Quotes and Maxims

FOOD FOR THOUGHT...

HEALING AND ENERGY:
In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

Albert Szent-Gyšrgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine

SUCCESS:
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov.

Note: Our beliefs are extremely powerful. They can limit us (like bars on a cage) or open doors (like a key to a cage). And they are changeable by tapping. JD

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try;
If we don't, it doesn't matter, but we'd better start to die.

W.H. Auden.

There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.

John David Hoag; a fundamental Neuro-Linguistic (NLP) precept.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Max Planck.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our lives of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha, Dhammapada, translation by Juan Mascaro.

Do nothing, and nothing will not be done.

Li Po, Chinese philosopher.

This one one requires a bit of thought...possibly a problem if the next quote is true! JD

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it..

Albert Einstein.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Thomas Edison.

There is a gap between stimulus and response, and the key to both our growth and happiness is how we use that space.

Steven Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.

Epictetus.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles.

I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A Edison

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill.

God regards with merciful eyes not what you are, nor what you have been but what you
wish to be.

The Cloud of Unknowing.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Spenser.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Henry David Thoreau.

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

Nietzsche.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding