Monday, September 27, 2010

Brain Food 137

I believe that having something new happen, no matter how small, is what makes for a healthy day, no matter how many days may be left.
- David Greenberger, from his essay As I Grow Old, included in the exceptional essay collection, This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

- Joe Ancis, comedian

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, columnist and very smart person

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Brain Food 136

Success doesn't come to you…you go to it.
- Marva Collins, educator

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

- Martin Luther King


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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Brain Food 135

The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. ~ A Course In Miracles

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~ Lao Tzu

Imagine Absolute Joy. Now...live it. ~ Anonymous

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Brain Food 134

What is to give light must endure burning.
- Victor Frankl, Auschwitz survivor and author of the must-read classic, Man's Search for Meaning

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

- Anne Frank

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.- William M. Thackeray, novelist


Friday, September 3, 2010

Brain Food 133

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as looking for the experience of being alive.

- Joseph Campbell, author of the classic The Power of Myth (one of the most influential books in my life)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein