October 2006 Quotes

Favorite Quotes for October 2006

"We also often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally." 

 -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"We are what we believe we are."

-- Benjamin N. Cardozo

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere."

-- Frank A. Clark

"Embrace fully your capacity to create, to think in unlimited ways, and to pursue everything that you have been wanting. Be flexible, open and willing to let the new come to you. "This can be the most joyous, prosperous, and creative time of your life."

-- Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."

-- Mary Catherine Bateson

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings."

-- Hodding Cartern

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

-- Freya Stark

"One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love."

-- Sophocles

 "You cannot fake a relationship and feel right with yourself or anyone else. Changing yourself to fit what you think other people want doesn’t work. Pretending to be someone other than yourself only broadens the distance between the person you are and the one with whom you’re trying to establish closeness."

-- Mary Manin Morrissey

"We must let ourselves feel all the painful destruction we want to forgive rather than swallow it in denial. If we do not face it, we cannot choose to forgive it."