Weekly Wisdom #55

"Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."  - Winne the Pooh

Weekly Wisdom #54

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.  Without them humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama 

Weekly Wisdom #40

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius

Weekly Wisdom #38

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Weekly Wisdom #32

"When I was 5 years old, my mother told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down, 'happy'.  They told me that I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon

Weekly Wisdom #31

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.  One is Evil – It is anger, fear, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

“The other is Good – It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

- Cherokee Legend

Weekly Wisdom #30

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”  - Dalai Lama XIV

Weekly Wisdom #29

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”   - Thich Nhat Hanh  

Weekly Wisdom #28

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response.  In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Weekly Wisdom #20

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."

- Chinese Proverb

Weekly Wisdom # 19

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau

Weekly Wisdom #18

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."- Helen Keller

Weekly Wisdom #17

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

Weekly Wisdom #16

"The journey is the reward." - Chinese proverb

Weekly Wisdom #14

"Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them." -Orison Swett Marden

Weekly Wisdom #13

"Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most."   - Ashleigh Brilliant

Weekly Wisdom #11

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” - Dr. Seuss

Weekly Wisdom #6

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." - Frederick Koenig

Weekly Wisdom #5

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs

Weekly Wisdom #4

"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul."

-Democritus