Posted on May 28th, 2008
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Jamie
"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills--against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A yong monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the border of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the new World, and a 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed all men are created equal. Give me a place to stands, said Archimedes, and I will move the world. These men moved the world, and so ca we all." -Robert F. Kennedy
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. Leo Buscaglia
The way you get meaning in your life is to devote yourself to others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -Mitch Albom
Believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mid at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace. -Dalai Lama
The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spirituall awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one's self. Aldous Huxley
"Genius is childhood recaptured." -Rene Dubos For this to happen we must recapture-or prevent the loss of-such childlike traits as the ability to learn, to love, to laugh about small things, to leap, to wonder, and to explore.
Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks. -T. Harv Ecker
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who, at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. Far better is it to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failur, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neithr enjoy much nor suffere much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt.
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you out to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. i say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will oepn where you didn't know they were going to be." Joseph Campbell.
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