 | "It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding." -- Vincent Van Gogh(5/10) |
| "An ordinary man is Budda; desire and passion is enlightenment. One thought of folly makes a man an ordinary man. The next enlightened though and he is Buddha." -- Hui-neng(5/9) |
| "It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life." -- Richard Jeffries(5/8) |
| "Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them." -- Publilius Syrus(5/5) |
| "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else." -- John Burroughs(5/4) |
| "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." -- James Russell Lowell(5/3) |
| "We cannot see things as they really are until we let go of the idea of a separate self." -- John Daido Loori(5/2) |
| "An answer is always a form of death." -- John Fowles(5/1) |
| "Conduct your triumph like a funeral." -- Tao te Ching(4/28) |
| "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." -- Albert Einstein(4/27) |
| "Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut." -- Dilbert(4/26) |
| "Seize the day! Put no trust in the morrow." -- Horace(4/25) |
| "Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." -- George Bernard Shaw(4/24) |
| "I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: "Who art Thou?" He said: "Thou."" -- Al-Hallaj(4/21) |
| "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." -- Andre Gide(4/20) |
| "In original nature there is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror has no likes or dislikes." -- Seung Sahn(4/19) |
| "Each moment is a place you've never been." -- Mark Strand(4/18) |
| "Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life." -- Milarepa(4/17) |
| "All that is good is instinct -- and hence, easy, necessary, free." -- Friedrich Nietzsche(4/14) |
| "Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? I would like to have a word with him." -- Chuang-Tzu(4/13) |
| "There ain't much to being a ballplayer -- if you're a ballplayer." -- Honus Wagner(4/12) |
| "To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet an enemy." -- Wu-men(4/11) |
| "All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence." -- The Buddha's Last Words(4/10) |
| "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." -- Andre Gide(4/7) |
| "Only the paradox comes anywhere near to the comprehending fullness of life." -- C.G. Jung(4/6) |
| "Just remain in the center, watching. And then forget that you are there." -- Lao-tzu(4/5) |
| "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson(4/4) |
| "If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut." -- Persian proverb(4/3) |
| "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." -- Tom clancy(3/31) |
| "Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape towards nothingness." -- Simone de Beauvoir(3/30) |
| "Ride your horse along the edge of a sword; hide yourself in the middle of flames." -- Zen saying(3/29) |
| "If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it." -- Isadora Duncan(3/28) |
| "Seize from every moment its unique novely and do not prepare your joys." -- Andre Gide(3/27) |
| "Humanitarianism consists of never sacrificing a human being to a purpose." -- Albert Schweitzer(3/24) |
| "A sudden, bold and unexqpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open." -- Francis Bacon(3/23) |
| "We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it." -- Yates(3/22) |
| "Think every day your last: you will receive with joy hours on which you have not counted." -- Horace(3/21) |
| "As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance." -- Hui-neng(3/20) |
| "To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals--this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life." -- Sir William Osler(3/17) |
| "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein(3/16) |
| "Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them." -- Alan Watts(3/15) |
| "Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejections, one may will burst into laughter." -- Long Chen Pa(3/14) |
| "The worst of times are there purly to let us know when the best of times arrive."(3/13) |
| "The acts of life have neither beginning nor end." -- Tristan Tzara(3/10) |
| "Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." -- Amrose Bierce(3/8) |
| "The small things are often not worth the time to worry about them. The small things can often be disguised as large."(3/7) |
| "When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything." -- Shunryu Suzuki(3/6) |
| "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson(3/3) |
| "A man is a god in ruins." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson(3/2) |
| "Time waits for no one. When you are behind, you must catch up."(3/1) |
| "The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(2/29) |
| "The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death." -- Sri Ramakrishna(2/28) |
| "When you are ready, you will begin to find who you are."(2/25) |
| "Sometimes the best thing you can do is run away, but always remember that you must return and face the problems."(2/24) |
| "A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one." -- Lord Jeffery(2/23) |
| "The most important thing about goals is having one." -- Geoffrey F. Abert(2/22) |
| "It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted." -- Aeschylus(2/21) |
| "The darkest hour is right before the storm breaks."(2/18) |
| "To know yourself is the greatest happiness of all."(2/17) |
| "If you think that you know much, you know little." -- The Upanishads(2/16) |
| "To do nothing is the most difficult thing in the world -- the most difficult and the most intellectual." -- Oscar Wilde(2/15) |
| "Everyday is a good day to show those you love how you feel."(2/14) |
| "Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation." -- Tibetan Saying(2/11) |
| "Fools rush in where the brave fear to tread."(2/10) |
| "Do not underestimate your own ability."(2/8) |
| "Sometimes the little things make a big difference."(2/7) |
| "We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to." -- Stephern Batchelor(2/4) |
| "Happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -- Helen Keller(2/3) |
| "Always conduct yourself with the utmost honour and integrity."(2/2) |
| "If you are arogant, you will be treated with contempt. If you are kind, you will be treated with kindness."(2/1) |
| "You can either be confident that you are good enough, or arogant that you are good. Confidence and arrogance usually are not seen together, because one who's confident knows he can still improve, while arogance is an end of its own."(1/31) |
| "Worry is more trouble than it's worth."(1/28) |
| "There is nothing heavier than bitterness and resentment." -- Rudy (Kevin & Kell)(1/27) |
| "Taking the extra step usually isn't difficult."(1/26) |
| "Too much of a good thing may not be good."(1/25) |
| "The quality of the time spent together if more important than the quantity."(1/21) |
| "Miracles happen every day."(1/20) |
| "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." -- Albert Schweitzer(1/19) |
| "Just because you can no longer see it does not mean it has gone away."(1/18) |
| "In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; for to forget oneself is to be happy." -- Robert Louis Stevenson(1/17) |
| "There is such a thing as too clean."(1/14) |
| "Reality is the leading cause of stress among those who are in touch with it." -- Jane Wagner(1/13) |
| "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -- Bertrand Russell(1/12) |
| "Desired is not the same thing as needed."(1/11) |
| "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust(1/10) |
| "Sometimes the difference between right and wrong is hard to tell. Sometimes, there is no difference."(1/7) |
| "It is when who you love is gone, that you realize how much you love them."(1/6) |
| "Mass belief does not necessarilly make it true."(1/5) |
| "He who knows others is clever, he who knows himself has discernment. He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong."(1/4) |
| "The power to change comes from within."(1/3) |
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