I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing;
Wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing;
There is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
So the darkness shall be the light,
And the stillness the dancing.
T.S. Eliot, from: East Coker in the Four Quartets.
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein, three rules of work
In the end we will conserve only what we love.
We love only what we understand.
We will understand only what we are taught.
- Baba Dioum, Senegalese Ecologist
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while
A great wind is bearing me across the sky.
- Ojibwa Saying
When all is said and done,
it is persistence that is the antidote to powerlessness....
The sight of goodness undeterred
has more power than all the forces on earth arrayed against it.
- Joan Chittister
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- Paul Vale'ry
Try.
Fail.
Try Again.
Fail Better.
- Samuel Beckett
Remember:
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
- Grace Speare
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, an English Economist
The spirit of poetry came to me and said
"You poor thing. You don't know how to listen.
Listen to me.
Listen."
When I began to listen to poetry is when I began to listen to stones,
and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say,
and I began to listen to others.
And what is most important for all of us, is to learn to listen to the soul,
the soul of yourself,
in here,
but which is also the soul of everyone else.
- The Native American poet Joy Harjo on PBS
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the
expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
- John Balguy
When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
- Jelaluddin Rumi
If you live your life with a shield up, even the good things in life
will pass you by.
- Anonymous
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole
being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no
substitutes, no compromises.
-C. G. Jung
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain
There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is
translated through you into action, and because there is only one of
you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it,
it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.
The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how
good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other
expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and
directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe
in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware
to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
- Martha Graham
"Health is not merely the absence of disease, it is the balance of mind, body and soul."
- Hippocrates
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao-Tzu
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created --- created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.
- John Schaar
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
We must take care not to make intellect our god. It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot rule, only serve.
- Albert Einstein
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
- Mahatma Gandhi
"...any turn in the wheel of sensation has the power to crystallize and
transfix the moment upon which its gloom or radiance rests..."
Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest
his patients in the care of the human frame,
in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas Edison
The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you,
the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
And only a person who listens can speak.
Dag Hammarskjold
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Finish each day and be done with it... You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it well and serenely.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men (sic) - true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Author Unknown
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt about a tragedy.
He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.
One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.'
The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?'
The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Native American story
Darkness is your candle.
Your boundaries are your quest.
By Rumi: 1207 - 1273
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs...
Ask yourself what makes you alive
because what the world needs
are people who have come
alive."
Ranier Maria Rilke - poet
By Perseverance
the snail reached the ark.
To any reader, young or old, scholar or layman,
I would say one thing:
No great book was ever written to be lectured on or explained in schools.
Every masterpiece was first written for the use of (human beings).
Don't be frightened by famous names.
Don't think that famous books are dull.
They wouldn't be famous now if they hadn't interested their first readers.
Get yourself a comfortable chair and a good light
---and have confidence in your own mind.
John Erskine, February 28, 1937 Columbia University
True wisdom consists of not departing from Nature
but in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
Roman philosopher Lucius Anaeus Seneca
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in our sleep,
pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop
upon the heart
until in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.
Greek playwright, Aeschyles
The significant problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking
we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
You depend on things and marvel at them:
why not unfold your own abilities and transform them?
Hsun-Tsu
The improvement of understanding is for two ends:
first, for our own increase in knowledge;
secondly, to enable us to deliver and make
out that knowledge to others.
John Locke
What can be done at any time will be done at no time.
old Scottish proverb
Enlighten the people generally,
and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind
will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
The music that can deepest reach,
And cure all ill,
is cordial speech.
Emerson
Healing is a matter of time,
but it is sometimes also
a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates (460-400 B.C.)
Death and taxes and childbirth!
There's never any convenient time
for any of them.
Scarett O'Hara
(Character in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind.)
What a wonderful life I've had!
I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
Work keeps away the three great vices:
boredom, vice and poverty..
Voltaire
We are healed of a suffering
only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
We should be careful
to get out of an experience
only the wisdom
that is in it
and stop there;
lest we be like the cat
that sits down
on a hot stove lid.
She will never sit down
on a hot stove lid again
--and that is well;
but also she will never sit
down on a cold one
any more.
Mark Twain
Do what you can,
with what you have,
with where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest pleasure I
know is to do a good
action by stealth,
and to have it found out
by accident.
Charles Lamb
We lived for days
on nothing
but food and water.
W. C. Fields
The secret of success
is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
When you get right down
to the root of the meaning
of the word succeed,
you find it simply means
to follow through.
F. W. Nichol
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau
It often happens
that I wake at night
and begin to think about
a serious problem
and decide I must tell
the Pope about it.
Then I wake up
completely and remember
that I am the Pope.
Pope John XXIII
Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Life is too short to waste
In critic peep
or cynic bark,
Quarrel or reprimand:
Twill soon be dark;
Up! Mind thine own aim,
and God speed the mark!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never made
but one prayer to God,
a very short one:
O Lord,
make my enemies
ridiculous.
And God granted it.
Voltaire
There is a brokenness
out of which comes the unbroken.
There is a shatteredness
out of which blooms the unshatterable.
There is sorrow beyond all grief,
which leads to joy; and a fragility
out of whose depths emerges strength.
There is a hollow space too vast for words
through which we pass with each loss,
out of whose darkness
we are sanctioned into being. .
Rashani
A faithful friend
is the medicine of life.
Ecclesiasticus 6:16
How many cares
one loses
when one decides
not to be something
but to be someone.
Coco Gabrielle Chanel
I know of no more
encouraging fact
than the unquestionable
ability of man
to elevate his life
by conscious endeavor.
Thoreau
Personally I'm always
ready to learn,
although I do not always
like being taught.
Winston Churchill
Perhaps the most
valuable result
of all education
is the ability
to make yourself
do the thing
you have to do,
when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not.
Thomas Henry Huxley
If we open a quarrel
between the past
and the present,
we shall find that we
have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
One's friends are that part
of the human race with which
one can be human.
George Santayana
The price of greatness
is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
Statistically 100 percent of the shots you don't take
don't go in.
Wayne Gretsky
It is easier to fight
for one's principles
than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
Nothing is so certain
as that the evils of
idleness can be shaken off
by hard work.
Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
Alas, I know if I ever
became truly humble,
I would be proud of it.
Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost;
For want of a horse, the rider was lost;
For want of a rider, the battle was lost;
For want of a battle, the kindgom was lost;
All for the want of a nail..
European folkore.
The more the marble wastes,
the more the statue grows.
Michelangelo
On Relativity
There was a young lady
named Bright,
Whose speed was far
faster than light;
She set out one day
In a relative way,
And returned home
the previous night.
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
Most of the evils in life
arise from man's being
unable to sit still
in a room.
Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
You can discover more about a person in an hour
of play than in a year of discussion. .
Plato (427-347 BCE)
Always forgive your enemies;
nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Stay at home
in your mind.
Don't recite
other people's opinions.
I hate quotations.
Tell me what you know.
Emerson
He that will not apply new remedies must expect evils,
for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
The country needs, and, unless I mistake, the country demands,
bold persistent experimentation.
It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932
Judge me by the enemies I have made.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic eras are periods of experiment, innovation and adventure.
Alexis de Tocqueville
I cannot but fear that men may arrive at such a state
as to regard every new theory as a peril,
every innovation as an irksome toil,
every social improvement as a stepping-stone to revolution,
and so refuse to move altogether for fear of being moved too far.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate
to the stormy present...
we must think anew, and act anew.
We must disenthrall ourselves,
and then we shall save our country.
Abraham Lincoln.
It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity
of inquiry;
for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation,
stands mainly in need of freedom;
without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail.
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching
can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
Einstein, 1949
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure
nor this thing nor that
but simply growth,
We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Johann von Goethe
It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change.
Charles Darwin
Tell me and I'll forget.
Show me and I'll remember.
Involve me and I'll understand.
Confucius
The great mass of people more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a minor one.
Adolph Hitler
Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error;
it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Justice Robert Jackson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michaelangelo
An eye for an eye will only serve to make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Ghandi
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton
God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
Chinese proverb
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
George Elliot
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