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

20090920

"True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

20090919

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-- Winston Churchill

20090918

"It's always too early to quit."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

20090917

"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."
-- Brian Tracy

20090916

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
-- Aldous Huxley

20090915

"Goals help you channel your energy into action."
~~ Les Brown

20090914

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is."
~~ Donald Trump

20090913

"Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized."
-- Leo Buscaglia

20090912

"Everything you do is infused with the consciousness with which you do it. What you do is not as important as how you do it".
-- Marianne Williamson, (on Twitter 08/10/09)

20090911

"Fear is active on the planet, but remember that SO IS LOVE. In every moment, download your assignment for how YOU can further its progress".
-- Marianne Williamson, on Twitter (8/10/2009)

20090910

"You cant be mad and eat a cupcake."
-- Alec Mapa, in a FaceBook update

20090909

"Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life".
~~ Sanskrit poem

20090908

"Hurry and busyness are forms of self-will. Deluded by an exaggerated sense of our own importance, we deem it crucial to perform all tasks and activities according to our personal schedule. Impatient with traffic tie-ups, other people's slowness, or unavoidable delays, we make ourselves tense and miserable by our refusal to accept life as it comes".
~ Food for Thought

20090907

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."
-- Buddha

20090906

"The smallest positive action can overcome the biggest negative doubt".
~~ Ralph Marston

20090905

"All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it".
-- Neale Donald Walsch

20090904

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all".
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

20090903

"... It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference".
-- Tom Brokaw

20090902

"A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there."
~~ H. Stanley Judd

20090901

"Walk lightly through life."
~~ Guy Finley