Some of my Favorite Quotes

Pantanjali

When you are inspired by some great purpose,
some extraordinary project,
all of your thoughts break their bonds:
your mind transcends limitations,
your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you
ever dreamed yourself to be.


Japanese Proverb

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.


Pablo Picasso

You must always work not just within but below your means.
If you can handle three elements, handle only two.
If you can handle ten, then handle only five.
In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.


Robert Hunter

We must become ourselves
before someone else does.


Chief Seattle

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.


Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.


Lao Tzu

Thirty spokes converge upon a single hub;
It is on the hole in the center that the cart hinges.
We make a vessel from a lump of clay;
It is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
We make doors and windows for a room;
But it is these empty spaces that make the room livable.
Thus, while the tangible has its uses, it is the intangible that makes it useful.


Pablo Picasso

Every child is born an artist.
The problem is how to
remain an artist.


Lao Tzu

There is no need to run outside
For better seeing,
Nor to peer from a window.
Rather abide
At the center of your being;
For the more you leave it, the less you learn.
Search your heart and see
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.


Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.


Zen

"Master, do you know the secret of life?"
"Yes I do."
"Will you tell it to me?"
"No"
"Why not?"
"It's a secret."


Frank Herbert "Dune"

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.


J.P. Morgan

The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide
that you are not going to stay where you are.


The Dhammapada (Sayings of the Buddha)

The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings...
As the shadow follows the body as we think, so we become.


Lao Tzu

... clarity is learned by being patient in the presence of chaos.


Unknown

Choose To Have Fun
Fun Creates Enjoyment
Enjoyment Invites Participation
Participation Focuses Attention
Attention Expands Awareness
Awareness Promotes Insight
Insight Generates Knowledge
Knowledge Facilitates Action
Action Yields Results!