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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;

but great minds rise above them - Washington Irving I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we’re not supposed to know; we’re supposed to trust ourselves to discover it. Melody Beattie When you know that you’re capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should

remember and be sad - Christina Rossetti The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James Our lives improve only when we take chances... and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Warren Buffett Ultimately, we must learn to trust ourselves. When we do this intimately and intelligently, the world opens full of meaning before us. We find that we ourselves are the doorway to a fathomless understanding of the source of life itself. We need only to learn to walk through it. James... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Every now and then go away…for when you come back to your work,

your judgment will be surer - Leonardo da Vinci When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things. Amy Vanderbilt Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life is a checkerboard,... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

NEVER REACT EMOTIONALLY TO CRITICISM.

Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. Norman Vincent Peale At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose,... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists

and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. Alexander Graham Bell The real leaders of the world always have been men who harnessed, and put into practical use, the intangible unseen... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier

by the way you take it - Ellen Glasgow When you are saying that you are happy and you are not, there will be a disturbance in your breathing. Your breathing cannot be natural. It is impossible. Osho Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

If I had eight hours to cut down a big tree,

I'd spend 6 hours sharpening the axe - Abraham Lincoln How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak…. because in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver The body... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Your task is not to seek for love,

but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi Consciousness is not just some by-product of the human brain mass. Consciousness is all pervasive. It is in everything and is everywhere. Your individual human consciousness exists... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slip backward -- we may actually be backing up to get a running start. Dan Millman The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility... Sign in to see full entry.

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