Single Sentence Wisdom

2011-12-04T16:52:00.000-08:00

"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teachers."

-- Pema Chodron

2011-12-04T16:46:00.001-08:00

"When you appreciate the beauty and uniqueness of things, you receive energy."

-- James Redfield

2011-12-04T16:44:00.000-08:00

"Don't try and stand out from the crowd, avoid crowds altogether."

-- Hugh MacLeod

2011-12-04T16:40:00.000-08:00

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

-- Emerson

2011-07-25T05:30:00.000-07:00

"When we understand, we are at the center of the circle, and there we sit while yes and no chase each other around the circumference."

-- Chuang Tzu

2011-07-04T03:08:00.000-07:00

"You pray by working; you pray that you can make work that has a certain amount of authenticity."

-- Robert Graham

2011-07-04T03:07:00.000-07:00

"I think that every breath is a prayer."

-- Harry Dean Stanton

2011-06-19T07:06:00.000-07:00

"Is is much easier to distinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it."

-- La Rochefoucauld

2011-06-19T07:04:00.000-07:00

"Every good deed helps to kindle this feeling of joy within us."

-- Tolstoy

2011-06-05T04:49:00.000-07:00

"Everything is honored but nothing matters."

-- Eckhart Tolle

2011-05-15T17:15:00.001-07:00

"The monks seek to reach their goal of enlightenment not through learning but through unlearning all preconceived notions of life and reality."

-- Andrew Juniper

2011-05-15T17:12:00.000-07:00

"Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible."

-- Frank Zappa

2011-04-19T18:46:00.000-07:00

It's as clear as the Devil to anyone who pays attention, the Mother of All Evil is speculation."

-- Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas's character in Wall Street)

2011-04-19T18:42:00.000-07:00

"Now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

-- Umberto Eco

2011-04-19T18:39:00.000-07:00

"Observe the direct connection between practicing trust and the serendipitous events that follow."

-- Alan Cohen

2011-04-19T18:35:00.001-07:00

"When you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try and reconcile yourself with the world."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2011-04-19T18:02:00.001-07:00

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

-- Henry David Thoreau

2011-04-10T02:32:00.001-07:00

"We talked a lot of small talk, but it was small talk with heart in it."

-- Stuart Brent

2011-04-06T15:53:00.002-07:00

"Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful."

-- Nina Grigoreva

2011-04-06T15:50:00.000-07:00

"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."

-- Bertrand Russell

2011-03-29T03:55:00.000-07:00

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

-- Sigmund Freud

2011-03-13T00:00:00.001-08:00

"You are the teacher you've been waiting for."

-- Byron Katie

2011-03-11T23:50:00.000-08:00

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."

-- Albert Gyorgi

2011-03-11T23:46:00.000-08:00

"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

2011-03-11T23:44:00.000-08:00

"To miss the joy is to miss all."

-- William James

2011-03-11T08:40:00.000-08:00

"If you love everything you will perceive the divine mystery in things."

-- Dostoyevsky

2011-03-11T08:38:00.000-08:00

"Nothing down here below is profane for those who know how to see."

-- Teilhard de Chardin

2011-03-11T08:36:00.000-08:00

"The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves."

-- Horace Mann

2011-03-11T08:34:00.001-08:00

"Nothing has value except for the hunger one has for it."

-- Camille Corot

2011-03-11T08:32:00.000-08:00

"Often one gets a reputation for mental stability simply because one doesn't have enough courage to make a fool of oneself."

-- Ernie J. Zelinski

2011-03-11T08:27:00.000-08:00

" a clue ...

great truth can be found in small places,

and small places can be found anywhere."

-- W. Gregory Stewart

2011-03-11T08:24:00.000-08:00

"Sooner or later, no matter how satisfying your personal life is, you long for something more, something deeper, something that fills your heart in a way that your current life does not."

-- David Deida

2011-03-11T03:38:00.001-08:00

"It's better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than half way up one you don't."

-- "Dawn" (a character in the UK version of The Office)

2011-03-09T11:24:00.000-08:00

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

-- Oscar Wilde

2011-03-09T11:22:00.000-08:00

"Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink the thirstier we become."

-- Schopenhauer

2011-03-09T11:20:00.000-08:00

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

-- John Barrymore

2011-03-09T11:19:00.000-08:00

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

-- Eric Hoffer

2011-03-09T11:17:00.000-08:00

"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished garden."

-- Montaigne

2011-03-09T11:15:00.000-08:00

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

2011-03-09T11:14:00.001-08:00

"Truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

2011-03-09T11:10:00.000-08:00

"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

-- Gustav Flaubert

2011-03-09T11:08:00.000-08:00

"Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new."

-- Epictetus

2011-03-09T11:06:00.000-08:00

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it doe enlarge the future."

-- Paul Boege

2011-03-09T11:04:00.000-08:00

"Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find peace."

-- Ramana Maharshi

2011-03-09T11:00:00.000-08:00

"The great hope of society is individual character."

-- William Ellery Channing

2011-03-09T10:57:00.000-08:00

"My compassion is not for the individual, but for that beingness which has trapped itself into identifying with individuals."

-- Nisargadatta

2011-03-09T10:55:00.000-08:00

"I have no special talents, I m only passionately curious."

-- Einstein

2011-03-09T10:52:00.000-08:00

"The simple truth is nothing external will make you happy."

-- Stephen M. Pollan

2011-03-09T10:51:00.001-08:00

"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."

-- Margaret Mead

2011-03-09T10:49:00.000-08:00

"We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong."

-- Spike Milligan

2011-03-09T10:47:00.001-08:00

"Nothing is virtuous if it is not spontaneous."

-- Marilyn Wilhelm

2011-03-07T04:23:00.000-08:00

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

-- Abe Lincoln

2011-03-07T04:21:00.001-08:00

"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."

-- Sebastien Chamfort

2011-03-07T04:19:00.000-08:00

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2011-03-07T04:17:00.001-08:00

"Life, we learn to late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour."

-- Stephen Leacock

2011-03-07T04:15:00.000-08:00

"The best way is to understand yourself, then you will understand everything."

-- Suzuki Roshi

2011-03-06T18:21:00.001-08:00

"The greatest wealth is poverty of desires."

-- Seneca

2011-03-06T18:19:00.000-08:00

"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance."

-- John Petit-Senn

2011-03-06T18:17:00.000-08:00

"In a world full of noise, we need to quiet ourselves to hear God's voice."

-- Paul Borthwick

2011-03-06T18:16:00.000-08:00

"If you are feeling helpless, help someone."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

2011-03-06T18:14:00.000-08:00

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

-- Joseph Campbell

2011-03-03T04:46:00.001-08:00

"Wen I tend to the small things in a conscious way, the big things have a tendency to take care of themselves."

-- Alexandra Stoddard

2011-03-02T16:24:00.000-08:00

"Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make."

-- Sara Ben Breathnach

2011-03-02T16:23:00.000-08:00

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

-- Oscar Wilde

2011-03-02T16:21:00.001-08:00

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it is worthless."

-- Thomas Edison

2011-02-27T04:44:00.000-08:00

"God lurks in the gaps."

-- Jorge Luis Borges

2011-02-23T02:04:00.000-08:00

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it well enough that no one could find fault."

-- John Henry Cardinal Newman

2011-02-21T13:47:00.001-08:00

"I may not believe in what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

-- Voltaire

2011-02-18T02:55:00.000-08:00

"Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent not an object."

-- Hermann Hesse

2010-12-07T05:07:00.001-08:00

"I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

-- Walt Whitman

2010-12-04T07:54:00.000-08:00

"Disciples can usually be counted upon to wreck the teachings of a master."

-- J.C. Cooper

2010-12-02T07:12:00.000-08:00

"All creation emerges from darkness."

-- Michael Meade

2010-12-02T07:08:00.001-08:00

"Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticizing others."

-- Thomas Jefferson

2010-11-23T10:11:00.000-08:00

"We must be one of those who do good unconsciously."

-- Marcus Aurelius

2010-11-23T10:08:00.000-08:00

"I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do."

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

2010-11-23T10:06:00.000-08:00

"We are encouraged to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that don't last on people we don't care about."

-- Tim Jackson

2010-11-23T10:03:00.000-08:00

"Gaining control of our attention -- the ability to put it where we want it, and keep it there for a sustained period of time -- is a prerequisite to a satisfying life."

-- Tony Schwartz

2010-11-22T08:51:00.000-08:00

"The knowledge of our errors is the beginning of our salvation."

-- Epicurus

2010-11-22T08:49:00.000-08:00

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."

-- David Sedaris

2010-11-22T08:46:00.000-08:00

"All spiritual life begins with the shock of impermanence."

-- David Guy

2010-11-22T03:05:00.000-08:00

"When you really pay attention everything is your teacher."

-- Ezra Bayda

2010-11-15T11:37:00.001-08:00

"Education should be the process of helping everyone discover his uniqueness."

-- Leo Buscaglia

2010-11-15T11:34:00.000-08:00

"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are."

-- Adelle Davis

2010-11-15T11:32:00.000-08:00

"I just went ahead doing what I liked to do."

-- Linus Pauling

2010-11-15T11:30:00.000-08:00

"Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great."

-- Mark Twain

2010-11-15T11:27:00.000-08:00

"Be careful going to search for adventure -- it's ridiculously easy to find. "

-- William Least Heat Moon

2010-11-15T11:25:00.001-08:00

"This is the very perfection of man, to find but his own imperfection."

-- St. Augustine

2010-11-15T11:23:00.000-08:00

"All creation emerges from darkness."

-- Michael Meade

2010-11-15T11:22:00.001-08:00

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

-- Jonathan Kozol

2010-11-15T11:18:00.001-08:00

"Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

-- Mary Oliver

2010-11-15T11:17:00.000-08:00

"We make our lives by what we love."

-- John Cage

2010-11-15T11:14:00.001-08:00

"Creativity is seeing something that doesn't already exist."

-- Michael Shea

2010-11-14T05:58:00.000-08:00

"To be a friend is to step into the stream of another's life."

-- Todd May

2010-10-21T06:15:00.000-07:00

"Frankly, I get a little bored -- and annoyed and suspicious -- when someone is sharing too much awesome."

-- Colleen Wainwright

2010-10-19T10:00:00.001-07:00

"Computers are like Old Testament gods -- lots of rules and no mercy."

-- Joseph Campbell

2010-10-11T05:25:00.000-07:00

"You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want."

-- Nina Simone

2010-10-11T05:23:00.000-07:00

"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."

-- Robert Heinlein

2010-10-01T06:23:00.000-07:00

"We make a contribution to the world just by being ourselves in every moment."

-- Shakti Gawain

2010-09-28T11:30:00.000-07:00

"All we need to make us really happy is something to be excited about."
-- Charles Kingsley

2010-09-14T17:55:00.000-07:00

"When one says 'God' without truly practicing virtue, 'God' is nothing but a word."

-- Plotinus