Happy Holidays...........

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Amanda Bradley

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This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!

D M Dellinger

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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

George Santayana

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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

C S Lewis

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When you like your work, every day is a holiday.

Frank Tyger

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Mother I Love you

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.

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You see, my son, it is not a fact that you will never face danger. Difficulties always come, but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.

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I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, 'I have a mother'.

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If you want peace, do not see the faults of others. Rather see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child. The whole world is your own.

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Many think of God only after receiving blows from the world. But blessed indeed is he who can offer his mind, like a fresh flower, at the feet of the Lord from his very childhood. One should practise renunciation in youth.

Sri Sarada Devi
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Merry Christmas.....

May peace be your gift for this Christmas and the
world to help us all make this world a better place –
to make every day of the year Christmas Day.

Kurt Avish

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The joy of brightening other lives, bearing
each others' burdens,
easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts
and lives with generous
gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

W C Jones

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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:

the presence of a happy family all wrapped
up in each other.

Burton Hillis

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Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients
of a truly merry Christmas.

Peg Bracken

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Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgive ness.

To an opponent, tolerance.

To a friend, your heart.

To a customer, service.

To all, charity.

To every child, a good example.

To yourself, respect.

Oren Arnold

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Lovingly Detached

Truly wise is he who is unstirred by praise or blame, by love or hatred. He is not moved by the opposites of life. Verily does he delight in the blissful Self.

Srimad Bhagavatam

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Happiness or sorrow - whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

The Dhammapada

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union.

St John of the Cross

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To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, 'Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go.'... If we don't cling to past or future and we live entirely here and now, in 'Eternity's sunrise'.

Eknath Easwaran

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Winter with Inspiration

Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Kahlil Gibran

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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Ralph W Emerson

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Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.

Gloria Gaither

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

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Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun./ See the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth.

Einar Skjfraasen

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Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Stanley Crawford

Give and Take.......

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
Lao Tzu
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So I say to you, ask and it will be given to you, seek
and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone that asks receives,
he who seeks finds and to him that knocks the door will be opened.

Luke 11: -13

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The widest possibilities for spiritual growth lie in the give-and-take of
everyday relationships.

Eknath Easwaran

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There is love in every one of you.

Develop that love.

Share it with people.
This love is not a one-way traffic.

It is two-way, give and take.
Sathya Sai Baba

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You must give some time to your fellow men.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for others –
something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

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Koshi The Holy City

Brahma once weighed the heavens against Kashi. And Kashi, being heavier, sank while the skies, despite all the gods who lived there, rose upwards.
Adi Shankara,
Manikarnikastotram
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The three worlds form one city of mine, and Kashi is my royal palace therein.
Skanda Purana
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Are there not many holy places on this earth?
Yet which of them would equal in the balance one speck of Kashi's dust?
Are there not many rivers running to the sea?
Yet which of them is like the River of Heaven in Kashi?
Are there not many fields of liberation on earth?
Yet not one equals the smallest part of the city never forsaken by Shiva.
The Ganges, Shiva and Kashi: Where this Trinity is watchful, no wonder here is found the grace that leads one on to perfect bliss.
Kashi Khanda 35. 7-10
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Varanasi sits above the earth as a 'crossing place' or tirtha between this world and the 'far shore' of the transcendent Brahmn.
Diana L Eck
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Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.
Mark Twain

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Beauty Lies Within

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every face, in every sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Ralph W Emerson
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 309

Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.

~ Mark Twain

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 308

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 307

Health best of all gains and peace of mind is the best of all happiness.

~ The Mahabharata

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 306

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

~ MK Gandhi 

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Health Is Wealth

Health best of all gains and peace of mind is the best of all happiness.
The Mahabharata
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship....To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Gautama Buddha
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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them... Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

Yogananda Paramahansa
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Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.

Swami Vishnu-devananda
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

M K Gandhi
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

G K Chesterton
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The greatest wealth is health.

Virgil

Words Use Them Wisely

We should always be soft spoken. Sweet speech has the ability to attract one and all. On the contrary, vitriolic speech keeps people away. That is why one should always be soft spoken so that it enhances brotherhood and affection.
Yajur Veda
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One should be cautious not to speak anything that hurts others. Such kind of speech never helps but always brings destruction.
Rig Veda
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Among a man's many good possessions, a good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
Thirukural 65: 641-642
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya
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Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth.
Sathya Sai Baba
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran

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Education Quotes

Real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative; to be loving, blissful, without any comparison with the other. It will not teach you that you can be happy only when you are the first.

Osho

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If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere. How? You have seen my brethren... Let these men go from village to village bringing not only religion to the door of everyone but also education.

Swami Vivekananda

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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Rabindranth Tagore

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

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O Goddess Saraswati, salutations to you, the giver of boons, the one who fulfils all desires. I begin my studies. May there always be accomplishments for me.

Saraswati Namastubhyam

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Detachment Quotes

Real Detachment
The man who is pure of heart is bound to fulfil himself in whatever way he is taught. A worldly man seeks all his life, but is still bewildered. Detached from the senses, you are free. Attached, you are bound. When this is understood, you may live as you please.
Astavakra Gita 15:1-2
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Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are lovingly focussed on the True One, they realise and understand themselves.
Guru Nanak
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O my mind, day and night, you are always full of wishful hopes. Serve the true Guru, and your emotional attachment shall be totally burnt away; remain detached within the home of your heart.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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The essence of the way is detachment.
Bodhidharma
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
St John of the Cross


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Addiction Quotes 7

"The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur."
Edward O. Sisson


"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."
Feodor Dostoevski

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
Mortimer Caplan

"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters."
Roger L'Estrange

"Habit: The shackles of the free."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

"The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it—how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!"
L. G. Elliott



"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
Samuel Johnson


"Nicotine withdrawal was very much like trying to s*** a melon. The pressure was remarkable! Seemingly an impossible task. I would break out into sweats, cough, curse, yell, and wake up periodically throughout the night from vicious nightmares. Three full weeks of endless torment without relief. The incommodiousness of it all."
Greg Evans



"Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes."
Hannah More



"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."
Lane Olinghouse



"In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character."
Edward O. Sisson

Addiction Quotes 6

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
Source Unknown

"Easy does it."
Source Unknown

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
William Shakespeare


"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are."
Julius Charles Hare

"You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand."
Irene C. Kassorla


"Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves."
Source Unknown


"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
Mark Twain


"We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn."
J. Todd Ferrier



"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
Source Unknown


"We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime."
Mahatma Gandhi

Addiction Quotes 5

"I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area."
William S. Burroughs


"The weapons addiction of all our political leaders ... has the same characteristics as drug addiction. It is enormously costly, very dangerous, provokes ugly violence, and is self-perpetuating -- all on a scale far greater than drug addicton."
Howard Zinn


"To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off."
C. E. Montague


"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
Rob Gilbert


"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
Hunter S. Thompson


"Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction… You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."
Juliene Berk


"Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name... The French city... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase."
James Fenton


"If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength."
Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld


"Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


"We're worn into grooves by Time—by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness — achievement."
Frank B. Gilberth

Addiction Quotes 4

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."
Tryon Edwards

"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
Jean Cocteau

"Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
John Dryden

"Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison."
John Hardwick

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones."
Somerset Maugham

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
Michel de Montaigne

"A man’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits."
Source Unknown

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
Abraham Joshua Heschel

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
Mick Jagger

Addiction Quotes 3

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
Hunter S. Thompson

"Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone."
Source Unknown

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
P. J. O'Rourke

"If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine."
Rob Stampfli

"Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?"
Anna Quindlen

"I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?"
Ken Faver

"We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life."
Bertrand Russell

"For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings."
Peter McWilliams

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
Stephen R. Covey

"Have you heard about the latest 12 step group for compulsive talkers? It's called ... On and On Anonymous."
Source Unknown

Addiction Quotes 2

"All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal."
Thomas Szasz

"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
C.S. Lewis


"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
Henry Ward Beecher


"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."

"He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie."
Anais Nin

"I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug."
Maynard James Keenan

"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."
Jacob M. Braude

"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
Jean Cocteau

"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."
Franklin P. Jones

"Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual’s body."
Thomas Szasz
Franklin P. Jones

Addiction Quotes 1

"Habits are first cobwebs, then cables."
Spanish proverb

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."
Ramona L. Anderson

"A habit is a shirt made of iron."
Czech proverb


"Our sickness is between our ears."
Source Unknown

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
Frank Outlaw

"In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country."
Aldous Huxley

"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation"
Wystan Hugh Auden

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Gustav Jung

"My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Jung

Quotes On Achievement 7

"For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world."
John Winthrop

"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty."
Marilyn Monroe

"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day."
Alan Lakein


"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results."
Mark Victor Hansen

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."
Mal Pancoast

"Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas."
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
Thomas Edison

"What would a smarter person than me do? Then do it!"
Danny Devito

"The value of achievement lies in the achieving."
Albert Einstein

"A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days."
Albert Einstein

Quotes On Achievemnet 6

"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."
Lady Stella Reading

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
George Bernard Shaw

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."
A. P. Gouthey

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
Otto Rank

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
George Fabricius

"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"
Marilyn Monroe

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results."
Napoleon Hill

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
Margaret Thatcher

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
Golo Mann

Quotes On Achievemnet 5

"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."
Phaedrus

"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."
Zig Ziglar

"The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?"
Henry David Thoreau

"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."
C. Hoppe

"Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do."
Thomas Edison

"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."
Anthony Robbins

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
E. E. Cummings

Quotes On Achievement 4

"I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty."
Barbara Walters

"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
Alfred A. Montapert

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,"
Simone Weil

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
Charles F. Kettering

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
Napoleon Hill

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Orison Swett Marden

"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
Georgia O'Keeffe

"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
Plutarch

Quotes On Achievement 3

"We will either find a way, or make one."
Hannibal

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
Eddie Robinson


"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."
Helen Hayes


"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."
Mark Victor Hansen

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of"
Eric Hoffer


"I want to put a ding in the universe."
Steve Jobs

"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
Jean De La Fontaine

"Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done."
Julia Woodruff

"Be not afraid of flying. Angels live in the clouds and the devil on the earth."
Greg Evans

Quotes on Achievement 2

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
Walt Disney


"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
Samuel Johnson

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
Samuel Johnson

"To spend life for something which outlasts it."
William James

"One who has done nothing, is not known until they have done something."
Allie Ross

"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
Morarji Desai

"''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself."
Samuel Smiles

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
Alphonse De Lamartine

"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
David Bailey

Quotes On Achievement 1

"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

"The journey is the reward."
Chinese Proverbs

"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."
Aristotle

""No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything." "
Ronaldo(Ronaldinho) Assis Moreira

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent van Gogh

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
Confucius

"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."


"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort."
Oliver Wendell Holmes


"Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest."

Quotes From Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is its twin brother.

Quotes on Truth

Truth is victorious, never untruth.
Truth is the way; truth is the goal of life,
Reached by sages who are free from self-will.

Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.6
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The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures... There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind.

J Krishnamurti
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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Gautama Buddha
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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei


Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Quotes Ability Part 7

"Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light."
Dale Adams


"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains"
Ken Carey

"You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm."
Dale Adams

"Without a goal, you cannot survive."
Dale Adams

"Others have done it before me. I can, too."
Corporal John Faunce

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."
T.S. Elliot

"Friends will always say 'go for it' even though deep inside they feel really hurt."
michelle santoso

"The trust is in the stars my dear Brutus"
William Shakespear

Quotes Ability Part 6

"Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition."
Dale Adams

"Your integrity is more precious than your life."
Dale Adams

"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."
Bob Marley

"Someday will never come and take you by the hand."
Dale Adams

"Loneliness cannot be shared."
Dale Adams

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
Henry David Thoreau

"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem."
Dale Adam

"Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come."
Dale Adams

"There is the finest line between data and evidence"
Dale Adams

Quotes Ability Part 5

"A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman."
Thomas Somerville

"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
Grace Moore

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
Henry David Thoreau

"I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad."
Dale Adams

"Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably"
Dale Adams

"Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot."
Dale Adams

"There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else."
Dale Adams

"The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live."
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right."
Dale Adams

Quotes Ability Part 4

"Not many men have both good fortune and good sense."
Titus Livy

"God does not ask about our ability, but our availability."


"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."
John Henry Newman

"If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened"
Dale Adams

"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

""In the Land of The Blind a One-Eyed man is King""

"Adams first law of survival: Get even first."
Dale Adams

"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, that is way great spiritual giants are produced."
Swami Vivekananda

Quotes Ability Part 3

"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
Marquis De Vauvenargues

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
Booker T. Washington

"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."
Sir William Temple

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
Charles Caleb Colton

"The king is the man who can."
Thomas Carlyle

"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."
Desiderius Erasmus

"Ability is sexless."
Christabel Pankhurst

"The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
Henry Ford

"The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker."
Earl Pitts

Quotes Ability Part 2

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."


"Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones."
Oliver Goldsmith

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
Thomas A. Edison

"'My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.' "
Barack Obama

"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
John G. Pollard

"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
Orison Swett Marden

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"
Henry Ford

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
Zig Ziglar

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."
John Andrew Holmes

"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotes - Ability Part 1

"YOU CANNOT HAVE WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT."
John Acosta

"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten."
Marilyn Monroe

"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow"
Alberto Nikas

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Ability without honor is useless."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."
Francis Bacon

"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nine Most Inspiring Thoughts

1. Every one knows about alexander graham bell who invented phones, but he never made a call to his family. Because his wife and daughter were deaf.
That’s life - ” live for others ” .

2. The worst in life is “attachment ” it hurts when you lose it. The best thing in life is ” loneliness ” because it teaches you everything and when you lose it you get everything.

3. Life is not about the people who act true to your face …. Its about the people who remain true behind your back .

4. Egg broken from outside force……..a life ends. If an egg breaks from within…….life begins ..
Great things always began from within .

5. Its better to lose your ego to the one you love than to lose the one you love ……. Because of ego .

6. A relationship doesn’t shine by just shaking hands in good times. But it blossoms by holding firmly in critical situations .

7. Heated gold becomes ornaments. Beaten copper becomes wires. Depleted stone becomes statue. So more pain, more gain (valuable).

8. When you trust someone trust him completely without any doubt………….. At the end you would get one of the two :
Either a lesson for your life or a very good person .

9. Why we have so many temples, if god is everywhere ?
A wise man said : Air is everywhere, but we still need a fan to feel it

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Guru Nanak's Message

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains Supreme Bliss.
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O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower; night and day I thirst for them.
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As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?
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There is but one God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, He is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death... He was true in the beginning, He was true when the ages commenced and has ever been true, He is also true now.
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God is one, but He has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Sayings of Guru Nanak
Tomorrow is Guru Nanak
Jayanti.

Lovely Quotes For Lovely People Like You

Quotes of the Day

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too." - Thomas Fuller

"A man with no imaginations has no wings." - Muhammad Ali

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen." - Arland Gilbert

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." - James Allen

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 305

If win, you need not explain...But if you lose, 

you should not be there to explain. 

 ~ Adolph Hitler

Motivational Quotes

"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills." -Peter Davies


"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." -Henry David Thoreau


"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
-Harry Emerson Fosdick


"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" -Anne Frank


"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
-Mario Andretti


"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." -Roger Bannister


"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." -John Milton


"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." -Goethe


"Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." -Abraham Lincoln


"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
-John Homer Miller


"The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives."
-Walter Chrysler


"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning." -Barbara Sher


"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." -Samuel Johnson


"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 304

It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

~J Krishnamurti

Thought Quotes

Here are 20 “thought quotes” to get you thinking.

1. A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes. -Mahatma Gandhi

2. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. -Oscar Wilde

3. Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. -Thomas S. Szasz

4. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. -Albert Einstein

5. It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. -William Shakespeare

6. Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. -Benjamin Lee Whorf

7. I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make more sense. -Harold Kushner

8. At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all. -Anonymous

9. If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you are right. -May Kay Ash

10. Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -William James

11. Nurture your mind with great thoughts. -Benjamin Disraeli

12. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. -Fortune Cookie

13. The ‘how’ thinker get problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ‘ifs’. -Norman Vincent Peale

14. Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. -Fortune Cookie

15. Those who know how to think need no teachers. -Mahatma Gandhi

16. Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads onto actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. -Tyron Edwards

17. Thought is the blossom; language is the bud; action the fruit behind it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. Watch you thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. -Frank Outlaw

19. What we think, we become. -Buddha

20. The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of goodwill. -J. Arthur Thomson

There you have it. What did you think?

Please share your thoughts below in the comments section. And please share some “thought quotes” of your own.

Quotes Of Inspirations From Some Great People

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and
have an idea that is obviously impossible.

-- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer


I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at
once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist


Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to
hard work, perseverance and determination.

-- Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) English Surgeon

Top 10 Famous Quotes For Acceptance

Acceptance says, "True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."
- Catharine Marshall




Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
- Kathleen Casey Theisen




God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr




You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
- Old German proverb




We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.




It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
- Simone de Beauvoir




The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
- Maureen Dowd




"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.
- Debbi Fields




Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster




Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
- Arthur Gordon

Top 10 Famous Quotes For Absence

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
- Colette




Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
- La Rochefoucauld




Absent in body, but present in spirit.
- Bible




Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
- Alphonse de Lamartine




Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
- Robert Louis Stevenson




The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
- Ouida




Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
- Tacitus




The absent are always wrong.
- English proverb




Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly




Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. - Helen Rowland

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. -Basil S. Walsh

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.
-Zig Ziglar

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 303

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

~Buddha 

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. -Theodore Roosevelt

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau

Perseverance: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. -Ambrose Bierce

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Good things happen to those who hustle." -Anais Nin

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor. -John Milton

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 302

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

~ Helen Keller

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 301

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

~Martin Luther King Jr., 
Strength to Love, 1963 

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. -Charles Caleb Colton

"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones." -Benjamin Disraeli

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. -Helen Keller

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. -Jospeph Addison

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 300

"Asato Maa sad gamaya

Tamaso Maa jyotir gamaya

Mrityor Maa Amritam gamaya

Aum shanti shanti shanti"

God, please lead me (by giving me knowledge) from the unreal to the real;

from the darkness (of ignorance) to the light (of knowledge);

from the death (limitation) to immortality (liberation).

~ Rig Veda

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The Right Mental Attitude

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

-Theodore T. Hunger

The World is All Opportunities

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

-Thornton Wilder

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. -Josh Billings

Time

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

-Art Buchwald

Today, the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Today, wealth is contained in brainpower, not brutepower. -Brian Tracy

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God’s way of pointing you in a new direction. -Hippocrates

The Most Essential Factor

The most essential factor is persistence, - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. -James Whitcomb Riley