My Favorite Quotes

These are a few of my favorite quotes, which have provided me with pleasure and guidance over the years.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
       - David McCullough

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day,
month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained
enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
       ~ Paul J. Meyer

As the rose blooms amidst thorns, so great souls
shine out through opposition.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new.
~ Albert Einstein

If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought,
not what you please.
~ Anonymous

Formal education will make you a living; self-education
will make you a fortune.
~ Jim Rohn

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence,
the second listening,
the third memory,
the fourth practice,
the fifth teaching others.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabriol

The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach;
but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark,
we fall foul upon the very thing we search for,
without finding it. 
~  Seneca (7 B.C. - 65 A.A.)

If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
~ Thomas Edison

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
~ George Santayana

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Who is the happiest of men?
He who values the merits of others,
and in their pleasure takes joy,
even as though 'twere his own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ability to convert ideas to things
is the secret to outward success.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything
if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else
for that matter.
~ Lee Iacocca

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. 
~ Brian Tracy

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections
must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson

What would you do if you were not afraid?
~ Bonnie Philo

Intellect, being limited, cannot realise what is
limitless--eternal.  The highest realisation the
intellect can have is to realise that it is limited and
conditioned, therefore it is incapable of seeing truth. 
This is the supreme realisation for the intellect and
realising this it becomes silent and still.  Total
silencing of the intellect is the ending of the
meditator and also of meditation. 
Ending of meditation is the flowering of love.
~ Dr. R. P Kaushik, "Towards A New Consciusness"


People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

~ Joseph Campbell

Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the experience.

~ Joseph Campbell

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
~ James Allen, from As a Man Thinketh  

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet