"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful." - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama -
Mission: Dispense enthusiasm and inspiration which have the potential to turn a life around. #swamyvkn
Dec 31, 2011
Dec 28, 2011
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Dec 20, 2011
Butterfly
"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." - Trina Paulus -
Happiness
"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Dec 17, 2011
Happiness
"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness." - Augustine -
Longing
"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from." - C.S. Lewis -
Dec 15, 2011
Dec 13, 2011
Truth
"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth." - Sir Isaac Newton -
Dec 12, 2011
Overflow
"When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart." - Charles Spurgeon -
Dec 11, 2011
Love
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix -
Dec 9, 2011
Education
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost -
Dec 7, 2011
Dec 6, 2011
Dec 5, 2011
Power of hoping
"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world.
But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged." - G.K. Chesterton -
Hope
"To love means loving the unlovable.
To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." - G.K. Chesterton -
Dec 3, 2011
Dec 2, 2011
Spiritual life
"Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of spiritual life." - Simone Weil -
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