Archives for May 2009

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
—Giuseppe Mazzini (Italian Philosopher)

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
—Yoda

All strangers and beggars are from God, and a gift, though small, is precious.
—Homer (Ancient Greek Poet)

Delusion arises from anger.|The mind is bewildered by delusion.|Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered.|One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.
—The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

Act as if the whole election depended on your single vote.
—John Wesley (British Methodist Religious Leader)

If you really want the last word in an argument, try saying, “I guess you’re right.”
—Anonymous

If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be a human being. You’d be a game show host.
—Anonymous

Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.
—Harvey Samuel Firestone (American Businessperson)

Do, or do not.
There is no ‘try’.
—Yoda

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

Don’t worry about knowing people—just make yourself worth knowing.
—Unknown

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Rain-water never stands on high ground, but runs down to the lowest level. So also the mercy of God remains in the hearts of the lowly, but drains off from those of the vain and the proud.
—Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what is required.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
—Annie Besant (British-born Indian Theosophist)

Play is the exultation of the possible.
—Martin Buber

The Spirit filled all with his radiance.|He is incorporeal and invulnerable, pure and untouched by evil.|He is the supreme seer and thinker, immanent and transcendent.|He placed all things in the path of the Eternal.
—The Upanishads

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether and irreclaimably depraved.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
—Marion G. Romney (American Mormon Religious Leader)

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
—Marcia Wieder

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty remember that God has
pitted you against a rough antagonist that you
may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
— Epictetus

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
— The Dhammapada

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We shape our environments, then our environments shape us.
— Winston Churchill

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.
It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.
It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
— Guy Debord

When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, Sharing what we have for the betterment of person kind, Bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
— Leo Buscalia

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
— Margaret Thatcher

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.
— French Proverb

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
— Michel de Montaigne

Never mistake motion for action.
—Ernest Hemingway (American Author)

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
—Anna Brownell Jameson

Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be.
—Kurt Vonnegut (American Novelist)

As the purpose is emptied the heart is filled.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin (American Universalist Preacher)

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it – in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
—John C. Maxwell (American Christian Professional Speaker)

The best thing a leader can do for a great group is to allow its members to discover their greatness.
—Warren Bennis (American Scholar)

The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt.
—Anonymous

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

You can make your mind recall anything you want, but it can only give back what it was first given.
—Unknown

As the sun that beholds the world is untouched by earthly impurities, so the Spirit that is in all things is untouched by external sufferings.
—The Upanishads

Courage is capacity to confront what cannot be imagined.
—Leo Rosten (Russian-born American Humorist)

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
—Arabic Proverb

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
—Michelangelo (Italian Painter)

It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
—Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is said that when the world ends, even the moutains start moving due to the force of the wind. But even when such a thing happens, the mental state of the brave does not waver since it is very clear. Clarity in thoughts gives you the strength to withstand anything.
—Subhashita Manjari

A year from now you will wish you had started today.
—Karen Lamb