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“You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt enough that you have to.” ~Unknown
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A human being is a part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty" ~ Albert Einstein
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"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
http://www.great-quotes.com/static/i...2968-small.jpg Steve Jobs |
I haven't failed. I've identified 10,000 ways this doesn’t work.
Thomas Edison |
i once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you all else melted away -rumi
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I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead -- for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4bn years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. Six billion years from now, it will not be humans who watch the sun's demise. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae. -Martin Rees, cosmologist and astrophysicist (b. 1942)
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" I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have- life itself." ~Walter Anderson~
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History repeats itself
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein, (attributed) US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) |
"If you love until it hurts...there can be no more hurt, only love." -Mother Teresa
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert |
Dirty Dancing:
I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life, the way I feel when I'm with you. |
The Blooming of the Lotus
By Thich Nhat Hanh Smiling to my body I breathe in Releasing the tensions in my body I breathe out. Breathing in I go back ...To the island within myself There are beautiful trees Within the island There are clear streams of water There are birds Sunshine, and fresh air Breathing out I feel safe I enjoy going back to my island. |
Love
" your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it" Rumi
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"Smuggle your sweetness out from under your cynicism."
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"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness
has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life...
"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. "One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego. "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. "This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old chief simply replied, "The one you feed." |
“Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood is ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence … What are the fruits of silence? They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character.” (f)
~Ohiyesa, Santee Sioux |
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer |
Is it really that simple?
"Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.” – Anonymous
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." - Khalil Gibran |
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