Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Friedrich Nietzsche

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Buddha

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Friday, April 24, 2009

The Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? ~The Buddha

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Bob Hope

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Buddha

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Monday, April 20, 2009

The Buddha

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Saturday, April 18, 2009

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Monday, April 13, 2009

Ben Jonson

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Agnes de Mille

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Friday, April 10, 2009

"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new."

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Truman Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Kris Kristofferson

"I'd rather be blamed for something I've done, than for something I didn't do"

Billy Wilder

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Monday, April 6, 2009

"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher."

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Saturday, April 4, 2009

"Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us."

Friday, April 3, 2009

Thursday, April 2, 2009

"The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there."

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of peace.