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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. ~ Richard Feynman
— This statement has been discovered to very probably be a misattribution, and seems to have been created as part of a paraphrase of Feynman's note to the mother of Marcus Chown: "Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough."
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. ~ Woodrow Wilson, (born 28 December 1856)
The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated. ... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it. ~ Benazir Bhutto (recent death)
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (Date of death)
At terrestrial temperatures matter has complex properties which are likely to prove most difficult to unravel; but it is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. ~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
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The external world of physics has … become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions. ... The sparsely spread nuclei of electric force become a tangible solid; their restless agitation becomes the warmth of summer; the octave of aethereal vibrations becomes a gorgeous rainbow. Nor does the alchemy stop here. In the transmuted world new significances arise which are scarcely to be traced in the world of symbols; so that it becomes a world of beauty and purpose — and, alas, suffering and evil.
The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington ~

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Where they burn books, sooner or later they will also burn people
- Heinrich Heine

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"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Nietzsche


As you breathe in cherish yourself. As you breathe out cherish all beings. ~ Dalai Lama ♡

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ♥ Edith Wharton

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. ♥ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Time heals what reason cannot." Seneca

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
~ Albert Einstein

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
~ Jonathan Swift

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God - Alan Hovhaness

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mahatma Gandhi


One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me...
~ Louis Pasteur ~

The time is always right to do what is right ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight — always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? ~ J. M. Barrie

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. ~ Sarah Vowell (born 27 December 1969)

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. ~ Louis Pasteur (born 27 December 1822)

I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity. ~ Louis Pasteur

There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost. ~ Harold Pinter

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. ~ Louis Pasteur

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Love is the distance between reality and pain.
- Robyn Hitchcock


It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
- Kingsley Amis

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
- Peter Drucker

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
- Hesketh Pearson


The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Books to the ceiling,/ Books to the sky,/ My pile of books is a mile high./ How I love them! How I need them!/ I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
- Arnold Lobel

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
- Abigail Van Buren

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ♥ Epitectus

“Only from the heart
Can you touch the sky.”
- Rumi

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. ~ Buddha

To begin, begin - William Wordsworth

The authentic self is the soul made visible.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ♡

Peace on earth can't just be an occasional prayer it has to be a daily purpose.
- Cory Booker

"Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
- Albert Einstein

"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."
- William Butler Yeats

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"If we give up the notion that everybody's life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. No one's life is perfect."
- Joy Browne

In order to create a happy century, a peaceful century we must promote the concept of dialogue.
- Dalai Lama

The Wheel of Heaven could wind to a halt: The World of Lovers will go on turning.
~ Rumi

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. ~ Henry David Thoreau

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ~ Maya Angelou

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.
Go forward and make your dreams come true.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
- Fitzgerald

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. ~ Wayne Dyer ♥

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ♥ Elbert Hubbard



There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy. ~ J. D. Salinger

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion. ~ Norman Angell (born 26 December 1872)

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole, of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made, not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right. ~ Norman Angell (date of birth)

The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. ~ Harry S. Truman (died 26 December 1972)

Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear;
They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.
Bright Rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings,
Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings.
~ Thomas Gray ~

The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men.
In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man. ~ Norman Angell

To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's pain;
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
~ Thomas Gray ~

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People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou ♡

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
~ William Blake

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

☮Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
- George Santayana

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. ~ Ivan Panin ♡

Go within; hear the story of sunrise from the Sun itself. Rumi

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony & the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. ~Wordsworth

Do not say 'It is morning' & dismiss it, see it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. ~Tagore

Listen, my friend, to that song deep within you with which the essence of beauty calls to you. ~Faouzi Skali

Life rushes from within. ~Willa Cather

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. ~Sir Thomas Browne

All things depend upon the Unseen. All sounds depend upon Silence. Adyashanti

The vital person vitalizes! - Joseph Campbell ∞☼∞

Respond to every call that excites your spirit. ♥ Rumi

To reach peace, teach peace. -- Pope John Paul II

Rumi:

If there were no ears to receive the message from the Unseen,
no prophet would have brought a revelation from Heaven.

A wise man asked holy Jesus,
“What is the harshest thing in the universe?”
Jesus said, “Oh my dear, the most severe thing is God’s wrath,
From that, even hell trembles like us.”
The man asked, “What shelters us from God’s wrath? “
Jesus said, “Leaving your anger at the time (of anger).
The origin of vengeance is hell,
And your vengeance is a part of that whole and the enemy of your faith.
If you are a part of heaven, your pleasure like heaven is everlasting.
Bitter is joining bitters for certain;
How can the breath of evil become a companion of the Truth (God)?
Hell is the anger and needs an enemy,
So it could live, otherwise a merciful one can terminate it.
If there were no enemy and foe in the world,
Then the anger would have died amongst people.
How can it live since it dies from the light of the (love of) righteous ones?
There are hundred thousands of darkness because of your anger,
Calm your anger, open your eyes, be happy,
Learn from your true friends and become a master (of love).”

Look and see
All that is good comes from the heart.
And all that is not good comes from mixing water with dirt.

If you chase after your desires, overcome by lust,
The mud around you will increase One hundred fold.
Salvation comes when you give up
The fancies and desires that opened the door to all your troubles, in the first place.
The only reason you cant give up your desires is that you are lazy.
Since you are the problem, it will follow you wherever you go.

Promise yourself that you won’t break your oath.
Otherwise the disease will remain and the cure will be lost.
If you stay firm in that oath, your soul will give birth to one hundred thousand pleasures.

Then this iron heart will turn into a mirror.
And every moment, a mature and perfect face will look back at you. (Rumi)

if you can finally hunt down
your own beastly self
you have the right
to claim Solomon's kingdom

In the cracks of my mind
and in the crevices of my memories
lie places where I have been
and the places where I could be

Where the cracks end
is the beginning of me
and if the ending was any different
I would be you
and you would be me

Don't weep.
The joy that has gone
will come 'round again in another form -
Have no doubt about this!

A child's first joy
comes from its mother's milk;
After the child is weaned
his joy comes from drinking sweet wine.

Some people say about human beings,
"Dust to dust", but can that be true of
one who changes from road dust to doorway?

If I was not so pitifully in love,
I wouldn't then be standing at your door.
Don't say, "Go away, don't stand at my door !"
I wouldn't exist, my dear, if I didn't stand here.
-Rumi

''You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.''
❤Mevlana Muhammed Celaleddin Rumi❤

When you lose all sense of self
the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely.
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

“Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

Feed your heart in conversation with
someone harmonious with it;
seek spiritual advancement from one
who is advanced.

IF YOU CAN DISENTANGLE
yourself from your selfish self
all heavenly spirits
will stand ready to serve you.
Rumi

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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
- Albert Camus

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ♥ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!
~ Ram Dass

"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."
- Simone De Beauvoir

People are disturbed not by things but by the VIEW they take on them.
♥ Epictetus

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll



You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ)

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? ~ Bob Hope

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~ Calvin Coolidge

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.
~ Isaac Watts ~

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. ~ Helen Keller

How many observe Christ's Birth-day! how few his Precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. ~ Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack (in relation to Christmas)

Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King.
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav'n and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
~ Isaac Watts ~ (traditional Christmas carol)

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All the talents of God are within you. How could this be otherwise when your soul derived from His genes!? ~ Hafiz ♡

Peace comes from within. ♥ Do not seek it without. ♥ Buddha

"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit."
- Napolean Hill

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

- Ralph W. Sockman

Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

- Oren Arnold

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

- Agnes M. Pharo

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P. G. Wodehouse

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
- Chester Bowles

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides

Never, never, never give up.
♥ Winston Churchill

You are more of who you are becoming, than of who you've ever been.
- Aine Belton

‎"The sangha is like a beehive - each bee working for the well being of the whole beehive."

"Merry Christmas to everyone."
- Plum Village, 2010, Thich Nhat Hanh

My basic belief is that first you need to realize the usefulness of compassion, that's the key factor. Once you accept the fact that compassion is not something childish or sentimental, once you realize that compassion is something really worthwhile and realize its deeper value, then you immediately develop an attraction towards it, a willingness to cultivate it.

I think that cultivating positive mental states like kindness and compassion definitely leads to better psychological health and happiness.

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

Compassion creates a positive, friendly atmosphere.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
~ Dalai Lama

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. — Johann von Schiller

I think that cultivating positive mental states like kindness and compassion definitely leads to better psychological health and happiness.
- Dalai Lama

We are grateful for the miracle of consciousness that we share, that gives us the power to remember, to love, to care.
- Gillis ♡☺

It is clear that feelings of love, affection, closeness and compassion bring happiness.
- Dalai Lama

Many people like to think that they'll find balance AFTER they find success. But in reality, achieving balance IS success.
♥ Brian Koslow

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~ Eden Phillpotts เน‘♡

Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ)

I danced in the morning
When the world was begun,
And I danced in the moon
And the stars and the sun,
And I came down from heaven
And I danced on the earth,
At Bethlehem
I had my birth.
Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be,
And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he.
~ Sydney Carter ~

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
~ "A Visit from St. Nicholas"

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~ John Muir

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. ~ Francis Pharcellus Church in "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. ~ John Muir (Date of death)

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. ~ Norman Vincent Peale (Date of death)

Calm soul of all things! make it mine
To feel, amid the city’s jar,
That there abides a peace of thine,
Man did not make, and cannot mar.
~ Matthew Arnold ~ (born December 24, 1822)

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Making a mistake and then judging ourselves harshly is like paying compound interest on a bad investment. ♥ Doc Childre

I strive for peace that is not affected by outside circumstances. Quite a challenge, that is definitely worth the work. If I am not peaceful, I must remember that I am responsible for that experience, and that I am the only one who can change it. Prayer, meditation, breath, service..... these are things that help ground me and bring me back to the center... bring me back to peace. - Joanne Edmonds Kiel


Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
♥ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced.
♥ Alan Watts

‎" If you don't go after what you want...you'll never have it.
If you don't ask...the answer is always no.
If you don't step forward you're always in the same place. "
~ Nora Roberts

‎"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light."
~ Albert Schweitzer

The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you.
~ Abraham Hick

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” - Peace Pilgrim

One simple change - seeking and finding peace within - could, were it undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict, prevent injustice, and bring the world everlasting peace. World peace is a personal thing. What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness. - Neale Donald Walsch

"I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves." - Louise L. Hay

" If we truly desire to make changes in our lives and our world, we must first make those changes within ourselves, in our beliefs." - Stephen Edwards

“Peace of mind happens to a man only after he has developed deep insight, only after he starts seeing the things in the right perspective. ~ Sam Veda

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. - Samuel Butler

The good man is the friend of all living things. - Mahatma Gandhi

Asking good questions is half of learning. - Muhammad (Essential Sufism)

Live to give everything away So nothing keeps us apart Love brings you here; Light-atom pulsing Always, at the Sun's Heart. - Rumi

"Whatever pearl you seek,
look for the pearl within the pearl!
The surface of the earth says,
"The treasure is within."
The glowing jewel says,
"Don't be fooled by my beauty
the light of my face
comes from the candle of my spirit."
What else can I say?
You will only hear
what you are ready to hear.
Don't nod your head,
Don't try to fool me
the truth of what you see
is written all over your face!
- Rumi♥

No need to inquire if your Heart's not on Fire. But down in the unlit places, the poor didn't even raise their eyes. So Messengers were sent in every direction with invitations numberless as Stars. - Rumi ♥

“Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.”
~ Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama ~

☮Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
~ A.J. Muste

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~ Richard Bach ♥

I believe a proper use of our time is to serve others if we can or at least refrain from harming them. That is the basis of my philosophy.

Every day, when you get up, you can develop a sincere positive motivation: I will utilize this day in a more positive way.
- Dalai Lama

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. ~ Plato ♡☺

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would. This rule does not hold true for bad things: when an evil has been exaggerated, its reality makes people applaud. What was feared as ruinous comes to seem tolerable.

Complaints will always discredit you. Rather than compassion and consolation, they provoke passion and insolence, and encourage those who hear our complaints to behave like those we complain about. Once divulged to others, the offenses done to us seem to make others pardonable. Some complain of past offenses and give rise to future ones.

Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

Because the ignorant do not know themselves, they never know for what they are lacking. Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do.

Don't live by generalities, unless it be to act virtuously, and don't ask desire to follow precise laws, for you will have to drink tomorrow from the water you scorn today.

Virtue alone is for real; all else is sham. Talent and greatness depend on virtue, not on fortune. Only virtue is sufficient unto herself. She makes us love the living and remember the dead.
- Baltasar Gracian

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Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
- Buddha

Develop interest in life as you see;in people,things,literature,music,The world is so rich,simply throbbing with rich treasures,beautiful souls and interesting people,Forget yourself...
- Henry Miller

People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

I believe that our underlying or fundamental nature is gentleness, and intelligence is a later development.

Achieving genuine happiness may require bringing about a transformation in your outlook and way of thinking.

For mental peace, one of the most important factors is compassion and affection, a sense of caring.

At one level, all major religious traditions have the same aim – to transform the individual into a positive being.
- Dalai Lama

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
~ Oscar Wilde

Just because you make a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.
♥ Georgette Mosbacher

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."
- Jim Jarmusch

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Loyd Wright

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
~ Ivan Panin ♡

“What the world needs is not dogma, but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.”
- Bertrand Russell

☮Peace is the respect for the rights of others. (El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz ). -- Benito Juarez (1806-1872)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
— Henry Ward Beecher

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I look at people from a positive angle, seeking positive aspects. This immediately creates a feeling of affinity, a kind of connectedness.
- Dalai Lama

"'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!"
- William Wordsworth

An enormous amount of energy becomes available once we give up the need to be right.

Genuine love and peace come from loving & being peaceful not from a sense of duty guilt or morality
- Deepak Chopra

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
– Albert Schweitzer

"As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupรฉry

Wisdom is knowing what to overlook, what to ignore, and what to pay close attention to
~ Rick Warren

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
- Latin Proverb

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
♥ Akeem Olajuwon

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
~ Victor Hugo

The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.
~ Joel Osteen ✔

"Step up the stairs or stare at the steps"
~ Ralph Nichol

“Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.”
- Andrew Lang

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller

Sometimes it’s what you don’t say that counts.

If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.
~ Paulo Coelho

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
~ Joseph Brackett ~

Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way . . . out of that a new holiday was born . . . a Festivus for the rest of us! ~ Jerry Stiller as "Frank Costanza" in Seinfeld (Festivus holiday)

The final frontier is perhaps the most difficult, but it's also the most important — and that's the frontier of the human spirit. For too long, people have allowed differences on the surface — differences of color, ethnicity, and gender — to tear apart the common bonds they share. And the human spirit suffers as a result.
Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations. ~ Wesley Clark

I think we should be very clear on this... this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It was the idea that people could talk, reason, have dialogue, discuss the issues. It wasn't founded on the idea that someone would get struck by a divine inspiration and know everything right from wrong. I mean, people who founded this country had religion, they had strong beliefs, but they believed in reason, in dialogue, in civil discourse. We can’t lose that in this country. We've got to get it back. ~ Wesley Clark (born 23 December 1944)

Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again. ~ Wesley Clark

"Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless. ~ Samuel Smiles

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ~ Samuel Smiles

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Good fortune attend each merry man's friend
That doth but the best that he may,
Forgetting old wrongs with carols and songs
To drive the cold winter away.
~ "All Hail to The Days" (or "The Praise of Christmas") ~
Traditional 17th century English carol

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ~ George Eliot (died 22 December 1880)

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. ~ Kenneth Rexroth

The holiness of the real
Is always there, accessible
In total immanence. The nodes
Of transcendence coagulate
In you, the experiencer,
And in the other, the lover.
~ Kenneth Rexroth ~

While you live ... you have a duty to life. ... The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ... Otherwise they fade away. ~ Charles de Lint

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. ~ Charles de Lint

God is not, as in scholasticism, the final subject of all predicates. He is being as unpredicable. The existence of the creature, in so far as it exists, is the existence of God, and the creature’s experience of God is therefore in the final analysis equally unpredicable. Neither can even be described; both can only be indicated. We can only point at reality, our own or God’s. The soul comes to the realization of God by knowledge, not as in the older Christian mysticism by love. Love is the garment of knowledge. The soul first trains itself by systematic unknowing until at last it confronts the only reality, the only knowledge, God manifest in itself. The soul can say nothing about this experience in the sense of defining it. It can only reveal it to others. ~ Kenneth Rexroth

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All art is but imitation of nature
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

""We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit""
- Aristotle

My eyes sing with excitement.. they see your Divine Worth!
~ Hafiz

The Bird That Is Your Soul

When His light shines — without a veil — neither the sky remains nor the earth, not the sun, nor the moon.

God embraces all…there is nothing that is not a part of him already.

Remember God! His remembrance is the strength in the wings of the bird that is your soul.

The souls of all friends of God are connected with one another.

You must seek anything that you wish to find.
Not so with the Friend…
You begin to seek after you find Him.
~ Mevlana Rumi

Translation by Fatemeh Keshavarz

Carl Sagan:

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the Cosmic Ocean ...

We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself ....

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. ... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.

For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.

We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads. But to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact. The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after.

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation of a distant memory, as if we were falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.- Carl Sagan


Bliss is not added to your nature,
it is merely revealed as your true natural state,
eternal and imperishable.
~Ramana Maharishi

"I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves."
- Louise L. Hay

Sometimes life is all about perspective... I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.
- Christopher Reeve

‎"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
- Kahlil Gibran

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense
- Frank Lloyd Wright

“The difference between the impossible & the possible lies in a person's determination”
~ Tommy Lasorda

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
~ Turkish Proverb

"A universal approach to World problems is the only sound basis for peace"
~ Dalai Lama

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do
- Bill Watterson

"Success requires no explanation; failures must be doctored with alibis."
~ Napoleon Hill

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
- Kahlil Gibran

"In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught."
~ Hunter S Thompson

The Amen of nature is always a flower.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
~ Roy Goodman

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
~ L. Buscaglia ♥

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
- Bill Watterson

START bandwagoning among GOP shows that first best is stopping Obama, but second best isn't always voting no.
- Ezra Klein

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
~ Chinese Proverb

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
~ Jonathan Swift

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Man is not made for defeat.
~ Ernest Hemingway

Never complain and never explain.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

To do is to be - Nietzsche. To be is to do - Kant. Do be do be do - Sinatra

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
~ Mary Webb

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
~ Henry Morton Stanley

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
~ David Gerrold

The years teach much which the days never knew.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
~ Doris Mortman

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
~ Roy Lichtenstein

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
~ John Muir

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
- Abba Eban

"People who do not experience self love have little or no capacity to love others."
- Nathaniel Branden

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein

A place for everything, everything in its place.
~ Benjamin Franklin

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.
~ Henry Beston

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
~ John Ruskin

"If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through." Chinese Proverb

"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
- Thoreau

"The more you are willing to accept responsibiltiy for your actions, the more credibility you will have."
- Brian Koslow

"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit."
- Napolean Hill

"Compassion is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace, mental stability and for human survival."
- Dalai Lama

"The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice we give to other people."
- Proverb

"When it's obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
- Confucius

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
~ Dr. Maya Angelou

Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles…. it empties TODAY of its strength.
~ Corrie Ten Boom ✔

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
♥ Bernard Meltzerabout

"Nothing compares -- in anything I have ever done -- with passing the health care bill."
- Nancy Pelosi

"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
- William M. Thackeray

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
~ Aristotle Onassis

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.
~ William Hazlitt

All things are born in an explosion of LOVE. Life is whatever you imagine it to be. Dream it and you’ll create it.
~ Salerno ♥

♥ “I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.”
-Denzel Washington

No person was ever wise by chance.
~ Seneca

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
♥ George Bernard Shaw

Remedy your deficiencies and your merits will take care of themselves.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, They are in each other all along.
~ Rumi

I have fallen in love with Someone who hides inside you.
~ Hafiz ♥

My goal is God Himself Not joy, nor peace Nor even blessing But Himself, my God!
- Joyce Rogers

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving!
~ Kahlil Gibran

Who gets up early to discover the moment life begins?
~ Rumi

I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success for me!
~ Sasha Azevedo

Freedom isn't worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes.
♥ Mahatma Gandhi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
~ Rumi

Achieving genuine happiness may require bringing about a transformation in your outlook and way of thinking.
- Dalai Lama

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.
~ Rumi

If you speak it often enough, you will come to feel what you speak.
~ Abraham-Hicks

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
♥ Les Brown

Knowing thyself is the only way to experience the meaning and significance of existence.
- Osho

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan

YOU, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~ Buddha

“When you come to a fork in the road….take it” ~Yogi Berra

Everyone who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
~ Aldous Huxley

‎"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner!" - Max Lucado

When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am indeed Close to them. I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calls on Me. Islam

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. -Oprah Winfrey

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it - Jules Renard

An open heart is a sanctuary where all are welcome. ~ Paul Ferrini ♡

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
- George Bernard Shaw

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter

"When you lose, don't lose the lesson"
~ Dalai Lama

A deep silence revives the listening and the speaking of those two who meet on the riverbank
- Rumi

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is"
~ William Blake

"We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."
- Indira Gandhi

If you never did you should. These things are FUN and fun is GOOD!
~ Dr. Seuss (◕‿◕)✰

In the long dark night/ before hope of morning light/ the choice is clear/ surrender or fight/ give into darkness or let your soul ignite.
- Cory Booker

As one has planted, so does one harvest; such is the field of karma.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib

☮We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

The flood of peace flows over the boundaries of your mind and moves on in infinite directions.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

We believe that love is the most powerful force in the universe, and it is through love that the world will change.
~ Leslie Temple Thurston

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Doing Cartwheels to Celebrate the End of an Era


Doing Cartwheels to Celebrate the End of an Era

An image of the Cartwheel Galaxy taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been reprocessed using the latest techniques to mark the closure of the Space Telescope European Coordination Facility (ST-ECF), based near Munich in Germany, and to celebrate its achievements in supporting Hubble science in Europe over the past 26 years.

Astronomer Bob Fosbury, who is stepping down as Head of the ST-ECF, was responsible for much of the early research into the Cartwheel Galaxy along with the late Tim Hawarden — including giving the object its very apposite name — and so this image was selected as a fitting tribute. The object was first spotted on wide-field images from the UK Schmidt telescope and then studied in detail using the Anglo-Australian Telescope.

Lying about 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor, the cartwheel shape of this galaxy is the result of a violent galactic collision. A smaller galaxy has passed right through a large disc galaxy and produced shock waves that swept up gas and dust — much like the ripples produced when a stone is dropped into a lake — and sparked regions of intense star formation (appearing blue). The outermost ring of the galaxy, which is 1.5 times the size of our Milky Way, marks the shock wave’s leading edge. This object is one of the most dramatic examples of the small class of ring galaxies.

This image was produced after Hubble data was reprocessed using the free open source software FITS Liberator 3, which was developed at the ST-ECF. Careful use of this widely used state-of-the-art tool on the original Hubble observations of the Cartwheel Galaxy has brought out more detail in the image than ever before.

Although the ST-ECF is closing, ESA’s mission to bring amazing Hubble discoveries to the public will be unaffected, with Hubblecasts, press and photo releases, and Hubble Pictures of the Week continuing to be regularly posted on spacetelescope.org.

Read more at www.spacetelescope.org

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