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Wise Words
"He gives little who gives with a frown;
he gives much who gives little with a smile."
The Talmud
"...the moment I jumped off the stepping stone, the swamp mysteriously drained away .. the mist lifted from in front
of my eyes and I could see that all of my stepping stones were the figment of some-one else's imagination."
Grandfather Peter
"Dreams are the language of the soul"
"Dare to dream"
"Make A Wish - Follow Your Dreams"
"Observe the drama but be not of it. Remember to dream the new dream, one of beauty, harmony, and balance.
Big dreams start small, then gather momentum. Keep gathering and storing personal energy for when it will be
most needed. You can't be too powerful or too free."
"Yesterday is a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision; but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of
happiness, and tomorrow a vision of hope."
Kalidasa
"The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously." A joyful life is an active life - it is not a dull, static state of
so-called happiness. Full of the burning fire of enthusiasm, anarchic, revolutionary, energetic, daemonic, Dionysian,
filled to overflowing with the terrific urge to create - such is the life of the man who risks safety and happiness for the
sake of growth and happiness."
Frederick William Sanderson, 1857-1922
"Earth is a goddess, and teaches justice to those who can learn; for the better she is served, the more good things
she gives in return."
Xenophon
"The only people who appreciate change are wet babies."
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
"To realise a dream, you must have a dream to realise."
"Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them."
"The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that."
"Proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension."
"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
"Peace is not something that you wish for. It is something you make, something you do, something you are, and
something you give away."
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, there may be jealousy;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may not be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Mother Theresa
A wonderful (and supposed true) Quaker story:
An old quaker man was disturbed at night by robbers so he crept down to his front room with a shot gun and said in
a loud voice "Friend - I would not seek to harm you but you appear to be standing just where I am about to
discharge my shotgun. I wonder if you wouldn't mind going out of the house just in case you accidently get hurt."
Blessings
"People may forget what you said, they may forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
"Laugh every day. Work like you don't need the money."
"Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
"I love the sound of voices, but even more, I love the FEEL of singing. I love the vibrations in my chest, throat and
sinuses. I love releasing sound into the air and having it mix with everyone else's sounds. I love when my head
buzzes from the harmonies. It sounds a bit over the top, but it feels very spiritual."
"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never
learn from masters."
Saint Bernard (1091 - 1153)
"We do not quit playing because we grow old,
We grow old because we quit playing."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Freedom is not in the finished carving but in the wood chips left on the floor."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing
that ever does."
Margaret Mead
"What would YOU do if you were in your situation?"
Everytime we breathe we kill. Everytime we walk we kill. Are you aware that the same is being done to us.The Dalai
Lama once swatted a fly... someone said to him that he should not do that because he is a Buddhist spiritual
leader. His response was "Happy reincarnation."
"If you are one of those insufferable persons who forwards anything that "promises" something bad will happen if
you "don't" - then something bad will happen to you if I ever meet you in a dark alley."
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