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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off the goal. (E. Joseph Cossman) |
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Whatever the struggle, continue the climb, it may be only one more step to the summit. (Diane Westlake) |
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Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going. (Jim Ryan) |
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A ship in a harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. (John A. Shedd) |
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Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes. (Dōgen) |
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Doubt everything at least once, even the proposition that two times two equals four. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) |
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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. (Jean Arp) |
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In your heart, you already know. (Zen saying) |
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The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human reason. (Leo Tolstoy) |
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Even if you learn the truths of Buddahood, that too is to misuse the mind. You have to be free of preoccupations. You have to be normal. (Zen saying) |
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Every morning, our first thought should be a wish to devote the day to the good of all living beings. (Dilgo Khyenstse Rinpoche) |
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"What is the sound outside?" Ching-ch'ing asked a monk. "The sound of rain dripping." Ching-ch'ing said: "Ordinary people are upside down, falling into delusion about themselves and pursuing outside objects." (Zen Koan) |
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To take for permanent that which is only transitory is the delusion of a madman. (Kalu Rinpoche) |
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There is only one great adventure and that is inwards toward the self. (Henry Miller) |
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To learn the way it is important to be sharp and inconspicuous. When you are sharp, you are not confused by people. When you are inconspicuous, you do not contend with people. Not being confused by people, you are empty and spiritual. Not contending with people, you are serene and subtle. (Liao-An) |
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Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. (Dinah Shore) |
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In each journey of your life, you must be where you are. You may only be passing through on your way to somewhere else seemingly more important--nevertheless, there is purpose in where you are right now. (Wisdom from the Rebbe) |
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Flowers grow out of dark moments. (Corita Kent) |
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Love is a mutual self-giving that ends in self-recovery. (Fulton J. Sheen) |
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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. (Muriel Spark) |
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I think we all have a core that’s ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them. (Coleman Barks) |
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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. (Robert Herrick) |
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I must consider myself as a corpse which has neither intelligence nor will: be like a mass of matter which without resistance lets itself be placed wherever it may please anyone; like a stick in the hand of an old man, who uses it according to his needs and places it wherever it suits him. (St. Ignatius Loyola) |
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. (Og Mandino) |
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If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it. (Alan Watts) |
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. (Jean Anouilh) |
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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it until it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. (Henry David Thoreau) |
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Friedrich Nietzsche) |
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Practice and enlightenment are not two. (Dōgen) |
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Trust shows the way. (Hildegard of Bingen) |
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary. (Henry David Thoreau) |
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. (Ralph W. Sockman) |
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. (W. H. Auden) |
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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. (Mark Twain) |
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Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, and try, try, try for ten thousand years. (Zen saying) |
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Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding. (Yehuda Amichai) |
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In a dark time, the eye begins to see. (Theodore Roethke) |
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One of the chief pleasures of middle age is looking back at the people you didn't marry. (Anonymous) |
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It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. (Mother Teresa) |
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Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one. (Johann Peter Eckermann) |
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The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want right now. (from Lunar Reflections) |
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Within your heart keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go, and sheltered so, may thrive and grow - where doubt and fear are not. Oh, keep a place in your heart, for little dreams to go. (Louise Driscoll) |
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It is also a victory to know when to retreat. (Erno Paasilinna) |
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When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was. (Alan Watts) |
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. (Arthur Conan Doyle) |
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There is no treasure in the deep mountains; he who has no desire for it finds it. (Zen Saying) |
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. (Taoist Saying) |
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It’s harder to see than it is to express. (Robert Henri) |
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It is a task to come to see the world as it is. (Iris Murdoch) |
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart. (Confucius) |
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Dare to be naive. (R. Buckminster Fuller) |
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Jimmy Dugan: ...Dottie, if you want to go back to Oregon and make a hundred babies, great, I'm in no position to tell anyone how to live. But sneaking out like this, quitting, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. Baseball is what gets inside you. It's what lights you up, you can't deny that. Dottie Hinson: It just got too hard. Jimmy Dugan: It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great. (from A League of Their Own) |
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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. (George Sand) |
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All this world is in your own mind. (Zen saying) |
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. (George Bernard Shaw) |
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. (Kahlil Gibran) |
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Self is realized through selflessness. (Lao-Tsu) |
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We must model ourselves on Bodhidharma, who kept sitting till his buttocks grew rotten. We must have done with all words and letters, and attain truth itself. (Shinkichi Takahashi) |
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And so I urge you: go after experience rather than knowledge. On account of pride, knowledge may often deceive you, but this gentle, loving affection will not deceive you. Knowledge tends to breed conceit, but love builds. Knowledge is full of labor, but love, full of rest. (The Cloud Of Unknowing) |
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Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of the intelligence at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future . . . cease to be perceived as opposites. (André Breton) |
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To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like. (Charlotte Joko Beck) |
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What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific of one’s being alone. (Henry David Thoreau) |
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. (Friedrich Nietzsche) |
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A superior vessel takes a long time to complete. (Zen Proverb) |
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Impatience crashes the gate (and usually gets thrown out), where grace gets invited in. (Carolyn Hax) |
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Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it turned into a butterfly. (Anonymous) |
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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. (Dr. Suess) |
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She learned to love him before he thought it was even possible, so he didn't have a chance to hide & mess it up & while it was a little scary at times, mainly he could not even imagine the world without her there. (Brian Andreas) |
