A few good quotes to make you think...

“How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?”

“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”

“Anger is a wound gone mad.” -- Vanna Bonta

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively” -- Voltaire

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.” -- Robin Williams

“Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.”
-- Anne Rice (the vampire chronicles author)

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” --Andy Rooney

“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.” --JRR Tolkien

“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” --Horace (ancient roman poet)

and another one from Horace;
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment”

Its a Lao Tzu kinda afternoon...

So I really needed to read these this afternoon....Thinking of you guys hope you are all well!
XOXO
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

To lead people walk behind them.

To produce things and to rear them, to produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

Do you have enough patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?

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"We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else." -- Maya Angelou

We need to remember to applaud the differences within ourselves and nurture the light in each other. We all shine!

quotes from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

• If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.
  
• A cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the road. Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, "And why were such things made in the world?"
  
• Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong.
  
• (...) As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad , and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes has no value for him.
  
• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
• Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

http://classics.mit.edu//Antoninus/meditations.mb.txt

and the greek version for joy!
http://zipper.paco.net/~yury/LL/aurel.html.utf8

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found this one again today....

"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions."
Mike Krzyzewski

Nikos Kazantzakis

My dads favorite author....for very good reason...always journeying....some favorite quotes i feel like sharing today....

"By believing passionately in some-thing that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

'Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later that you understand.'

'You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.'

'A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.'

'As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust."

'Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.'

'Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross; then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.'

and one of my most favorites......

'For this was my greatest ambition: to leave nothing for death to take-nothing but a few bones.'