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The greatest part of our happiness depends on our
dispositions, not our circumstances.
-Martha Washington
One of the advantages of being disorderly is
that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-A. A. Milne

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for
complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.
-HH the Dalai Lama

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing
because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness
in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity,
will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its
theories will hold water.
-John W. Gardner

Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
--D. T. Suzuki

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.
--Zen master

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
--Ray Bradbury

One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon.
--Zen Forest Saying

The world is like a mirror, you see? Smile, and your friends smile back.
--Japanese Zen saying

So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".
--Zen Master Kyong Ho [ 1849-1912]

The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.
--Zen Buddhist Text

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen proverb

The obstacle is the path.
--Zen Proverb

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
--Albert Einstein

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
--Albert Einstein















People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
--Albert Einstein in a letter to Otto Juliusburger

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
--Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
--Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
--Albert Einstein

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God.
--Albert Einstein The Human Side, 1954

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
--Rabindranath Tagore

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
--Unknown

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
--Chang Tzu

They say that something as small as a butterfly beating its wings in China can cause a hurricane in America, so maybe we should go to China and kill all the butterflies, just to be safe.
--Ken Advent

The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.
--Ecouchard Le Brun

Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush, hold it too loose, it'll fly
--Unknown







Cats, by means of their whiskers, seem to possess something like an additional sense: these have, perhaps, some analogy to the antennae of moths and butterflies.
--Rev. W. Bingley

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
--Unknown















The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to
proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities,
we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
-Mark Twain

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that
we don't see the one that has been opened for us.


My current mood is...


Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you
thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and
thought of other things if you did.

My life is a bubble; but how much solid cash it costs to keep that bubble floating!

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.

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A Word To The Wise

Natural wealth is limited & easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.
-Epicurus, Third Century B.C.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
-A. Powell Davies

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
-Agatha Christie

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
-Erich Fromm

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-Erich Fromm

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
-Henry David Thoreau






















































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There was a time when Patience ceased to be a
virtue. It was long ago.
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster.
One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
-Chinese proverb

You can learn many things from children. How much
patience you have, for instance.
-Franklin P. Jones

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-John Quincy Adams

To free us form the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
-Joan Didion

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.
-Bertrand Russell