January 2009
2 posts
Ghandi only had 24 hours in a day
All the things that we’re not doing that we should be doing, drain our energy. - Robin Sharma
October 2008
3 posts
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential - Winston Churchill
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
August 2008
5 posts
“If you really want to make a difference, then make a difference.”
Ryland Musick
You don’t fall in love: you fall in shit and love grows
Procrastinators unite! …tomorrow
“weight lifters must lift weights (resistance) to gain strength”
‘You can achieve any result in life, given enough time to acquire the right skills to accomplish the right tasks.’
When you truly recognize that the only obstacle to accomplishment is the finiteness of human life, then you can begin to understand that all the obstacles you thought were obstacles were simply steps that required more skills to step up on and over.
June 2008
5 posts
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- last words of Crowfoot
(warrior and orator of the Blackfoot tribe, 1890)
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” - Lewis B. Smedes
We have today. (full stop)
“Happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.”
~Alex Shalman
April 2008
6 posts
Security is mostly a superstition - it doesn’t exist in nature
- HK
GREAT THINGS are not coming to you.
(they’re here already, only you choose not to acknowledge them as such)
“I have never found anger to make a situation better”
- Randy Pausch
“Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life”
- Philip Toshio Sudo
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other...
“A file does not exist unless it exists in two places”
- Goethe, when speaking of the importance of backing up data
March 2008
4 posts
If you argue enough for your limitations, they’ll be yours for the keeping!
If you’re going to pursue revenge, you’d better dig two graves!
Be the change you want to see in the world.
–Mahatma Gandhi
The person who doesn’t read, is no better off than the person who can’t read
February 2008
15 posts
“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Do not fear mistakes, fear only a lack of creative, constructive and corrective responses to those mistakes
I asked the dying what they wished they’d had more of in their life. Their responses came, “Laughter” “Love” “Less worry”. None of them said, “Mercedes”.
Things which matter should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least - Goethe
Happiness comes from living your values every single day, regardless of how close or far away your goals seem to be
Most people spend more time making shopping lists than making a list of the really important things they want in life
What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?
We’re not retreating - we’re just advancing in another direction!
There’s no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes
You cannot be hurt without giving consent
Between stimulus and response lies choice
“The Star Thrower
There was a man who was walking along a sandy beach where...”
– The Star Thrower
Knowing and not doing …is not knowing.
How many people, upon their death bed, wish that they had watched more television?
January 2008
9 posts
“the map is not the territory”
‘We don’t see things as they are, but rather as we are.’ Anais Nin
根拠のない自信
“confidence with no reason”
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid...
In life, we don’t make good choices and bad choices, we make ‘who we are’ choices. - Deepak Chopra
What is now proved was once impossible - William Blake
The moment that one commits oneself, then providence moves too
I don’t believe in circumstances - George Bernhard Shaw
sako
July 2007
11 posts
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never...”
– Mark Twain