quotes

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle

The stupid neither forgive nor forget The naive forgive and forget The wise forgive but do not forget
-From ?The bodhisattva?s way of life?

"I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face......I say to myself, I?ve lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along..... we must do the things we cannot do."
-Eleanor roosevelt

Progress cannot happen without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything?
-Emerson

"The weak can never forgive which is the attribute of the strong. Would you want to die with anger still in your heart."
-Gandhi

"be the change you want to see in the world"
-Gandhi

Why not be polite
Everyone
Is god speaking.
Why not be polite and
Listen to
Him?
-Hafiz

Strangers are friends you haven?t met yet.
-James joyce

Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter?.this is it! If you don?t get it here, you won?t get it anywhere. The experience eternity right here and now is the function of life Heaven is not the place to have this experience. Here is the place to have this experience.
-Joseph Campbell

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen

?there?s a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open....No artist is pleased... ( there is no) satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessesd unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others....?
-Matha Graham to Agnes de Mille, Martha: The life and work of Martha Graham

I saw an angel in the stone and carved to set it free. Michaelangelo

?our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light , not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn?t serve the world. There?s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won?t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us... it?s not just in some of us; it?s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.?
-1994 Inaugural Speech Nelson Mandela
-Marianne Williamson

"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier." - MOTHER TERESA

Do It Anyway
-Found on Mother Theresa?s wall (but she is not the author)

People are often unreasonable, illogical
And self-centered
Forgive them anyway

If you are kind, people may accuse you
Of selfish, ulterior motives,
Be kind anyway

If you are successful, you will win some
False friends and some true enemies,
Succeed anyway

If you are honest and frank,
People may cheat you
Be honest and frank anyway

What you spend years building, someone
Could destroy overnight
Build anyway

If you find serenity and happiness
They may be jealous
Be happy anyway

The good you do today
People will often forget tomorrow
Do good anyway

Give the world the best you have,
And it may never be enough
Give the world the best you?ve got anyway

You see, in the final analysis
It is between you and God
It was never between you and them anyway

When life is turned upside down, enjoy the view

The world looks different when you place your heart above your head!
-Karmicards.com

When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.
-buddhist quote

What if seeing it wasn?t believing it. What if you believed it and then you would see it.
-Dewitt jones

To all of our teachers past and present, to all of those who impacted us in ways we wished for and in ways we didn?t. To all the trusts that those occasions engendered in the ways those trials have taught us to open to grace more fully and more consistently.

To all of you namaste
-Elena brower