Dec 31, 2011

Happy

"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful."  - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama -

Dec 28, 2011

Wait

"If you don't like the weather, just wait a minute."  - an old saying -

Dec 22, 2011

Life

"The unexamined life is not worth living."  - Socrates -

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 -

Sow

"It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn."  - Adrian Rogers -

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

Live

"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"  - T S Eliot -

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 -

Punishment

"When God wants to punish you, he gives you what you ask for!"  - an old saying - 

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

Life

"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful."  - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama -

Dec 6, 2011

Play

"Play is the highest form of research."  - Albert Einstein -

Tomorrow

"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow."  - John Dewy -

Freedom

"The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience."  - Leo Tolstoy -

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

Haste

"Make haste slowly"  - Benjamin Franklin -

Regret

"Things without all remedy should be without regard; what's done is done."  - Lady Macbeth -

Dec 2, 2011

Spiritual life

"Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of spiritual life."  - Simone Weil -