November 2009
10 posts
“If you don’t like where you are, then change it! You’re not a tree.”
– Jim Rohn
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via kari-shma) (via iindia)
“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde
October 2009
70 posts
“Never rationalize anything that feels wrong.”
“Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest...”
– ~ Unknown (via gatekeeper) (via heidialfonzo)
“When you make your life better, you are making the life of your friends and...”
– James Fowler author of Connected at PopTech (via somewhatfrank)
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...”
– Leonardo DaVinci, 1452-1519 Italian Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Musician and Inventor (via heidialfonzo)
Nothing At All
I am a victim of my time A produce of my age There’s no choosing my direction I was a holy man but now With all my trials behind me I am weak in my conviction And so I walk to try to get away Knowing that someday I will finally have to face The fear that will come from knowing that The one thing I had left was you And now you’re gone You were a victim of my crimes A product of my rage...
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“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via kari-shma) (via iindia)
“A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will...”
– Swami Vivekanand
“Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.”
– Florence Scovel Shinn
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“Don’t look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite...”
– Swami Vivekanand
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Man
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, both internal and external. Else he is an animal.
“When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.”
– Barney Stinson (via fuckyeahhappy)
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting…so get on your way!”
– Dr. Seuss (via fuckyeahhappy)
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“The spiritual weapon of self-purification, intangible as it seems, is the most...”
– Gandhi
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Changing paradigms
“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”
“Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains,...
“The wise man should not unsettle the faith of the ignorant who are attached to...”
– Bhagvad Gita on Karma Yoga
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do...”
– Seneca (via reluctantbuddha)
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
– Plutarch
“For me, the religion was in the chase, the pursuit of accumulated fact and...”
– David Simon, series creator of the superb HBO police drama The Wire, recalls his early experiences as a staff reporter for The Baltimore Sun newspaper, in an essay for the March issue of Esquire. (via esquiretheme)
“Your true friend is the one who participates in your efforts and for the sake of...”
– Ali RA
“If a gem falls in to mud it is still valuble, if dust ascends to heaven it...”
– Shaykh Sa’di
“Hold to forgiveness, command what is right; but turn away from the ignorant.”
– Quran [7:199]
“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.”
– Chinese proverb (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book) (via heidialfonzo)
“To succeed in life, you need 3 things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”
– R. McEntire (via maluna)
“When you look into the eyes of another, be kind — for inside there is a huge...”
– Zen Buddhist Saying (via mnmal)