"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962

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

"People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead."

~Edith Wharton

"People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further." ~Pema Chodron

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." ~Buddha

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best." - Henry Van Dyke

"An untroubled mind, n

o longer seeking to consider w

hat is right and what is wrong, a

mind beyond judgements, w

atches and understands."

~The Buddha

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

"Speak or act with an impure mind, and trouble will follow you." ~The Buddha

I owe nothing to Women's Lib. Margaret Thatcher

"In this world hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate.

This is the law, a

ncient and inexhaustible."

~The Buddha

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Mohandas Gandhi

"In every trial l

et understanding fight for you."

~The Buddha