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Dec 2014
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Repost from dailyzen:
“The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.” —St. Augustine
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Repost from GreatestQuotes:
“Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.” - Winston Churchill
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Repost from GreatestQuotes:
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nov 2014
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“We’ve always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we’ve just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we’ve barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.” - Cooper, Interstellar
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“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.” - St. Francis de Sales
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“Pain is a gift. Without the capacity for pain, we can’t feel the hurt we inflict.” - The Doctor
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Repost from dailyzen:
Life is a mystery to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.
- Osho
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Repost from GreatestQuotes:
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” - William James
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Repost from dailyzen:
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.” — Don Miguel Ruiz
Oct 2014
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Repost from dailyzen:
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning”
— Meister Eckhart
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Repost from dailyzen:
“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
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“I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
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“A Zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.”
— Dogen
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Repost from dailyzen:
“The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.”
— Yogi Bhajan
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”
— T.S. Eliot
Sep 2014
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“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” - Robert Schuller
Aug 2014
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“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” -Eckhart Tolle
Jul 2014
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It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life. –JEAN-LUC PICARD
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“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around in a while, you might miss it.” - Ferris Bueler
Jun 2014
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Secrets have a cost. They’re not free. Not now, not ever. - May Parker
May 2014
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Repost from dailyzen:
“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.”
—Eckhart Tolle
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“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell
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“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love… true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.” - Secondhand Lions
Apr 2014
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“War never changes. But men do, through the roads they walk.”
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Leslie: “I don’t understand why people would ever eat anything other than breakfast food.” Ron: “People are idiots.”
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“What was the start of all this? When did the cogs of fate begin to turn? Perhaps it is impossible to grasp that answer now, From deep within the flow of time. But for a certainty, back then We loved so many yet hated so much We hurt others and were hurt ourselves. Yet even then we ran like the wind Whilst our laughter echoed Under cerulean skies….”
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Repost from dailyzen:
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving”
—Lao Tzu
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“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” - Lao Tzu
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“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you’re hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” - Rocky Balboa
Mar 2014
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Repost from thinksimplenow:
“Each of us has two wolves in the heart, one of love and one of hate. Everything depends on which one we feed each day.” ~Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
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“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while”
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“You either run from things or you face them Mr White”
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You are who you are in the darkness
Feb 2014
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Repost from dailyzen:
“Life begins on the other side of despair.” —J. Paul Sartre
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Repost from dailyzen:
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” —Danielle LaPorte
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.”
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Jan 2014
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To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble. - Bill Watterson
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You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves - Marcus Aurelius
Dec 2013
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Repost from cosmo-nautic:
Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes.
Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science.
There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.
–Carl Sagan (via perfect)
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“We all change, when you think about it, we’re all different people all our lives and that’s okay, we’ve got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people you used to be.” - the Eleventh Doctor
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“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” - W. Shakespeare
Nov 2013
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Repost from oliviacirce:
After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic,
Please come to the gate immediately.Well—one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress,
Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly.
Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her
Problem? we told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she
Did this.I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly.
Shu dow-a, shu- biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick,
Sho bit se-wee?The minute she heard any words she knew—however poorly used—
She stopped crying.She thought our flight had been canceled entirely.
She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the
Following day. I said no, no, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just late,Who is picking you up? Let’s call him and tell him.
We called her son and I spoke with him in English.
I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and
Would ride next to her—Southwest.She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it.
Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and
Found out of course they had ten shared friends.Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian
Poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours.She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering
Questions.She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies—little powdered
Sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts—out of her bag—
And was offering them to all the women at the gate.To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a
Sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California,
The lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same
Powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies.And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers—
Non-alcoholic—and the two little girls for our flight, one African
American, one Mexican American—ran around serving us all apple juice
And lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar too.And I noticed my new best friend—by now we were holding hands—
Had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing,With green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always
Carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought,
This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.Not a single person in this gate—once the crying of confusion stopped
—has seemed apprehensive about any other person.They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too.
This can still happen anywhere.Not everything is lost.
–Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via oliviacirce)
When I lose hope in the world, I remember this poem.
(via bookoisseur)
Sep 2013
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Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson
Aug 2013
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Repost from wanggo_g:
“Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” ~ Ralph Marston
Jun 2013
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It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
Jan 2013
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Repost from TheRock:
“The measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge” ~ Dr Martin Luther King
Sep 2012
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“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men” - Roald Dahl
Aug 2012
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“Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain” - Japanese proverb