"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." --The 14th Dalai Lama.

Current Mood: hungry

"New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.
Unless, of course, those tests come back positive." ~Jay Leno

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"Now there are more overweight people in America
than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average…
which means, you have met your New Year's resolution!" - Jay Leno

"In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

-Albert Camus

"Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival."

- Osho, was Indian mystic, guru and philosopher.

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

~ Lucille Ball

"The night kissed the fading day, with a whisper:
"I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

- Rabindranth Tagore

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

~ Oscar Wilde


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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

~Eli Joseph Cossman

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?"

-Dr. Seuss

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

- Maya Angelou, is an American autobiographer and poet.

"Act on your inner guidance, and give up your need for 'proof' that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any."

- Caroline Myss, is an American medical intuitive, mystic and best-selling author

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~Pablo Casals

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana

I love America. I love the world. Brotherhood and sisterhood have no borders. My heart orbits the Earth, love cannot be measured in longitude or latitude. ~Valentine Sterling

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. ~Buddha

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimmer

"The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle."-Author Unknown

What you love you empower
and what you fear you empower
and what you empower you attract.

~unknown

What fortune for the governments that people do not think. - Adolph Hitler

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.-Kurt Cobain

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.-Anne Frank

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.-Author Unknown

"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive."

-Pema Chodron

There is no friend as loyal as a book.- Ernest Hemingway

Current Mood: nerdy

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. © Sidonie Gabrielle

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough © Albert Einstein

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.-Author Unknown

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.-Henry David Thoreau

Always when judging who people are, remember to footnote, the words "So far."-Robert Brault

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.-Alfred Lord Tennyson

Whatever you are be a good one.-Abraham Lincoln

Current Mood: calm

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” - A C Grayling

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.-Oscar Wilde

"You can't control the wind, but you can control your sails"

- Anonymous

From Will, a friend of mine on facebook, who states this in his profile. :) The way he lives his life is an inspiration to anyone who stops to think for half a minute about all that he does.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Many of life's "failures" are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Keep at it!