time

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.  

Carl Sandburg

grow

Don't go through life. Grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

we

Alone we can do little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

between

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Italian Proverb

without

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Fredrich Nietzsche

practice

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. 

Kurt Vonnegut

2013

The conquest of oneself is better than the conquest of all others.

Lord Buddha


Happy New Year!!! may 2013 be filled with peace and hope!!

suppresses

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges

throw

I will throw myself into the stream of possibilities, knowing that I will float, that I am enough.

Lene Basma

lesson

The lesson one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Salman Rushdie

petty

Petty things take up all your energy, thoughts and time. No more of that. Love and Forget. This is the only thing that matters.  Love, always try to love.

Meher Baba

quieter

The quieter you become... the more your are able to hear.

Rumi

power

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Charles Caleb Colton

calm

He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them.

William Faulkner

go

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

space

Some things look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

Eckhart Tolle

superior

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

light

We can easily forgive the child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

first

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

John Pierpont

journey

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Adrienne Rich

attitude

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

John N. Mitchell

bring

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D;Angelo

service

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marion Wright Edelman

allow

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Albert Einstein

be

Sit, be still and listen.

Rumi

if

If everyone thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

George Barzan

come

Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. Come to the edge. We can't. We'll fall! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

optimism

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

opportunities

Opportunities are often things you didn't notice the first time around.

Catherine Deneuve

imagination

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death, but to inspire yourself to life.

Adele Brookman

believe

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

Henry Ford

equilibrium

Everything has its own equilibrium point.

Nithisup

new way

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

Marianne Williamson

logs

Dreams are logs that feed the fire of our souls.

Marcela Bennett

truth

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

miracles

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernhard Berenson

we

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

solve

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

under

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Antonio Machado

you

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Kelli Jae Baeli

enough

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

love

Love is the soul's light.

Rumi

shadow

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by which we do not see.

Martin Luther King, Jr

thinking

If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate your people.

Kuan Tzu (cira 500 BCE)

you

You, as much as anyone, in this universe, deserve your love and affection.

Lord Buddha

never

Never turn down your own Light for someone else.  Let them buy sunglasses instead.

K.R. Armstrong

facts

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

will not let

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

dance

Both light and shadow are the dance of love.

Rumi

solve

There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.

Felix Alba-Juez