Quotes

"Learn to be still just long enough to see your Angel"

"Be the change that you want to see in the world."
-- Gandhi

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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

"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce.  You look for reasons it's not doing well.  It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun.  You never blame the lettuxe; yet, if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person.  But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce.  Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments.  That is my experience.  No blame, no reasoning, no argument:  just understanding."
-- Thich Nhat Hahn

"Dance like nobody is watching; dream like you'll live forever; live like you're going to die tomorrow and love like you haven't been hurt."
-- Meme Grifsters

"There is no way to happiness;  happiness is the way."
-- Buddha

"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life.  But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first:  some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid.  Then life would begind.  At last it dawned on me that this was my life.   This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness.   Happiness is the way."
-- Alfred D. Souza

"Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky.  Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them.  Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly.  So don't worry about clear mind:  it is always there.   When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind.  When thinking goes, there is only clear mind.  Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes.  You must not be attached to the coming or the going."
-- Zen Master Seung Sahn

"Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering endured by the first side."
-- Thich Nhat Hahn

"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic"
-- Rosalind Russell

Excerpt from his inaguration speech, Nelson Mandella, 1994

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant; gorgeous; talented and fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel so insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some us is; it's in everyone.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

"Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts,
Only you can change them.
You will want to change them
When you realise that each thought creates
According to its own nature.
Remember that the law works at all times
And that you are always demonstrating
According to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain.
Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts
That will bring you health and happiness."
-- Paramahansa Yoggananda

"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a façade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."
-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."
-- Audre Lorde

"What you need to run a business is optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magick and fun."
-- Anita Roddick

"And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to bloom."
-- Anäis Nïn

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
-- James Dean

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."
-- Luciano de Crescenzo