Week 2017-14

[#duality, #light]
"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures." (James Thurber)

[#wisdom, #thought]
"Thinking and doing, doing and thinking, these are the sum of all wisdom. Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out. Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road." (Goethe)

[#mastery, #strength]
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." (John Keats)

[#character, #mastery]
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." (Henry David Thoreau)

[#belief]
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." (Sydney J. Harris)

[#feelings, #thought]
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." (Jean de La Bruyère)

[#patience]
"To endure the unendurable is true endurance." (Japanese saying)

[#simplicity]
"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

[#action, #love]
"The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for." (Thomas Chalmers)

[#knowledge]
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." (Epicurus)

Week 2017-02

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds." (Nicholas Sparks)

"Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain." (Frank Herbert, "Dune")

"No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn’t take a hard look at itself." (John W. Campbell)

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." (C. S. Lewis)

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." (Albert Camus)

"Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another." (Claude Lévi-Strauss)

"Forgiving someone doesn’t give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on." (Charles F Glassman)

"Your strength is in your calmness, in the clarity of your mind. Strength comes from putting the negative aside without reacting. Win in calmness, in consciousness, in balance. Win without fighting." (Yogi Amrit Desai)

"Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.: (Thomas Mann)

"Do not destroy what you cannot create." (Leó Szilárd)

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)