I have learned.....

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Nurture your mind....

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
Benjamin Disraeli

Creativity is..

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler

Be Miserable?

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

The Creative

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda

...then speak

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus

Everyone is a Genius....

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg:

Write down...

"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."
Francis Bacon

Mother's Love

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

Erich Fromm

Sticks of Dynamite

"People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit."

Mac Anderson

Stick with It

"If you love something and stick with it, you will get phenomenal results."

Bob Proctor

Gratitude

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Blessings

"Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you."

Emmet Fox

Are You Happy?

Are you Happy? Yes? Then Keep doing what you're doing. No? Then Change something!

poster found here

Three Words

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Love is life.....

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia

Think

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
Unknown

Dreaming

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

Dreams

Dreams are the seed of creation. Action is the water that grows dreams into reality.

Does yours?

More

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Epictetus

Insults

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus

Conflict

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
Wayne Dyer

A Mind at Peace

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer

Beautiful

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller

Explore Life

"After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery.
It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
Sophia Loren

Joy is....

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
Mother Teresa

Intuitive Mind

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein

Rainbow

Find a rainbow and live your world of dreams always remember life is better than it seems.

Something

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

Happiness

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Others

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

Nothing New

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette

Conditions for Creativity

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Erich Fromm

Challenged

Sometimes, familiarity and comfort need to be challenged.

Oragnizations

The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Tension

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan

Castles

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

All My Life

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.
I was naïve.
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:
that I am nobody but myself.

Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

Look within...