REFLECTIONS

Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past.

~Unknown

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that

we are not willing to see our children do.

~ Brigham Young

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever

come to you without leaving happier.

~Mother Teresa

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,

but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with

a friend's success.

~Oscar Wilde

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

~David Steindle-Rast

All life is an experiment.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be the change you want to see in the world.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

~Deepak Chopra

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

~Kahlil Gibran

An evil life is a kind of death.

~Ovid

The trick is in what one emphasizes.  We either make

ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy.

The amount of work is the same.

~Carlos Castaneda

The goal of the soul is to work toward enlightenment.

                                                                                                         ~Jodi Livon

PEACE

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority

has made the world better.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

~Jane Addams

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. 

~Voltaire

Why not let people differ about their answers to the great

mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way

to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in

life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-

view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective,

that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.

~Algernon Black

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten

that we belong to each other.

~Mother Teresa

You believe that if you had more time,

you would have more peace.  But it is the other way around:

if you had more peace, you would have more time. 

Creating more time is not logistical, but attitudinal.

~Alan Cohen

But thus do I counsel you, my friends:

distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

~Nietzsche

Men acquire a particular quality

by constantly acting a particular way...

you become just by performing just actions,

temperate by performing temperate actions,

brave by performing brave actions.  

~Aristotle

People who fight fire with fire

usually end up with ashes.

~Abigail Van Buren

In the practice of tolerance,

one's enemy is the best teacher.

~Dalai Lama

To put the world right in order, we must first put the

nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must

first put the family in order;to put the family in order,

we must first cultivate our personal life;

we must first set our hearts right. 

~Confucius

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. 

~James M. Barrie

Fear is, I believe a most effective tool in destroying

the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

~Anwar Sadat

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen,

for G-d speaks in the silence of the heart.

~Mother Teresa

Peace is much more than the absence of war and

violence; it is a condition unto itself.  The goal at this

point must be the creation of peace.  Without love,

there is no peace.  Where love is absent, war of

some kind is inevitable.

~Marianne Williamson

INSPIRATION

Our Intuitive Senses Are So Basic,

It's Just A Matter Of Being Alive And

In Tune To Them!

~Jodi Livon

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain

follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure

thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that

never leaves him.

~Buddha

All that is mine by Divine Right is now released

and reaches me in a perfect way under Grace.” 

~Florence Scovel Shinn

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray.

Believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

~Mark 11:24

The universe is change;

our life is what our thoughts make it.

~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Trust your gut,

Follow your heart,

And use your head.

~Jodi Livon

You should always be aware that your head

creates your world.

~Ken Keyes

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is

the key to unlocking our potential.

~Liane Cardes

Money is energy and an exchange of services. 

How much you have depends

on what you believe you deserve.

~Louise L. Hay

Work is love made visible.

~Kahlil Gibran

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!

Live the life you've imagined.  As you simplify your

life, the laws of the universe will be simpler,

solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not poverty,

nor weakness, weakness.

~Henry David Thoreau

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,

but the parent of all the others. 

~Cicero

However many holy words you read, however

many you speak, what good will they do you if

you do not act on upon them?

~Buddha

The fastest way to freedom is to feel your feelings.

~Gita Bellin

Before you can inspire with emotion,

you must be swamped with it yourself.

Before you can move their tears, your own must flow.

To convince them, you must yourself believe.

~Winston Churchill

He who recites a blessing is blessed himself.

~The Talmud

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

~Zen Proverb

LOVE

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. 

~Barbara De Angelis

The most important thing a father can do for his

children is to love their mother. 

~Theodore Hesburgh:

He who is full of joy, is full of love.

~Baal Shem Tov

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed,

for love is sufficient unto love.

~Kahlil Gibran

Whatever our souls are made of,

his and mine are the same.

~Emily Bronte

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;

it is the prerogative of the brave.

~Mohandas Gandhi

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

~Jean Anouilh

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love

unreturned has its rainbow.

~James M. Barrie

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

~Confucius

Let us always meet each other with smile,

for the smile is the beginning of love.

~Mother Teresa

As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is like a tree and reputation like a

shadow. The shadow is what we think of it;

the tree is the real thing.

~Abe Lincoln

Of certainty, the man who can see all creatures

in himself, himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow.

~Eesha Upanishad

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

~Aristotle

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

~Confucius

Pleasures are manifestations of G-d’s love.

                                                                                                         ~The Baal Shem Tov

We meet ourselves time and time again

in a thousand disguises on the paths of life.

~Carl Jung

COURAGE

Each night, before retiring, forgive whomever

offended you.

~Asher b. Yehiel, “Hanhaga”

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good

and as just as you can. 

~Isocrates

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it

and whispers, grow, grow.

~The Talmud

Every portrait that is painted with feeling

is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

~Oscar Wilde

You can close your eyes

to the things you do not want to see,

But you cannot close your heart

to the things you do not want to feel.

~Anonymous

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can

erase our good deeds.

~Buddha

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

~Dalai Lama

A musician must make music, an artist must paint,

a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself.

What a man can be, he must be.

~Abraham Maslow

The personal life deeply lived

always expands into truths beyond itself.

~Anais Nin

Courage and character

always seem sinister to the rest.

~Herman Hesse

Character - the willingness to

accept responsibility for one's own life -

is the source from which self-respect springs.

~Joan Didion

You will never do anything in this world without courage.

It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

~Aristotle

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved

except by those who dared believe that

something inside them was superior to circumstance.

~Bruce Barton

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things

that are in themselves most excellent.

~Epictetus

One can never consent to creep

when one feels an impulse to soar.

~Helen Keller

To be a person of truth, be swayed neither by approval

nor disapproval.  Work at not needing approval from

anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

                                                                                                              ~Rabbi Nachman of Breslov