Monday, December 31, 2012

The Answer


Always we hope someone else has the answer. Some other place will be better, it will all turn out. This is it. No one else has the answer. No other place will be better, and it has already turned out. Lao Tzu

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Tranquility


The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. James Allen

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Mourning


The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. Edmund Burke

Friday, December 28, 2012

Service


Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Marion Wright Edelman

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Count

If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy. Unknown

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Friendship


Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. Osho

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Hope

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness. Rumi

Monday, December 24, 2012

Hope



Hope is the physician of each misery. Irish Proverb

Sunday, December 23, 2012

The Song


Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Henry David Thoreau 

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Magic Things


The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats

Friday, December 21, 2012

Silence


You have spent your whole life with elegant speeches.
For sometime you should walk alone in the gardens of silence. Rumi

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Be Yourself


Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Character


Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.  Helen Keller

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Giving


I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou

Monday, December 17, 2012

Peace


Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. Marianne Williamson

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Attitude


The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Charles Swindoll

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Jealousy

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. Unknown

Friday, December 14, 2012

Now

Grow from the past, but grab hold of now. Now is always evolving. Rumi

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Work


A feeling of aversion or attachment to something is your clue that there's work to be done. Ram Dass

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Excuses


Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them. John Wooden

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Good Enough

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. Carl Rogers

Monday, December 10, 2012

Mind

A great Tibetan teacher of mind training once remarked that one of the mind’s most marvelous qualities is that it can be transformed. Dalai Lama

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Prayer

Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul. Rumi

Bait


For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. Friedrich Nietzsche

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Love


Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert Heinlein

Friday, December 7, 2012

Gentle People


Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Garrison Keillor

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Today


Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again! Rumi 

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Worry

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. Swedish Proverb

Monday, December 3, 2012

Treasures


We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Mind


To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Settled


People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. Ralph Waldo Emerson