Quote: Open Opportunities
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. – Jim Carrey
May 16, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Archive for the Category ‘Mini-Posts’
Quote: So You’re Stuck
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. – Mark Twain
May 15, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Doubt, Mistakes, and Tomorrow
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 9, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Giving Advice?
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. – Brendan Francis
May 8, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Sunday Wisdom: Turning Around
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up, he needs education to turn him around. – Jim Rohn
May 2, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
My Quote: On Friendship
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game. – Will Durant
May 1, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Sunday Quote: Absolutes
A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably. – Eleanor Roosevelt
April 25, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Quote of the Day: On Maturity
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. – William Arthur Ward
April 24, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Projecting Yourself on Others
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. -The Talmud
April 18, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Pain is Self-Chosen
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. – Kahlil Gibran
April 17, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Ego’s Self-Interest
We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego’s self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest. – Sogyal Rinpoche
April 11, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Walking in the Right Direction
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. – author unknown
April 10, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Fear and Moving
Keep walking, though there is no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances, that is not for human beings. Move, but not the way fear makes you move. – Rumi
April 4, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
Technology Complicates
Sometimes technology complicates. Sometimes technology takes instinct out of the equation. Sometimes, it’s just better to dig in and get dirty. – Eyder Peralta
April 3, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
… that’s Hawaiian!
George Downing said to me one day, when I was staying in town and there wasn’t much waves, “we’re going to go ride some mals (longboards). We drove down to Waikiki and surfed . . . the last half-hour of the day . . . and then surfed into the moonlight for another hour or [...]
March 27, 2010 | Posted in Mini-Posts | Read More »
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