4/27/07

The only sin is mediocrity. ~ Martha Graham

Be surprised by something every day. ~ The Little Book of Big Ideas

4/25/07

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age. ~ Sophia Loren

4/24/07

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. ~ Seneca

4/23/07

Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soulwhat the water-bath is to the body. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

4/20/07

…the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. ~ Apple

4/19/07

The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently and your life will change. ~ Paul Arden, Whatever you Think Think the Opposite

4/18/07

Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill

4/17/07

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4/16/07

Children if you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going. ~ Harriett Tubman

4/13/07

Everything begins somewhere. ~ The Imagineering Way

4/12/07

The Shushwap region [in British Columbia, Canada] was and is considered by the Indian people to be a rich place: rich in salmon and game, rich in below-ground food resources such as tubers and roots—a plentiful land. In this region, the people would live in permanent village sites and exploit the environs for needed resources. They had elaborate technologies for very effectively using the resources of the environment, and perceived their lives as being good and rich. Yet, the elders said, at times the world became too predictable and the challenge began to go out of life. Without challenge, life had no meaning.

So the elders, in their wisdom, would decide that the entire village should move, those moves occurring every 25 to 30 years. The entire population would move to a different part of the Shushwap land and there, they found challenge. There were new streams to figure out, new game trails to learn, new areas where the balsamroot would be plentiful. Now life would regain its meaning and be worth living. Everyone would feel rejuvenated and healthy. Incidentally, it also allowed exploited resources in one area to recover after years of harvesting. . . . ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow

4/11/07

Take a chance. ~ Walt Disney

4/10 A flower blooms beneath each step

Legend says that when the baby Buddha was born, he took seven steps, and a lotus flower appeared under each step. When you practice walking meditation, you can do the same. Visualize a lotus, a tulip or a gardenia blooming under each step the moment your foot touches the ground. If you practice beautifully like this, your friends will see fields of flowers everywhere you walk. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, The Long Road Turns to Joy

4/9/07

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4/7/07

There are moments on the brink, when you can give yourself to a lover, or not; give in to self-doubt, uncertainty, and admonishment, or not; dive into a different culture, or not; set sail for the unknown, or not; walk out onto a stage, or not. A moment only a few seconds long, when your future hangs in the balance, poised above a chasm. It is a crossroads. Resist then, and there is no returning to the known world. If you turn back, there is only what might have been. ~ Diane Ackerman, Deep Play

4/6/07

The goal is to delight. ~ Valentine, The Grand Duchess of Bonvie

4/5/07

Sometimes all it takes is remembering how to be child. ~ Pam Fisher, The Imagineering Way

4/4/07

A life with delight is only half a life. ~ John O’Donohue, Beauty

4/3/07

When you rush around in hopeless circles
Searching ev'rywhere for something true
You're at the age of not believing
When all the "make believe" is through

When you set aside your childhood heroes
And your dreams are lost up on a shelf
You're at the age of not believing
And worst of all you doubt yourself

You're a castaway where no one hears you
On a barren isle in a lonely sea
Where did all the happy endings go?
Where can all the good times be?

You must face the age of not believing
Doubting ev'rything you ever knew
Until at last you start believing
There's something wonderful...
Truly wonderful in you.
~ The Age Of Not Believing (from Bedknobs & Broomsticks),
music & lyrics by the Sherman Brothers

4/2/07

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ~ Charles DuBois