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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
        -- Mark Twain
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A classic is something that everyone wants to have read
and nobody wants to read.
        -- Mark Twain, "The Disappearance of Literature"
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
        -- Mark Twain
%
When in doubt, tell the truth.
        -- Mark Twain
%
God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as
we speak.
        -- Arab proverb
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep
him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are
worth committing.
        -- Samuel Butler
%
You can observe a lot just by watching.
        -- Yogi Berra
%
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
%
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
        -- Thomas Jones
%
I treasure this strange combination found in very few persons: a fierce
desire for life as well as a lucid perception of the ultimate futility of
the quest.
        -- Madeleine Gobeil
%
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
        -- Benjamin Disraeli
%
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
        -- Rene Descartes
%
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you
did it wrong.
        -- H.W. Longfellow
%
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a
rainy Sunday afternoon.
        -- Susan Ertz
%
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
        -- Eleanor Roosevelt
%
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
%
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
        -- Mark Twain
%
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
        -- Mark Twain
%
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
        -- Mark Twain
%
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
	-- Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
%
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
        -- Jean Anouilh
%
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
%
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is
published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.
        -- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
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Nobody ever ruined their eyesight by looking at the bright side of something.
%
Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this:
to know so much and have control over nothing.
        -- Herodotus
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Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
when there is no longer anything to take away.
        -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
%
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
        -- Seneca
%
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
        -- Mahatma Ghandi
%
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
        -- Bill Vaughan
%
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
        -- George Santayana
%
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing.
        -- Bertrand Russell
%
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
        -- Charles de Gaulle
%
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
        -- Albert Einstein
%
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember
and be sad.
        -- Christina Rossetti
%
Delay is preferable to error.
        -- Thomas Jefferson
%
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his
own eyes.  What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks
of himself.  To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
        -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
%
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
        -- Winston Churchill
%
The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues,
for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be
simply making a limiting statement about himself.
        -- Sidney Harris
%
Vows are often made in the state of innocence and broken in the light of
experience. Of this I am positive.
        -- Steve Hogarth, Marillion
%
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you.  They're too
busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
%
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
        -- Aldous Huxley
%
"If we try a thing, knowing there is little chance of success, we risk
failure. Not to try guarantees it."
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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their
hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt,
without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only
in the God idea, not God Himself.
        -- Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher and writer
%
What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no
longer believe you.
        -- Nietzsche
%
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.  They seem
more afraid of life than death.
        -- James F. Byrnes
%
Thought is a language that has no sound,
while words are the symbols of a language.
When language and thinking are excessive,
they become a hindrance to wisdom.
        -- Zen
%
Real meditation is not something that you can practice.
When you practice meditation, you have an idea about what you want to accomplish.
It may be witnessing, or visualization or quietness, or something else.
If you try hard enough, your preconceived idea will eventually manifest as a subtle
mental state and you will enjoy it as an experience. But it will not be real
meditation. It will be a mental experience that is constructed out of your initial
desire. Real meditation does not lead anywhere. Nor is it done through effort.
It just happens by itself.
        -- Meher Baba
%
The purpose of words is to create silence.
If words create more noise,
then they have not reached their goal.
        -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
%
The only Real Existence
is that of the One and only god,
who is the Self in every (finite) self.
        -- Meher Baba
%
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless.
To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal;
and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
        -- Chuang Tzu
%
The enlightened mind is like an unceasing flow
and has no fixed abode.
It does not identify itself with things
and therefore there is no attachment.
Such a mind is a liberated mind.
        -- Huineng
%
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one
cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
        -- Eleanor Roosevelt
%
All men know the utility of useful things;
but they do not know the utility of futility.
        -- Chuang Tzu
%
There is only one true Master, and he is unknown.
He has no name, no form and no abode.
        -- Sri H.W.L. Poonja
%
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly,
then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
        -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
%
What makes life worth living?
To be born with the gift of laughter
and sense that the world is mad.
        -- S. Scaramouche
%
Mistakes are a fact of life.
It is the response to error that counts.
        -- Nikki Giovanni
%
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of
our abilities do not exist.
        -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
%
"Of all the sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these it might have
been."
        -- Ben Franklin
%
We often fear being rejected so very much that we reject ourselves
first before anyone else has the chance.
%
The zen way of living:
NO EGO, NO PROBLEM.
%
It is very hard to free fools from the chains they adore.
        -- Voltaire
%
The time is always right to do what is right.
	-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
%
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
	-- Thomas Huxley
%
Are you living? Is there a dance in your life?
Are you moving, growing, risking, taking the challenges of dangerous paths?
In the acceptance of the danger,
in the acceptance that anything can happen any moment,
life comes to its best, to its fullest.
%
You don't have to control your thoughts, you just have to stop
letting them control you.
	-- Dan Millman
%
Human nature is characterized by conflict,
the state of being torn between opposing desires.
This leads to disharmony of the mind.
Therefore one has to be unceasingly aware at all times.
	-- Yuehzou
%
Four things come not back:  the spoken word, the sped arrow, time
past, the neglected opportunity.
	-- Omar Ibnal-Halif
%
A man can only attain knowledge
with the help of those who possess it.
This must be undestood from the very beginning.
One must learn from him who knows.
	-- G. Gurdjieff
%
If you understand, things are as they are.
If you do not understand, things are as they are.
	-- Gensha
%
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own
reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
	-- George Washington
%
Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is
not obsessed with being right?
	-- Wayne W. Dyer
%
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that
everything in life has purpose.  There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all
events are blessings given to us to learn from.
	-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
%
Sing
Dance
Celebrate
Have Fun with Life
Sit Silently
Meditate
Have a Taste of Eternity
%
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.

TALENT will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with
talent.

GENIUS will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

EDUCATION will not; the world is full of educated failure.

Keep Believing.

Keep Trying.

PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION alone are omnipotent.
	-- Calvin Coolidge
%
All respectability, all honor is meaningless
if it drives you against your nature.
What can you do if you are not a lotus flower, but just a marigold?
Enjoy being a marigold.
%
Meditation is the art
of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time,
somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking
when a concert is about to begin.
	-- Alan Watts
%
When you hear the calling,
you know something is pushing you toward an adventure that is unique
because it is yours and only yours.
No one else can walk where you walk,
and you cannot make the journey down someone else's path.
This is the quest at the heart of all great myths and legends,
but the journey is not through some enchanted land in the distance,
but rather down into the enchanted lands within.
	-- Source unknown
%
In every triumph there's a lot of try.
	-- Frank Tyger
%
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes.
When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit.
Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life,
unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood.
When you're tired, lie down.
The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.
	-- Lin Chi
%
If you don't know
you simply don't know.
	-- Visarjana
%
"The difference between insanity and genius is success."
	-- Jonathan Price, Tomorrow Never Dies
%
There is no need of any competition with anybody.
You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good.
Accept yourself.
%
I do not harm anybody I simply follow my way,
even though people do not like those who follow a different path.
How could i go away from my way?
It gives me such happiness, such contentment.
Be yourself at any cost.
	-- Dharmshan
%
Oh life!
Live it fully, abundantly.
Do not look back, do not look at others,
follow that flame which burns inside yourself.
Dare, take risks,
and there is nothing you will regret,
and there is plenty you will get.
	-- Itnash
%
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it
right or better.
	-- John Updike in "Pick-Up Pieces"
%
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
	-- M. Scott Peck
%
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
	-- Albert Camus
%
Do not search for the truth;
only cease to hold opinions.
	-- Sosan
%
One who makes distinctions of respect and disdain,
high and low status, the big and the small,
will be unable to perceive the truth underlying all things.
	-- Shanhui
%
You might think of the process of producing emotional states by
managing your internal communication as being similar to a director's job. To
produce the precise results he wants, the director of a movie manipulates
what you see and hear. A director can produce a tragedy or a comedy out of
the same event, depending upon what he decides to put on the screen.
	-- Anthony Robbins, Unlimited Power, page 10
%
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner of
later to find time for illness.
	-- John Wanamaker
%
All religions are founded on the fear of the many
and the cleverness of the few.
	-- Stendhal
%
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
        [There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]
	-- Seneca
%
In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.
%
The default Magic Word, "Abracadabra", actually is a corruption of the
Hebrew phrase "ha-Bracha dab'ra" which means "pronounce the blessing".
%
Bershere's Formula for Failure:
        There are only two kinds of people who fail: those who
        listen to nobody... and those who listen to everybody.
%
You'll feel much better once you've given up hope.
%
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That
will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
        -- Ernest Hemmingway
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pray, n:
        To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf
        of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
        -- Ambrose Bierce
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Keep your mouth shut and people will think you stupid;
Open it and you remove all doubt.
%
Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference.
%
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
        -- Oscar Wilde
%
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without
greatness.  Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
        -- Albert Camus
%
The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability
and children.  Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but
money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.
        -- George Bernard Shaw
%
I mean well, but so did Hitler.
%
"Faith:  not *wanting* to know what is true."
        -- Friedrich Nietzsche
%
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to
change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.
%
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an
open doorway with an open mind.
        -- E.B. White
%
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask,
and he will tell you the truth"
        -- Oscar Wilde
%
After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
%
The Law of the Letter:
        The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.
%
You'll never see all the places, or read all the books, but fortunately,
they're not all recommended.
%
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make
something out of you.
        -- Muhammad Ali
%
It's sweet to be remembered, but it's often cheaper to be forgotten.
%
"Character is what you are in the dark"
%
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
        -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
%
"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the
embarrassment he can tolerate. I have tolerated a lot,"
        -- Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse
%
If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you
lack sufficient imagination.
%
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn
old falsehoods.
        -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love"
%
Ye've also got to remember that ... respectable people do the most astonishin'
things to preserve their respectability.  Thank God I'm not respectable.
        -- Ruthven Campbell Todd
%
Life exists for no known purpose.
%
The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.
        -- Stanley Kubrick
%
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed.
        -- John Steinbeck
%
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
%
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
        -- Ogden Nash
%
Immortality -- a fate worse than death.
        -- Edgar A. Shoaff
%
It is Fortune, not Wisdom, that rules man's life.
%
Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would
behave very differently from those who now hold it -- when, in truth, in
order to get power we would have to become very much like them.  (Lenin's
fatal mistake, both in theory and in practice.)
%
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to
see it tried on him personally.
        -- Abraham Lincoln
%
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it,
we would be so simple we couldn't.
%
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
%
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
        -- Mark Twain
%
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
%
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible
enough to give none.
%
If you love what you do,
you'll never work another day in your life.
	-- Source unknown
%
The real seeker of truth never seeks truth.
On the contrary, he tries to clean himself
of all that is untrue, inauthentic, insincere
- and when his heart is ready, purified, the guest comes.
You cannot find the guest, you cannot go after him.
He comes to you; you just have to be prepared.
You have to be in a right attitude.
	-- Osho
%
If we force our breath to be too long or too short
we're not balanced, the mind won't be at peace.
Don't get concerned over how long or short,
weak or strong it is, just note it.
Know it's there.
Simply let it be.
	-- Vipassana meditation
%
Empty pockets never held a man back. Only empty heads and empty
hearts can do that.
	-- Norman Vincent Peale
%
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "life."
Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons.
You may like the lessons or hate them,
but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.
There really is no way to avoid the lessons you are presented with,
nor is there any chance that you will be able to skirt around the learning process.
	-- C. Carter-Scott
%
You are really rich
when you enjoy yourself as you are,
when you are contented with what you have.
	-- Shanti
%
We do not receive wisdom;
we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
	-- Marcel Proust
%
The lesson to take away is that solving the problem of life, searching 
for the meaning, is no substitution for living it. 
Something we should all think about.
	-- jenna4
%
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
	-- Carl Jung
%
Consciousness is awareness.
Listen to your inner voice.
Tune in to your being and do what you know is right for you.
Only YOU know what is right for you.
	-- Dharmapa
%
What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.
	-- Ralph W. Sockman
%
Language has limitations
whereas truth has none.
To try to apprehend the truth through language
is to stray further and further away from it.
	-- Yunmen
%
There is nothing to do
But be
	-- Stephen Levine
%
As we say in Afrikaans: "Dit was lekker, maar nou's dit klaar."
It was fun, but now it's done.
%
Don't tell me how hard you work.  Tell me how much you get done.
	-- James J. Ling
%
Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make
you jump up and do something.
	-- E. L. Simpson
%
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
	-- Pearl Bailey
%
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
	-- Mother Teresa
%
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can
only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
	-- Charles T. Tart
%
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
	-- John Finley
%
Dig a well before you are thirsty.
	-- Chinese Proverb
%
The self is a problem that thought cannot resolve.
There must be an awareness which is not of thought.
To be aware,
without condemnation or justification, of the activities of the self,
- just to be aware - is sufficient.
	-- J. Krishnamurti
%
Avoid those pretenders who decide for you;
take the reins in your own hands.
You have to decide.
In fact, in that very decisiveness, your soul is born.
When others decide for you, your soul remains asleep and dull.
When you start deciding on your own, a sharpness arises.
	-- Osho
%
In your everyday life
be always sincere and honest.
Be true to yourself and to others.
The taste of lies is bitter
and it will prevent you to go into meditation.
The taste of truth is so sweet
and it will open in you
the tremendously beautiful space of meditation.
	-- Shanti
%
Malice swallows the greater part of its own venom.
	-- Publilius Syrus
%
The conscious thought "I must get enlightened"
can be as much an impediment
as any other which hangs in the mind
	-- Dogen
%
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
	-- Thoreau
%
Success is not defined by obtaining everything you want,
but by appreciating everything you have.
%
All things are just what they are
and have no distinction of good and bad.
However, because of the act of naming,
a peacock, for example, is regarded as beautiful
and a crow is regarded as ugly.
Is the crow really ugly?
	-- Zen
%
Every intelligent individual
wants to know what makes him tick,
and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact
that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
	-- Alan Watts
%
Most of us are here chasing after Buddhahood.
Yet Buddhahood is how you deal with your boss or your child,
your lover or your partner, whoever.
Our life is always absolute: that's all there is.
The truth is not somewhere else.
	-- Joko
%
To be somebody
Nobody is needed
	-- Visarjana
%
Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn
is not to be attached to the results of your actions.
	-- J. Borysenko
%
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved.  And it is not
gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
	-- Rollo May (Man's Search for Himself)
%
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be
pelted with.
	-- George Eliot (Middlemarch)
%
When you become more quiet
you are more open,
you are more able to hear, to listen.
	-- Huong Zu
%
The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing
with new eyes.
	-- Marcel Proust
%
I believe that when all the dreams are dead, you're left only with
yourself.  You'd better like yourself a lot.
	-- Rita Mae Brown
%
Where is intimacy found
if not in the give and take of love?
Be drunken with love,
for love is all that exists.
	-- Rumi
%
Television is the first truly democratic culture,
the first culture available to everybody
and entirely governed by what the people want.
The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
	-- Clive Barnes
%
Desire has not to be destroyed, it has to be purified.
Desire has not to be dropped, it has to be transformed.
Your very being is desire;
to be against it is to be against yourself and to be against all.
	-- Osho
%
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
	-- Samuel Johnson
%
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody.
	-- Bill Cosby
%
You should not confuse your career with your life.
	-- Dave Barry
%
Although there are northern men (women)
and southern men (women),
north and south
make no difference to their Buddha Nature.
	-- Hui Neng
%
It is only through direct experience that problems are solved,
and to have direct experience there must be simplicity,
which means there must be sensitivity.
A mind is made dull by the weight of knowledge.
	-- J. Krishnamurti
%
Nothing is left to you at this moment
but to have a good laugh!
	-- Chinese Zen master
%
If we are all one,
does not that mean
that everything outside of you
is also you?
	-- Alana
%
To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy.
	-- Haiku by B. M. Porter
%
Our task is to strike a balance,
to find a middle way,
to learn not to overstretch ourselves
with extraneous activities and preoccupations,
but to simplify our lives more and more.
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
	-- Sogyal Rinpoche
%
And the trouble is
if you don't risk anything
you risk even more.
	-- Erica Jong
%
Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is
wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is
practical, and Expect more than others think is possible.
%
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and
what gives meaning in your life.
	-- Paula P. Brownlee
%
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those
who can do nothing for him.
	-- Contributed by James D. Miles
%
But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
	-- Max Erhmann
%
You can never get more by saying "no." You can hold a current
position by saying no, but you can only move forward by saying "yes."
	-- Marshal Sylver
%
Everybody is a star
with the potentiality to shine
in the infinite sky of eternity.
	-- Shanti
%
Let me remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no
vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice
is no virtue.
	-- Senator Barry Goldwater  (1909-1998)
%
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either
you have it or you don't.
	-- Peter Scotese
%
Leadership is about taking an organization to a place it would not
have otherwise gone without you, in a value-adding, measurable way.
	-- George M. C. Fisher
%
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to
get all the credit for doing it.
	-- Andrew Carnegie
%
Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to
focus on a vision and work toward it.
	-- Barry Rogstad, the president of the American Business Conference
%
There is a big difference between being an organization with a vision
statement and becoming a truly visionary organization.
	-- Jim Collins
%
An authentic leader acts in ways which serve to elevate those around
him.
	-- Sean M. Georges
%
The manager's job is to make human strength effective and human
weakness irrelevant.
	-- Peter F. Drucker
%
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too
high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
	-- Michaelangelo
%
I asked God, "How much time do I have before I die?"
He replied, "Enough to make a difference."
%
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain
of its shortness.
	-- Jean de La Bruysre
%
As they say, 'None of us is as smart as all of us.' That is good
because the problems we face are too complex to be solved by any one person
or any one discipline.
	-- Dr. Warren Bennis
%
Until I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
	-- Hugh Prather
%
Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes
rudeness.
	-- Confucius
%
I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the
successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the
world into learners and non-learners.
	-- Benjamin Barber
%
What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it
with our superiors.
	-- Henry Becque
%
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life,
rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.
	-- Booker T. Washington
%
A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping
your mouth shut.
	-- Albert Einstein
%
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains
to be done.
	-- Marie Curie
%
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting
started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable
tasks, and then starting on the first one.
	-- Mark Twain
%
All limitations are self-imposed.
	-- Ernest Holmes
%
Credibility is undoubtedly the chief quality of a leader. If you do
not do what you say you will do, you can only rule (power) not lead
(synergy).
	-- Charles Powell
%
Leaders need to be directive about participation. If you want
everyone to have an ownership stake in the change process you must expose them
to all the available information.
	-- Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn, 'Mission Possible' pp.67,69
%
How do you bring people into the change process? Start with reality.
Get all the facts out. Give people the rationale for change, laying it
out in the clearest, most dramatic terms. When everybody gets the same
facts, they'll generally come to the same conclusion. Only after everyone
agrees on the reality and resistance is lowered can you begin to get
buy-into the needed change.
	-- Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn, 'Mission Possible,' p.68
%
Your business should be defined, not in terms of the product or
service you offer, but in terms of what customer need your product or service
fulfills. While products come and go, basic needs and customer groups stay
around, i.e., the need for communication, the need for transportation, etc.
What market need do you supply?
	-- Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn in 'Mission Possible'
%
Yesterday is History.
Tomorrow a Mystery.
Today is a Gift,
that's why it's called the Present!!
%
Learn how to rethink, and you start to change.
	-- Chris Turner, Consultant, Writer and Speaker
%
A little foolishess, enough to enjoy life
and a little wisdom to avoid the errors,
that will do.
	-- Osho
%
Until you make peace with who you are,
you'll never be content with what you have.
	-- Doris Mortman
%
If you give people the space and the support to learn and to change,
they will.
	-- Eric Hippeau, Chairman and CEO, Ziff-Davis, Inc.
%
We seldom realize, for example
that our most private thoughts and emotions
are not actually our own.
For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent,
but which were given to us by our society.
	-- Alan Watts
%
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing
conflict.
	-- Deborah Tannen, 'The Argument Culture'
%
The best day of your life is the one
on which you decide your life is your own.
No apologies or excuses.
No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.
The gift is yours -- it is an amazing journey --
and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.
This is the day your life really begins.
%
We tend to fall in love with the things that we think are true.
	-- Dee W. Hock, Founder & CEO Emeritus, Visa International
%
Life is not something waiting for you
it is happening in you
	-- Osho
%
Without birth and death,
and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life,
the world would be static, rhythmless, undancing, mummified.
	-- Alan Watts
%
Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
%
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
%
Hope that it is not your sole purpose in life to
simply serve as a warning to others.
%
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again,
it was probably worth it.
%
The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.
%
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
%
Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its students.
%
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice.
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free.
Freedom is pure observation without direction,
without fear of punishment and reward.
Freedom is without motive;
freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man
but lies in the first step of his existence.
	-- J. Krishnamurti
%
If you are not involved today in creating tomorrow's markets, or
knowledgeable about what's happening in these markets, you are unlikely to find
yourself competing in them.
	-- K. Blanchard and T. Waghorn, in 'Mission Possible,' p.85
%
Effective change is not something you do to people. It's something
you do with them.
	-- K. Blanchard & T. Waghorn, 'Mission Possible,' p.201
%
And inside you is your real freedom,
because your consciousness cannot be touched by anybody else.
You are the only master of your being.
	-- Osho
%
To realize the value of one year: Ask a student who has failed a
final exam.

To realize the value of one month: Ask a mother who has given birth
to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week: Ask an editor of a weekly
newspaper.

To realize the value of one minute: Ask a person who has missed the
train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one millisecond: Ask the person who has won a
silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have. You will
treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.
%
There is no way of getting rid of the feeling of separateness by a 
so-called "act of will," by trying to forget yourself, or by getting 
absorbed in some other interest.
This is why moralistic preaching is such a failure: it breeds only 
cunning hypocrites -- people sermonized into shame, guilt, or fear, 
who thereupon force themselves to behave as if they actually loved 
others, so that their "virtues" are often more destructive, and 
arouse more resentment, than their "vices."
	-- Alan Watts
%
It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to
be.
	-- Ziggy Marley
%
When you make the finding yourself -- even if you're the last person
on Earth to see the light -- you'll never forget it.
	-- Carl Sagan
%
A person totally wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
	-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
%
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you
desire to appear.
	-- Socrates
%
The truth doesn't give hope, it gives understanding ..
I claim also that all ceremonials are superfluous for spiritual growth ...
When you want to search the truth,
you have to exceed the limitations
of the human mind and heart widely and find it there,
and this truth is within yourself.
	-- J. Krishnamurti
%
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical.
It is the sower of all true art and science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger... is as good as dead.
	-- Albert Einstein
%
Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is
chaos.
	-- Cullen Hightower
%
In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what
you have to say than anyone else is.
	-- Andy Rooney, 'Pieces of My Mind'
%
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment,
nor is it a method of achieving anything at all.
It is peace itself.
It is the actualization of wisdom,
the ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
	-- Dogen
%
There is no security on this earth, only opportunity.
	-- General Douglas McArthur
%
Except man, nobody lies. A rosebush cannot lie.
It has to produce roses; it cannot produce marigolds -- it cannot deceive.
It is not possible for it to be otherwise than it is.
Except man the whole existence lives in truth.
Truth is the religion of the whole existence -- except man.
And the moment a man also decides to become part of existence,
truth becomes his religion.
	-- Osho
%
If people are quiet,
They can be quiet anywhere.
If people aren't quiet
They won't be quiet in the mountains.
Everything depends on you.
Life is transient,
Like a flash of lightening in a dream.
	-- Chi-ch'eng
%
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
	-- Albert Einstein
%
Relationship... is the mirror in which you discover yourself.
Without relationship you are not;
to be is to be related;
to be related is existence.
You exist only in relationship;
otherwise you do not exist;
existence has no meaning.
	-- J. Krishnamurti
%
Knowing and understanding the laws of Life,
also called Truth, is not enough.
A person must also live the Truth that he or she knows.
%
When you meditate,
there should be no effort to control
and no attempt to be peaceful.
Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part
in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating.
Let your body remain as it is, and your breath as you find it.
	-- Sogyal Rinpoche
%
You can make more friends in two months by becoming
interested in other people than you can in two years by
trying to get other people interested in you.
        -- Dale Carnegie
%
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the
right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and
the worst thing you can do is nothing.
	-- Theodore Roosevelt
%
Self esteem is achieved by learning how to do things you want to do.
%
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you
are and what gives meaning to your life.
	-- Paula P. Brownlee               
%
There is little difference in people, but that little
difference makes a big difference. The little difference is
attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or
negative.
	-- W. Clement Stone
%
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising
every time we fall.
	-- Confucius
%
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life
by what we give.
	-- Winston Churchill
%
The whole problem with the world is that fools and
fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but
wiser people so full of doubts.
	-- Bertrand Russel
%
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things
they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
	-- Will Rogers
%
"Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions, they are a lot easier to
handle than dumb mistakes.
%
You can tell the quality of a person by how they treat people
they don't need.
%
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does
with what happens to him.
	-- Aldous Huxley
%
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains
its original dimension."
	-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
%
The past does not equal the future.
	-- Tony Robbins
%
Wisdom has two parts:  1) Having a lot to say
                       2) And not saying it
%
"Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt
 you don't even know if you owe."
	-- Mark Twain
%
For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to
contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the
adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
	-- Henry Kissinger, in 'Years of Renewal'
%
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
	-- George McGovern
%
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
	-- Marva Collins
%
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while
you're living.
	-- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albon
%
Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you
can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.
	-- Harriet Rubin
%
What is a friend?
I will tell you.
It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.
	-- Frank Crane
%
Any beliefs that we accept as true
without personal verifications are called superstitions.
Only when we hold supposed truth to the light of verification,
can we achieve proper beliefs.
	-- Chi Tan
%
Most people hold on to the past,
look forward to the future,
and do not embrace the present.
Only those who can appreciate what they have now live fully.
	-- Heart Sutra
%
Change is not a process for the impatient.
	-- Barbara Reinhold, Director Career Development Office, Smith
College, Northhampton, Mass
%
A problem is your chance to do your best.
	-- Duke Ellington
%
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
	-- William Blake
%
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat
him at politeness.
	-- Josh Billings
%
Life is not long,
and too much of it must not pass
in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
	-- Johnson
%
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that
thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the
wisest is generally the greatest fool.
	-- Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
%
The truth is that all normal human beings have need for both
independence and connectedness. The issue is, how much? How much independence are
we prepared to surrender in order to retain the support of our family or
community? How much connectedness are we prepared to give up so as to pursue our
independence and do our own thing?
	-- From Work in Progress e-zine
%
A little craziness once in a while
prevents permanent brain damage.
%
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of
those who would be affected by it.
	-- Marian Anderson
%
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must
bring sides together.
	-- Jesse Jackson
%
No matter what happens,
somebody will find a way
to take it too seriously.
%
Before you face a problem, just look at the problem:
is it an absence of something?
And all your problems are the absence of something.
And once you have found what they are the absence of,
then go after the positive.
And the moment you find the positive, the light
-- the darkness is finished.
%
We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect
strangers to be one or the other.
	-- Author Russell Banks
%
You aren't your experiences. You are what you make of them.
	-- Deborah Bell, Ed.D, Boston University
%
Why should one compromise? What have we got to lose?
In this small life, live as totally as possible.
Don't be afraid of going to the extreme.
You cannot be more than total -- that is the last line.
And don't compromise. Your whole mind will speak for compromise,
because that's how we have been brought up, conditioned.
	-- Osho
%
Have less. Do less. Be more.
	-- Aboodi Shaby
%
We have invented god.
The thinking created god for itself.
That means, due to unhappiness, fear and depression
we created something, called god.
When you are free of fear, free of suffering,
there is no desire for a god.
	-- J. Krishnamurti
%
The ego-self is the root that causes our pain.
Our pains are all because of something that has to do with "I".
The less any happenings affect me,
the less intense the pain.
Desire is the most difficult fire for human beings to control.
	-- Tsai Chih
%
Leaders: Effective leaders are not preachers, they are doers.
	-- Peter Drucker
%
Let things happen naturally
and do not try to force a certain outcome.
That which is not natural will not be right.
	-- Lao Zi
%
The very highest leader is barely known by men.
Then come the leader they know and love.
Then the leader they fear.
Then the leader they despise.
The leader who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
When actions are performed without unnecessary speech
The people say, "We did it ourselves."
	-- Lao Tsu
%
You cannot depend on anybody.
There is no guide, no teacher, no authority.
There is only you -- your relationship with others and the world -- there is nothing else."
	-- J. Krishnamurti
%
You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what is right
for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do. But you do
have to ask yourself if you're willing to make choices. Put yourself in a
position where you're making choices about your life, rather than letting
other people make those choices for you. That's what balance is all about.
	-- Liz Dolan, Pres. Dolan St. Clair, Inc. Portland, OR
%
Follow the three Rs:
- Respect for yourself
- Respect for others
- Responsibility for all your actions.
	-- Nepalese mantra
%
It is one mark of a friend that he makes you wish
to be at your best while you are with him.
	-- Henry Van Dyke
%
Our biggest enemy is ourselves.
Poor results in our encounters are usually caused by our own mistakes.
Those who win over others are merely forceful,
those who win over their own selves are really strong.
	-- Buddha
%
For every harmony
there is a chaos.
For every order
there is a disorder.
Back and forth
up and down
Yin and Yang.
All attempts at stasis are doomed,
crushed under the relentless wheel of nature.
	-- Ram Tzu
%
To attain knowledge,
add things every day.
To attain wisdom,
remove things every day.
	-- Tao te ching
%
Meditation is something that is not contrived, organized.
Meditation IS.
It begins with the first step, which is to be free of all your psychological hurts, accumulated
fears, anxiety, loneliness, despair, sorrow.
That is the foundation, that is the first step, and the first step is the last step.
	-- J. Krishnamurti
%
Things in this world are not always as we wish.
When we cannot change circumstances outside of us, we can still change ourselves;
and that, often, can help us reach the same goal.
The mountain does not move; people can move.
	-- Yu Li
%
Becoming whole is becoming authentic,
becoming yourself - whosoever you are, whatsoever you are.
Accept your limitations, accept your imperfections.
That's what it means to be a human being.
	-- Osho
%
Real courage is the courage to be alone.
	-- Zenji
%
Without goals you wander.
	-- Mark Lutze, MA
%
You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous
You cannot be loving if you are not courageous
You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous
You cannot enter into reality if you are not courageous
Hence courage comes first... And everything else follows.
	-- Osho
%
Never be afraid or hesitant to step off the accepted path
and head off in your own direction,
if your heart tells you that it's the right way for you.
%
To be brave is to behave
bravely when your heart is faint.
So you can be really brave
only when you really ain't.
	-- Piet Hein
%
All the activities that the body performs are predetermined.
The only freedom you have is to choose not to identify with the body that is performing the
actions.
Enlightenment does not happen in time. It happens when time stops.
	-- Poonjaji
%
Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult
circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw
at you. Undermining your authenticity by succumbing to someone else's
second thoughts is a sinister, subtle, and seductive form of self-abuse.
	-- Sarah Ban Breathnach
%
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in
this manner: "Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and
evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the
time." When asked which dog wins he reflected for a moment and replied, "The
one I feed the most."
%
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom.
The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
	-- Confucius
%
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a
common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
	-- Bernard Montgomery, British Field Marshal
%
Man creates his own confusion just because he goes on rejecting himself,
condemning himself, not accepting himself.
Then a chain of confusion, inner chaos and misery is created.
Why don't you accept yourself as you are?
What is wrong?
The whole existence accepts you as you are, why don't you?
	-- Osho
%
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
	-- Johann von Schiller, Playwright
%
If you hear a voice within you saying "you are not a painter," then
by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
	-- Vincent Van Gogh
%
I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and
return with greater zest to the labors of life.
	-- Plato
%
Integrity has no need of rules.
	-- Albert Camus (1913-1960)
%
Learning to assume total responsibility for your life is no small
task. Keep reminding yourself that you are it. No one else is responsible
for your happiness, fulfillment, satisfaction, competence, health, or
life situation but you. No matter what life or leadership challenges you
face, you are not a victim of your circumstances; you are responsible. As
you advance, you will find that you feel happy for no particular reason
-- no external event has validated you -- you are just feeling good
about being you. As you increasingly assume responsibility for yourself,
you are prepared to assume responsibility for leading others. All
leadership begins with self-leadership and self-responsibility.
	-- Kevin Cashman, in 'Leadership from Inside Out,' p.58f
%
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it,
for that determines our success or failure.
	-- Norman Vincent Peale
%
No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
%
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And, if I am for myself
alone, then what am I? And, if not now, when?
	-- attributed to Hillel
%
Fear comes with imagination. It's a penalty, it's the price of
imagination.
	-- Thomas Harris in the book 'Red Dragon'
%
Maintaining clarity of vision is an essential difference between
those who conceive AND REALIZE great ideas and those who simply
conceive great ideas.
	- Carol Lloyd, in the book, 'Creating a Life Worth Living'
%
In order to reach the Truth,
it is necessary, sometimes in life,
to put everything in doubt as much as possible.
	-- Descartes
%
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.
%
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and
actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
	-- Michel de Montaigne  (1533 - 1592)
%
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
	-- Michel de Montaigne  (1533 - 1592)
%
Knowledge has 3 degrees - opinion, science, illumination.
The means or instrument of the first is sense,
of the second dialectic,
of the third intuition.
	-- Plotinus
%
Necessity never made a good bargain.
	-- Benjamin Franklin
%
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
	-- Carl Jung
%
The mind is like a clear mirror.
At all times we must strive to polish it,
and must not let the dust collect.
	-- Huineng
%
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
	-- Plato
%
This is the real secret: always be a beginner.
Then we can really learn something.
In the beginner's mind there is no thought, "I have attained something."
	-- Shunryu Suzuki
%
Truth cannot be expressed.
The most one can do is to hint at it, to give an impetus to the thought.
Everyone must find truth for himself, by himself.
	-- P.D. Ouspensky
%
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
	-- Friedrich Engels (1820-95)
%
The formulation of a problem is far more essential than its
solution.
	-- Albert Einstein
%
The shortest answer is doing.
	-- English Proverb
%
The greatest friend of truth is Time,
her greatest enemy is Prejudice,
and her constant companion is Humility.
	-- Charles C. Colton
%
Do not carry the burden of the past;
do not live in the future.
The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully.
Whatever your current life is,
be the most you can be by living in the moment.
	-- Chan Chih
%
Inner peace is the most solid ground to build peace in the world.
%
Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward
something you can't resist. Drive pulls you toward something you feel
compelled or obligated to do. If you know nothing about yourself, you
can't tell the difference. Once you gain a modicum of self-knowledge,
you can express your passion. But it isn't just the desire to achieve
some goal or payoff, and it's not about quotas or bonuses or cashing
out. It's not about jumping through someone else's hoops. That's
drive.
	-- Randy Komisar in The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
%
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.
	-- Frank Kingdon
%
Know yourself and stay within your capabilities.
Fantasized ideals often do not work in real life.
When people cannot reach their present goals, most of them can only blame themselves for not
knowing the limits of their own capabilities.
	-- Heart sutra
%
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive.
	-- Harold Whitman
%
Humanity has advanced not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has
been playful, rebellious, and immature.
	-- Tom Robbins
%
Only one thing I want you to learn, and that is awareness.
It will take care of all your problems.
	-- Osho
%
We need to consider the consequences of our decisions.
Sometimes an attractive opportunity may be just water in a well... easy to hop in, but impossible
to climb out!
	-- Tsai Chih
%
To me, awareness is the only morality, the only ethics, the only religion, because out of awareness
you cannot do anything wrong. It is always your unconscious mind which forces you to do wrong
things. As awareness grows, slowly slowly, your whole being becomes luminous, there is no dark spot
inside you.
	-- Osho
%
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
%
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I
can reach for; perfection is God's business.
	-- Michael J. Fox, actor
%
Life skills are so much better than rules, because they help you
figure out what's right and what's wrong.
	-- Amanda Lewis, student, quoted in FAST COMPANY magazine, June 2000
%
Can I do something about it? If the answer is 'Yes,' you work out a
plan - there is no crisis. If the answer is 'No,' there is no crisis.
%
Once dependence on others is gone,
then only can one's potential be realized.
	-- Longtan
%
We've become enamored with deadlines. We want to feel an adrenaline
rush. We believe that if we're always chasing the next deadline, we
must be important. A lot of our 'busy-ness' is a way for us to avoid
thinking about what is most important. There's a difference between
being busy and being productive.
	-- Kristen Lippincott, astronomer, in FAST COMPANY Magazine
%
The skilled and confident communicator opens doors, builds new
relationships, serves others effectively and enhances one's own
leadership.
	-- Craig Harrison
%
Do not live in the past or in the future,
but live in the world of the present.
One has to always understand that "now"
is the only reality.
	-- Tong Po
%
When in crisis or danger, our instinct is to fight or flee. But
those reactions constrict your ability to respond thoughtfully.
Identify the breakdown in communication that created the crisis. Then
address that breakdown instead of fighting it.
	-- Ronit Herzfeld, in FAST COMPANY magazine, June 2000
%
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
	-- Ingrid Bergman
%
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
	- Aldous Huxley
%
"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and
 cats."
	-- Albert Schweitzer, French philosopher, physician, musician,
           and Nobel Prize winner
%
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result
of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and
appreciating what we do have."
	-- Frederick Koenig
%
Life dances and you have to dance with it,
whether it is taking you on a wonderful ride or stepping on your toes.
%
It is impossible to learn anything consistently in a state of panic.
	-- A Course in Miracles
%
You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not
for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you
think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.
What you do comes from what you think.
	-- A Course in Miracles
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I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now -- and now is
when you should do it.
	-- Steve Mariucci, head coach, San Francisco 49ers
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When you believe something, you have made it true for you.
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You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more
thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being
productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of
everyone around them.
	-- Carisa Bianchi, TBWA/CHIAT/DAY San Francisco, in Fast Company
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Money is not a problem until I believe it will solve my problems.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I
don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world
are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
	-- George Bernard Shaw
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Ego is the greatest bondage,
the only hell that I know of.
	-- Osho
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Learn to say 'No' -- it will be of more use to you than to be able
to read Latin.
	-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Beyond anything else, listen to yourself.
You are meant to discover reality from inside and to direct your life in this
way.
As you begin to live according to your own guidance and your own daring,
everything changes
completely.
	-- B. Marciniak
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WISDOM - Be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that
is in it -- not like the cat that sits down on a hot stove. She will
never sit down on a hot stove lid again -- and that is well; but also
she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
	-- Mark Twain
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SUCCESS - Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to
become a man of value.
	-- Albert Einstein
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It is best if you stay in your intuition - if you rely on what you feel and,
even though it may not
make logical sense, operate with trust.
Impatience is a trap for many of you because you feel you need to move
somewhere.
	-- Barbara Marciniak
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Real communication happens when people feel safe.
	-- Ken Blanchard, The Heart of a Leader
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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things
that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the
events that occur.
 	-- Vince Lombardi
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There is only one Master,
and it is neither male nor female.
It shines within you as your own Self.
	-- Poonjaji
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step
toward something better.
	-- Wendell Phillips
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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
	-- Henry Ford
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Speaking in general the most difficult barrier is the conquest of lying. A man 
lies so much and so constantly both to himself and to others that he ceases to 
notice it. And the first effort required is to conquer lying.
	-- G. Gurdjieff
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
	-- Carl Jung
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Before you can do something that you've never done before,
you have to be able to imagine it's possible.
	-- Jean Shinoda Bolen
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There is no God somewhere outside you,
and there is no need to create any temple because you are the temple already.
The whole search is withinwards.
	-- Osho
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what
you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
	-- Lou Holtz
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
	-- G. G. Byron
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There is no way to felicity
felicity is the way.
There is no way to meditation
meditation is the way
There is no way anywhere
here is the way.
	-- Tan Shih
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Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's seeing the possibility of
your demise and doing your work anyway.
	-- Ronit Herzfeld in Fast Company.
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If you seek the Buddha, you will be caught by the Buddha demon.
If you seek the patriarchs, you will be bound by the patriarch demon.
Whatever you are seeking, all becomes suffering.
It is better to have nothing further to seek.
	-- Rinzai
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Highly creative people don't necessarily excel in raw brainpower.
They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views
and to consider contradictory ones.
	-- G. Pascal Zachary, author, July 2000 'Fast Company'
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Everyone has a talent.
What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent
to the places where it leads.
	-- Erica Jong
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It's a puzzling thing.
The truth knocks on the door and you say,
"Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"
and so it goes away.
	-- Robert Pirsig
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Don't judge yourself.
Accept responsibility for all that you are involved in, for all that happens to
you.
If you don't like what is happening to you, begin to ask yourself why you
create things that you don't like.
	-- B. Marciniak
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At least one thing can never be done by anybody else - that is, to give you the
answer to who you are.
No, you have to go, you have to dig deep into your own being.
Layers and layers of identity, false identity, have to be broken.
	-- Osho
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We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
	-- Mahatma Gandhi
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Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace.
	-- A. Earhart
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Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and
occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much part of the process 
as the experiments that work.
	-- C. Carter-Scott
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The emptiness of the sea allows waves to rise;
the emptiness of the moutain valley makes the voice echo;
the emptiness of the heart makes the Buddha.
When you empty the heart, things appear as in a mirror,
shining there without differences between them.
	-- Bukko
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I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as
we are, then everything in life works.
	-- Louise Hay
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When drinking water remember the source.
	-- Ancient Chinese Proverb
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There is a slightly odd notion in business today that things are
moving so fast that strategy becomes an obsolete idea. This is a
mistake. If you do not develop a strategy of your own, you become part
of someone else's strategy.
	-- Alfred Toffler, quoted in Sept. 2000 BUSINESS2.COM Magazine
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to
laugh, and too self-full to seek
other than itself.
	-- Kahlil Gibran
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When the doors of perception are cleansed,
things will appear to man as they truly are,
infinite.
	-- Aldous Huxley
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Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
	-- Glenda Cloud
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Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
	-- Plutarch
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Learn to let go.
That is the key to happiness.
	-- Buddha
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Pain is inevitable,
Suffering is optional
	-- Unknown
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Real maturity begins when you finally realize that no one is coming
to the rescue.
	-- Brian Tracy in The Science of Self-Confidence
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Anger is an appropriate response to injustice, so long as it does
not exist primarily as an emotional release for the angry person.
	-- Andrew M. Greeley in Furthermore! Memories of a Parish Priest
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There are only three essential questions:
Where are we from?
Who are we?
Where are we going?
	-- Nishkam
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If your business depends on you, you don't own a business - you have
a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for
a lunatic!
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Becoming yourself is easy
but ending your false personality is hard.
First step: stop telling lies.
Second step: accept your imperfections.
Third step: be aware of yourself at any time and make it a priority to remember
it.
Final step: follow yourself at any cost, do not compromise, take it easy all
the way and have good fun.
	-- Tishan
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
	-- Seneca
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The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the
point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and
ability.
	-- Fred A. Manske, Jr.
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to
look at the men he has around him.
	-- Niccol Machiavelli
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their
sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
	-- Sam Ewig
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Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.
	-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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You can only lose what you cling to.
	-- Buddha
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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
	-- Benjamin Spock, M.D.
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The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because
he is absolutely himself.
	-- Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900)
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
	-- Marie Curie
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
	-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
	-- Buddha
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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every
man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
	-- Plato
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count.
A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter.
A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run
determines the long run.
	-- Sydney J. Harris, Quoted in the Reader's Digest
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five
minutes longer.
	-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
	-- Marcel Proust
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The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd,  
in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything 
new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.
	-- G. Gurdjieff
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What we need is a definition of love in our professional lives.
Here's mine: Love is the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing
your knowledge, networks, and compassion with your business partners.
	-- Tim Sanders, Yahoo Chief Solutions Officer, in Fast Company magazine
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