04 February 2017

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)

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