Quotes 12-25-11

Merry Damn Christmas!!!



"If someone wants to be a part of your life, they will make an effort to be in it, so don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone who doesn't make an effort to stay."  
  -unknown

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

- Channing Pollock

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

- Dale Carnegie

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

- Plutarch

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity... I can be sure that I am right.

- Federico Fellini

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.

- Stanley Horowitz

If you don't run your own life, someone else will.

- John Atkinson

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

- Maya Angelou

Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I'll understand.

- Chinese Proverb

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

- Alice Mackenzie Swaim

There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

- Yogi Berra

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.

- Sandra Carey

You've got to be the best person you can be in your life.

- Jeff Gordon

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

- F. Wilezek

A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn.

- Unknown

Quotes 11/23/2011

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

- Jules Renard

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

- Mignon McLaughlin

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

- Vince Lombardi

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

- G. K. Chesterton

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

- Robert Bringle

Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles.

- Bob Richards

You are my friend when you can guard my failure, challenge my thought and celebrate my success.

- Unknown

One must care about a world one will never see.

- Bertrand Russell

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

- Charlie Chaplin

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

- Albert Gray

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

- Oswald Avery

True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess.

- J.F. Wright

We only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something youve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it.

- Jon Blais

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

- Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the cards you are dealt but what you do with them that counts.

-Unknown

Don't cross the stream to look for water.

- Swedish Proverb

Past experience should be a guide post, not a hitching post.

- D. W. Williams

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

- Maimonides

I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.

- Elmer Diktonius

I believe that good things come to those who work. - Wilt Chamberlain The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out--it's the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert Service What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do. - Joe Namath

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

- Benjamin Franklin

Some look upon the sun as our father Who makes life possible with heat and rain And divides time into months and seasons. Others have seen him riding in wisdom On his chariot, with seven colors As horses and six wheels to represent The whirling spokes of time.

- Prashna Upanishad

There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then cling to them now?

- Master Hsing Yun, "The Indescribable"

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan

While aid may outwardly seem as puny as a mustard seed, The knowing will deem it as imposing as a towering palm. Help rendered another cannot be measured by the extent Of assistance imparted. Its real measure is the recipient's worthiness.

- Tirukkural 11:104-105

 

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

- Don Shula

If you wish to understand yourself, you must succeed in doing so in the midst of all kinds of confusions and upsets. Don't make the mistake of sitting dead in the cold ashes of a withered tree.

- Emyo

Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.

- Hal Lindsey

He who is free from selfish attachments, who has mastered himself and his passions, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from action.

- Bhagavad Gita 18:49

 

I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.

- David Robinson

Therefore the practice is like a key, the key of meditation. If we have the right key in our hand, no matter how tightly the lock is closed, when we take the key and turn it the lock falls open. If we have no key we can't open the lock. We will never know what is in the trunk.

- Ajahn Chah, "Living Dharma"

A nation that is ruled by it's government is never truly free.

-Myself

Remember the virtues you lack and the faults you have; forget the good you did and the wrong you received.

- Orhot Tzaddikim, 15C

Politics and Politicians get in the way of good and effective government.

-Myself

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free

- Oprah Winfrey

Erroneous views keep us in defilement While right views remove us from it, But when we are in a position to discard both of them We are then absolutely pure.

- The Sutra of Hui Neng

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

-Unknown

It is better to have less if it is with peace of mind than to have abundant wealth but with a tormented spirit.

- Ecclesiastes

Quotes

Nothing will prove the existence of God to an Atheist, yet to a true believer everything is proof.

- Me

Desires must be purified and idealized, not exterminated.

- Rav Eliyahu of Vilna (The Vilma Gaon)

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

- Grace Murray Hopper

"Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government
that requires every citizen to prove
they are insured...but not everyone
must prove they are a citizen."

-I'm not sure of the author

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

- Heine, English Fragments, 1828

The ultimate way is without difficulty; those who seek it make their own hardship. The true mind is originally pure; those who exercise it make their own defilement.

- Hui-k'ung

Seeing ourselves plainly, we can change, and as we do so, it brings a feeling of great relief, as if we had dropped a heavy load.

- Ayya Khema, "Who is My Self?"

Neglecting valuable advice, an ignorant man becomes the cause of his own misery. That soul who neither follows another's orders nor fathoms what to do himself creates nothing but torment until he leaves this life.

- Tirukkural 847-848

Man never acts in a manner more resembling God than when he bestows benefits.

- Philo, Special Laws

We arent what we ought to be. We arent what were going to be. We arent what we want to be. But, thank God, we arent what we were.

-?

If you think, I breathe, the I is extra. There is no you to say I. What we call I is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no I, no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door.

- Shunryu Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

is not those who lack energy or refrain from action, but those who work without expectation of reward who attain the goal of meditation. Theirs is true renunciation.

- Bhagavad Gita 6:1

True divine religion needs neither arms nor fingers for its use; it is all spirit and heart.

- Moses Mendelssohn

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

- Erma Bombeck

A mind unshaken when touched by the worldly states, sorrowless, stainless, and secure, this is the blessing supreme. Those who have fulfilled all these are everywhere invincible; they find well-being everywhere, theirs is the blessing supreme.

- (adapted from) Mangala Sutta

A real friend never gets in your way--unless you happen to be on the way down.

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

 

Quotes 7-3-11

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

- John Stuart Mill

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

- Jewish Proverb

The game isn't over till it's over.

- Yogi Berra

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us...Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

- Mother Teresa

There is no reward for following the commandments in this world. - Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 39b If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me. - Doug Boyd The most effective antidote to temptation: shut the eyes. - Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim How far that little candle shows his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. - Thomas Jefferson He who asks mercy for another while he himself is in the same need, will be answered first. - Talmud: Baba Kamma, 92a The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - William Faulkner Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. - George Halas If you gather not in youth, how will you find in old age? - Apocrypha: Ben Sira 25:3 Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence? - Sai Baba Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy. - Rabbi Nachman of Breslov



Quotes 5-24-2011

This is how you should contemplate. The world is an idea in the mind to which the word world has been attached. Beyond this idea is the mystery of beingness. But it's not possible to free people from their attachment to the idea--to that which blinds them to the reality--without appropriate methods. So you should tread the path of perfect giving, of patience, energy, meditation, and wisdom. Yet while following these activities, you should remain aware that the world is illusory. It is for the sake of those who do not know that you engage in dynamic and vigorous work and also in meditation and one-pointed attention. Understanding that without wisdom you can do nothing for others, you remain in the perfection of wisdom, which is the awareness that what you are doing is both essential and illusory.

- Prajnaparamita

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

- Joan Ganz Cooney

When you cannot love or hate any more, then where is the charm of life?

- Arthur Schnitzler, "Professor Bernhardi"

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

- Mark Twain

Standing or walking, sitting or lying down, during all these waking hours, let him establish mindfulness of good will, which men call the highest state!

- Buddha

Tough times never last, tough people do.

- Robert Schuller

But he who is truly wise always sees the absolute Self. Celebrated, he is not delighted. Spurned, he is not angry. Pure of heart, he watches his own actions as if they were anothers. How can praise or blame disturb him? - Ashtavakra Gita 3:9-10

Quotes 5-10-2011

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

- Sydney J. Harris

What is a friend? A single soul shared by two people.

- Aristotle

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

- Lady Bird Johnson

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

- Bchya Ibn Pakuda

If you really want freedom, happiness will arise From happiness will come rapture When your mind is enraptured, your body is tranquil When your body is tranquil, you will know bliss Because you are blissful, your mind will concentrate easily Being concentrated, you will see things as they really are In so seeing, you will become aware that life is a miracle Being so aware, you will lose all your attachments As you cease grasping, so you will be freed.

- Digha Nikaya

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

- Dennis Green

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

A devata said: "One who has sons delights in sons, One with cattle delights in cattle. Acquisitions truly are a man's delight; Without acquisitions one does not delight." The Buddha answered: "One who has sons sorrows over sons. One with cattle sorrows over cattle. Acquisitions truly are a man's sorrows; Without acquisitions one does not sorrow."

When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.

- Bhagavad Gita 6:32

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

- Albert Schweitzer

A Religion is as much a progressive unlearning of false ideas concerning God as it is the learning of the true ideas concerning God.

- Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

- Will Rogers

We must not give only what we have; we must give what we are.

- Cardinal Mercia

The artist is one to whom all experience is revelation.

- Lewisohn, 'Creative Life'

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

- Arnold Palmer

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

- Harold J. Smith

If one says, I'll sin again and repent again, he'll have no opportunity to repent.

- Mishna: Yoma

A sorrow shared is half a sorrow, a joy shared is twice a joy.

- Unknown

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

- Scotty Bowman

Just Some More Quotes

We should always live in the dark empty sky. The sky is always the sky. Even though clouds and lightning come, the sky is not disturbed. Even if the flashing of enlightenment comes, our practice forgets all about it. Then it is ready for another enlightenment.

- Shunryu Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

- Althea Gibson

First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world.

- Rabbi Israel Salanter

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.

-Unknown

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism and falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel,

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

- Ray Kroc

If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me.

- Doug Boyd

In my own experience, the period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. ...Through a difficult period, you can learn, you can develop inner strength, determination, and courage to face the problem. Who gives you this chance? Your enemy.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

 
And, lastly. One of my favorites of all time.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

- Victor Hugo

Just Some Sayings

Do not eat natural foods. I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?