Life's A Tough Proposition, And The First Hundred Years Are The Hardest.
Life's A Tough Proposition, And The First Hundred Years Are The Hardest.
-Wilson Mizner-
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement;
But the opposite of a profound truth
May be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr-
In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole,
Where death, is the beginning of another chapter of life.
Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.
-Sogyal Rinpoche-
REBIRTH
May the cross that was carried so many years ago
Be a reminder of that which so many bear
So that we don’t have to redo all of the wrongs in life
So that God and his one son don’t still have all this strife
But may we all try today to correct and to change
The direction that we may, in our time rearrange
May we bring more love into the world that we now have
And may all our hearts pour forth like a balm, as a salve
In healing much of the pain that remains on this earth
And in our hearts and minds be ready for a rebirth
A rebirth of love and hope and joy and peace within
For everyone on earth as each of us said : "AMEN".
To handle yourself, Use your head;
To handle others, Use your heart.
Learn from the mistakes of others,
You can't live long enough
To made them yourself.
Today is the day
To celebrate moments--
To stop and feel the sunshine,
To build, your own rainbow.
Today is the day
To celebrate chances.
To make, your own adventures.
Today is the day
To live large and worry small
To celebrate joy,
To find the time to dream
And to believe in miracles
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is the experience of receiving and bearing.
-Nicolas Berdyaer-
The first key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at truth.
-Peter Abeland-
We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, "why did this happened to me?" Unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.
-Philip Bernstein-
I CREATED YOU
One day, as usually was the case, a young waif, a little girl, stood at the street corner begging for food, money or whatever she could get. Now this girl was wearing very tattered clothes, she was dirty and quite disheveled.
As it happens, a well-to-do young man passed that corner without giving the girl a second look. But when he returned to his expensive home, his happy and comfortable family, and his well-laden dinner table, his thoughts returned to the young waif and he became very angry in God for allowing such conditions to exist.
He reproached God, saying, "How can you let this happens? Why don't you do something to help this girl?"
Then he heard God in the depths of his being responded by saying,
"
I did, I created you!"- Brian Cavanaugh, T. O.R. -
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because, some days in life, you will have been all of these.
-George Washington Carven-
Things Aren't Always What They Seem
Two travelling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guest's room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it.
When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Things aren't always what they seem".
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest.
When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field. The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel, "how could you have let this happen!? The first man had everything, yet you helped him," she accused. "The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let their cow die."
"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied.
"When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer's bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I told him to take the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem."
Sometimes this is exactly what happens, when things don't turn out the way we think they should. Just trust that every outcome is always to your advantage. You might not realize it until much later.
-Author Unknown-
There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it.
-Robert L. Stevenson-
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-Carl Sandburg-
One of the greatest things you have in life
is that nobody has the authority to tell you what you want to be.
-Jaime Escalante-
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness;
Poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard-
To confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light.
-Carl Jung-
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-Albert Einstein-
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
-Frank Clark-
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
-Dennis Wholey-
One of the things I keep learning is that; the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
-Dick Gregory-
STRESS is a symptom that you are living somebody else's life, marching to a drumbeat that doesn't syncopate with your personal body rhythms, playing a role you didn't create, living a script written by an alien authority.
-Sam Keen-
One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand - to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.
-John Burroughs-
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer-
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it, is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
-William Arthur Ward-
Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
-Pope John XXIII-
A sure way for someone to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
-Boober T. Washington-
The notes I handle no better than pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
-Arthur Schnabel-
The highest part of the art of life is the expectation of miracles.
-William Prolitho-
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
-Confucius-
Here's a test to find whether your missions on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach-
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.
-Hal Holbrook-
Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious.
-Joshua Loth liebman-
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
-Ambrose Bierce-
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
-Alan Paton-
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget." Is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive."
-Henry Beecher-
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreased by being shared.
-Buddha-
To live a life without risks, is to live a life without true gain.
-Author Unknown-
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