Tuesday, June 1, 2010

My Fav Quotes

 


Mary Baker Eddy


The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony


Mother Teresa

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread



Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage



Martin Luther King

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. .



Golda Meir

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist



Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC)

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.







Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.



Red Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.



Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.



Frank Zappa

Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best.





Igor Stravinsky

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?


Buddha

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.



Alphonse de Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.



Napoleon I

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.



Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

1 comment:

  1. The Patanjali quote is my new daily quote/affirmation. Thanks!

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