Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Kobi]

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.

– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[JAGG]

It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.- GH Hardy


Always tell the truth. That way you won't have to remember what it was you said.- Mark Twain


You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.- Unknown

[VintageFemme]

"This is the first time in history that publicly acknowledging that you follow two or more distinct spiritual traditions would not have you burned at the stake, stoned to death, or facing a firing squad. We tend to forget what an extraordinary time this is, that for the first time in history we have the entirety of the world's spiritual and religious traditions available to us, and we can practice them . . . without fear." -Roger Walsh, "IONS Review"

[sara-bera]

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” -Sarah Dessen

[JAGG]

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it. - Unknown


Never mistake age for maturity. - Unknown



If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown

[Fancy]

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

-Audrey Hepburn

[Kobi]

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

– Groucho Marx

[JAGG]

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. -Unknown


If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you may find you're missing all the rest. -Unknown


Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. -André Dubus

[Kent]

WHEN YOU get what you
want in your struggle for
self;
And the world makes you
king for a day;
Then go to the mirror and
look at yourself
And see what that guy has
to say.

FOR IT isn't your father or
mother or wife,
Whose judgment upon you
must pass;
The fellow whose verdict
counts most in your life,
Is the guy staring back from
the glass.

HE'S THE man you must
please, never mind all the
rest,
For he's with you clear up
to the end.
And you've passed your
most difficult, dangerous
test
If the man in the glass is
your friend.

YOU MAY be like little Jack
Horner and "chisel" a
plum,
And think you're a wonder-
ful guy;
But the man in the glass
says your only a bum,
If you can't look him
straight in the eye.

YOU CAN fool the whole
world down the pathway of
years,
And get pats on the back as
you pass:
But your final reward will be
heartaches and tears,
If you cheated the Guy in
the Glass.

Dale Wimbrow

[Kobi]

"When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth."

- Eckhart Tolle

[deedarino]

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou


"The art of life is mastered within the academy of your heart. You create your masterpieces through your tears and smiles. You must persist to believe that your own constellation of stars is the wisdom that you have learned from your failures." - Dodinsky


I hesitate ...
Not out of caution
And not from fear
But to give the time and space
These next steps deserve.
Life-changing steps
Monumental and pivotal steps
I hesitate ... I breathe ... I wait
For it will come ~ with certainty
The answer will come.
— with Ivanka Gimunova

[sara-bera]

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” -Augusten Burroughs

[Janstevie]

You cant buy love, it can only be given.

[JAGG]

It's the choices we make everyday that make us who we are. -Unknown


Jealousy is the finest tribute mediocrity can pay to genius. -Unknown

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar but is a stab at the health of human society.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[sylvie]

Please don't be imprisoned by your suffering.

(page 4, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching)..
Thich Nhat Hanh

this was an eye opening moment for me, last week..

[Fancy]

‎"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." - C.S. Lewis

[ruffryder]

"Let your past make you better, not bitter."


A humble person will always be a maker of peace. Joyce Meyer


‎Listen to your heart. Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure. Paulo Coelho

[Talon]

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

--Henry D. Thoreau

[Kobi]

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

~Susan Taylor

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

~Pythagoras

[JAGG]

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston Churchill


One who does less than he can is a thief .-Ghandi



He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.-George Bernard Shaw