Favorite Quotes for May '06
"Try to be reasonable in the way you grow, and don't ever think it is too late. It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of enlightenment."
-- Lama Thubten Yeshe, The Bliss of Inner Fire
“The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.”
-- Benjamin E. Mays
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
-- Samuel Beckett
"The key is to not resist or rebel against emotions or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks; but to accept them directly, as they are."
-- Takahisa Kora
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
-- Katharine Graham
"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived."
-- Paul Bourget
"Although you may understand the explanations, if you are still suffering because of problems, you clearly do not understand the true nature of your mind, your body, and your senses."
-- Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "Transforming Problems Into Happiness"
"We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie."
-- C.G. Jung
Before, this mind went wandering
however it pleased,
wherever it wanted,
by whatever way that it liked.
Today I will hold it aptly in check--
as one wielding a goad, an elephant in rut.
-- Dhammapada, 23, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
"If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin."
-- Ivan Turgenev
"If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the present, for that is the past’s effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the present, for that is the cause of the future."
-- Majjhima Nikaya
"Deep down, I'm a girly girl."
-- Danica Patrick
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
-- William James