| There is no coming to consciousness without pain. ~ C.G. Jung Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. ~ Virginia Satir Change cannot be avoided... Change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity. ~ Keshavan Nair Do not weep, do not wax indiginant. Understand. ~ Baruch Spincza False imagination teaches that such things as light and shade, long and short, black and white are different and are to be discriminated, but they are not independent of each other, they are only different aspects of the same thing, they are terms of relation, not of reality. Conditions of existence are not of a mutually exclusive character; in essence things are not two but one. ~ Lankavatara Sutra One in all, All in one - If only this is realized, No more worry about you not being perfect! ~ Seng-Ts'an Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ~ C.G. Jung Life can only be understood backwards, it has to be lived forwards. ~ Soren Kierkegaard If a man lives without inner struggle, if everything happens in him without opposition... he will remain such as he is. ~ G.I. Gurdjieff The truth is that life is hard and dangerous, that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer, that he who demands love will be disappointed, that he who is greedy will not be fed, that he who seeks peace will find strife, that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die. ~ Joyce Carey It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~Seneca What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. ~ Albert Camus No one knows whether death may not turn out to be the greatest of blessings for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they know for certain that it is the greatest of evils. ~ Socrates What we vividly imagine, ardently desire, enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass. ~ Colin P. Sisson People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross In every corner of my soul, there is an alter to a different god. ~ Fernando Pessoa Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside wakes. ~ C.G. Jung The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years. ~ Zen Poem There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. ~ Mother Teresa Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. ~ Jalal-Uddin Rumi If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~ Zen Koan You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poem, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. ~ J. Krishnamurti Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. ~ Les Brown |
| Some of my Favourite Quotes |