Quotes
Instructions for Life from the Dalai Lama:
Take
into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Follow the three Rs: Respect for self; Respect for others;
and
Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful
stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,you'll be
able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current
situation. Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
"Hold a true friend with both hands."
Life
is a series of experiences, each of which makes us
bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the
world was built to develop character, and we must learn
that the setbacks and griefs which we endure, help us in
our marching onward.
Henry Ford
Forget
past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except
what you're going to do now and do it.
Wisdom
cannot be studied; nobody can teach it to you.
You have to be a light unto yourself. You have to seek and search within
your own being, because
it is already there at the very core. If you dive deep you will find it.
You will have to learn
how to dive within yourself - not in the scriptures, but within your own
existence.
Osho
The
richest person is the one who is contented with what he has.
Robert C. Savage
Love
cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed
and teased. It comes out of heaven, unmasked
and unsought.
Pearl S.Buck
It
is because of our attachment to things that we suffer.
By letting go we find that we have not lost anything except our attachment.
Sogyal Rinpoche
You
are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars;
you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.
Max Ehrmann
The
intuitive mind is a sacred gift; the rational mind is faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten
the gift.
Albert Einstein
Love
cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed
and teased. It comes out of heaven, unmasked
and unsought.
Pearl S.Buck
Buddha
left a road map,
Jesus left a road map,
Krishna left a road map,
Rand McNally left a road map.
But you still have to travel the road yourself.
Stephen Levine
Sometimes
it's better to put love into hugs
than to put it into words.
Michelle
The heart has its
reasons,
which reason does not know.
Pascal
A man who has never passed through the
inferno of his
passions has never overcome them.
Carl Gustav Jung
Sigh
no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever.
William Shakespeare
After
a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a
soul
and you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't always mean
security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises
and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of woman, not the grief of a child and you learn to build all
your roads on today
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of
falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much
so you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for
someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure you really are strong
you really do have worth
and you learn and you learn with every goodbye, you learn...
After
A While
by Veronica A. Shoffstall
It matter not what you do in life or what accomplishments you make,
it's who you spend it with that matters
Anon.
Writers seldom choose as friends those
self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill,
never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is
handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
As
long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold
him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee
doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide
how you're going to live now.
Joan Baez
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest
is with one.
Joan
Baez
Only good girls keep
diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Tallulah Bankhead
You
grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
One
is not born a woman, one becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
Hada Bejar
I
tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in
it.
Lesley Boone
When
women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Man invade another country. It's a
whole different way of thinking.
Elayne Boosler
There
are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter
yourself to meet them.
Elayne Boosler
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
Louise Bourgeois
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Elizabeth Bowen
It was an old quandary for them. He
needed sex in order to feel connected to her, and she to feel connected to him
in order to enjoy sex.
Lisa Alther
Perhaps they were right putting
love into books .. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner
To jealousy, nothing is more
frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
Nobody has ever measured, even the
poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
J.W. von Goethe
Friendship often ends in love, but
love in friendship ? never.
C.C.Colton
Love ia indescribable and
unconditional. I could
tell you a thousand things it is not, but not one that it is.
Duke Ellington
The
most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of
all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer
pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Einstein
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