IN DEVELOPING atomic or nuclear energy, science did not draw upon supernatural strength, but merely imitated the reaction of the sun’s rays. Atomic powers no more unnatural than when I sail my boat on Saranac Lake. ALBERT EINSTEIN
THE PAIN OF LIFE IS THE PRICE PAID FOR THE QUICKENING OF THE HEART. HAZRAT INATAT KHAN
SIGNIFICANCE is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything. ECKHART TOLLE
. . . and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
MY FRIENDS LAY AROUND LIKE SLEEPING DOGS. J. STEINBECK
BY OUR THOUGHTS we have prepared for ourselves the happiness or unhappiness we experience. HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS 1878-1962 “You Can”.
EACH DAY CAN BE ONE OF TRIUMPH IF YOU KEEP UP YOUR INTERESTS.
HE CLIMBS HIGHEST WHO HELPS ANOTHER UP.
CHARACTER is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends — there is nothing to compare with it. a man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless — be unhappy — and die bankrupt in soul.
KEEP OUT of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.
ENCOURAGEMENT IS OXYGEN TO THE SOUL. GOOD WORK CAN NEVER BE EXPECTED FROM A WORKER WITHOUT ENCOURAGEMENT. NO ONE EVER CLIMBED SPIRITUAL HEIGHTS WITHOUT IT. NO ONE EVER LIVED WITHOUT IT.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others.
WE can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.
I SAID TO MYSELF that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.
no one owns you. ONE HUNDRED PER CENT of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.
WHAT YOU THINK means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.
A CHEERFUL FRAME OF MIND, reinforced by relaxation . . . is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
IT IS A GREAT THING to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
ENTHUSIASM IS A KIND OF FAITH THAT HAS BEEN SET AFIRE.
ALWAYS EXPECT THE BEST. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.
THE FURTHER YOU GET FROM NATURE, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
ROGER AVARY. 1965——“PULP FICTION”. “LUCKY DAY”
THE BASIC PHILOSOPHY of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.
WHAT IS INTERESTING to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.
INCARCERATION didn’t change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. the totality of the experience helped me.
PEACE, LOVE, UNDERSTANDING