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Tuesday Mar 1, 2016

Laozi: The root and its stillness

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfills its destiny.

Laozi

Monday Feb 29, 2016

Nicholas Sparks: It is your life

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Nicholas Sparks

Friday Feb 26, 2016

Mother Teresa: The paradox

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Mother Teresa

Wednesday Feb 24, 2016

Jan Jacob Henneman: Smile

A smile is the brightness of love

Jan Jacob Henneman

Tuesday Feb 23, 2016

Laozi: How we see things

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Laozi

Friday Feb 5, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The puropse of life

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday Jan 28, 2016

William Shakespeare: Suspicion

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

Friday Jan 22, 2016

Albert Einstein: Great Spirits

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Thursday Jan 21, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Doing and Saying

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday Jan 9, 2016

Jan Jacob Henneman: Love is given to us

Love is given to us from an inexhaustible source to let it wisely flow on to others.

Jan Jacob Henneman

Thursday Jan 7, 2016

Sydney Madwed: Increasing your peace of mind

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Sidney Madwed

Wednesday Jan 6, 2016

Henry David Thoreau: What you get and what you become

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Henry David Thoreau

Monday Jan 4, 2016

Denis Waitley: Past, future and now

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Denis Waitley

Thursday Dec 31, 2015

Friedrich Nietzsche: The tribe

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wednesday Dec 23, 2015

Walt Whitman: Happiness

Happiness, not in another place, but this place ... not for another hour, but for this hour.

Walt Whitman

Tuesday Dec 22, 2015

Jonathan Swift: Live!

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Friday Dec 18, 2015

Jan Jacob Henneman: The Smile

A smile gives brightness to the day.

Jan Jacob Henneman

Thursday Dec 17, 2015

Ralph Waldo Emerson about finishing the day

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday Dec 11, 2015

Haruki Murakami: Wars

There's no war that will end all wars.

Haruki Murakami

Monday Dec 7, 2015

Dean Koontz: You can succeed in life

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Dean Koontz