Week 2018-21

[#thought, #belief]
"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are." (Anthony Robbins, "Awaken the Giant Within")

[#identity, #quest]
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." (William James, "The Principles of Psychology")

[#limits, #imagination]
"To realize one's limitations marks the awakening of intellectual integrity, without which imagination, integrity and assiduity are barren." (Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin)

[#thought, #happiness]
"All that we are is made up of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with a pure thought, happiness will follow him, like a shadow that never leaves him." (Dhammapada)

[#human nature, #extremes]
"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences." (Richard Thompson)

[#truth, #meaning]
"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning." (Anais Nin)

[#quest, #introspection]
“The nature of creation is that you have to go inside and dig out. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within.” (Louise Nevelson)

[#emotions, #problem_solving]
"Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself." (Frances G Wickes)

[#life, #perseverance]
"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." (Marie Curie)

[#time, #potential]
"The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities." (Stephen Hawking)

Week 2017-39

"[...] the truth is strength that lies in the interior of the warrior: in his heart, his mind and his spirit [.] The heart is essential in helping the intellect to understand the spirit." (Miyamoto Musashi, “Book of Five Rings”)

"There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed." ( Shams Tabrizi )

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." (Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”)

"One is never so strong as when one is broken." (Hazrat Inayat Khan, “Thinking Like The Universe: The Sufi Path Of Awakening”)

"There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess." (Luis Marques, “Book of Orion”)

"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can." ( Lucille Ball )

"If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love. (Carl Jung)

"Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation." (Humberto Maturana)

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." (H. L. Mencken)

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."  (Helen Keller)

Week 2017-27

"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else." (Shunryū Suzuki)

"Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles." (Frank L. Wright)

"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly." (Edward Albee)

"Fear is a distraction from ‘what is', from the present actual moment, preventing us from existing, from being what we are." (Vanda Scaravelli)

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets." (Leonardo da Vinci)

"The power of imagination makes us infinite." (John Muir)

"Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things." (Virgil)

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." (Lao Tzu)

"The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves" (Roald Dahl)

"The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can’t remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts." (Shams Tabrizi)