Week 2016-52

"One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never." (Alexandre Dumas)

"Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves." (Rainer Maria Rilke)

   
"Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself." (Brain Tracy)

"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable." (William Pollard)

"The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity." (Ram Dass)   

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct arising from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves." (Carl Jung)

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." (Victor Frankl)

"The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy." (Noam Chomsky)

"To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act." (Anatole France)

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." (Henri Bergson)

Week 2016-51

"To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well." (Jim Rohn)

"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses." (Marilyn vos Savant)

"The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score." (Bill Copeland)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw)

"He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger." (Japanese saying)

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." (Colin Wilson)

"Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can." (Siobhan Fahey)

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination." (Carl Rogers)

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master." (Epictetus)

"The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing." (Theodore Roosevelt)

Week 2016-50

"Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after." (Henry David Thoreau)

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists." (Japanese saying)

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." (George Bernard Shaw)  

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." (Khalil Gibran)

"He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future." (Quevedo)

"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us." (Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, "Religio Medici")

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." (Napoleon Hill)

"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we have a clear picture of it." (Benedict Spinoza)

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us." (Eugène Ionesco)

Week 2016-49

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." (Orison S. Marden)

"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame." (Benjamin Franklin)

"All the wonders you seek are within yourself." (Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich)

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." (Rumi)

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." (Robert H. Schuller)

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." (Saint Francis of Assisi)

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change." (Earl Nightingale)

"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." (Chinese saying)

"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." (Tony Robbins)

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." (Mark Twain)

Week 2016-48

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom" (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science." (Albert Einstein)

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." (James Oppenheim)

"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried." (Frank Tyger)

"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." (Kurt Vonnegut, “Breakfast of Champions,” 1973)

"We can cope with anything if we have the tools and can draw on our inner power. But there is no sun without rain; no joy without spiritual awareness; and no growth without the knowledge that help is always available and we can deal with life’s difficulties." (Joy Ward)

"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value." (Jim Rohn)

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." (Maya Angelou)

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." (William Arthur Ward)

"No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage." (Epictetus)

"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day." (Indian saying)

Week 2016-47

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer." (Nolan Bushnell)

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom" (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically." (Henry David Thoreau)

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team." (Benjamin F. Fairless)

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists." (Anita Brookner)

"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom." (Samuel Smiles)

"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know." (John Kenneth Galbraith)

"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry." (Samuel Smiles)

"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it." (Solomon ibn Gabirol)

"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom." (Friedrich von Schiller)

Week 2016-46

"Every person has only one purpose: to find perfection in goodness. Therefore, only that knowledge is necessary which leads us to this." (Leo Tolstoy)

"More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

"Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions - so find out how to light their fires." (Jeff Dewar)

"Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning." (Bergen Evans)

"If all knowledge were good, then pursuit of every sort of knowledge would be useful. But many false meditations are disguised as good and useful knowledge; therefore, be strict in selecting the knowledge you want to acquire." (Leo Tolstoy)

"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something." (Leo Buscaglia)

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and create a new ending." (Maria Robinson)

"The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life." (Seneca the Younger)

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell)

"You should study more to understand that you know little." (Michel de Montaigne)

Week 2016-45

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." (Confucius)

"It is the rhythmic form in which the mind tends to perceive monotonously repeated stimulation. That's why we pray and why we should also pray audibly, because the sound stimulates the ability to awaken our senses, in order to arouse the forces which will strengthen the psychic abilities within." (Edgar Cayce)

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." (Helen Adams Keller)

“The extreme limit of wisdom - that's what the public calls madness." (Jean Cocteau)

"There are two types of ignorance, the pure, natural ignorance into which all people are born, and the ignorance of the so-called wise. You will see that many among those who call themselves scholars do not know real life, and they despise simple people and simple things." (Blaise Pascal)

"Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly." (Michel de Montaigne)

"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably." (Bertolt Brecht)

"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge." ( Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." (Michel de Montaigne)

Week 2016-44

"Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory." (Henry David Thoreau)

"Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people." (Michel de Montaigne)

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction." (William Blake)

"Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. But you haven't learned how to read the wisdom of the body." (Dan Millman)

"The price of wisdom is eternal thought." (Frank Birch)

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next." (John Stuart Mill)

"There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather." (Martin Luther)

"Action should culminate in wisdom." (Bhagavad Gita)

"Loong, preserve yourself by following the natural bend of things and don’t interfere. Remember to never assert yourself against nature; never be in frontal opposition to any problems, but control it by swinging with it." (Yip Man [according to Bruce Lee])

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." (Francis Bacon)

Week 2016-43

"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next." (Herbert Hoover)

"The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us." (Eric Hoffer)

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." (Francis Bacon)

"Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things."(Heraclitus)

"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude." (Bruce Lee)

"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control." (Ogden Nash)

"We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are." (Richard Henry Stoddard)

"I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket." (Bruce Lee)

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” (Henry Boye)

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." (Ronald E. Osborn)

"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things." (Denis Diderot)

Week 2016-42

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." (Dolly Parton)

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." (Bruce Lee)

"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.” (Epicurus)

"If you can’t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.” (Ashleigh Brilliant)

"There are no limits to what you can create for you, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will only attract like forces to you. So let all others create the life they want." (Rhonda Byrne, "The Secret")

"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut." (Maxwell Maltz)

"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” (Alfred Adler)

"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.” (William Temple)

"Don’t make a permanent decision based on how you’re temporarily feeling." (Rachel Parrott)

"It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own." (Anne Wilson Schaef)

Week 2016-41

"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." (Pema Chodron)

"You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while." (Eckhart Tolle)

"True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you." (Brad Warner)

"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion." (Herbert Spencer)

"Before you assume, learn the facts. Before you judge, understand why. Before you hurt someone, feel. Before you leave, commit to staying." (José Sánchez)

"Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change." (José Sánchez)

"The real meditation is how you live your life." (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." (C S Lewis)

"It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed." (Thomas Moore)

"Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." (Scott Adams)

Week 2016-40

"Without a narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, learning has no purpose." (Neil Postman)

"You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed." ( Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." (William Blake)

"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone." (Maxwell Maltz)

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”)

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross)

"[...] without conscious effort, the brain always tries to close the distance between
observed phenomena and knowledge or wisdom that can help us survive." (Alberto Cairo)

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." (Anatole France)

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." (Frank Herbert)

Week 2016-39

"Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full."(Rumi)

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility." (Rabindranath Tagore)

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present." (Albert Camus)

”The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." (Mignon McLaughlin)

"There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it’s best to know the rules and only break them if you’re playing a different game and following those rules." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile")

"You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts." (Philip Arnold)

"Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds." (Anon)

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." (Kahlil Gibran)

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil." (Alfred North Whitehead)

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste." (Richard Brodie)