"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us"

i have heard this attributed to a few different people, but i believe it was Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Jesus :roll:

“Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.”

~ Michael J. Gelb, internationally renowned author, speaker, and consultant.

Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

Who looks outside dreams;
Who looks inside wakes

c g jung

Never be afraid to tread the path alone.
Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you;
Do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Eileen Caddy, footprints on the path

Love & respect

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespear: As you like it

Only those who dare to fail greatly;can ever achieve greatly. Robert F Kennedy



LadyRedHawk

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only LOVE can do that

Martin Luther King

Wonderful quotes! Thanks so much for sharing--I may borrow some of these for my own signature lines. I actually have three:

1. "The soul doesn't evolve or grow, it cycles and twists, repeats and reprises, echoing ancient themes common to all human beings. It is always circling home. Gnostics tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu, which is not the world of fact. Its odessey is a drifting at sea, a floating toward home, not an evolution toward perfection." Thomas Moore, Original Self, Living Within Paradox and Originality.

2 "One hour's reflection is preferable to seventy years of pious worship." Baha'u'llah

3. "The highest form of goodness is like water. Water knows how to benefit all things without striving with them. It stays in places loathed by all men. Therefore it comes near the Tao. In choosing your dwelling, know how to keep to the ground. In cultivating your mind, know how to dive in the hidden deeps. In dealing with others, know how to be gentle and kind. In speaking, know how to keep your
words." Excerpted from the Tao Teh Ching by Lao Tzu, #8.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.

We can not discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore


The past cannot be changed; the future is still in your power

Have something like this in my own group, fun!

"Tout a'en va, tout passe, l'eau coule, et le couer oublie. (Everything vanishes, everything passes, water runs away, and the heart forgets.)"Gustave Flaubert

"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."-William Tecumseh Sherman

"There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commercial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet."-G.K. Chesterton

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." -- Thomas Jefferson