"Before you taste anything, recite a blessing." ~Rabbi Akiva
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." ~Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)
"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."~Jim Stovall~
"The province of knowledge is to speak; the privilege of wisdom is to listen." ~Anon
"Thousands kiss the books outside, who never look within." ~Anon

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Alfred Lord Tennyson - half-truth

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dr. Robert Schuller - flawless

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." ~Dr. Robert Schuller

Howard Scott - criminal

"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." ~Howard Scott

Queen Elizabeth II - family

"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements." ~Elizabeth II (b. 1926), British monarch, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. quoted in Daily Mail (London, Oct. 19, 1989).

Titus Livius - scheme and boldness

"Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous." ~Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.–A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXXV, 32.

Djamellah Dancel Occena - truth and lie

"I prefer to be hated for telling the truth, than loved for telling a lie." ~ Djamellah Dancel Occena

Olin Miller - feelings

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings" ~Olin Miller

Og Mandino -love

"Do all things with love." ~Og Mandino

Walt Disney -dream

"If you can dream it, you can do it." ~Walt Disney

John Sloan - stagnant mind

"Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind." ~John Sloan

Gertrude Stein Quotes

"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening." ~Gertrude Stein

"Counting is the religion of this generation, it is its hope and its salvation." ~Gertrude Stein

Harold Wilson - courage

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." ~Harold Wilson

Friday, July 29, 2011

Pythagoras - soul

"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body." ~Pythagoras

Geof Greenleaf - class

"Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you." ~Geof Greenleaf

R. Buckminster Fuller - gravity

"Love is metaphysical gravity." ~R. Buckminster Fuller

Charles Prestwich Scott - sacred facts

"Comments are free but facts are sacred." ~Charles Prestwich Scott

William Orville Douglas - law

"Common sense often makes good law." ~William Orville Douglas

Heraclitus - same river

"You cannot step into the same river twice." ~Heraclitus

Ingrid Bergman - kiss

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." ~Ingrid Bergman

Forest Whitaker - compassion finds love

"It is about finding compassion, and through compassion, finding love." ~Forest Whitaker

HonorĂŠ de Balzac - poetry

"Love is the poetry of the senses." ~HonorĂŠ de Balzac

Dr Michael Phelps - sudden death

"The trouble with heart disease is that the first symptom is often hard to deal with: sudden death." ~Dr Michael Phelps

Alfred Korzybski Quotes

"The map is not the territory." ~ Alfred Korzybski

"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." ~Alfred Korzybski

John Barrymore - place of dreams

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. " ~John Barrymore

Dianne Hales - friend

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently invites you to grow.” ~Dianne Hales

Austin O'Malley - Revenge

“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.” ~Austin O'Malley

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Nipun Mehta - nothing left to take

"Service doesn't start when you have something to give -- it blossoms naturally when you have nothing left to take." ~Nipun Mehta

Zen Saying

"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound." ~Zen Saying

"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place." ~Zen

Jay-Z - excellence

"Excellence is being able to perform at a high level for a long period of time." ~Jay-Z

Thomas A. Bennett - loving mind

"No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind." ~Thomas A. Bennett

Simon Cowell - hype

"I would say the biggest failures I've had were at a time when I believed my own hype." ~Simon Cowell

Dr Phil McGraw Quotes

"Just about everybody has a temper, but could you have the warrior gene?" ~Dr Phil McGraw

"The most important relationship you will ever have is the one you have with yourself." ~Dr Phil McGraw

George R. Bach - anger

"Anger cannot be dishonest." ~George R. Bach

Diane Sawyer - cure and hope

"Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by something you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people." ~Diane Sawyer

Harriet Lerner - anger

"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to." ~Harriet Lerner

Francis Bacon - anger

"Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor." ~Francis Bacon

Cherie Carter-Scott -anger

"Anger makes you smaller while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." ~Cherie Carter-Scott

Henri Louis Bergson - act like a man

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." ~Henri Louis Bergson

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - forgiveness

"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge." ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Eric Gibson - anonymity

"Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism." ~Eric Gibson

Adam Smith -pulse

"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse." ~Adam Smith

Pyrrhus - undone

"Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone." ~Pyrrhus

B. J. Gupta Quotes

"Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral." ~B. J. Gupta

 Earn but don't burn." ~B. J. Gupta

"Hard work doesn't guarantee success but improves its chances." ~B. J. Gupta

W. Kelly Griffith - honor and dignity

"Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. " ~W. Kelly Griffith

E. H. Gombrich - needle

"Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there." ~E. H. Gombrich

Elias Schwartz - not worth doing

"Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it." ~Elias Schwartz

Mickey Mouse - arithmetic

"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." ~Mickey Mouse

Andre Gide Quotes

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does, the better." ~Andre Gide

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." ~Andre Gide

Cicero Quote

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature." ~Cicero

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others." ~Cicero

ACIM - tasl

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~ACIM