Voltaire on Doing
“Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.”
- Voltaire
Archive for September, 2008
Walter Anderson on Responsibility
“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have: life itself.”
- Walter Anderson
Adyashanti on Freedom
“As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.”
- Adyashanti
Robert Louis Stevenson on Intention
“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap, but by the dees you plant.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Washington Irving on Mother
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ”
- Washington Irving
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Duty
“Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability do not exist.”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Mahatma Gandhi on Capability
“The difference between what we do, and what we are capable of doing, would solve most of the world’s problems.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Laurence Sterne on Respect
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
- Laurence Sterne
Federick Faust on Power
“There is a giant asleep within everyone. When the giant awakens, miracles happen.”
- Federick Faust
Earl Nightingale on Attitude
“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were absent before the change.”
- Earl Nightingale
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