
in Beethoven. There's a fog of events, and suddenly you see
a connection.
- Victor Weisskopf (Physicist)
* The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the
servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
* I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself.
I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these
things at once and cannot add up the sum.
- Carl Jung
* Why does man accept to live a trivial life? Because of the
danger of a full horizon of experience, of course. . . .
Freedom is dangerous . . . If you follow it too willingly
it threatens to pull you into the air; if you give it up too
wholly, you become a prisoner of necessity.
- Ernest Becker ("The Denial of Death")
* Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would
amount to another from of madness.
- Ernest Becker ("The Denial of Death")
* The time will come when winter will ask you what you were
doing all summer.
- Henry Clay
* Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry
with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the
right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way
that is not within everyone's power and is not easy.
- Aristotle
* From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the
newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance."
- Leo Tolstoi
* The child in many ways shows a promise which altogether
too often is betrayed by adults and society and by the
growing child itself when it yields to those forces and aspects
of the culture as transmitted by parents, teachers, and peers,
which are crippling to its inherent potentialities.
- Ernest Schachtel ("The Conflict of Human Development: The Psychology of Creativity")
* Magic joy - usually short-lived - feels as though the
anticipated fulfillment will suddenly change the whole
character of life and of the world.
Real joy - in its highest form - is an ongoing process of
openness toward and affirmation of others and the world
around one, on the activation of a feeling of being related
to all things living.
- Ernest Schachtel
* Separation is an illusion that we have made real by agreement.
The fundamental nature of the universe is one of harmony and
unity in relationship. There is no separation. . . . We have no
way of knowing that when we are born, our feeling of separation
flows from an illusion that is built upon our lack of experience in
the reality in which we find ourselves. We simply can't see that
our feeling of being separate is a result of our limited perception
of the true nature of the universe. . . . Being born is like waking
up inside a dream and not knowing it.
- Stewart Emery ("Actualizations")
* This is Love: to fly toward a secret sky,
To cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet.
To regard this world as invisible,
And to disregard what appears to the self.
Heart, I said, what a gift it has been,
To enter this circle of lovers,
To see beyond seeing itself,
To reach and feel within the breast,
My soul, where does this breathing arise?
How does this beating heart exist?
Bird of the soul, speak in your own words,
And I will understand.
The heart replied: I was in the work place,
The day this house of water and clay was fired.
I was already flying from that created house,
Even while the house was being created.
- Rumi (13th century Persian Mystic Poet)
