The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking read more

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. read more

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined read more

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I read more

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -John Wesley.

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

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

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as read more

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we read more

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. -Gandhi.