Favorite Quotes for August '06
"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more."
-- Louis L'Amour
"Sakka asked the Buddha: "Do different religious teachers head for the same goal or practice the same disciplines or aspire to the same thing?
No, Sakka, they do not. And why? This world is made up of myriad different states of being, and people adhere to one or another of these states and become tenaciously possessive of them, saying, 'This alone is true, everything else is false.' It is like a territory that they believe is theirs. So all religious teachers do not teach the same goal or the same discipline, nor do they aspire to the same thing.
But if you find truth in any religion or philosophy, then accept that truth without prejudice."
-- Digha Nikaya
"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."
-- Jack Lemmon
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
-- Lao-Tzu
"...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it..'"
-- Greg Anderson
"Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less."
-- Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate"
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
-- Victoria Holt
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
-- Steve Jobs
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
-- Andy Warhol
“Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.”
-- Andrew Schneider
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
--Anna Quindlen