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

20091222

"Over achievers have a little more fear of missing out, of not being there, not contributing enough".
~ Tony Robbins

20091221

"What is it that drives a higly motivated over-achiever to look at his own potential destruction as excitement and as a potential release?"
~ John Mayer

20091220

"Stop seeking to classify and to judge every moment, and you'll start seeing each moment's unique treasure".
-- Ralph Marston

20091219

"There's one little corner of the world where you can make a difference right now. Go ahead and be the person to make that difference".
-- Ralph Marston

20091218

"When you learn what your weaknesses have to teach, they will become your strengths".
-- Ralph Marston

20091217

"Instead of making the stress worse by fighting it, step calmly and confidently forward to make the best of it".
~ Ralph Marston

20091216

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
- Albert Einstein

20091215

"If a person or a situation causes you to feel insecure, you have forgotten who you really are".
~ Fr Leo

20091214

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
- Zig Ziglar

20091213

"Work! Work is a terrible thing. I presume somebody has to do it. And once you do it, then you’re stuck with it. I can’t imagine! I think you should avoid work, if you can. But if you can’t, you have to find a job that you can add what you are to what... you do. That is the essence. But if you can avoid it, avoid it".
-- Quentin Crisp

20091212

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later".
-- Miles Davis

20091211

"Never underestimate the power of your presence nor your ability to comfort and encourage".
~ Fr Leo

20091210

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
- Henry David Thoreau

20091209

"You may think this is easy, this Be Who You Really Are business, but it is the most challenging thing you'll ever do in your life".  
 - Meditations from "Conversations With God - Book 1"

20091208

"Live fully in the moment while remaining responsible to the positive possibilities that the future holds".
-- Ralph Marston

20091207

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

20091206

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine".
- Fran Lebowitz

20091205

"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other".
-- Jascha Heifetz

20091204

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
~ Oscar Wilde

20091203

"one of the best gifts you can give yourself is challenge".
-- ralph marston

20091202

"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."
-- Og Mandino

20091201

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."
~ Mark Twain

20091130

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient."
-- Aristotle

20091129

"Over achievers have a little more fear of missing out, of not being there, not contributing enough".
~ Tony Robbins

20091128

"What are you saying to yourself every day? Is it positive, encouraging, challenging and enriching?"
-- Ralph Marston

20091127

"This moment is an empty canvas and U R an artist of extraordinary ability. What masterpiece will U create this time?"
-- Ralph Marston

20091126

"If you continue to break the laws of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love, you will be broken to some extent yourself".
~~ 24 Hours a Day

20091125

"What role, if any, does the fear of failure play in success for you?"
- Ann Hampton Callaway

20091124

"I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and contemplate images that are in harmony with this vision."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

20091123

"I don't want to be an old man and look back and realize I never found my reason to be alive."
-- Princeton, Avenue Q

20091122

"Don't stress, relax, let life roll off your backs... Everything in life
is only for now!
-- Trekkie Monster, Avenue Q

20091121

"We don't receive wisdom. We must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us".
~ Proust

20091120

"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."
~ Palmer Sondreal

20091119

"Some people think that hanging in there shows great strength when the truth is 'letting go' is the real test of character".
~~ Unknown

20091118

"Happiness is a by-product of doing the right thing".
-- Unknown

20091117

"My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you ... then you would realize what a truly special person you are".
~~ Barbara A. Billings

20091116

"You're either at the effect of love or at the effect of fear. Whichever you depend on as the source of your power will have power over you".
-- Marianne Williamson

20091115

"We need not push life. Just give our self to the task of the present moment,which is dying now to the now. Freedom is both living and dying now".
~~ Deepak Choprah

20091114

"whether you've been up or you've been down, whether life is now good or not so good, this is the time to make it better".
~~ ralph marston

20091113

“All that is not given is lost”
~Indian Proverb

20091112

"As easily as you can choose to be annoyed, you can choose to be peaceful, patient and understanding".
-- Ralph Marston

20091111

"Good luck comes to those who create it. Good luck comes to those who take a positive approach to every moment".
-- Ralph Marston

20091110

"Do something - anything - creative, and feel how it immediately lifts your spirits".
-- Ralph Marston

20091109

"First realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and then stop finding fault with the reflection."
-- Nisargadatta

20091108

"Honest thoughts delight us however bad. True information gives us clarity and power".
-- Yoko Ono, on Twitter

20091107

"If you're attached to the thought that someone hurt you, you're bound to experience the hurt. Only in releasing them will you be released".
-- Marianne Williamson

20091106

For years I rushed around being busy and I missed me.
~ Fr Leo

20091105

"Authentic purpose is not a deep dark secret that you must struggle to discover. Allow it, & purpose will find you where you are".
~ Ralph Marston

20091104

If you feel like you're stuck, in many ways that's a positive sign. It means you're eager to get moving.
~ ralph marston

20091103

"Often, the effort spent avoiding a difficult challenge is more demanding and burdensome than the challenge itself".
-- Ralph Marston

20091102

"Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic."
-- Dale Carnegie

20091101

"We have 3 bodies, physical, mental, spiritual. The physical reflects being, the mental knowing, and the spiritual our joyous creativity".
-- Deepak Choprah

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

20091012

"Spirit is beyond the void of space. This realm beyond the void, is not an empty nothingness; it is the womb of creation".
-- Deepak Chopra

20091011

"To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness."
- Malcolm Forbes

20091010

"Decide today that you'll have no complaints. And your thoughts can be focused on creative, productive pursuits."
-- ralph marston

20091009

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light".
~ Albert Schweitzer

20091008

"Learn to love the flaws that you see within yourself as they are often the unique characteristics that other people love most about you."
~~ Janelle Johnston

20091007

"Free yourself from your burdens by stepping up and doing something positive about them right now".
-- Ralph Marston

20091006

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
-- Muhammad Ali

20091005

"It is useful to pay attention to details but it is dangerous be ruled by them."
~ Ralph Marston

20091004

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
-Henry Ford

20091003

"How you treat me is your karma, how I react is mine".

-- Unknown

20091002

"Point all your actions, large and small, important and seemingly insignificant, in the direction you wish to see your life move. Time will combine all those actions into an increasingly powerful set of results, and now is when you can choose those results".

~ Ralph Marston

20091001

"It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions."
-- Tony Robbins

20090930

"Better to trust and be disappointed once in a while, than it is to distrust & be miserable all the time"
~~ Coach John Wooden

20090929

"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
~~ eubie blake
; on his 100th birthday

20090928

"All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs..what belief have you held on to that has out lived its usefulness in your life?"
-- Tony Robbins

20090927

"Let go of anger - it is an acid that burns away the delicate layers of your happiness."
~~ Anonymous

20090926

"Have the courage to act instead of react."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

20090925

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
-- Kurt Cobain

20090924

"Your destiny is in your hands and don't you forget that."
-- President Barack Obama

20090923

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
-- Moliere

20090922

"My Intent this week is to be sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of all those I come into contact with".
-- Deepak Choprah

20090921

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."
-- Wayne Dyer

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