Quote-of-the-day

[Geoff-Allen]

"When we are not attached to who we think we are, life can move through us, playing us like an instrument. Understanding how everything is in continual transformation, we release our futile attempts to control circumstances. When we live in this easy connection with life, we live in joy."

~ James Baraz, “Lighten Up!”

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal."

~ 14th Dalai Lama

Comes from this HUGE site -

Compassion | Wisdom Commons

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds were designed for carrying out the orders of the heart."

~ Emmanuel

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Be around the person whose opinions make you want to tear out your hair. Practice opening your heart to them and finding compassion for them instead."

~ Source unknown

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”

~ Anthony de Mello

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If you find it difficult to love the human in someone, then love the divine in him or her. The divine in that person is God. God exists in that person just as God exists in you. To love God is extremely easy because God is divine and perfect. Each time you look at an individual, if you can consciously become aware of God’s existence in him or her, then you will not be disturbed by his or her imperfections or limitations."

~ Sri Chinmoy

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology."

~ Karen Armstrong

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

~ Ben Williams

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

~ Anne Frank

Anne Frank Quotes- BrainyQuote

NOT bad 4 a 16 year-old!

Cheers!

 

[Nada]

"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute"
-P.T.Barnum

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.”

~ Deepak Chopra

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Humility, simply put, is a form of balance in which you can celebrate your own worth while sincerely believing that every other person on the planet is just as worthy as you."

~ unattributed

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."

~ Phillips Brooks

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"

~ Dr. Seuss

 

[Nada]

Brian Johnson: [closing narration] "Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...

Andrew Clark: ...and an athlete...

Allison Reynolds: ...and a basket case...

Claire Standish: ...a princess...

John Bender: ...and a criminal...

Brian Johnson: Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club."

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"For those who may not find happiness to exercise faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem."

~ Dalai Lama

 

[Nada]

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
-Elbert Hubbard

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"When you cultivate gratitude, you become a happier, more fulfilled person. The more you're grateful for, the more blessings will come to you."

~ Susan Santucci

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well."

~ Hannah Whitall Smith