Journal writing
“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.” –Christina Baldwin
Judging success
“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep in the sunlight
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” –Benjamin Franklin
Keep yourself clean and bright
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” –George Bernard Shaw
King and the pawn
“Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.” –Italian Proverb
Know how to ask
“Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.” –Baltasar Gracian
Know how to be
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one’s own self.” –Montaigne
Know nothing
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.” –Socrates
Know the truth by heart
“We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.” –Blaise Pascal
Know what a man is
“If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.” –Yugoslav Proverb
Knowledge lost in information
“Where is the knowledge that is lost in information? Where is the wisdom that is lost in knowledge?” –t.s. eliot
Lasting outer peace in the world
“It is only when each individual has achieved inner peace that we will see lasting outer peace in the world.” –Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj
Laughing
“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” –Michael Pritchard
Learn to live simply
“If you want to be free, learn to live simply. Use what you have and be content where you are.” –J. Heider
Learning people
“One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.” –Mark Twain
Leave the past
“The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.” –Isabelle Eberhardt
Let me sow love
“Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.” –Saint Francis of Assisi
Let there be!
“Every time we say, “Let there be!” in any form, something happens.” –Stella Terrill Mann
Lies a silence
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.” –Thomas Carlyle
Life as something separated
“A person experiences life as something separated from the rest -a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.” –Albert Einstein
Life does not cease to be funny
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” –George Bernard Shaw
Life is about creating
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –George Bernard Shaw
Life is serious?
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” –Brendan Gill
Life is too important
“Life is too important to take seriously.” –Corky Siegel
Life is what we make it
“Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.” –Grandma Moses
Life will love you back
“If you love life, life will love you back.” –Arthur Rubinstein
Life’s challenges
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” –Bernice Johnson Reagon
Light candles
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.” –Margaret Fuller
Like what you are doing
“You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.” –Dale Carnegie
Listen Completely
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” –Ernest Hemingway
Listen completely
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” –Ernest Hemingway
Live coal in your heart
“The hatred you’re carrying is a live coal in your heart -far more damaging to yourself than to them.” –Lawana Blackwell
Live happily
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.” –Margaret Bonnano
Live happily ever after
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.” –Margaret Bonnano
Live upon a little
“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.” –Horace
Live well, laugh often, love much
“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.” –Bessie Anderson Stanley
Look fear in the face
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
Losing time
“Modern man thinks he loses something–time–when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains–except kill it.” –Erich Fromm
Lot of worries in my life
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” –Mark Twain
Love & Skill
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” –John Ruskin
Love and skill
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” –John Ruskin
Love is not automatic
“Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.” –Doc Childre and Sara Paddison
Love the questions
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves.” –Rainer Maria Rilke
Love’s impact on our quality of life
“Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well. I am not aware of any other factor in medicine -not diet, not smoking, not exercise… not drugs, not surgery -that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death.” –Dean Ornish
Loving and Being Loved
“Our spiritual work is about loving and being loved, period, because the way we find some authentic and enduring sweetness and meaningfulness in life is in our commitment and devotion to cultivating authentic love and in our capacity to hold to it, no matter what. ” –Swami Chetanananda
Lure of the distant
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” –John Burroughs
Madness
“Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes and wanes.” –Otto Friedrich
Magnetize towards your goals
“Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.” –Mark Victor Hansen
Make new friends
“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.” –Samuel Johnson
Make the best use
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” –Epictetus
Making mistakes
“Only when sleeping do we make no mistakes. Mistakes are the privilege of the active person, who can start over and put things right.” –Ingvar Kamprad
Man’s best medicine
“Walking is man’s best medicine.” –Hippocrates
Man’s best medicine
“Walking is man’s best medicine.” –Hippocrates
Mandela on fear
“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” –Nelson Mandela
Massage as a relationship
“Massage in essence is a relationship between two people who share equally with each other in order to faciliate change. That is why it is important to find a therapist thats suits you.” –Rick Wilkes
Matter most at the mercy of the least
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” –Goethe
Measure of life
“The measure of a life is not its duration, but its donation.” –Peter Marshall
Medical Freedom
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic. The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.” –Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the U.S. Constitution
Meet each other with a smile
“Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.” –Mother Teresa
Men of contrary character
“When we see men of a contrary character we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.” –Confucius
Mercy
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” –Abraham Lincoln
Midlife crisis
“Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.” –Jane E. Brody
Mighty oak
“The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground.” –Naturalist
Mind can only hold one thought
“Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.” –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Mind has great influence
“The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.” –Moliere
Mind opened by wonder
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” –Gerry Spence
Mind power
“The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.” –Colin Wilson
Miserable
“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.” –Jacopo Sannazaro
Moral precept inconvenience
“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.” –Denis Diderot
More friends in two months
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” –Dale Carnegie
More than just healthy
“My focus in my practice is to help people thrive…that is more than just being healthy. Health is the absence of disease as far as I am concerned. Maintaining health is the first step. Thriving is a process of taking control over one’s life and setting goals for growth and happiness. It is more of a spiritual journey.” –Doc (Larry)
Most important thing in life
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.” –John Wayne
Moving in the wrong direction
“Failure is God’s way of saying, ‘Excuse me, you’re moving in the wrong direction.’” –Oprah Winfrey
Musical silence
“Silence is more musical than any song.” –Christina Rossetti
My heart is still my own
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is still my own.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My mother had trouble
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” –Mark Twain
Mystify a lot of folks
“When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it -don’t back down and don’t give up -then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.” –Bob Dylan
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