Posvetilo
V šoli bomo učencem, ki so 8 let brali za bralno značko, podarili knjižne nagrade. V njih naj bo posvetilo, ampak sedaj se spomnim le tistega klasičnega…
Npr. Maji Novak,
za osem let
zvestobe dobri knjigi.
Malo obrabljeno in nič kaj izvirno. Zato me zanima, če imate mogoče vi kakšno idejo? Hvala vnaprej, če vam bo kaj padlo na pamet
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LP NINA
Un seul printemps dans l’anee.. et dans la vie seul jaunesse..
(Ena pomlad na leto, v življenju pa le ena mladost.)
Simon de Beavoir
Spomini dekleta iz dobre družine
Objemi življenje in ničesar ne pričakuj.
Str. 438 Evald Flisar, Čarovnikov vajenec, Pomurska založba 1988
Miljon ljudi se dolgočasi na deževen dan, miljoni si želijo živeti večno.
Delo
Pot je odmevala od poletja; kamor si pogledal, je bilo zelenje. Škrjanci so se oglašali s polj, v jarkih in ob plotovih je bilo polno bazilike.
Anne Stallworth. (1984). Čez leto in dan. Ljubljana : MK. Str. 99.
Če so ljudje v svojem poklicu izjemno uspešni, izgubijo čute. Vid izgine. Nimajo časa gledati slik. Zvok izgine. Nimajo časa poslušati glasbe. Govor izgine. Nimajo časa za pogovor. Izgubijo občutek za sorazmerje – za odnose med različnimi stvarmi. Človečnost izgine.
Virginia Woolf.
Vrata srca imajo kljuko samo na notranji strani.
Ko začnejo pihato močni vetrovi
večina ljudi zbeži in si prične graditi zavetje.
Modri ljudje pa ostanejo
in si gradijo mline na veter.
Vzemi si čas za delo, saj to predstavlja ceno uspeha.
Vzemi si čas za razmišljanje, saj to predstavlja izvor moči.
Vzemi si čas za igro, saj to predstavlja skrivnost mladosti.
Vzemi si čas za branje, saj je to temelj znanja.
Vzemi si čas za prijaznost, saj le-ta predstavlja vrata do sreče.
Vzemi si čas za sanjarjenje, kajti to je pot do zvezd.
Vzemi si čas za ljubezen, saj ta predstavlja pravo življenjsko radost.
Vzemi si čas za veselje, kajti le-to predstavlja glasbo duše.
Irski vir
Potrpi z vsem, kar v tebi še ni rešeno…
Poskusi ljubiti vprašanja sama…
Ne išči zdaj odgovorov, ki jih ni moč dati,
ker bi jih ne zmogel živeti.
Živi vprašanja sedaj.
Morda boš potem zlagoma,
ne da bi opazil,
nekega daljnega dne
zaživel odgovore.
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Raje prenašam svoje lastne zmote kot pa pravilnosti koga drugega.”
Str. 88, reče Alvina v Izgubljenki D. H. Lawrence
“Če obrnemo kovanec, zaradi tega še nismo zanikali ali izdali prve strani. Le prilagodimo ga, kakor pač nanese. “
Str. 40, Izgubljenka D. H. Lawrence
Srce je bogastvo, ki se ne prodaja in ne kupuje, marveč daruje.
Flaubert
Če si želiš prijateljstva – bodi priajtelj.
Ruski
V tvoji je lahko naenkrat le ena misel. Če se ti zdi dobra, jo zapiši.
H. J. Brown
Vsako stvar pusti malo boljšo, kot je bila takrat, ko si jo našel.
H. J. Brown
Vsi otroci želijo postati dobri ljudje, taki se rodijo.
M. Novak
Vase glej, v sebi imaš moč in vir dobrega, ta ti bo neprestano žuborel, če boš neprestano kopal.
M. Avrelij
Kahlil Gibran je nekoc dejal: “Kemik, ki bi znal iz svojega srca izločiti sočutje, spoštovanje, hrepenenje, potrpežljivost, obžalovanje, presenečenje in odpuščanje ter jih združiti v eno, bi lahko ustvaril atom, ki se imenuje ljubezen.”
“Bistvenega pomena je, da si ustvarite življenje na podlagi svojih pričakovanj, ne pa pričakovanj drugih.”
Jay Rifenbary
“Odpuščanje je koncna oblika ljubezni.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
Resnični umetniki življenja so tisti, ki so srečni že, če niso nesrečni.
Will Smith
V življenju je vse minljivo. Večno mlada je le naša domišljija.
Freddy Mercury
Ljubeča ženska je sužnja, ki svojemu gospodarju nadene verige.
Sharon Stone
Boljša je družba zanesljivega sovražnika, kot pa družba nezanesljivega prijatelja.
Anthony Hopkins
Ženske ponavadi ne vedo kaj hočejo. So pa trdno odločene, da to dobijo.
Peter Ustinov
Narod lahko ocenimo po tem, kako dela s svojimi živalmi.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mladim se zdi življenje kot neskončna prihodnost, starejšim pa kot kratka preteklost.
Jean-Claude van Damme
Dolce farniente – sladko brezdelje
Vedno imamo dve možnost, dve poti, po katerih lahko gremo. Ena je lahka. To je njena edina nagrada (neznan avtor)
Light a candle
Listen to the wind
Draw a picture
Eat some chocolate
Read a book
Look at the moon
Smile at yourself.
Iz Interneta, Bluemountain.com – pesmi
I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house full of rooms.
Edith Wharton
In order to make ecological good sense for the planet, you must make ecological good sense locally. You can’t act locally by thinking globally.
– Wendell Berry
Put Your Heart Into It
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”
– Thomas Watson, Sr. (1874-1956), founder, IBM
Cited in Bits and Pieces
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
-Mark Twain
Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.
Cited in Bits and Pieces
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”
– Richard Moss, writer
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
-Muhammad Ali
Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.
– Alison Boulter
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
-Steven Wright
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
-George Eliot
Gandhi
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection.
-Mario Vargas Llosa
“Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.” — Mary Bly
Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.
– R. E. Shay
“Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with.”
–Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City)
Nothing is accomplished before it is thoroughly attempted.
“Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of big things.”
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, French writer and moralist
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
– Benjamin Franklin
Every man has his follies, and often they are the most interesting things he has got.
– Josh Billings
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
– Benjamin Franklin
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
– Carl Jung
Don’t ever slam the door; you might want to go back.
– Don Herold
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” (Confucius).
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Carrie Fisher
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
– Bill Bradley
“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds.”
Louis Nizer, My Life In Court, 1962
See your fear before you, walk toward it, allow it to pass through you, and then it will fade behind you.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
– Arthur Ashe
A hungry man is not a free man.
– Adlai Stevenson
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
– W. Somerset Maugham
Every man has his follies, and often they are the most interesting things he has got.
– Josh Billings
I can’t understand why people are afraid of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
– John Cage
You think that you’ve reached your limit, but a hero is one who hangs on one minute longer.
If you do not believe in yourself, chances are nobody else will.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
– Mark Twain
As one thing ends, something new will begin.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
– Hector Berlioz
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
– Galileo Galilei
Freedom begins between the ears.
-Edward Abbey
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
– C. Morley
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
– Tom Clancy
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The truth is more important than the facts.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
– Theodore Roosevelt
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The truth is more important than the facts.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
– Tom Clancy
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
– Oscar Wilde
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Alva Edison
Whenever your day lacks joy, help someone else and this will bring you joy.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
– Warren Buffet
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always
just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down
quietly, may alight upon you.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”
– Katharine Hepburn
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
– Erica Jong
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
– Abraham Lincoln
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
– Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
–Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
– Sir Winston Churchill
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
– Mark Twain
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
– Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Allan K. Chalmers
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
– Barbra Streisand
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
– William Shakespeare
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contemp.
– Berthold Auerbach (German novelist)
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
– Meryl Streep
If you must love your neighbpr as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
– Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (French playwright)
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
– Paul Tillich (theologian and philosopher)
It’s okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
– Billy Joel
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
– Lucille Ball
No one can make you fell inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
– Abraham Lincoln
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
– Anna Freud, child psychoanalyst
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.
– Charles Dickens
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from other.
– Jennifer Louden (author)
It is the loving, not the loved woman, who feels lovable.
– Jessamyn West (poet and novelist)
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
– Catherine de Hueck Doherty (writer)
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in teh end.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom of someone else.
– Arnold Bennett (playwright)
The final word is love.
– Dorothy Day (activist and humanitarian)
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox (poet)
“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always
just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down
quietly, may alight upon you.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Today it is most important to live according to your beliefs.
Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.
A wise man knows everything, but a shrewd man knows everybody.
Saying a kind word to a stranger will bring you good karma.
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.
– Dave Barry
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
– Saint-Exupery
Any time of day is a good time for pie.
– Fabienne, Pulp Fiction
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
– James Bryant Conant, educator
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
– John Lancaster Spalding, 19th-century Catholic bishop
The only difference between a rut and a grave… is in their dimensions.
– Ellen Glasgow, novelist
To play it safe is not to play.
– Robert Altman, film director
Security is a kind of death.
– Tennessee Williams
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
– Mignon McLaughlin, writer and humorist
If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
– Julia Sorel, writer
If I had my life to live over…I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.
– Nadine Stair, poet
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is wiling to do and dare.
– Dale Carnegie, lecturer and author
Take risks: If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
– Anonymous
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman playwright
I don’t thnik about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
– Lillian Carter, mother of former president Jimmy Carter
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
– Raymond Lindquist, writer
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
– Maya Angelou
Life is a risk.
– Diane Von Furstenberg, designer
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
– Vince Lombardi
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one sees the stars.
– Frederick Langbridge
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-Joan Borysenko
Love truth, but pardon error.
– Voltaire
Follow the links in the chain that binds you until you discover how to free yourself.
You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis, comedian
Just trust yourself then you will know how to live.
Goethe, Faust
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Rose Kennedy
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t.
Melody Beatti, writer and counselor
It’s not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elswhere.
Agnes Repplier, writer and historian
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, writer
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotel
Learn how to feel joy.
Seneca, Roman philosopher and poet
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson, writer
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
All I can say abput life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart, comedian
Hold a book in your hand and you’re a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
Hebrew saying
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who’ll never find out.
Frank A. Clark
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
– Jennifer Unlimited
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
– Ian Fleming
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
– Oscar Wilde
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”
Theodore Roethke
Day full-blown and splendid – day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
– Walt Whitman, ‘A Song of the Rolling Earth’
“Joy is not in things, it is in us.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.”
-The Dalai Lama
“It’s never too late — in fiction or in life — to revise.”
-Nancy Thayer
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.”
-The Dalai Lama
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
-Reinhold Niebuhr (The Serenity Prayer)
“The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.”
-Maya Angelou
“It’s not having been in the dark house, but having left it, that counts.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”
-Gail Sheehy
“Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.”
-Turkish proverb
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
-Pablo Picasso
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
-Carol Burnett
“If you think you’re too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.”
-Bette Reese
“We must become the change we want to see.”
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-George Eliot
“The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive. ‘Tell me whom you love,’ Houssaye wrote, ‘And I will tell you who you are.'”
-Anonymous
“There may be a great fire in our heart, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
-Vincent van Gogh
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
-Jane Austen
“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.”
-Albert Schweitzer
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
-Jeanne Moreau
“I’m not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
-William Allen White
“We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love.”
-Mother Teresa
“May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.”
-L.O. Baird
“Our task is to sell the world on love.”
-M. Scott Peck, M.D.
“I’m so glad you are here. It helps me to realize how beautiful my world is.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
“The foundation of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.”
-Francis Quarles
“Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.”
-Smiley Blanton
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
-Plautus
“From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.”
-Mother Teresa
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I have discovered that patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
-Joyce Meyer
“Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”
-William Hazlitt
“Happiness depends on ourselves.”
-Aristotle
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?”
-Jane Austen
“People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.”
-Ramona L. Anderson
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
“A happy person is not a person in certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
-Hugh Downs
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.”
-Joseph Addison
“Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.”
-Andre Gidé
“Sharing laughter is a way of casting delight to the wind so it blows everywhere and to everyone.”
-Paul Pearsall
“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
-J.D. Salinger
“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”
-W. Somerset Maugham
“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.”
-Harold B. Melchart
“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”
-Daniel L. Reardon
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
-African proverb
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Whatever you can do, or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
-Zelda Fitzgerald
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.”
-Cynthia Heimel
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
-Marcus Aurelius
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Joy is not in things, it is in us.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
-Jean Houston
“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”
-Linus Pauling
“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
-Helen Keller
“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
-Rita Mae Brown
What you focus your attention on in life grows stronger.
Harold Bloomfield, M.D.
The wildest place on Earth is in the human heart.
John Hanson Mitchell, The Wildest Place on Earth
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
-D.H. Lawrence
“Whatever you can do, or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Never think you’re not good enough. A person should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.”
–Anthony Trollope
Let me listen to me and not to them.”
–Gertrude Stein
“It is better to aim at something and miss, than to aim at nothing at all and hit it.”
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
– Groucho Marx
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
—Franz Kafka
“With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.”
— Jim Loehr
“Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.” —Gary Zukav >From Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
– Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
– Abraham Maslow
“As you give, so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgement, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life. If you radiate love and compassion, you do receive it.” —Gary Zukav >From Thoughts from The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
—Oscar Wilde
“A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” —Tenneva Jordan
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
–Confucius
I accept the universe!
Margaret Fuller, journalist and poet
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo, Japanese art critic
You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shen the old – whatever ‘the old’ means to you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, author
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Mary Sarton, writer and poet
Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell, actress
I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.
Colette, French writer
Learning to live with what you’re born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
Diane Wakoski, poet
When I’m trusting and being myself…everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
Shakti Gawain, therapist
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
Belva Plain, novelist
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chang-Tzu, Chinese Taoist writer
The world is so full of a number of things.
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
– Robert Lewis Stevenson, “A Child’s Garden of Verses”
Earth laughs in flowers.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
– Aesop
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
– Lily Tomlin
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
– Arnold Toynbee
“Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
— Japanese proverb
And the end of all our searching shall be to return to the place where we started and know it for the first time.
– T.S. Eliot
“I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success.” -Gloria Vanderbilt
“Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t much matter what you do in particular, so much as you live while you are doing it.”
-Henry James
Whatever you can do, or believe you can do, begin it!
– Goethe
Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.
Oprah
“Without an awareness of our feelings, we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?” — Gary Zukav
>From Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul, by Gary Zukav (Simon and Schuster)
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought
– Henri Bergson
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I’ll not look for wine.
– Ben Johnson
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
– Lin Yutang
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends – it gives a lovely light.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, ‘First Fig’
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
– Dylan Thomas
Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give I give myself.
– Walt Whitman
“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” – Elizabeth Kenny
Everyone has the power for greatness – not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
Dr. Martin Luther King
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has a purpose.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
– William Jennings Bryan, politician
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
– Vidal Sassoon, hairstylist
Success is relative. It is what we can make of mess we have made of things.
– T. S. Eliot
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
– Collin L. Powell, secretary of state
Failure teaches success.
– Japanese saying
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
– Vauvenargues, French writer
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
– Booker T. Washington, educator
He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
– Bessie A. Stanley, author
Intimacy is a difficult art.
– Virginia Woolf
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
– Carolyn Hellbrun, author and educator
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.
– Erich Fromm, sociologist and psychoanalyst
In love, one and one are one.
– Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and novelist
Love cannot survive it you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.
– Mary O’Hara, author
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.” — Bette Davis
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.” — Virginia Woolf
“Connection with those things that fuel your passions, that feed your soul, keep you alive.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
— Agnes Repplier
Call it a call, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
– Jane Howard, writer
The particular human chain we’re part of is central to our individual identity.
– Elizabeth Stone, writer
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
– J. S. Bryan
The family is the country of the heart.
– Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian nationalist leader
“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.”
— Oprah
“He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.” — Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher
Once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
– Arthur Miller
Need the “strength of ten” to achieve a goal? Don’t be too proud to enlist help through prayer, meditation, and supportive family and friends.
Oprah magazine
Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive,
The blessing lies.
– John Townesend Trowbridge, author and poet
Strong is what we make each other.
– Marge Piercy, author and poet
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
– Paul Tournier, Swiss psychiatrist and author
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
– Mohandas K. Gandhi
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
– Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
– John F. Kennedy
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
– Bob Dylan
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
– Oscar Arias Sánchez, 1987 Nobel Prize recipient
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom…
– Bell Hooks, author, feminist, and human rights advocate
The way to final freedom is within thy self.
– The Book of the Golden Precepts (ancient Buddhist writings)
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
– Han Suyin, Chinese physician and writer
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
– Simone de Beauvoir, author and feminist
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
– Virginia Woolf
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
– Elizabeth Goudge, writer
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
– Henry Miller, author
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
– Albert Einstein
Getting there isn’t half the fun – it’s all the fun.
– Robert Townsend, Avis Rent a Car
The Most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.
– Sébastien-Roch Chamfort, French playwright
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversations.
– Plato
If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, than invent a new one.
– Anthony J. D’Angelo, author
To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun?
– Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post
The body says what word cannot.
– Martha Graham, choreographer
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
—Oprah Winfrey
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”
— Langston Hughes
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
— William Butler Yeats
“Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within.”
— Mary Lou Cook
>From Simple Abundance, by Sarah Ban Breathnach
“In order to hear your calling and answer it, you must generously give yourself the gift of time. It’s not how fast you make your dream come true, but how steadily you pursue it.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”
— Anne Lamott
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
— don Miguel Ruiz
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
— Sallust, Roman historian
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.”
— Bette Davis
“One must desire something, to be alive…”
— Margaret Deland
“Dreams are illustrations…from the book your soul is writing about you.”
— Marsha Norman
“Only dreams give birth to change.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
The wisest men follow their own direction.
– Euripides, Greek playwright
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just… to realize them.
– Man Ray, artist
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
– Winifred Holtby, English writer
Peace-that was the other name for home.
– Kathleen Norris, novelist
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
– J.C. Hare and A.W.Hare, British clerics and writers
What an interesting life I had. And how I wish I had realized it sooner!
– Colette, French writer
Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.
– Tao Te Ching
To prolong life, worry less.
– Chinese proverb
As I see it, every day you do one or two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
– Adelle Davis, author
Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
– Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian saint
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
– Saint Exupery, “The Little Prince”
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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. And it is only by this meeting, that a new world is born.”
— Anais Nin
>From Simple Abundance, by Sarah Ban Breathnach (Warner Books)
“If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothin’.”
–Billie Holiday
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King
“How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.”
-William Rotsler
“Every true friend is a glimpse of God.”
-Lucy Larcom
“Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.”
-Woodrow Wilson
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
-Plautus
My friends are my estate.
– Emily Dickinson
Faith chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
– Jacques Delille, French poet
A friend is a second self.
– Aristotle
My friend is one…who takes me for what I am.
– Henry David Thoreau
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
– Nancy Spain, writer
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
– Nigerian proverb
She is a friend of mind… The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
– Toni Morrison, writer
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence, A time to let go… And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
– Gloria Naylor, novelist
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
– Eleanor Rooselvelt
Friends are born, not made.
– Henry Adams, historian and author