your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart...

who looks outside, dreams. who looks inside, awakens.

�carl jung
when in doubt, tell the truth.

-mark twain

so-called aging is not the deterioration of life, but the deterioration of our
faith, our enthusiasm, our will to progress.
�connie fillmore

you must learn to look at the world twice if you wish to see all that there is to
see.

-jamake highwater

take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time.

-linda shalaway

the life of the individual only has meaning in so far as it aids in making the
life
of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. life is sacred that is to say,
it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.
�albert einstein

no one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.

-marie beynon ray

when your body mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and
harmony
to those around you and health and harmony to the world not by withdrawing from
the world
but by being a healthy living organ of the body of humanity.

�b.k.s. iyengar

chance is the psydeudonym god uses when he does not want to sign his name.

-anatole france

be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

-gerry sikorski

today i know that i cannot control the ocean tides. i can only go with the flow�
when i struggle and try to organize the atlantic to my specifications,
i sink. if i flail and thrash and growl and grumble, i go under.
but if i let go and float, i am borne aloft.

-marie stilkind

think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
�anne frank

other people�s faults are like bees�if we don't see them, they don't harm us.
-luis vigil

opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks

like work.

-thomas a. edison

there is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

-katharine butler hathaway

mental health, like dandruff, crops up when you least expect it.
-robin worthington

the more i want to get something done, the less i call it work.

-richard bach

the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him
absolutely no good.

-ann landers

life is like a ten-speed bike. most of us have gears we never use.

-charles m. schultz

count your blessings. a grateful heart attracts more joy, love, and prosperity.

-cheryl richardson

like the sun is always shining, the heart is always open; the rest is just clouds.

a person will be called to account on judgment day for every permissible thing
he might have enjoyed but did not.
-the talmud

within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may grow.

-louise driscoll (submitted by melodygregory)

meditate, engage in daily prayers, read uplifting books, commune with mother
nature
--in some way try to remove yourself from the discord of the everyday world
that invades your sense of inner peace.

-stephen r. covey

i trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to
see it.

-oprah winfrey

good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own good deeds.

-miguel de cervantes
let me be grateful to the people who make me happy; they are the charming
gardeners
who make my soul blossom.

-marcel proust

deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. when someone receives
us with open-hearted,
non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

-sue patton thoele

when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what
is brilliant,
what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering.
we're discovering the universe.

-pema chodron

i am not here anymore.

somewhere else is where i am.
a place so hard to find,
you cannot see me here
or visit me there
or wish me out of this anywhere.
if this is where i am supposed to be,
why can't i find me?
-joanne koenig coste

what if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it�
would you be likely to give them another? life is the same way.
in order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer,
you must truly appreciate what you already have.

-ralph marston

worry is a misuse of the imagination.

-dan zadra

it's not that some people have willpower and some don't. it's that some people are
ready to change
and others are not.

-james gordon, m.d.

it's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.

-elvis presley

self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise
in this world.

-helen keller

life is not separate from death. it only looks that way.

-blackfoot indian proverb
fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character
endures.

-horace greeley

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you.

-colette

life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.

-josh billings

if there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must.

otherwise you�ll just be arranging furniture in rooms you�ve already been in.

-anne lamott

stillness is what creates love. movement is what creates life. to be still and
still moving�this is everything.
-do hyun choe

silent presence is always better than silent absence.

-chaplain steve thorny

beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by
midnight.
extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do
with no thought of any reward.
your life will never be the same again.

-og mandino

our creations come through us freely, easily and abundantly only when we release
our need for control
and allow ourselves to become clear channels for something bigger than we are.

assert your right to make a few mistakes. if people can't accept your
imperfections, that's their fault.
-dr. david m. burns

if the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be
enough.

-meister eckhart

what you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to
you at this moment.
if you want to change who you are physically, mentally, a spiritually, you will
have to change what you think.
-dr. patrick gentempo

do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once
among the things only hoped for.
-epicurus

have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections
but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
-saint francis de sales

it seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive.
there are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for
them.

-george eliot

a good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
-irish proverb

if the angel deigns to come, it will be because you have convinced him, not by
tears,
but by your humble resolve to be always beginning: to be a beginner.

-rainer maria rilke

when you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end
of the row.

-alice paul

a happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a

person with a certain set of attitudes.

-hugh downs

destiny is no matter of chance. it is a matter of choice. it is not a thing to be

waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

-william jennings bryan

it is in the shelter of each other that the people live.

�irish proverb

know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative, and
successful.
in fact, there's more than room for everyone; there's a need for everyone.

-marianne williamson

the tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs
and the guffaws of scoffers.
-kahlil gibran

friends are like melons. shall i tell you why? to find a good one, you must a
hundred try.

-claude mermet

laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. laughing at someone else's can
shorten it.
-cullen hightower

lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being.

-e.y. harburg

i feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest
significance.
�pablo casals

the conscious mind is the editor, and the unconscious mind is the writer.

-david mamet

the power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.
your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. behind
every word flows energy.
-sonia choquette

once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

-italian proverb

there has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

-lillian eichler watson

perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us
once beautiful and brave.

-rainer maria rilke

love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

be a good listener. your ears will never get you in trouble.

if your ship doesn�t come in, swim out to it.

a sense of separation from god is the only lack you really need correct.

anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.

if encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

pain is inevitable. suffering is optional.

-m. kathleen casey

happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

-robert frost

"if god sent me on this earth to accomplish something.....

i am so far behind.....
i'll never die !"

my love for you is dark and deep,

and its a promise i will keep.
as long as i live, i'll watch and weep.
as long as i live, i'll watch and weep.

two monks were arguing about the temple flag. one said the flag moved, the other
said the wind moved.
master eno overheard them and said, �it is neither the wind nor the flag, but your
mind that moves.�

-anonymous

the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.it is the source of
all true art and
all science. he to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to
wonder and stand rapt
in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
-albert einstein

how long the sun and moon have been turning day and night, just to spend one night
with you!

-rumi

spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

-e.m. forster

suzuki roshi once said about questioning our life, our purpose-
"it's like putting a horse on top of a horse and then climbing on and trying to
ride.
riding a horse is hard enough. why add another horse? then it's impossible."

too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening
ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the
potential
to turn a life around.
�leo buscaglia

nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried.

-henry david thoreau

the secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

-kurt vonnegut

beauty is about the improbable coming true suddenly.

-charles simic

happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and
harmony.
-thomas merton

don't believe in miracles; depend on them.

-lawrence j. peter
grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have
somebody to divide it with.

-mark twain

when you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as
though
you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the
place and time
that the tide will turn.
-harriet beecher stowe

concentration is not to try hard to watch something. in zazen if you try to look
at one spot you will be tired in about five minutes. this is not concentration.
concentration means freedom. so your effort should be directed at nothing. you
should be concentrated on nothing.

-suzuki

yesterday is ashes; tomorrow is wood. only today does the fire burn brightly.

-old eskimo proverb

no bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

-william blake

if the angel deigns to come, it will be because you have convinced him, not by
tears,
but by your humble resolve to be always beginning: to be a beginner.

-rainer maria rilke

the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to

excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

-vince lombardi

when hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes
floats forth and opens like one of those fluted japanese blossoms, flimsy and
spastic,
bright and warm. this almost always seems to happen in community.
-annie lamott quoted in "the impossible will take a little while"

she dreamed that she was commanded to descend into �a pit filled with hot stuff�
and
immerse herself in it. this she did, till only one shoulder was sticking out of
the pit.
then jung came along, pushed her right down into the hot stuff, exclaiming �not
out but through.�

-aniela jaffe

people may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame
someone else.
-unknown

'new' doesn't equate with 'happy,' or there wouldn't be any antique stores.

-wilfred ford

be curious always! for knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

-sudie back

you need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

-friedrich nietzsche

if death can fly, just for the love of flying, what might not life do, for the
love of dying?

-malcom lowry

the first step towards change is acceptance. once you accept yourself, you open
the door to change. that's all you have to do. change is not something you do.
it's something you allow.
-will garcia

the greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time
we fall.

-ralph waldo emerson

when solving problem, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

-anthony j. d'angelo

well, every man�has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything
else for �
something which absorbs him�which may be regarded by others as being useless�yet
it is his dream,
it is his lodestar, it is his master. that, whatever it is, seized upon me, made
me its servant,
slave�induced me to set aside the other ambitions�a trail of glory in the heavens,
which i followed,
followed with a full heart.

-walt whitman

change. it has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new
doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. certainly it is worth
the risk.
-leo buscaglia

values are like fingerprints. nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over
everything you do.

-elvis presley

there are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the
year's course. even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the
word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-carl jung
if i try to be like him, who will be like me?

-yiddish proverb

a positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort.

-herm albright

not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it
is faced.
-james baldwin

the road to success is not straight. there is a curve called failure,

a loop called confusion, speed bumps called friends,
red lights called enemies, 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,
you will make it to a place called success.

to be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

-marcus valerius martial

faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to
take us around
the unknown curve.

-lillian smith

our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.

-nelson mandela

friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

-kahlil gibran

words do not signify anything but their own reality. therefore it is important to
keep changing the subject.

-john brockman

life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

-lou holtz

worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get
you anywhere.

-unknown
a bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.

-maya angelou

don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was.

-richard l evans

the man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

-william faulkner

it is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

-elizabeth kenny

when you have nothing left but god, you become aware that god is enough.
-guideposts

courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile
blossom that opens in the snow.

-alice mackenzie swaim

happiness is knowing that somewhere there is someone who only cares for you..,
someone who will pick you up when you fall.., someone who only knows you.., who
will hold you when you cry and embrace you when you smile.., happiness is when you
know that person is just for you . . . "

do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. see it for
the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

-rabindranath tagore

holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at
someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

-buddha

follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know
they were going to be.

-joseph campbell

successful people begin where failures leave off. never settle for 'just getting
the job done.' excel!"
- tom hopkins

a friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails

-pioneer girls leaders' handbook

if columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

-justice arthur goldberg

the real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right
place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

-dorothy nevill

forgiveness

"i believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and
apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'i was wrong. will you forgive me?'" --
kevin leman

"never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares
forgive an injury." -- e. h. chapin

"our friends are those who know their own faults well enough to forgive us ours."
-- moulton farnham

"the weak can never forgive. forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." --
mahatma gandhi

the man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted
thirty years of his life.

-muhammad ali

when the mind is stilled in dreamless sleep,

it brings rest and repose to the body.
just as birds fly to the tree for rest,
all things in life find their rest in the self.

-prashna upanishad

without love in the heart,

life is like a sapless tree in a barren desert.

what good is a body perfect in outer ways,

if inwardly it is impaired by lack of love?

with love enshrined in the heart, one lives.

without it, the body is but bone encased in skin.

-tirukkural 8:78-80

you cant occupy place in other people's life. it is them who have to give you the
space."

"words and actions of anger are like stones thrown at vessel, they leave a dent."

"you cant force a person to behave according to your wish, and in case you try too
hard you might lose her/him."

"before treating a person in some way think what if you were treated the same
way."

"if a stranger treats you bad, then dont bother about it. but if someone who knows
you treats you bad, then dont be surprised.
and try to think what conditions you created that led to this treatment."
"life is at its weakest when there are more doubts than trust; and its at its
strongest when you learn to trust inspite of the doubts."

"ego of knowledge is most destructive."

"do not worry about things you cant change, it will never do good to you. accept
things as they come."

"when you know you can make someone's day by a simple act of yours. then do it."

the fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

-hadia bejar

one cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. one can collect only a
few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

-anne morrow lindbergh

let me win, but if i cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.

-motto of the special olympics

hope

"all human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." -- alexander dumas

"hope is necessary in every condition. the miseries of poverty, sickness and

captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable." -- samuel johnson

"everything that is done in the world is done by hope." -- martin luther

"a leader is a dealer in hope." -- napoleon bonaparte

the greatest value in the world is the difference between what we are and what we
could become.

ben herbster (d. 1984)

there is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for
one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion to a great
rooted tree.

the purpose of life is not to be happy. the purpose of life is to matter, to be

productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

-arthur h. prince

life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a
tragedy for the poor.
sholom aleichem
1859-1916
russian writer

don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems--so that they should not recur
again.
-yogi bhajan

the more i think about it, the more i realize there is nothing more artistic than
to love others

-vincent van gogh

be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those
who matter don't mind.

-dr. seuss

climb up on some hill at sunrise. everybody needs perspective once in a while, and
you'll find it there.

-robb sagendorph
the world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which i never saw
before.

-samuel johnson

the way to succeed is never quit. that's it. but really be humble about it.

-alex haley

remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

-dale carnegie

a rough, uneducated boy in the village began to sing a hymn in a loud, raucous
voice. the pious young men looked at the
boy with contempt. their camels ran off into the desert. the wise old sufi asked
the young men:
"why does this boy's praises move your camels, yet leave you unmoved?"

-sadi, "the gulistan (the rose garden)"

truth is no theory, no speculative system of philosophy, no intellectual insight.

truth is exact correspondence with reality.

-paramhansa yogananda

the gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

-chinese proverb

the prophet said: "do not consider even the smallest good deed as unimportant,
even if it's only meeting your brother with a cheerful face."

-hadith narrated by abu dharr

when a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
a person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

-elie wiesel

when you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life
and strength. give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. if you see no
reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.

-tecumseh, shawnee chief

if you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

-booker t. washington

too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want, to
impress people they don't like.

-will rogers

we may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a
heart that is in love with god.

-mother teresa

whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to
burn brighter.

-bono

the ways are various, but the way to truth is only one. those who travel on the
way of truth must keep themselves isolated.

-abd al-wahid bin zaid, in �rabi�a the mystic�

i am not afraid of storms, for i am learning how to sail my ship.

-louisa may alcott

you don't just luck into things...you build step by step, whether it's friendships
or opportunities.

-barbara bush

life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

-martin luther king, jr.

as the intense fire of the furnace

refines gold to brilliancy, so does
the burning suffering of austerity
purify the soul to resplendence.

-tirukkural 27:267

self-trust is the first secret of success.

-ralph waldo emerson

never mistake knowledge for wisdom. one helps you make a living, the other helps
you make a life.

-sandra carey
the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

-william james

new year is the time to unfold new horizons & realize new dreams, to rediscover
the strength & faith within u, to rejoice in simple pleasures & gear up 4 a new
challenges. wishin u a truly fulfilling 2007

chance is always powerful. let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you
least expect it, there will be a fish.

-ovid

courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

-earl wilson (submitted by sherikka)

every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

-anonymous

don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

-robert louis stevenson

the master continued, "if you put oil, pepper, garlic and onion in a cauldron, and
merely add water, you have not made a stew. the basis for a stew is meat; the
other ingredients are optional. similarly, spiritual progress depends on detaching
yourself from material posessions; other virtuous practices are optional."

i like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

-thomas jefferson

life is overflowing with the new. but it is necessary to empty out the old to make
room for the new to enter.

-eileen caddy

what is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful.

-unknown

anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

-benjamin franklin

the man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.

-polish proverb

forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

-paul boese

let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
-rabindranath tagore

first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

-mahatma gandhi

turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

-maori proverb

the world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

-helen keller

a real friend never gets in your way--unless you happen to be on the way down.

-dr. wayne dyer

if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always
gotten.

-anonymous

labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called
conscience.

-george washington

"how different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do
what really matters most." -- stephen covey

"our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." --
martin luther king, jr.

"let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be
sorry." -- mark twain

"when we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that
we won�t be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious
over anything that stands in our way." -- nido qubein

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"ultimately the people who win, who achieve victory in life are the people who are
committed to it. they outlast everybody else. because quite frankly all success in
business, all success in relationships, all success in life comes at the end of
the road of commitment!" -- chris widener (excerpted from winning with influence)

problem can either make you or break you. hammer that breaks the glass also shapes
the steel . its upto us to be glass or steel. have a willpower of steel & vision
of glass

a group of donkeys led by a lion can defeat a group of lions led by a donkey.
thats leadership!

whenever i find a key to succes

someone changes the lock........
it is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

-andre gide

"a friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
- elbert hubbard

when the student is ready, the teacher appears.

-tao saying

someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago.

-warren buffet

some people asked a sufi master, "which is better, courage or generosity?" the
sufi master replied, "those who are generous have no need for courage."

-sadi, "gulistan"

don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.
and then go and do that. because what the world needs is people who have come
alive.

-howard thurman

god brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

-aughey

i believe that he is the true warrior who does not die killing but who has
mastered the mantra of living by dying.

-mohandas gandhi

experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
afterward.

the pleasures of this world are delightful

from a distance before the actual test.
from a distance they appear to be refreshing water,
but when you approach them, you find they are a mirage.
the world�s bait is visible, but the trap is hidden:
at first sight, the world�s favors seem sweet.

mile by mile it's a trial; yard by yard it's hard; but inch by inch it's a cinch.

obstacles don't have to stop you. if you run into a wall, don't turn around and
give up. figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

-michael jordan

you are younger today than you ever will be again. make use of it for the sake of
tomorrow.

-anonymous
kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

-frederick w. faber

it's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

-vince lombardi

measured by miles,u r far from me .measured by thoughts u r closer to me.measured

by closed eyes u r with me .measured by heart u r in me...

one man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who
has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

-edward b. butler