Mindfulness

"Mindfulness is not a modern spiritual movement.  It's simply you at your most natural state of being."
(Brad Waters)

On Courage

"Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage.  It is always available, always waiting to be discovered."
(Pema Chodron)

Chopra on Same Old, Same Old

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."
(Deepak Chopra)

Good advice.

Deepak Chopra on Stillness

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
(Deepak Chopra)

Yes.

Unpleasant Memories

"I no longer dodge the memory as if rotting vegetables were flying at my face."
(Sandra Upson)

Tolkien on Wandering

"Not all who wander are lost."
(J.R.R. Tolkien)

Be Faithful

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
(Mother Teresa)

True.

Joseph Campbell on Joy

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."
(Joseph Campbell)

On Character

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

A Stumble

"A stumble may prevent a fall."
(Thomas Fuller)

True.

The Purpose of Life

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

Julius Hare

"Be what you are."
(Julius Charles Hare)

According to Buddha

"Do not dwell in the past.  Do not dream of the future.  Concentrate the mind on the present moment."
(Buddha)

Focus; mindfulness.

Eleanor Roosevelt on the Future

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

Love this.

Woody Allen

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
(Woody Allen)

Springsteen

"It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive." 
(Bruce Springsteen)

Love this one.

Thoreau on Our Thoughts

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

(Henry David Thoreau)

On This Day

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

(Johann van Goethe)

Thoreau on Walking

"... in the distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing and prayer. I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful. I have told many that I walk every day about half the daylight, but I think they do not believe it. I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America, out of my head and be sane a part of every day." (Henry David Thoreau)

I couldn't have said it better...

Intimacy

"Intimacy begins with oneself."  (Thomas Moore)

Agreed.

Camus on Charm

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."
(Albert Camus)

Camus on Happiness

"There's no shame in preferring happiness."  (Albert Camus)

Camus on Despair and Hope

"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."

(Albert Camus)

 

 

 

On Friends

"Your friends aren't what they do for a living or who their parents are or the values they claim to have, but, rather, the sum of their personalities as one experiences them day after day, year after year."
(Ray Robertson)

Sophocles on Wanting Death

"Death is not the greatest of evils.  It is worse to want to die, and not be able to."  (Sophocles)

The Supreme Court of Canada should heed this wisdom of Sophocles.

Chinese Proverb: The Worth of Pictures

An old Chinese proverb says that one picture is worth ten thousand words.

Plato on Man

"Man - a being in search of meaning."  (Plato)

Goethe on Duty

"What is your duty?  What each day requires."  (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Tolstoy on Happiness

"If you want to be happy, be."  (Leo Tolstoy)