May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
-Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
Kindness and unkindness
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
-Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Achievement vs Success
Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.- Simon Sinek
First step...
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
- Tony Robbins
muster motivation...
Goal-setting is also a vital element of motivation.
Clear goals will help you muster motivation for
whatever your task at hand is.
Clear goals will help you muster motivation for
whatever your task at hand is.
for being happy
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
- William Inge
Purpose of coaching
"The purpose of coaching is to help facilitate the
transition from where you are to where you want to be"Changed persons...
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
-William Somerset Maugham, writer (25 Jan 1874-1965)
Charming music
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
-William Congreve, dramatist (1670-1729)
from a lack of...
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
- Richard Wright
- Richard Wright
taught me compassion...
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
-Ellen DeGeneres, comedian (b. 26 Jan 1958)
Take care of...
"Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients."
-Richard Branson
-Richard Branson
...are the same
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
-Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (1783-1842)
imaginary & real
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
-Marianne Moore, poet (1887-1972)
Insulation against..
The walls of books around me, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
-Ross Macdonald, novelist (1915-1983)
is made of...
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
-Muriel Rukeyser, poet and activist (1913-1980)
Power of...
Little Strokes, Fell great oaks.
-Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
Frame of destiny
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
- Dag Hammarskjold
- Dag Hammarskjold
Art and autobiography
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
-Federico Fellini, film director and writer (1920-1993)
External vs internal violence
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
-Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)
Mosted wasted day...
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
- Nicolas Chamfort
- Nicolas Chamfort
Love it enough
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
- Garrison Keillor
fuel to burn
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
- Haruki Murakami, writer (12 Jan 1949)
can't expect..
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
- Flip Wilson
Admiring people...
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel, rabbi and professor (1907-1972)
Care for somebody...
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
on compromise and barter
All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
-Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), historian (1834-1902)
Must be felt
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart."
~ Helen Keller
Radiations of personalities
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
-Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931)
Not noticed...
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
-Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (1876-1973)
doing what's right
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
-Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
Faith is a ...
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.
-Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 30 Dec 1949)
Round the corner
Still round the corner there may wait, /
a new road or a secret gate.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (1892-1973)
Cruel to & kind to
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
-Ouida [pen name of Marie Louise de la Ramee], novelist (1 Jan 1839-1908)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)