Wednesday, April 30, 2008

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I have learned,
that if one advances confidently
in the direction of one’s dreams,
and endeavours to live the life one has imagined,
one will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

DESMOND TUTU

Without memory, there is no healing.
Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Monday, April 28, 2008

LAO-TZU

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

J. M. BARRIE

Dreams do come true, if you only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

ANTHONY De MELLO

Said the river to the seeker, “Does one really have to fret about enlightenment? No matter which way I turn, I’m homeward bound.”

Friday, April 25, 2008

VINCE LOMBARDI

The spirit, the will to win,
and the will to excel are the things that endure.
These qualities are so much more important
than the events that occur.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

CHARLES CHAPLIN

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

HUANCHU DAOREN

Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself

(from HENRY VIII)

Monday, April 21, 2008

Gaelic Saying

Cha d’dhùin doras nach d’fhosgail doras.
No door ever closed, but another opened.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

WALTER LINN

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

Friday, April 18, 2008

BUDDHA

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.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

CHIEF SITTING BULL

Every seed is awakened and so is all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being. We therefore yield to our animal neighbours the same right as ourselves to inhabit this land.

[Sitting Bull, born between 1831 and 1837, died 1890, chief of the Dakota Sioux]

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

PROUST

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

W. H. AUDEN

We are all here on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Japanese Saying

Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

HSI-TANG

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

GALILEO

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within himself.

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

KATHERINE MANSEFIELD

I must say I hate money, but it’s the lack of it I hate most.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

The DALAI LAMA

I have three treasures which I guard and keep - the first compassion, the second economy, the third humility.
From compassion comes courage, from economy comes the means to be generous, from humility comes responsible leadership.

Monday, April 07, 2008

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The best portion of a good man’s life -
his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and love.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

MOTHER TERESA

All that we need to know and all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own hearts.

Saturday, April 05, 2008

LAO TZU

Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Friday, April 04, 2008

FRED ASTAIRE

Old age is like everything else - to make a success of it, you need to start young.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Native American Saying

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

CHARLES DICKENS

Whatever I have tried to do in life,
I have tried with all my heart to do it well.
Whatever I have devoted myself to,
I have devoted myself completely.
In great aims and in small
I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, merely surface glitter, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

[Swami Vivekananda 1863-1902, Indian philosopher, lecturer and writer who brought Eastern ideas to the West]