Wednesday, October 31, 2007

JOHN BURROUGHS

I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honour it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

Monday, October 29, 2007

H. H. Sri SWAMI SIVANANDA

Serve, love, give, purify, meditate, realize.
Be good, do good, be kind, be compassionate.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

CHUANG TSU

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without,
for much knowledge is a curse.

Friday, October 26, 2007

VOLTAIRE

The only problem with common sense is that it is not very common.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

BOB COSBY

"Don't worry about senility," my grandfather used to say. "When it hits you, you won't know it."

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

GARY BARNES

You don't grow old and stop dancing. You stop dancing and grow old.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

'ABDU' L-BAHA

To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world, to love humanity and try to serve it, to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.

Monday, October 22, 2007

BUDDHA

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

ANON

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Ancient Hawaiian Saying

May the earth continue to live.
May the heavens above continue to live.
May the rains continue to dampen the land,
Then the flowers shall bloom,
And we people shall live again.

Friday, October 19, 2007

MOSHI DYAN

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

LAO TZU

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL

Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Monday, October 15, 2007

SAMUEL BUTLER

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

JIMI HENDRIX

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr.

Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

Friday, October 12, 2007

LAO-TZU

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in giving creates love.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! it is an ever fixed-mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

BUDDHA

When a man has pity on all living creatures, only then is he noble.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

FRANCES BACON

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.

Monday, October 08, 2007

MARCUS AURELIUS

Do every act of your life as if were your last.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

ELBERT HUBBARD

If you can’t answer a man’s argument, all is not lost. You can still call him vile names.

Saturday, October 06, 2007

ANAIS NIN

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Friday, October 05, 2007

THICH NHAT HANH

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivate compassion, and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants and minerals.
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

RON ATCHISON

And this is your assignment for today. Look for the magic everywhere you go - it's everywhere. Make some magic - it's fun. And for extra credit, throw a lightning bolt across the sky just because you can.
(from www.inspirationpeak.com)

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Monday, October 01, 2007

TENNYSON

There is more faith in an honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.