Week 2017-46

[#happiness, #love]
"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." (Bernard Meltzer)

[#illusion, #solitude]
"Man has the illusion that he talks with the entire world from his computer. He is actually alone." (Octavian Paler)

[#happiness, #attachment]
"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess  you do have a problem."    (Richard Bach)

[#action, #growth]
"If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today." (African saying)

[#knowledge, #action]
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." (Maya Angelou)

[#mastery, #growth]
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” (Ronald E. Osborn)

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

[#happiness, #timing]
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” (William Feather)

[#perception, #learning]
"Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do not recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.” (Waite Phillips)

[#hardship, #learning]
"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass – it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” (Anon)

Week 2017-20

[#budo, #perception]
"The true value of Budo is to train the mind to see clearly and maintain spiritual strength." (Toshitsugu Takamatsu)

[#practice, #method]
"Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you." (Master Sheng Yen)

[#happiness]
"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside." (Ramana Maharshi)

[#force, #fight]
"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe." (John Milton)

[#patience, #expectations]
"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter." (Paulo Coelho)

[#illusion, #wisdom]
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." (Ludwig Börne)

[#knowledge]
"All our knowledge is ourselves, to know." (Alexander Pope)

[#knowledge, #learning]
"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge." (Philip Sidney)

[#certainty, #knowledge]
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little." (Agnes de Mille)

[#mind, #attachment]
"What do you hang on the walls of your mind?" (Eve Arnold)

Week 2017-09

[#values]
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." (Henry David Thoreau)

[#knowledge, #quest]
"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out." (Russian saying)

[#attachment, #freedom]
"Do not permit the events of your daily lives to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of a Liberated One." (Huang Po)

[#hope, #focus]
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest." (Dalai Lama)

[#change, #strength]
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." (Dr. Robert Anthony)

[#hope, #fear]
"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." (François de La Rochefoucauld)

[#learning, #experience]
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." (Douglas Adams)

[#knowledge, #unknown]
"People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?" (Zhuang Zhou)

[#faith, #hope]
"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." ( Thomas Aquinas )

[#success, #dreams]
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." (Swami Vivekananda)

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)