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I am always doing things I can't do. That is how I get to do them. -Pablo Picasso
"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through." -F. W. Nichol
"The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it." -Joseph Murphy
"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them." -Elbert Hubbard
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." –H. Jackson Brown
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"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice." -Steven D. Woodhull
"Patience is also a form of action." -Francois Rodin
"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless." -Caroline Myss
"I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it." -Anne Lamott
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." -Helen Keller
"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master." -Kahlil Gibran
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln
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"The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life." -Brian Tracy
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"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." -Carl Jung
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"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -Helen Keller
"There’s nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity." – Doug Larson
"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness." - Mother Teresa
"In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart." -Roberta Sage Hamilton
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." -Margaret Cousins
"Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration — of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine." -Lance Secretan
"They may forget what you said, they may forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel." -Carl W. Buecher
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or to be the mirror that reflects it." -Edith Wharton
Notice the ones who keep you kissing the light **********************Jesse White from "People of Clay" track 3 on Patient Heart CD
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height. **********************Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing either/or about being alone, because it is not a role, it is not a reduced way of life. It is a possibility for us to participate in a highly creative endeavor; the discovery of our whole selves. **********************Phyllis Hobe
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. **********************Spinoza
Teachers learn from their students' discussions. **********************Rashi
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. **********************Albert Einstein
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. **********************Lao Tzu
This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready to break my heart as the sun rises, as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers. **********************Mary Oliver
Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. **********************Rumi
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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself, it's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities. ********************** Krishnamurti
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve ********************** Albert Schweitzer
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will. ********************** Pythagorus
Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion. ********************** Mirabeau
It's a womans dream, this autonomy, where the lines connect and the point stays free . . . we said passion as an open sea would only haunt you **********************Ferron
As the sun drives gold nails through the shadows, a dull red dawn, the color of deer and rust, soars up the sky. A hundred palm trees look like tufted pens in inkwells. A flock of slack-jawed pelicans glides overhead, perfectly aligned as synchronized swimmers. Brisk winds drive clouds overhead like time-lapse photography, and I feel the ancient thrill of impending sunlight. **********************Diane Ackerman, from Dawn Light
I am not bound to win, but I'm bound to be true, I'm not bound to succeed, but I'm bound to live up to what light I have. ************************************Abraham Lincoln
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--over and over announcing your place in the family of things. **********************************Mary Oliver
We have fallen into the sugar shaker **********************************Rumi
Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now. **********************************Goethe
The only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently in the Now. **********************************Gita Bellin
To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it. **********************************Ken Keyes Jr.
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being: your efforts must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other. **********************************P.D. Ouspensky
Solitude, a sweet absence of looks. **********************************Milan Kundera
Silence is a friend who will never betray. **********************************Confuscius
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the light of a changing room, not try to be or do anything whatever. **********************************May Sarton
We are dust that was made in stars. Now we roll off to work in cars. **********************************John Gorka
When we speak of love, we are not speaking simply of a state of mind but rather a state of our underlying suchness. Love is not what we become but who we already are. **********************************Stephen Levine
Mojo is that positive spirit toward what we are doing now that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside. **********************************Marshall Goldberg
On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear. **********************************Bhagavad Gita
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. **********************************Mahatma Gandhi
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. **********************************Marge Piercy
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. **********************************John Lennon
Why measure time? Of course one has to know When to plant beans and corn, when rains May come, when cold and snow. But mostly it's because: Eternity-- Uncut--would terrify The human soul past bearing, leave Us mindless, screaming at the empty sky **********************************Ruth F. Harrison
Natural systems zealously participate in their own self-transcendence **********************************David Richo
Give voice to a poem Let it end with praise for the sun and the friend within the sun **********************************Rumi
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in Just-spring when the world is mud-luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee **********************************e.e.Cummings
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began. "Mend my life" each voice cried. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do—determined to save the only life you could save. **********************************Mary Oliver
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She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Her child leaps among the flowers, the blue of the sky falls over me like silk, the flowers burn, and I want to live my life all over again, to begin again, to be utterly wild. **********************************Mary Oliver
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I was captivated by the new friends I met at lunch today. Their radiance and joy made me forget to add a quote to this daily posting. **********************************Jesse White
The ancient masters were profound and subtle. Their wisdom was unfathomable. There is no way to describe it; all we can describe is their appearance. **********************************Lao-Tzu
No one ever told us we had to study our lives, make of our lives a study as if learning natural history or music, that we should begin with the simple exercises first and slowly go on trying the hard ones, practicing till strength and accuracy become one with the daring to leap into transcendence . . . **********************************Adrienne Rich
Though it is unlikely that hierarchies will disappear in the forseeable future, a new form of horizontal organization is emerging that rivals the hierarchical firm in its capacity to create information-based products and services, and in some cases, physical things. As mentioned, this new form of organization is known as peering. . . . Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization. ******Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams from Wikinomics
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. **********************************G.K. Chesterton
Life is like a wild tiger. You can either lie down and let it lay its paw on your head, or sit on its back and ride it. **********************************Anonymous
Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? **********************************Walt Whitman
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will **********************************Pythagoras
Attunement is mirrored attentiveness from one person to another. **********************************David Richo
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In the shapeliness of life, habit plays its sovereign role. The religious literally wear it. Most people take action by habit in small things more often than in important things, for it is the simple matters that get done readily, while the more somber and interesting , taking more effort and being more complex, often must wait for another day. Thus, we could improve ourselves quite well by habit, by its judicious assistance, but it's more likely that habits rule us. **********************************Mary Oliver
The life force for humankind is, perhaps, nothing more or less than the passionate energy to connect, express, and communicate. Enrollment is that life force at work, lighting sparks from person to person, scattering light in all directions. Sometimes the sparks ignite a blaze; sometimes they pass quietly, magically, almost imperceptibly, from one to another. **********************************Benjamin Zander
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. **********************************Bernard Bailey
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Few recognize the enormous power of a relationship as a vehicle for physical. spiritual, and emotional healing. **********************************Stephen and Ondrea Levine
If you are genuinely loving, you will be happy. If you are not happy, you know you are not being loving. **********************************Robert Holden
Perfect poise on the beat is what gives good dancing its sense of ease, of timelessness, of the eternal. **********************************Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Doesn't it outdo the pleasure of the brilliant concert to wake in the night and find ourselves holding hands in our sleep? **********************************Galway Kinnell
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. ********************************** Robertson Davies
A soulful relationship offers two difficult challenges: one to come to know oneself...and two to get to know the deep, often subtle richness in the soul of the other. As you get to know the other deeply, you will discover much about yourself. Especially in the moments of conflict and maybe even despair, being open to the demands of a relationship can provide an extraordinary oopportunity for self knowledge. It provides an occasion to glimpse your own soul and notice its longings and its fears. And as you get to kow yourself, you can be more accepting and understanding of the other's depth of soul. **********************************Thomas Moore
Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to transform. **********************************Christina Baldwin
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. **********************************Alice Walker
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. **********************************Anais Nin
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