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Monday, September 21, 2009

We understand the worth of blessings only when we have lost them.

Plautus It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life. Brian Andreas If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 18, 2009

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. Brendan Francis Give people a fact or an idea and you enlighten their minds; tell them a story and you touch their souls. Hasidic proverb It is simple. We are where we should be, doing what we... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what

I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. George Washington We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. Norman Vincent... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence -- Henry Louis Mencken

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower Four short words sum up what has lifted... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and

just be happy -- Guillaume Apollinaire When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. Dan Millman How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 14, 2009

We are at once the creators of our reality and the victims of our creation.

Fred Alan Wolf Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale As is the human body so is the Cosmic body. As is the human mind so is the Cosmic mind. As is the microcosm so is... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Irving Berlin The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the more clearly we should see through it. Jean Paul Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The future influences the present just as much as the past – Nietzsche

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or minor self indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand Very few people chose war. They chose... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure —

Rainer Maria Rilke Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. Timothy Bentley Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up

Indira Gandhi No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down; so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise. Marian Anderson Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir... Sign in to see full entry.

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