If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather that a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all. Yogi Bhajan
If I can not do great things, I can do small things in a great way. Martin Luther King
Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor Frankl
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor Frankl
You can not swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner
You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in one drop. Rumi
Anger is like drinking poison and expecting another person to die.
When people show you who they are, believe them. Maya Angelou
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
That which does not kill me makes me stronger. Nietzsche
Keep a clear head and a wild heart.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra
Happiness Equation: H=R/E H=Happiness, R=Reality, E=Expectations. Improve your reality or lower your expectations.
From ‘Wicked’ -A song of Friendship, Love, and Forgiveness . I dedicate this to a very good friend – gone way before her time. For Good
I never lose. I either win or learn. Nelson Mandela
The absurd does not liberate; it binds. Albert Camus
Everything you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form. Franz Kafka
Every Storm runs out of rain. Maya Angelou
Should you ever find yourself the victim of other peoples bitterness, smallness, or insecurities, remember things could be worse…You could be them
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. John A. Shedd
Keep life moving forward, looking backward is only for time travelers. Rachel O. Washington
A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can’t stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement… Polka-dots are a way to infinity. Yayoi Kusama
Life begins on the other side of despair. Sartre
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad. Miles Davis
Sadness or Euphoria. Billy Joel – Summer Highland Falls
Really nothing to do with my blog, but – it brings me back to a different time. Haunting…..Grace Slick – White Rabbit