Monthly Archives: January 2012

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace … Continue reading →

‘Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. –Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. –Willa Cather

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. –Jacob Bronowski

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. –Andre Gide

Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. –Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. –Lao Tzu

A person’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence their heart first opened. –Albert Camus

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success. –Og Mandino

I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it. –Jim Dale

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. –Alfred North Whitehead

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own. –Henry Ford

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. –Robert Morgan

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.–Fulton J. Sheen

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. –Viktor E. Frankl

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.–Rene Descartes

Leap, and the net will appear. – Julie Cameron

Courage is knowing what not to fear. – Plato