~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way. But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice of following the crowd.

Hermann Hesse

~ June 14, 2003 ~

"If you hear a voice within you saying ' You are not a painter,' then by
all means paint & and that voice will be silenced."

~ Vincent Van Gogh

"Sometimes, we just need to be amazed by the small things."

~ Angela Pacheco

There are no moral phenomenons, just a moral interpretion of them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

27 June 2003 A.D.

In keeping with the spirit of above posts:


"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to
account for the curious attractiveness of others."

[Oscar Wilde, 'The Chameleon', (1894)]

"Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be
different than they are."
-- Wayne Dyer

"The only real security in life lies in relishing life's
insecurity."
-- M. Scott Peck

"Open your body and your mind to the subtler levels of
experience, letting go of your attempt to control, to be right,
not worrying about appearances, not trying to be safe."
-- Stephen Levine

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon

Hi Misty!

"Take those who like you ,
not for granted.
Better yet appreciate them
for all to soon. they will be gone
and all that will be left , is a memory:.

Happy Fourth of July 2003!

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age."
~ Sophia Loren

"The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work."
~ Elbert Hubbard

"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone--but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy."
~ Walter Anderson

" We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all--friends?"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."
~ Grenville Kleiser

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Author: Henry Miller

You don't live in the world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Albert Schweitzer

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region
of forests, plains, pueblos and mesas. He fits into the
landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also
fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as
naturally as the sunflower; he belongs just as the buffalo
belonged...

Luther Standing Bear

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest,
truthful and virtuous.

Frederick Douglas

Understand the self and all obstacles will cease to exist.
Author: Carlos de Gonzalez

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate
the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

-- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American Poet

"If you're not learning, you're not growing. If you're not
growing, you're not living. When the going seems easy, you may
be going downhill. The biggest block to any man's success is in
his head. We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of
discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."
-- Jim Rohn

"Your world is as big as you make it."
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson


"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as
in what direction we are moving."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing is difficult that
is wholly desired.
Trials are but lessons
that you failed to learn
presented once again,
so where you made
a faulty choice before
you now can make a better one.
from the Course in Miracles

I believe that I get from the soil and the spirit of Texas the
feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want
to and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going,
just keep soaring. I like that spirit.

Barbara Jordan

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

Native American Proverb
(Minquass)

My fellow citizens of the world--Ask not what America will
do for you, what together you can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy



Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present
generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of
it! - letter to Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777

-- John Adams (1735-1826) Second U.S. President

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of Happiness."

- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President
(from the United States Declaration of Independence)

"Humility isn't thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of yourself less."

-unknown

Snood, I love it!

Many people like to fly as high as eagles, but remember
weasels don't get sucked into jet engines!!


Author Unknown

Today is tommorow's yesterday - make it count.
Author: Unknown

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and
richness to life that nothing else can bring.

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change
around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities
need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because
the dream is within you, no one can take it away."

- Tom Clancy, Author

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it,
change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann von Goethe

It is not a matter of how much stress we have, it is how we deal with it.
Author: Gabriel A. Bankes

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
-- Neale Donald Walsch

Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like
playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to
practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
-- HeartMath Discovery Program, Doc Childre and Sara Paddison

"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in
the stream where you least expect it there will be a
fish." (Ovid)

"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is,
not according to what he has."
-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, US abolitionist & clergyman)

"The greatest gift you can give anyone is your honest self.
It's the only unique gift anyone can give."
Fred Rogers

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
Author: Victor Frankl

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I have to be more specific." - Lily Tomlin

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the
difference between taking one's work seriously and taking
one's self seriously.

The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Dame Margot Fonteyn

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be
exaggerated.

Reginald Blyth, Zen author

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it
is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard
work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given
the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

The greatest compassion flows through our simplest action.
Author: Desert Sky

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach
them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try
to follow where they lead.

-- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Writer

Praise works with only three types of people; men, women,
and children.

Author Unknown

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with --
a man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and
afflict the comfortable.

Clarence Darrow

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up
is what makes it permanent.

Marlene vos Savant

When someone does something well, applaud! You will make
two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and
have an idea that is obviously impossible.

Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer


What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau


This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!
Rumi

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which
all advancement...all success... all achievement in real
life grows."

Ben Stein, Author and Entertainer

Being and becoming are the yin and yang of our lives. One inner,
one outer. Today, we value becoming to the exclusion of being;
we applaud human becomings. The secret is balance.
- Unknown source

Don't sit down and wait for the
opportunities to come; you have to
get up and make them.
--Madame C. J. Walker

"Consult not your fears, but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you have tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
- Pope John XXIII

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible
or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you
truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."

Robert Fritz

"Every man takes the limits of his own field
of vision for the limits of the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer


"The obstacle is the path."

Zen Proverb

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so
much by the position that one has reached in life as by
the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

Booker T. Washington

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter
the conflict."
- Anon.

Men always want to be a woman's first love.

Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

~ Oscar Wilde ~


One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

~ Archibald Rutledge ~

Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only
here for a short visit. So be sure to
stop and smell the flowers.-

Walter Hagen


Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Emily Kimbrough


"A perfect summer day is when
The the sun is shining,
The breeze is blowing,
The birds are singing,
And the lawn mower is broken."
~~ James Dent ~~


Hypochondriac's headstone epitaph: "See?"


The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

-- William Arthur Ward


"After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world."

-- Bertha Von Suttner


Actually I heard that the below was on a tombstone:

Where I am,
you will be.
Where you are,
I once was.

And that someone had penned a reply:

"To follow you I am not content.
Until I know which way you went.


The 5 Watches

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

-Frank Outlaw.

"The less you worry about your problems, the easier they will be
to solve!"

Richard Carlson


"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

William Wordsworth


The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Willie Tyler



The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi


To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge
both hands into life up to the elbows.

Jean Anouilh


Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day of the year."

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Paul Santaguida


"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Friendship isn't a big thing it's a million little things.
Author Unknown


"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age,
and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning.
I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent,
and one's inner happiness."

~~ George Sand ~~


All great achievements are accomplished as the result of lessons learned from previous failures.
Author: L.J. Bump

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of
improving, and that's your own self.

-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963) English Novelist


We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln


"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the
possible likely, and the likely definite. "
- Robert Half , Executive


One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
-- Mark Twain