June 2006 Quotes

Favorite Quotes for June 2006

"Fulfillment of desire is an illusion; desire leads to more desire, not satisfaction."

-- Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate"

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."

-- John Foster Dulles

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

-- Beverly Sills

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."

-- Isak Denison (Karen Blixen)

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

-- Fr. Alfred D’Souza

"I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we’re not supposed to know; we’re supposed to trust ourselves to discover it."

-- Melody Beattie

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

-- Henry Miller

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."

-- Orison Swett Marden

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is akind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

-- Albert Einstein

"Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?"

-- Confucius

"Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us."

-- Ayya Khema, "When the Iron Eagle Flies"

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."

-- Helen Keller

"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do."

-- Kathleen Winsor

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."

-- Lee Iacocca