Thought for the day II

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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:40 am

"Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."
Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:21 am

"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes."
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:02 am

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:03 am

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:49 am

"When I despair,
I remember that all through history
the ways of truth and love have always won.
There have been tyrants, and murderers,
and for a time they can seem invincible,
but in the end they always fall.

Think of it - always."

Mahatma Gandhi - early 20th century
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:41 am

"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."
Aristotle
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:48 am

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:30 am

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:25 am

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." Winston Churchill
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:18 am

"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."
Christina Baldwin
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 18, 2007 1:43 am

"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:51 am

"Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth."
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:57 am

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth."
Charles A. Dana (1819 - 1897)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:56 am

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:50 am

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:24 am

"Flexibility is life; rigidity is death." Tao Te Ching
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:11 am

"Ohhh! Great warrior! [laughs and shakes his head]
Wars not make one great!"
Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:41 am

"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."
Miyamoto Musashi
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:28 am

"Let my heart be the vessel of God's Love.

Let my thoughts be the blossom of God's Love.

Let my words be the expression of God's Love.

Let my actions be the fulfillment of God's Love."

David Ridge - Willingness
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:42 am

"And a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge.
And he answered, saying:
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.
You would know in words that
which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs
rise and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths
would be revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge
with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Say not, "I have found the truth"
but rather, "I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul."
Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."
Kahlil Gibran - on self-knowledge
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