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

20091031

"Never worry about the future. The right response to every situation is built into your nature".
-- Deepak Choprah

20091030

"My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive".
~ Bill W.

20091029

"To see ourself in everybody and everybody in ourself most certainly is love."
-- Deepak Choprah

20091028

"Every heart has it's secret sorrows
Which the world knows not,
Often time we call a man cold
When he is only sad".
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

20091027

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul".
- Yiddish proverb

20091026

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us".
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

20091025

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."
-Ralph Marston

20091024

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it".
~ M. Scott Peck

"(This is also my definition of procrastination.)"
~ Scott Woodard

20091023

“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”
-- Leon Bloy
"You don't need anyone's permission to feel great. In fact, you don't need anything other than to simply let yourself do it".
-- Ralph Marston

20091022

"Absolutely, collectively, everyone in Manhattan wants to rule the world! I think that’s why most of them moved here. They won’t rule the world but they may rule a bit of it, and they may have the feeling at the end of their life that they did rule it".
-- Quentin Crisp

20091021

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it”
-- Old Adage

20091020

"It is far more useful to be aware of a single shortcoming in ourselves than it is to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. For when the fault is our own, we are in a position to correct it."
-- The Dalai Lama

20091019

"This moment. Right now. Release all else but love".
-- Marianne Williamson

20091018

"You were born not to hide but to live, so do it every day".
-- Ralph Marston

20091017

"At the end of every storm is calm. At the end of every argument is silence. At the end of one relationship there is another. Although life is composed of many endings, there are just as many new beginnings".
~ Hazelden

20091016

"All is well. Out of this situation only good will come, and I am safe."

- Louise L. Hay

20091015

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony".
-- Mahatma Gandhi

20091014

"The journey doesn't stop, you may reach certain parts of your destination... If you were to ask me the best thing that ever happened in my life, I don't think it's happened yet..."
-- Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens

20091013

"Whatever you desire is already connected in some way to who you are and what you now have. Find that way, follow the connection."
~ Ralph Marston