More Quotes

"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics." -Albert Einstein

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." -Albert Schweitzer


"Those who say it can't be done
should not interrupt the person doing it."
-Ancient Chinese Proverb


"God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it."
-Mother Teresa


"We are what we repeatedly do." -Aristotle


"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." -Chinese Proverb


"A wise old owl sat on an oak/ The more he saw, the less he spoke/ The less he spoke, the more he heard/ Why aren't we like that wise old bird?" -Unknown


"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Alan Kay


"When you ask for patience, God doesn't just give you patience, he gives you the opportunity to be patient. When you ask for courage, he doesn't give you courage; he gives you the opportunity to be courageous." -From the film Evan Almighty, Written by Steve Oedekerk


"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." -Nelson Mandela


"If you want to be incrementally better, be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better, be cooperative." -Unknown


"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death." -Betty Bender


"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself." -Charles Dickens


"The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterward looks for victory." -Sun Tzu


"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing- peace is the measure." -George Melton


"Practice acquiring the consciousness of childhood. Visualize the Divine Child within. Before falling asleep suggest to your consciousness, "I now realize that there is within me a spiritual joy-body ever young, ever beautiful, spiritual mind, eyes, nose, mouth, skin - the body of the Divine infant, which now, tonight, is perfect." -Baird T. Spalding


"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers." -William Somerset Maugham


"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." -Maharishi Mehesh Yogi


"No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities. It's a shame to waste those by doing what someone else has done." - Joseph Campbell


"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices." -Henry Ward Beecher


"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself." -Barbara De Angelis


"We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war." -Albert Einstein


"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood." -Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes

"What if you slept,

and what if in your sleep you dreamed, 

and what if in your dream you went to heaven 

and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower, 

and what if when you awoke you had

the flower in your hand?

Oh, what then?"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Free will does not mean

that you establish the curriculum;

only that you can elect what you to to take

at a given time"

A Course in Miracles

"Enlightenment consists

not merely in the seeing of

luminous shapes and visions,

but in making the darkness visible.

The latter procedure is more difficult,

and therefore, unpopular."

Carl Jung

"A ship is safe in harbor-

but that's not what ships are for."

John A. Shedd

"When one

is willing and eager,
the gods join in."

Aeschylus

"What is to give light

must endure burning."

Viktor Frankl

"Healing is a matter of time,

but it is sometimes also 

a matter of opportunity."

Hippocrates, Precepts, Ch. 1

"The clearest way into the Universe

is through

a forest wilderness."

John Muir

"You cannot transcend 

what you do not know.

To go beyond yourself, 

you must know yourself."

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"A great teacher

never strives to explain her vision;

she simply invites you

to stand beside her

and see for yourself."

The Rev. R. Inman

"God comforts the disturbed

and disturbs 

the comfortable."

Unknown

"Forget about likes and dislikes.

They are of no consequence.

Just do what must be done.

This may not be happiness,

but it is greatness."

George Bernard Shaw

"Symbolically, then, 

a tower was originally conceived 

as a vehicle for connecting

spirit and matter....

The gods must find a way to enter-

by force, if necessary."

Sallie Nichols, Jung and Tarot

"Imminent hanging

sharpens a man's wits."

Samuel Johnson

"God gave us memories

so that we might have roses

in December."

James Barrie

"Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Therein lies the peace of God."

A Course in Miracles

"I slept, and I dreamt that life was all joy.

I woke, and saw that life was but service.

I served, and discovered

that service was joy."

Rabindranath Tagore

"Here are the tears of things;

mortality touches the heart."

Virgil, The Aeneid

"If I am not for myself,

Who will be for me?

And if I am only for myself,

What am I?

And if not now, when?"

Hillel, Sayings of the Fathers

"The seed of God is in us:

Pear seeds grow into pear trees;

Hazel seeds into hazel trees;

and God seeds into God."

Meister Eckehart

"Take time to deliberate;

but when time for action arrives,

stop thinking and go in."

Andrew Jackson

"The secret 

of success in life:

Prepare for opportunity

when it comes."

Benjamin Disraeli

"In the sea caves,

there's a thirst, there's a love,

there's an ecstasy, all hard like shells,

you can hold them in your palm."

George Seferis

"True teachers

use themselves as bridges

over which they invite their students to cross;

then, having facilitated their crossing,

joyfully collapse, encouraging them

to create bridges

of their own."

Nikos Kazantzakis

"We must pass

through solitude and

difficulty, isolation and silence

to find that enchanted place where

we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our

sorrowful song. But it that dance, and in

that song, the most ancient rites of our 

conscience fulfill themselves 

in the awareness of 

being human."

Pablo Neruda

"There are no maps;

no more creeds or philosophies.

From here on in, the directions come

straight from the Universe."

Akshara Noor

I Hate Boys

I have been in a few relationships. There's a difference between boys and men. The difference is that boys wanna play and men don't shy away from responsibility. Unfortunately my relationships have only been with boys! Not men! I have been naive and fell for the boys whom I thought that I could fix. Although I know that you cannot fix anyone, and that you get what they are now. I thought it would be so much fun to teach them all the awesome things that I know and tell them about how to make their life better. Then I would watch as they seemingly changed their lives around from wrong to right, good to bad. In all reality, they were in the moment, caught up in bliss, and would not recognize what kind of a girlfriend they had until I was long gone. I always found it very exciting to be, "The one that got away." It made me feel mysterious and alluring. In the end, this was all just a game I played. I would not have been able to tell wrong from right, or up from down inside the walls of that game.  
I honestly feel like I am worthy of a great man who has a car, a job, a house. I just do not know where to find a man like that. Where I live there's only rednecks and hippies, and I have faith that the man that I deserve is not in my neck of the woods!  A piece of advice I hold dearly my grandmother told me, "If it is meant to be, it will be easy. It will just come to you." I will to take this to heart when looking for the man of my dreams. I actually will not look, because he will just come to me!

New Year... New Presence

They call it present because it truly is a gift.... Born into a world where our mind seems to reflect our realities, I have a view of the world that I think must change. I feel empowered by the abundance in my life and am beginning to see through the darkness and into the light. For one of the few times in my life so far, on New Years around 12 AM my mother gave me a gift in form of words and emotions... she made me see the miracle I truly may be. I hope that I will continue to experience this way of life, of living with the knowledge that I have what it takes to succeed. I want to take a middle path where the choices I make are not above me and engulf into an ugly storm to my beautiful soul... Even if that storm happens, I accept myself enough to pick me up and drag on to the next silver-lined cloud. Life is what we make it... but sometimes I wonder if Destiny has any play in it... Are we product of others or do we produce ourselves? I want the best life for me. I want to be safe, happy, and joyous. I call her Bliss... she is my newest Miss.