"Cause I know the biggest crime is to throw up your hands / say this has nothing to do with me / I just want to live as comfortably as I can. / You got to look outside your eyes / you got to think outside your brain / you got to walk outside your life / to where the neighborhood changes / ...so why don't you give me a call / when you're willing to fight / for what you think is real / for what you think is right." Ani DiFranco, Willing to Fight.

It ain't what you dont know that gets you into trouble.  It's what y ou know for sure that just aint so. -Mark Twain

The doctor fo the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
-Thomas Edison

nice and laid back.

"It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we rememeber that makes us learned; and now what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity."
Francis Bacon, Sr.

"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. 

the secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-buddha


I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
-Leonardo da Vinci

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
-Leonardo da Vinci


People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway.
            If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. 
Be kind anyway.
            If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. 
Succeed anyway.
            If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway.
            What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. 
Create anyway.
            If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.
            The good you do today, will often be forgotten. 
Do good anyway.
         Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. 
Give your best anyway.
-Mother Teresa

Only from the heart
Can you touch the sky.
Rumi

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart
is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.”
Dalai Lama

True morality consists, not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.
Gandhi

The weak never forgive.  Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.
-Gandhi

To believe in something and not live it, is dishonest.
-Gandhi

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
~Arabian Proverb

If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, act lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way... If you want to change the world, change yourself.

- Tom Robbins

arete.

"Your vision will become clear when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens."

~Carl Jung

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. gandhi

We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. dalai lama


Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. Dalai Lama

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. let their spirit light a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...
- wilfred Peterson

the adventure of life is to learn. the goal of life is to grow. the nature of life is to change. the challenge of life is to overcome. the essence of life is to care. the secret of life is to dare. the beauty of life is to give. the joy of life is to love!
-william ward

People who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are usually the ones who do.