JULY 6, 2023+ + + BIRTHDAYS
DALAI LAMA. JULY 6, 1935 – – – What a guy!
THE QUESTION is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.
MAN SURPRISED ME MOST about humanity. Because he sacrifices his heart in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
JUST ONE SMALL POSITIVE THOUGHT IN THE MORNING CAN CHANGE YOUR WHOLE DAY.
DON’T EVER MISTAKE MY SILENCE for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
GIVE the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
DON’T LET THE BEHAVIOR OF OTHERS DESTROY YOUR INNER PEACE.
THE REAL enemy of happiness is the mind’s fixations and delusions . . .if you have the right mind, you can overcome anything — you can be happy, no matter what.
THE PLANET does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lover of all kinds.
WHEN YOU TALK you are only repeating something you already know. But if you listen you may learn something new.
MOST OF OUR PROBLEMS are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.
OUR PRIME PURPOSE in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
FEAR, HATRED AND SUSPICION NARROW YOUR MIND — COMPASSION OPENS IT.
THE more you are motivated by love the more fearless and free your action will be.
IT CAN BE SOLVED, there’s no need to worry and if it can’t be solved worry is of no use.
DON’T BE A PERSON OF SUCCESS, BE A PERSON OF VALUE.
FORGET THE FAILURES. KEEP THE LESSONS.
MY MESSAGE is always the same; to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.
BE KIND WHENEVER POSSIBLE. IT IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE.
FOLLOW THE THREE R’s: Respect for self. — Respect for others. — Responsibility for all your actions’
EVERY DAY, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts toward others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
FREDA KAHLO 1907-1954 Painter
NOTHING IS ABSOLUTE. EVERYTHING changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
PASSION IS THE BRIDGE THAT TAKES YOU FROM PAIN TO CHANGE.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, we can endure much more than we think we can.
I AM MY OWN MUSE. I am the subject I know best. the subject I want to better.
I DRANK to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
SEXISM AND RACISM are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE PRECIOUS THAN LAUGHTER.
MARGARET WALKER 1915-1998 POET
FRIENDS and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.
LOVE STRETCHES YOUR HEART AND MAKES YOU BIG INSIDE.
RACISM IS SO EXTREME and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
WHEN I WAS ABOUT EIGHT, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being was a book.
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