from FragrantHeart.com

Today is not just the first day of the rest of my life. It is also the first moment of the rest of my life, and every moment after that in which I am fully present.

The DALAI LAMA

What is religion? As far as I am concerned, any deed done with good motivation is a religious act. On the other hand, a gathering of people in a temple or church who do not have good motivation are not performing a religious act when they pray together.

ANON

Do not pretend you know.
Start the day fresh and new.
The only thing you know is that you do not know.

MARY KAY ASH

Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as the mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.



This week John’s Quiet Corner includes a painting by the Australian artist Frederick McGubbin, a poem by the Ettrick Shepherd (James Hogg) and a slide show of pictures of roses accompanied by the panpipes of Gheorghe Zamfir

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DALE CARNEGIE

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Cherokee Saying

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

FRANCIS GRAY

Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.

The next posting here will be on
MONDAY 24TH AUGUST

JAMES OPPENHEIM

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance.
The wise man grows it under his feet.

ANON

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

NISARGADATTA

Wisdom tells me I'm Nothing.
Love tells me I'm Everything.
Between the two my life flows.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

MOTHER TERESA

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

CHARLES LAMB

The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth
and be found out by accident

King James Bible - Proverbs

A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

RUMI

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons.
Knocking on a door, it opens -
I've been knocking from the inside.

LAURENS van der POST

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right

JOHN’S QUIET CORNER today includes a poem by Robert Browning, a painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the Romance from the Gadfly Suite by Shostakovich, plus something to think about...
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GEORGE ASAF

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

[from the song “Pack up your troubles”]

JOHN’S QUIET CORNER tomorrow will include a poem by Robert Browning, a painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the Romance from the Gadfly Suite by Shostakovich, plus something to think about…….
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LAO TSU

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

GOETHE

If you treat a man as he is, he will stay as he is. However, if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, and could be, he will become that bigger and better man.

ANON

Stop struggling for perfection, and recognise the perfection you already are.

CAROL BURNETT

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him, than one truth which he does not wish should be told.