Favorite Quotes of Rob Bednark

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
   -Laurens van der Post, explorer and writer (1906-1996) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 5 Dec 2007}

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
   -James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
   -Khalil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.
   -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 5 Dec 2007}

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
   -Pamela Hansford Johnson, poet and novelist (1912-1981) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
   -Diane Arbus, photographer (1923-1971) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
   -Buddha (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
   -James M. Barrie (1860-1937) novelist, dramatist, playwright (including Peter Pan) (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now. 3. No exceptions.
   -William James (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Those who irk you have come by your invitation to help you find peace where you once thought it absent.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

The best cure for anger is delay.
   -Seneca (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Feel good before you get there, and you will get there quicker.
   -Abraham-Hicks (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Think less about what went wrong and more about how you would like to to go right.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker.
   -Amethyst Snow-Rivers (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

When you step beyond a fear or challenge, you help many more people than yourself.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Every moment of quiet time that you find to replenish your spirit will bear fruit a thousand times over.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
   -Oren Arnold (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
   -Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) clergyman and author (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
   -Sally Koch (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
   -Elizabeth Bibesco (1897-1945) writer, poet (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

You will rise by lifting others.
   -Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) political leader, orator (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
   -Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] (b. 1942), athlete, boxer (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
   - Denis Waitley inspirational author, keynote speaker (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
   -Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998), author, professor of special eduaction (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
   -Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 5 Dec 2007}

They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now.
   -Bob Monkhouse, comedian (1928-2003) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
   -John Gray, author (b. 1951) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
   -Colette, author (1873-1954) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
   -Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
   -Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Genius is eternal patience.
   -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

He had the rare quality of not only loving but respecting childhood -- its innocence, its keen sense of justice, its passionate and yet sensitive affections.
   -Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, novelist and poet (1826-1887) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
   -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
   -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.
   -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
   -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
   -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
   -Roy Amara, engineer, futurist (b. 1925) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.
   -John Henry Jowett, preacher (1864-1923) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy.
   -Thomas Merton, writer (1915-1968) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
   -Jalaluddin Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

The butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
   -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 14 Nov 2007}

In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
   -Brian Tracy (b. 1944) author, motivational speaker (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
   -Helen Keller (1880-1968) author, lecturer, activist (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
   -Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) 39th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
   -Grantland Rice (1880 - 1954), American sportswriter (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
   -Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) political philosopher, writer, educator (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
   -Henry Miller (1891-1980) author, writer (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
   -Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969) founder of the Japanese martial art Akido (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
   -Eugene S. Wilson (1900-1981) Dean of Admissions at Amherst College (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
   -Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) theologian, philosopher, physician (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
   -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Irish dramatist, novelist and critic (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
   -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) poet, essayist and lecturer (quoted on the daily quote email from the Alan Cohen website) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you... with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.
   -Neil Simon, (b. 1927) American playwright, screenwriter (quoted on the daily quote email from the Foundation for a Better Life) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Dare to be wrong so love can be right.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes beyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.
   -Swami Vivekananda (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
   -Anatole France (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Life is the only school where the exam comes before the lesson.
   -(source unknown) (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

There is no afterlife. There is only life, which begins now, and goes on forever.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
   -Abraham Joshua Henschel (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

The difference between successful people and those less successful, is that successful people keep moving ahead even when voice of self-doubt chides them to stop or go back.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Prayer does not change God, but it changes the one who prays.
   -Soren Kierkegaard (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

What voice tells you that you have to do something?
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Act freely when you are tuned in, centered and loving. Avoid acting when you are upset.
   -Ken Keyes, Jr. (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Your relationship is safe as long as one of you remains sane at any given time.
   -Alan Cohen (adapted from A Course in Miracles) (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

If the sun and moon should doubt, they'd immediately go out.
   -William Blake (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Go where you are valued.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

I used to be different. Now I'm the same.
   -Werner Erhart (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Leaving space is as important as filling it.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

When you become your own greatest lover, you will have lots of competition for the position.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

How long are you willing to do absolutely nothing until you receive guidance as to your next step?
   -Rick Jarrow (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

The faster you rush, the farther you push yourself from what you are truly trying to reach.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Very young people and very old people are the most honest, for they do not have an investment in the fears and games that make other people dishonest.
   -Guide Mary (Carla Gordon) (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Criticism is often more of a reflection of the critics self-criticism than an evaluation of the recipient. Criticism sandwiched with appreciation is believable.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

The closer you are to awe and wonder, the closer you are to reality.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

If you did know the answer, what would it be?
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Less rules, more intuition.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Everything that happens is moving you to live a bigger truth.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Nothing you really want is upstream.
   -Abraham-Hicks (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

All love returns to you. All fear returns to dust.
   -Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast) (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Life does not make mistakes. Mistakes exist only in our thoughts. See clearly, and perfection will reveal itself everywhere you look.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Laughter is an instant vacation.
   -Milton Berle (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

You will get the answer when you want it more than the question.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 14 Nov 2007}

Satan is always in a hurry, God never is. Slow down.
   -(Author Unknown) {Added 13 Nov 2007}

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
   -Author Unknown {Added 27 Oct 2007}

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand by the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance
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And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
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I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean taking chances but they're worth taking
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth making
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
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Time is a real and constant motion always rolling us along
Tell me who wants to look back on their youth and wonder
Where those years have gone
   -Lee Ann Womack, song "I Hope you Dance" {Added 26 Sep 2007}

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains.
   -Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 17 Sep 2007}

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 17 Sep 2007}

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure.
   -Aristotle (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 17 Sep 2007}

Missed opportunities will come again, and you will be ready.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 17 Sep 2007}

Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can't build on it; it is only good for wallowing in.
   -Katherine Mansfield (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 17 Sep 2007}

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
   -Lin Yutang (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 8 Sep 2007}

Don't doubt!
   -Rising Sun (told to me by Patrick Pinson) {Added 8 Sep 2007}

You life is none of your business.
   -(author unknown; heard from Patrick Pinson; saw some references on the web but no attributions) {Added 8 Sep 2007}

The purpose of life is for the individual to become greater than the definitions he has inherited.
   -James Baldwin (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 8 Sep 2007}

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
   -Ralph Waldo Emerson (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 31 Aug 2007}

You have to work a lot less to stay strong than to stay weak.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 29 Aug 2007}

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
   -Victor Borge (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 29 Aug 2007}

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
   -Charles Schulz (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 29 Aug 2007}

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
   -Dale Carnegie (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 29 Aug 2007}

If you took one tenth of the energy you invest in criticism and converted it to gratitude, your life would improve a hundredfold.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 29 Aug 2007}

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
   -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 29 Aug 2007}

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
   -Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 16 Aug 2007}

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
   -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 16 Aug 2007}

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther."
   -Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (1770-1827) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 16 Aug 2007}

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
   -Pearl S. Buck (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

If you want to improve your strength to forgive, the best place to start is with yourself.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

What would you do today if you loved yourself?
   -Alan Cohen (?) (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

Don't follow people. Follow truth.
   -Alan Cohen (?) (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

Silence is richer and fuller than all the words you may speak.
   -Alan Cohen (?) (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
   -Kenneth Blanchard (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

There is no such thing as a bad emotion.
   -Dr. Leonard Licht (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
   -George Burns (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

Do you want the problem or do you want the answer?
   -A Course in Miracles (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

For everything that falls through, something equal or better comes through.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 16 Aug 2007}

If something you are doing isn't working, doing more of it will not work better.
   -Source unknown. (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 7 Aug 2007}

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
   -Swedish proverb [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
   -Maria Montessori, educator (1870-1952) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Along this tree
From root to crown
Ideas flow up
And vetoes down.
   -A senior executive, quoted by Peter Drucker [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
   -Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
   -Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.
   -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
   -Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

A different language is a different vision of life.
   -Federico Fellini, film director and writer (1920-1993) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.
   -Andrew Cohen, professor of linguistics (1944- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The soul is healed by being with children.
   -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, novelist (1821-1881) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
   -Steven Wright, comedian (1955- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
   -John Wooden, sports coach (1910- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
   -Michel De Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
   -Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
   -Michel De Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
   -Paul Sweeney [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
   -Aleister Crowley, author (1875-1947) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
   -Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
   -Henry Ford, industrialist (1863-1947) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
   -Louis L'Amour, novelist (1908-1988) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
   -Stephen King, novelist (1947- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
   -William Feather, author, editor and publisher (1889-1981) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.
   -Michael Carr [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
   -Rollo May, psychologist (1909-1994) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore.
   -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
   -Roger Miller, musician (1936-1992) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
   -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

My greatest skill has been to want but little.
   -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff.
Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
   -Lao Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
   -Shakti Gawain, teacher and author (1948- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Interruptions are the best part of my day.
   -Source unknown. (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
   -John Henry Newman (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Television is where you invite people in your living room that you would not want near your house.
   -Groucho Marx (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Your relationship with God is as unique as your fingerprints. Do not try to replicate another's; trust in your own.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
   -Confucius (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

It doesn't take much to start feeling better. Simply start doing more of what you love and less of what you don't love.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

You can't force the petals of a rose open. Simply nurture the plant and they will unfold in their own perfect way and time.
   -Source unknown (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Don't ask anyone a question unless you know the answer you want, and that they will give it to you.
   -Jerry Hicks (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

How well you receive compliments symbolizes how well you receive love. Practice being a wide receiver.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

If you need to do something specific to serve the plan of good, you will be shown what it is. Otherwise, relax and enjoy the ride.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The universe is constantly seeking to prove false your sense of inadequacy and replace it with confidence in your magnitude.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
   -Albert Einstein (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go.
   -A Course in Miracles (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

It's not a small world after all.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Being crazy is the only thing that keeps me sane.
   -Source unknown. (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

A person who makes no mistake does not usually make anything.
   -William Connor Magee (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

You empower what you fight. You withdraw power from what you release.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

When of thy mortal goods thou find theyself bereft,
And from the goodly store two loaves alone are left...
Sell one, and with the dole
buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
   -Moslih Eddin Saadi (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The voice of guilt is a poor guide to where your heart seeks to go.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

What you hide hides you.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The tide always comes back in.
   -Norman Vincent Peale (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

If you hear a voice within you say, "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
   -Vincent Van Gogh (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
   -Albert Einstein (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

Laughter releases. Analysis binds.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

People who pressure you usually deserve a "no." People who are patient with you usually deserve a "yes."
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered all over the beaches of the world... Maybe you've seen it?
   -Steve Wright (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.
   -Tolstoy (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

I have good news and I have bad news: The bad news is that there is no key to the universe. The good news is that the door has never been locked.
   -Swami Beyondananda (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
   -Albert Einstein (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 6 Aug 2007}

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
   -Germaine Greer http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/germaine_greer.html {Added 18 July 2007}

Django: This is the way things are; you can't change nature.
Remy: Change is nature, Dad. The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide.
   -from movie "Ratatouille", 2007 http://imdb.com/title/tt0382932/quotes {Added 18 July 2007}

Free yourself from the responsibility of making others happy.
   -Stephen C. Paul (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 5 July 2007}

Every decision you make stems from what you think you are, and represents the value that you put upon yourself.
   -A Course in Miracles (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 5 July 2007}

Quit trying to improve yourself and recognize your shining self that is whole, perfect, and complete right now.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 5 July 2007}

How much of what you want have you asked for?
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 5 July 2007}

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
   -Thoreau (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 5 July 2007}

When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.
   -Lord Falkland (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 5 July 2007}

The platform from which you act -- faith or fear -- determines your results more than the actions themselves.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 5 July 2007}

Nature is the original church. Worship there daily.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 5 July 2007}

Delight will net you far more spiritual mileage than analysis.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 5 July 2007}

Every action is either an expression of love or a call for love. Reframe all aberrant behavior as a call for love, and you will have the key to healing. You will know what to do for yourself and you will know what to do for others.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

You do not need to prove your worth to anyone. You just need to know it.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
   -Marguerite Gardiner Blessington (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

The march to freedom is irreversible.
   -Nelson Mandela (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
   -May Sarton, poet and novelist (1912-1995) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 1 July 2007}

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.
   -Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 1 July 2007}

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well.
   -Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director (1921-2004) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 1 July 2007}

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
   -Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 1 July 2007}

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
   -Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 1 July 2007}

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.
   -Norman Mailer, author (1923- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org) daily email] {Added 1 July 2007}

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
   -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
   -Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (1949- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
   -Mignon McLaughlin, author (1915-) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
   -Alan M. Eddison [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

Underground nuclear testing, defoliation of the rain forests, toxic waste ... Let's put it this way: if the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back.
   -John Ross [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.
   -Eileen Mayhew [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
   -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.
   -Todd Ruthman [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.
   -Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (1957- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
   -Richard Bach, writer (1936- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

Language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.
   -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and philosopher (1772-1834) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
   -Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
   -Germain G. Glien [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

Do I believe God is going to take away my illness when he turned an entirely deaf ear to the six million Jews who went into the gas chambers?
   -Karen Armstrong, author (1944- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
   -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
   -Rita Mae Brown, writer (1944- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.
   -Anna Sewell, writer (1820-1878) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
   -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
   -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
   -Edgar Guest, poet (1881-1959) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
   -Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 1 July 2007}

Life is a privilege, not a problem.
   -Alan Cohen [?] (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

You do not need to prove your worth to anyone. You just need to know it.
   -Alan Cohen [?] (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
   - Max Ehrmann (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes.
   - Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Give yourself the benefit of the doubt.
   - Abraham-Hicks (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

When you do what you are here to do, you help others do what they are here to do.
   - Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Change can come in the twinkling of an eye.
   - St. Paul (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
   - Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Give up your lust for growth.
   - White Eagle (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

In my world, all is well.
   - Sri Nisargadatta (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

If you keep going in the direction you are walking, you will end up where you headed.
   -Zen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

I do not seek good fortune -- I am good fortune!
   -Walt Whitman (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

God does not test you. God simply gives you opportunities to recognize the presence of love where you thought it was absent.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

You always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have you do.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
   -Jane Heard (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

You are as old as God and as young as the morning.
   -Hilda Charlton (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

You don't need to put more energy out. You need to let more spirit in.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

The life of the body proceeds from the vitality of the spirit; nurture your spirit, and your body will thrive.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

It's important to let people know what you stand for. It's equally important to let them know what you won't stand for.
   -Source unknown. (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
   -Mark Twain (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

When you think or say, "I don't know," ask yourself, "If I did know, what would it be?"
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Everything works out somehow.
   -Source unknown (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

You already know.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what yo have to do.
   -Epictetus (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Simplicity is the flower that brings the intellect to its knees.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.
   -Carl Jung (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

There's nothing you can't do, and nothing you have to do.
   -Source unknown (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

In the middle of every difficulty lies an opportunity.
   -Albert Einstein (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

"I will relax when ..." is not the same as "I choose to relax now."
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
   -Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
   -Buckminster Fuller (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Less trying will make your life less trying.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
   -Doug Larson (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Quit trying to make what's not it, "it," and "it" will reveal itself plainly.
   - Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
   -Martin Luther King, Jr. (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Because you are divine by nature, only divine attributes befit you.
   - Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Let a benevolent universe have its way, and you will recognize a bigger plan than you understood when you looked through the eyes of fear.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Make the most of what comes, and the least of what goes.
   -[source unknown] (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

The thought that you should be doing something else is a distraction. Be fully present with what you are doing, and it will lead to better.
   -Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
   -Alfred Adler (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 1 July 2007}

Just sit there right now. Don't do a thing. Just rest... You can use my soft words as a cushion for your head.
   - Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 4 Jan 2007}

If you want to be prosperous, make someone else prosperous.
   - Neale Donald Walsch (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 4 Jan 2007}

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
   - Stephen Wright (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 4 Jan 2007}

Remain established in your calm center, and everything will take care of itself in miraculous ways far more wonderful than you could manipulate.
   - Alan Cohen (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 30 Dec 2006}

He who would be a leader must be a bridge.
   -Welsh proverb [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
   -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
   -Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

They have a right to censure, that have a heart to help: The rest is cruelty, not justice.
   -William Penn, Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania (1644-1718) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
   -Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
   -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
   -Wernher von Braun, rocket engineer (1912-1977) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

He who binds to himself a joy,
Does the winged life destroy;
He who kisses the joy as it flies,
Lives in Eternity's sun rise.
   -William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
   -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
   -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 30 Dec 2006}

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
   -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 14 Nov 2006}

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
   -Theodore Rubin, psychiatrist and writer (1923- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 27 Sep 2006}

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
   -Milton Friedman, economist, Novel laureate (1912- ) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 15 Sep 2006}

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
   -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 15 Sep 2006}

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
   -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) [quoted on A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 15 Sep 2006}

How come we put a man on the moon before we figured out how to put wheels on suitcases?
   -Stephen Wright (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 15 Sep 2006}

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
   -Annie Gottlier (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 15 Sep 2006}

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
   -Frank Tibolt -(quoted on the quotationspage.com) {Added 13 Sep 2006}

I shut my eyes in order to see.
   -Paul Gauguin (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 06 Sep 2006}

What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?
   -"A Course in Miracles", (quoted on the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 05 Sep 2006}

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
   -Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- ) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 05 Sep 2006}

The secret of life is to believe.
The more I ask, the more I receive.
   -source unknown (from the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 31 Aug 2006}

Rather than setting goals for what you will do, set goals for how you will feel. Replace your To Do list with a To Feel list, or a To Be list. The only thing more important than what you get done is how you feel when you are doing it.
   -Alan Cohen, from this web page) {Added 31 Aug 2006}

"My grandfather says that almost the whole world is asleep... Everybody you know... Everybody you see... Everybody you talk to... He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement."
   -from the move "Joe Versus the Volcano" {Added 31 Aug 2006}

It's amazing-- you take all the love with you.
   -from the movie "Ghost" from this web page) {Added 31 Aug 2006}

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
   -Martin Buber from this web page) {Added 31 Aug 2006}

The force that created the unimaginable splendors and the unimaginable horrors has taken refuge in us, and it will follow our commands.
   -St. Catherine of Siena from this web page) {Added 31 Aug 2006}

Their watch toward glory despite outward horrors has made the mystics of all time the most powerful engines for miraculous good that the world has held.
   -Emma Curtis Hopkins (from the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 22 Aug 2006}

One's true religion is what one cares about most.
   -Walter Starcke (from the website of Alan Cohen ) {Added 15 Aug 2006}

When you speak from your heart, everyone listens -- because God is talking.
   -(source unknown) from the website of Alan Cohen {Added 15 Aug 2006}

Why is it only Christians who cannot see the nonviolence of Jesus?
   -Mahatma Gandhi [p. 3, "God Laughs and Plays : Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right" by David James Duncan, 2006] {Added 18 Jul 2006}

Man desires a world where good and evil can be clearly distinguished, for he has an innate and irrepressible desire to judge before he understands.
   -Milan Kundera [p. 3, "God Laughs and Plays : Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right" by David James Duncan, 2006] {Added 18 Jul 2006}

We need the idea of a God who makes mistakes.
   -Ursula K. Le Guin [p. 26, "God Laughs and Plays : Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right" by David James Duncan, 2006] {Added 18 Jul 2006}

God breathes through us so completely, so gently, we hardly feel it.
   -John Coltrane [p. 27, "God Laughs and Plays : Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right" by David James Duncan, 2006] {Added 18 Jul 2006}

I do not understand the ways of God.
   -Mother Teresa [p. 29, "God Laughs and Plays : Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right" by David James Duncan, 2006] {Added 18 Jul 2006}

Joshu: Should I turn to the way or not?
Nansen: If you turn to it, then you're going against it.
Joshu: If I don't turn to the way, how can I know that it is the way?
Nansen: The way does not belong to knowing or not-knowing.
   [p. 29, "God Laughs and Plays : Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right" by David James Duncan, 2006] {Added 18 Jul 2006}

We can do no great things -- only small things, with great love.
   -Mother Teresa [p. 117, "God Laughs and Plays : Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right" by David James Duncan, 2006] {Added 18 Jul 2006}

God doesn't ask us to win. He asks us to try.
   -Mother Teresa [p. 114, "God Laughs and Plays : Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right" by David James Duncan, 2006] {Added 18 Jul 2006}

The only cure for grief is a pill, called Grief. And if you don't take your medicine, you won't get well.
   -Ivy Push [p. 114, "God Laughs and Plays : Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right" by David James Duncan, 2006] {Added 18 Jul 2006}

Slow and steady wins the race.
   -[from the Hare and Tortoise fable] {Added 14 Jul 2006}

Keep life simple.
   -Rob Bednark {Added 14 Jul 2006}

Intuition rises from the depths of the human heart.
   - Hazrat Inayat Khan [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
   -Saint Francis De Sales [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

I went everywhere with longing in my eyes, until here in my own house, I felt truth filling my sight.
   -Lalla [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Let the power of joy pervade your soul and lift you above the tribulations of your life with a sense of ease.
   -Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

I found the beloved within me; all outward search was but fruitless effort.
   -M. Angha [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
   -Tao Te Ching [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Let your hands touch something that makes your eyes smile. I bet there are a hundred objects close by that can do that.
   -Mirabai [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

You cannot do meditation, you can be only be in meditation. It is not a question of doing something, it is a question of being. It is not an act, but a state.
   -Osho [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
   -Hafiz [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
   -Martin Luther King, Jr. [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
   -Buddha [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
   -Ralph Waldo Emerson [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

We start our lives trying to be teachers; it is very hard to learn to be a pupil.
   -Hazrat Inayat Khan [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
   -The Dalai Lama [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

You need not give up all you have in order to become spiritual. If you think that, it is a great pity.
   -Hazrat Inayat Khan [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

First of all, you should understand your own greatness and your own divinity. Then, you will understand the divinity in others.
   -Swami Muktananda [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
   -William Ellery Channing [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.
   -Lao-tzu [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

You are the Sun in drag. You are God hiding from yourself.
   -Hafiz [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
   -Aristotle [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

When life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.
   -Osho [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Whatever perceptions arise, you should be like a little child going into a beautifully decorated temple; he looks, but grasping does not enter into his perception at all.
   -Dudjom Rinpoche [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
   -Eckhart Tolle [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.
   -Osho [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Could you also kiss the hand that caused each scar, for you will not find me until you do.
   -Rabia [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
   -Lao-tzu [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
   -Dr. Wayne Dyer [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring.
   -Inazo Nitobe [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

On action alone be thy interest... never on its fruits.
   -The Bhagavad Gita [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible.
   -Thich Nhat Hanh [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Focus determines your reality.
   -Qui-Gon Jinn (Star Wars, Episode I) [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
   -Dr. Wayne W. Dyer [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

The body is not me. I am not limited by the body. I am life without boundaries.
   -Thich Nhat Hanh [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

The emphasis on the ego is on doing and the emphasis on consciousness is on being.
   -Osho [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
   -Sosan [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

You have to seek and search for that point within you which never sleeps.
   -Osho [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Each of us contains a blueprint for the continual discovery of our true nature and purpose.
   -Julia Mossbridge [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
   -The Upanishads [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
   -Charles DuBos [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

No one will experience in life what is not meant for him.
   -Hazrat Inayat Khan [from Hamid Shibata Bennett's website transcendingtouch.com] {Added 13 Jul 2006}

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
   -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006} {Added 11 Jul 2006}

One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.
   -Charles A. Beard, historian (1874-1948) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006} {Added 11 Jul 2006}

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
   -E.B. White, writer (1899-1985 [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006} {Added 11 Jul 2006}

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
   -Arnold Toynbee, historian (1889-1975) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006} {Added 11 Jul 2006}

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
   -Henrik Ibsen, playwright (1828-1906) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006} {Added 11 Jul 2006}

This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; and those whose people don't know where their next meal is coming from.
   -David S. Landes, author, professor of economics and history (1924- ) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006} {Added 11 Jul 2006}

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
   -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006} {Added 11 Jul 2006}

The further one grows spiritually, the more and more people one loves.
   -Gale D. Webbe, clergyman and author (1909-2000) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006} {Added 11 Jul 2006}

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. <-- memorize -->
   -Robert Brault [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006} {Added 11 Jul 2006}

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. <-- memorize -->
   -Eric Hoffer (quoted by David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)) {Added 21 Jun 2006}

Make known the unknown.
   -Ramtha {Added 21 Jun 2006}

The barn's burnt down
Now I can see the moon. <-- memorize -->
   -Masahide [from my friend Howard Abram's quote collection] {Added 30 May 2006}

How painful to see people
All wrapped up in themselves.
   -Ryokan [from my friend Howard Abram's quote collection] {Added 30 May 2006}

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
   -Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 May 2006}

Slow down. Take a few moments to breathe. Close your eyes, and listen to the sound of your breathing. Can you hear the sound of the birds chirping and chattering? Of a squirrel gnawing at an acorn? Of a bee pollinating a flower?
   -email from David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 10 May 2006}

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
   -Carlos Castenada, mystic and author (1925-1998) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 10 May 2006}

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh; otherwise, they'll kill you.
   -Oscar Wilde [from Craig Newmark's blog (Craig is the founder and CEO or craigslist.com)] {Added 8 May 2006}

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words.
   -Ursula K. Le Guin [from my friend Howard Abram's quote collection] {Added 8 May 2006}

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
   -Leonard Cohen, musician (1934- ) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 5 May 2006}

While science revels in explaining how the world works, myth and poetry explain why. Its stories and images... give a sense of the movements of the soul's experience of the world. This is why myths are lies that tell the truth.
   -Phil Cousineau [from my friend Howard Abram's quote collection] {Added 5 May 2006}

Have you ever noticed how we seek less adventure and more stability as we age? We seek predictability and control at the expense of adventure and discovery.
   -email from David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 4 May 2006}

When we are afraid, we put up our defenses and pull back from life. When we love, we open to all that life has to offer with acceptance and even passion and excitement. In any moment, we can ask ourselves: Do I choose love or fear? Do I choose to back away or move toward? And when we choose love, our lives transform!
   -Patrice Robson, in email from David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 4 May 2006}

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
   -Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer (1891-1960) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 25 Apr 2006}

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
   -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 25 Apr 2006}

What is desired is that teachers cease being lecturers; satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions; their role should rather be that of mentors stimulating initiative and research.
   -Jean Piaget, quoted on p. 44 of book "Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius : Enhancing Curiousity, Creativity, and Learning Ability" book by Thomas Armstrong, PhD, 1991. {Added 21 Apr 2006}

There are no perfect parents! What's important is that you keep moving in the direction of good parenting. If you remain honest about where you are, your children's trust in you will increase. They care about truth, not perfection, and it is an impossible job for a human to play God. Yet many parents saddle themselves with this terribile responsibility.
   -Virginia Satir, quoted on p. 31 of book "Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius : Enhancing Curiousity, Creativity, and Learning Ability" book by Thomas Armstrong, PhD, 1991. {Added 21 Apr 2006}

The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?
   -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 Apr 2006}

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
   -Richard Bach, writer (1936- ) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 19 Apr 2006}

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.
   -Edward Bellamy, quoted on p. 257 of "Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius : Enhancing Curiousity, Creativity, and Learning Ability" book by Thomas Armstrong, PhD, 1991. {Added 17 Apr 2006}

We destroy the... love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards -- gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or Dean's list, or Phi Beta Kappa keys -- in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than somebody else.
   -John Holt, quoted on p. 258 of "Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius : Enhancing Curiousity, Creativity, and Learning Ability" book by Thomas Armstrong, PhD, 1991. {Added 17 Apr 2006}

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
   -Dogen Zenji [from my friend Howard Abram's quote collection] {Added 17 Apr 2006}

A different language is a different vision of life.
   -Federico Fellini, film director and writer (1920-1993) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 11 Apr 2006}

My life has become easier because I got out of my own way; I started to take things less seriously and remember that really very few things in life are in my control. The rest of it sort of happens, and my job is to recognize opportunities and navigate through them.
   -from a post on monkeyquiz.com, quoted by David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 11 Apr 2006}

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you -- all of the expectations, all of the beliefs -- and becoming who you are.
   -Rachel Naomi Remen [quoted in Usenet news group] {Added 11 Apr 2006}

The river does not swell with clear water.
   -Italian proverb [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 06 Apr 2006}

If wishes were fishes, nobody would go hungry.
   -quoted by David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 06 Apr 2006}

And somewhere along the line, the men in headsets have managed to coach the instincts out of a promising young quarterback, Jake Plummer.
   -Dan Bickley, sports writer, Arizona Republic 12/02/02 on Jake Plummer, Arizona Cardinals quarterback; quoted on p. 20 in book "Powered by Instinct : 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts" by Kathy Kolbe, 2004. {Added 3 Apr 2006}

I don't think about things that much. I watch, I absorb, and then I follow instinct.
   -Tiger Woods, analyzing his success, from Sports Illustrated, 2000, quoted on p. 19 in book "Powered by Instinct : 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts" by Kathy Kolbe, 2004. {Added 3 Apr 2006}

Intellectual awareness cannot move us to do anything.
   -David Hume (1711-1776), quoted on p. 16 in book "Powered by Instinct : 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts" by Kathy Kolbe, 2004. The books says that this is what Hume argues in his book "Treatise on Human Nature", Book II, Part III, Section II. {Added 3 Apr 2006}

When you fail at something, it is God's way of telling you that you're going in the wrong direction.
   -Oprah Winfrey, quoted on p. 58 in book "Powered by Instinct : 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts" by Kathy Kolbe, 2004. {Added 3 Apr 2006}

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
   -Martha Graham, quoted on p. 57 in book "Powered by Instinct : 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts" by Kathy Kolbe, 2004. {Added 31 Mar 2006}

'They mean well' is useless unless they do well.
   -Plautus, quoted on p. 52 in book "Powered by Instinct : 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts" by Kathy Kolbe, 2004. {Added 31 Mar 2006}

Language is the archives of history.
   -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 27 Mar 2006}

Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.
   -Lao-tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 23 Mar 2006}

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
   -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., writer (1922- ) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 21 Mar 2006}

Children are constantly using their imaginations, but adults are usually too caught up in reality to exercise what becomes a "lost art" as we age. Close your eyes now. Imagine you are riding a raindrop down through the sky. Imagine you are weaving your way through the Milky Way. Imagine melting and seeping into the ground. Imagine flying. It is not hard to do. You might need to lock yourself into a room with no distractions. You might need to wait a few moments to distance your thoughts from email messages, spilled juice or scheduling conflicts...but freeing your imagination is worth it.
   -David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 21 Mar 2006}

You don't trust somebody until you make yourself vulnerable. Trust is about giving control to another person, expecting that they will take good care of that control on your behalf.
   -David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 16 Mar 2006}

A child sees things very simply. Adults tend to complicate things.
   -David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 16 Mar 2006}

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
   -Wallace Stevens, poet (1879-1955) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 15 Mar 2006}

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
   -William Strunk and E.B. White, authors of The Elements of Style [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 13 Mar 2006}

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
   -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian and writer (1906-1945) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 13 Mar 2006}

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
   -Herbert Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 10 Mar 2006}

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
   -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 10 Mar 2006}

What we believe about ourselves can hold us hostage. Over the years I have learned to respect the power of people's beliefs. The thing that amazes me is that a belief is more than just an idea--it seems to shift the way we experience ourselves and our lives. According to Talmudic teaching, "We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are."
   -Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., "Kitchen Table Wisdom" book, quoted by Mark Morin on sci.psychology.personality {Added 09 Mar 2006}

We might well ask if anything which cannot be addressed in scientific terms is really worthy of our attention. Yet most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.
   -Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., "Kitchen Table Wisdom" book, quoted by Mark Morin on sci.psychology.personality {Added 09 Mar 2006}

There never was a horse that couldn't be rode, and there never was a cowboy that couldn't be throwed.
   [quoted in message by Peter Schug on rec.music.makers.bowed-strings] {Added 08 Mar 2006}

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
   -Nelson Mandela [quoted in message on mahatma_gandhi_reflection group] {Added 08 Mar 2006}

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack the way of life.
   -A.J. Muste [quoted in message on mahatma_gandhi_reflection group] {Added 08 Mar 2006}

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
   -Martin Luther King, Jr. [quoted in message on mahatma_gandhi_reflection group] {Added 08 Mar 2006}

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love, or total war.
   -David Dellinger [quoted in message on mahatma_gandhi_reflection group] {Added 08 Mar 2006}

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
   -Moshe Dayan [quoted in message on mahatma_gandhi_reflection group] {Added 08 Mar 2006}

We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
   -General Omar Bradley [quoted in message on mahatma_gandhi_reflection group] {Added 08 Mar 2006}

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
   -Anne Lamott, writer (1954- ) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 08 Mar 2006}

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
   -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 08 Mar 2006}

Be still. Listen carefully to everything around you. Can you hear the refrigerator? Can you hear an animal outside? Can you hear the clock ticking in the next room? Now listen carefully inside yourself. Can you hear your heart beating? Can you hear your thoughts? Can you hear your feelings?
   -David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 07 Mar 2006}

Oscar Wilde said, "True friends stab you in the front." An enemy is someone who stabs you in the back, who hurts you when you are not aware, who says things you don't want to hear when you are not listening. A true friend hurts you right up front by saying the things you don't want to hear when they know you are listening. Thank your friend for telling things you didn't want to hear.
   -David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy)] {Added 07 Mar 2006}

I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free.
   -Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 06 Mar 2006}

The best politics is right action.
   -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 03 Mar 2006}

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
   -Robert Quillen, journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 03 Mar 2006}

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
   -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 03 Mar 2006}

I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold.
   (words of Frankenstein monster). -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author (1797-1851) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 03 Mar 2006}

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
   -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 24 Feb 2006}

One should be so aware of one's great dignity and sacredness as a human being that even when walking down the narrowest of streets and alley ways, one feels as if a chorus of angels goes before thee, gloriously singing, "Make Way! Make Way! Make Way for the Image of God!"
   -Huston Smith [quoted by Oroville Mercury-Register article] {Added 22 Feb 2006}

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.
   -Jacques Barzun, professor and writer (1907- ) [from A-Word-A-Day (wordsmith.org)] {Added 22 Feb 2006}

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
   -Nikos Kazantzakis, writer (1883-1957) [from A-Word-A-Day] {Added 21 Feb 2006}

Knowledge is being able to recall facts, means of doing things, labels and information. There is a lot of knowledge at the library and on the Internet. Wisdom is understanding the meaning and the implications of all the facts. There is no wisdom at the library and no wisdom on the internet. No matter how much knowledge you accumulate, it will never replace even a small amount of wisdom you develop.
   -David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy) {Added 21 Feb 2006}

Like scientific evidence, mistakes confirm what we should not do. In fact, without mistakes, there is no real learning. Without mistakes, all actions are based on superstition.
   -David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy) {Added 21 Feb 2006}

Never let criticism get the better of you. Don't let someone else control your sense of self-worth. By the same token, don't let praise get the better of you. After all, you alone should control your sense of self-worth.
   -David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy) {Added 20 Feb 2006}

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
   -Joanna Macy, writer and teacher (1929- ) [from A-Word-A-Day] {Added 20 Feb 2006}

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
   -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president (1809-1865)

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
   -John Adams, 2nd US president (1735-1826) [from A-Word-A-Day] {Added 13 Feb 2006}

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
   -Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) [from A-Word-A-Day] {Added 9 Feb 2006}

When we have the courage to speak out -- to break our silence -- we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities to speak up and voice their views.
   -Sharon Schuster [from A-Word-A-Day] {Added 9 Feb 2006}

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
   -Adrienne Rich, writer and teacher (1929- ) [from A-Word-A-Day] {Added 9 Feb 2006}

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
   -Chief Joseph, native American leader (1840-1904) [from A-Word-A-Day] {Added 9 Feb 2006}

Why should I give them my mind we well?
   -Dalai Lama, when asked if he wasn't angry at the Chinese for taking over his country. (1935- ) [from A-Word-A-Day] {Added 9 Feb 2006}

When the telephone rings, do you answer it? Of course you do, because it could be someone important. It could be someone you want to speak to. Of course, it could be a telemarketer, but then all you have to do is hang up. So why say no to other opportunities? Sure, you never know if they will go well or not. But isn't it that way with the phone, and you answer it just the same? When opportunity knocks, open the door. You can always close it back later. And what opportunity could be worse than a telemarketer?
   -David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy) {Added 09 Feb 2006}

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is
   -German proverb, quoted by David Leonhardt (The Happy Guy) {Added 09 Feb 2006}

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
   -Pietro Aretino, satirist and dramatist (1492-1556) [from A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

Fine minds are seldom fine souls.
   -Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
   -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
   -Earl Wilson, columnist (1907-1987) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
   -Edgar Watson Howe, novelist and editor (1853-1937) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?
   -Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
   -Dwight David Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
   -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
   -Roger Ebert, film-critic (1942- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.
   -Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (1957- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

I'll tell you how the sun rose--
A ribbon at a time.
   -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
   -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em.
   -Red Skelton, comedian (1913-1997) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
   -Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 Jan 2006}