Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris, designer, lived in the 1800s
Source: brainyquote.com
It's all in the journey and it's an imperfect world. Do your best to make sense. Think critically. Decide if it's fact or belief. Respond don't react. And, whether it's the road less traveled or the main drag, chances are good someone along the way has made an observation that might help you. Why reinvent the wheel when you can learn from the stumbling, imperfect experiences of those who have traveled before - or are traveling with - us?
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Phillip Stanhope on Doing
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Phillip Stanhope, diplomat, lived in the 1700s
Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living
by Laurence G. Boldt,
(c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999 Arkana/Published by The Penguin Group
Phillip Stanhope, diplomat, lived in the 1700s
Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living
by Laurence G. Boldt,
(c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999 Arkana/Published by The Penguin Group
Muhammad Ali on Learning from Experience
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
Source: brainyquote.com
Muhammad Ali
Source: brainyquote.com
Confucius on Vocation
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
Source: brainyquote.com
Confucius
Source: brainyquote.com
Lao Tzu on Intuition
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu
Source: nonstopenglish.com
Lao Tzu
Source: nonstopenglish.com
Stephen Covey on What's Important
How many on their deathbeds wished they’d spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
Stephen Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
©1989, Free Press
Stephen Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
©1989, Free Press
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Eleanor Roosevelt on Experience
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: brainyquote.com
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: brainyquote.com
Anais Nin on Chaos
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
Anais Nin, writer
Source: wisdomquotes.com
Anais Nin, writer
Source: wisdomquotes.com
Monday, May 26, 2008
Yehuda Bauer on Peace
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer, Holocaust historian
inscribed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.
Source: San Antonio Peace Center
Yehuda Bauer, Holocaust historian
inscribed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.
Source: San Antonio Peace Center
Bob Dylan on Heroism
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
Source: nonstopenglish.com
Bob Dylan
Source: nonstopenglish.com
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Carl Sandburg on Peace
Choose:
The single clenched fist lifted and ready,
Or the open hand held out and waiting.
Choose:
For we meet by one or the other.
Carl Sandburg, poet
Source: wisdomquotes.com
The single clenched fist lifted and ready,
Or the open hand held out and waiting.
Choose:
For we meet by one or the other.
Carl Sandburg, poet
Source: wisdomquotes.com
Arthur Ashe on Heroism
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe, tennis great and humanitarian
Source: bellaonline.com
Arthur Ashe, tennis great and humanitarian
Source: bellaonline.com
Saturday, May 24, 2008
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