Week 2017-08

"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves." (Bonaro Overstreet)

"Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs. (Eric Temple Bell, "The Search for Truth")

"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much." (Lewis Carroll)

"So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." (Norton Juster)

"You will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it." (Freya Stark)

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." (Jane Smiley)

"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." (Seneca the Younger)

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." (Herman Melville)

"There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness." (Gregg Braden)

Week 2017-07

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination." (Roy M. Goodman)

"If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits." (Don Ward)

"Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you." (Kabir)

"Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire." (Anatole France)

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." (Theodore N. Vail)

"Stand up to your obstacles; do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have." (Zen saying)

"If you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier." (Leó Szilárd)

"Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it." (Zen saying)

"Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves." (William Gilbert)

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." (Anatole France)

Week 2017-06

"Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction." (Joel Barker)

"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark." (Zen saying)

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." (John Maynard Keynes)

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol)

"Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them." (Zen saying)

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." (Samuel Johnson)

"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth." (Tom Barrett)

"To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is formidable." (Chinese saying)

"Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know." (Enrico Fermi)

Week 2017-05

[#quest, #solitude]
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." (Henry David Thoreau)

[#success, #happiness]
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it." (Andy Rooney)

[#values]
"He that despiseth small things, shall fall by little and little." (Ecclesiasticus)

[#meditation]   
"Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution." (Ajahn Sumedho)

[#ego, #knowledge]  
"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in." (D.H. Lawrence)

[#happiness, #effort]
"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." (Zhuang Zhou)

[#learning, #habitude]  
"You learn more from getting used to things than from studying." (Japanese saying)

[#choice]  
"How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you." (Sarah Reijonen)

[#change, #love]
"You change your life by changing your heart." (Max Lucado)

[#choice, #chance]
"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable." (Pythagoras)