Eclectic quotations accumulating in Hell's Kitchen, NY, USA.

20090731

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
-- Colette

20090730

"We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens."
- Epictetus

20090729

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
- Buddha

20090728

"Inspiration and genius-one and the same."
~ Victor Hugo

20090727

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

20090726

"Happiness habits for the heart: 1. Focus on gratitude, 2. Practice
forgiveness, 3. Spread lovingkindness."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090725

"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else."
--
Joseph Campbell

20090724

"Human beings are more alike than we are un-alike... Try to spread your giving of yourself... to people who may not even look like you. You belong to everybody, and everybody belongs to you."
-- Maya Angelou

20090723

"In any challenging scenario, the calmer you remain, the clearer you can
think and the faster you can figure your way out of the problem."
-- Ewan McGregor

20090722

"This joy I have - the world didn't give it, the world can't take it away."
-- Shirley Caesar, gospel singer

20090721

"Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance."
~~ Unknown

20090720

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
~~ Edmund Hillary

20090719

"Happiness habits for relationships: 1. Tend to your relationships; 2.
Surround yourself with Support; 3. See the world as your family."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090718

"To keep the thousands of negative thoughts we have each day from dragging us down, we don't have to get rid of each one of them. There's a simpler way. The secret is in accepting an astonishing fact: You're thoughts aren't always true."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."
~ Napoleon Hill

20090717

"Our business is to be happy."
-- Dalai Lama

20090716

"The guiding three: Whatever expands you makes you happier, The universe is out to support you, Whatever you appreciate, appreciates."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090715

“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”
~~ Friedrich Schiller

20090714

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

20090713

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
~~ Buddha

20090712

"If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs."
~~Tony Robbins

20090711

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
~~ LAO-TZU

20090710

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway"
~~ John Wayne

20090709

"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart"
-- LAO-TZU

20090708

"You don't regret what you do, you only regret what you don't do.."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

20090707

“I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.”
~~ Dalai Lama

20090706

"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun."
~~ Kahlil Gibran

20090705

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

20090704

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
-- Rabindranath Tagore

20090703

"There is no security in doing something for a living when you are dying inside while doing it. That is taking care of the body at the expense of the soul. And a

withering soul cannot help but produce a withering body. So do not think you are "taking care of yourself" by killing your spirit to keep your body alive.

"How long will you put off what you are dying to do?"

~~ Neale Donald Walsch

20090702

"It's sometimes nice to get everything decided, settled,

and arranged. But you may want to leave room in your

life for spontaneity. Some of the best choices are made

"on the fly." Some of the best outcomes are created

by not needing anything specific to happen.

 

Who and how and why and when and where to love

often falls into this cagtegory".


~~ Neale Donald Walsch

20090701

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
~~ James Joyce