Tuesday, December 1, 2009

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."


Saturday, November 14, 2009

"Kindness
in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness. Kindness in giving
creates love."


- Lao-Tzu

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

"If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him ... he will be surrounded by grandeur."


-Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, May 20, 2009


The mind

is everything.

What you think

you become.


-Gautama Buddha

Thursday, May 14, 2009

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."


-Albert Einstein

Saturday, May 9, 2009

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."


-Aristotle

Tuesday, May 5, 2009


"Poetry should be 
great and unobtrusive, 
a thing which enters into 
one's soul, 
and does not 
startle or amaze with itself, 
but with its subject."



-John Keats

Thursday, April 30, 2009

"Here it is standing...
atoms with consciousness
...matter with curiosity.

Stands at the sea...
wonders at wondering... I...
a universe of atoms...
an atom in the universe."



-Richard Feynman

Tuesday, April 28, 2009



"I am much 
less interested in what is called 
God's word 
than in
God's deeds. 
All bibles 
are man-made."


-Thomas Edison

Monday, April 27, 2009

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."


-Stephen Hawking

Sunday, April 26, 2009

"The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization."


-Alexander Graham Bell

Friday, April 24, 2009

"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than him"


-Chinese proverb

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

"Doubt is the origin of wisdom."


-René Descartes

Sunday, April 19, 2009




"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."




-Buddhist proverb

Friday, April 17, 2009

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."


-Jonas Salk

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

"In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."


-Galileo Galilei

Sunday, April 12, 2009

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."


-Henry David Thoreau

Friday, April 10, 2009

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."


-Socrates

Thursday, April 9, 2009

"Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish."


-Confucius

Wednesday, April 8, 2009



"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."



-Mahatma Gandhi

Tuesday, April 7, 2009


"I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others...Practice brings the clear realisation of the oneness of all human beings and the importance of others benefiting by your actions."


-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Monday, April 6, 2009




"A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."



-William Shakespeare

Sunday, April 5, 2009

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."


-Alexander Graham Bell

Friday, April 3, 2009

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."


-John Quincy Adams

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."


-Albert Einstein

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it."

-John Keats

Sunday, March 29, 2009



"Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden."


-Voltaire


Saturday, March 28, 2009

"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there."


-Richard Feynman,
The Character of Physical Law (1965)

Friday, March 27, 2009

"Two roads diverged 
in a wood,
 and I —
I took the one 
less traveled by,
And that 
has made 
all the difference."


-Robert Frost

Wednesday, March 25, 2009


"Nature is 
often hidden; 
sometimes overcome; 
seldom 
extinguished."


-Francis Bacon

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

"Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."


-Mahatma Gandhi

Sunday, March 22, 2009

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

-Hafez

Friday, March 20, 2009

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

-Rumi 
(As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work by Linda J. Ferguson)


Tuesday, March 17, 2009

"My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation."


-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Monday, March 16, 2009

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."



-Albert Einstein

Sunday, March 15, 2009

"Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good."


-Thomas Paine

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

"In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure."


-Confucius

Monday, March 9, 2009




"Good friends 
are like 
stars... 
You don't always 
see them, 
but you know
 they are 
always there."




-Unknown