Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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


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