Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Inspiration...


Current mood: indescribable

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
-Thich Nhat Hahn

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
-Stephen Vincent Benét

"People only see what they are prepared to see."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"While it is true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives."
-Unknown

"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way."
-Unknown

"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
-St. Francis of Assisi

"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
-St. Francis of Assisi

"For it is in giving that we receive."
-St. Francis of Assisi


"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"
-John Lennon

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
-John Lennon

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
-John Lennon

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
John Lennon

"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see"
-John Lennon

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
-John Lennon

"It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
-John Lennon

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-Ghandi

God has no religion
-Ghandi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
-Ghandi

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
-Abraham Lincoln

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward
-Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right
-Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln

"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die
-Abraham Lincoln

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-Buddha

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
-Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves"
-Buddha

However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
-Buddha

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
-Yeshua

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
-Yeshua

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.
-Yeshua

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."
-Yeshua

Currently listening:
Anthology
By John Lennon
Release date: 03 November, 1998

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