Choose Life

The jewel of the soul is priceless, and yet it is being squandered like this, in exchange for a mere shell.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!

Dalai Lama XIV

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Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights into His great truths.

Dale Evans Rogers

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Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Harvey MacKay

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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Lovingly Detached

Truly wise is he who is unstirred by praise or blame, by love or hatred. He is not moved by the opposites of life. Verily does he delight in the blissful Self.

Srimad Bhagavatam

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Happiness or sorrow - whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

The Dhammapada

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union.

St John of the Cross

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To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, 'Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go.'... If we don't cling to past or future and we live entirely here and now, in 'Eternity's sunrise'.

Eknath Easwaran

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Give and Take.......

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
Lao Tzu
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So I say to you, ask and it will be given to you, seek
and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone that asks receives,
he who seeks finds and to him that knocks the door will be opened.

Luke 11: -13

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The widest possibilities for spiritual growth lie in the give-and-take of
everyday relationships.

Eknath Easwaran

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There is love in every one of you.

Develop that love.

Share it with people.
This love is not a one-way traffic.

It is two-way, give and take.
Sathya Sai Baba

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You must give some time to your fellow men.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for others –
something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Koshi The Holy City

Brahma once weighed the heavens against Kashi. And Kashi, being heavier, sank while the skies, despite all the gods who lived there, rose upwards.
Adi Shankara,
Manikarnikastotram
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The three worlds form one city of mine, and Kashi is my royal palace therein.
Skanda Purana
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Are there not many holy places on this earth?
Yet which of them would equal in the balance one speck of Kashi's dust?
Are there not many rivers running to the sea?
Yet which of them is like the River of Heaven in Kashi?
Are there not many fields of liberation on earth?
Yet not one equals the smallest part of the city never forsaken by Shiva.
The Ganges, Shiva and Kashi: Where this Trinity is watchful, no wonder here is found the grace that leads one on to perfect bliss.
Kashi Khanda 35. 7-10
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Varanasi sits above the earth as a 'crossing place' or tirtha between this world and the 'far shore' of the transcendent Brahmn.
Diana L Eck
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Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.
Mark Twain

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Beauty Lies Within

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every face, in every sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Ralph W Emerson
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Education Quotes

Real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative; to be loving, blissful, without any comparison with the other. It will not teach you that you can be happy only when you are the first.

Osho

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If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere. How? You have seen my brethren... Let these men go from village to village bringing not only religion to the door of everyone but also education.

Swami Vivekananda

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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Rabindranth Tagore

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

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O Goddess Saraswati, salutations to you, the giver of boons, the one who fulfils all desires. I begin my studies. May there always be accomplishments for me.

Saraswati Namastubhyam

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Addiction Quotes 7

"The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur."
Edward O. Sisson


"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."
Feodor Dostoevski

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
Mortimer Caplan

"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters."
Roger L'Estrange

"Habit: The shackles of the free."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

"The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it—how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!"
L. G. Elliott



"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
Samuel Johnson


"Nicotine withdrawal was very much like trying to s*** a melon. The pressure was remarkable! Seemingly an impossible task. I would break out into sweats, cough, curse, yell, and wake up periodically throughout the night from vicious nightmares. Three full weeks of endless torment without relief. The incommodiousness of it all."
Greg Evans



"Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes."
Hannah More



"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."
Lane Olinghouse



"In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character."
Edward O. Sisson

Addiction Quotes 6

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
Source Unknown

"Easy does it."
Source Unknown

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
William Shakespeare


"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are."
Julius Charles Hare

"You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand."
Irene C. Kassorla


"Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves."
Source Unknown


"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
Mark Twain


"We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn."
J. Todd Ferrier



"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
Source Unknown


"We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime."
Mahatma Gandhi

Addiction Quotes 5

"I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area."
William S. Burroughs


"The weapons addiction of all our political leaders ... has the same characteristics as drug addiction. It is enormously costly, very dangerous, provokes ugly violence, and is self-perpetuating -- all on a scale far greater than drug addicton."
Howard Zinn


"To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off."
C. E. Montague


"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
Rob Gilbert


"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
Hunter S. Thompson


"Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction… You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."
Juliene Berk


"Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name... The French city... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase."
James Fenton


"If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength."
Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld


"Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


"We're worn into grooves by Time—by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness — achievement."
Frank B. Gilberth

Addiction Quotes 4

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."
Tryon Edwards

"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
Jean Cocteau

"Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
John Dryden

"Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison."
John Hardwick

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones."
Somerset Maugham

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
Michel de Montaigne

"A man’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits."
Source Unknown

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
Abraham Joshua Heschel

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
Mick Jagger

Addiction Quotes 3

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
Hunter S. Thompson

"Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone."
Source Unknown

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
P. J. O'Rourke

"If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine."
Rob Stampfli

"Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?"
Anna Quindlen

"I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?"
Ken Faver

"We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life."
Bertrand Russell

"For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings."
Peter McWilliams

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
Stephen R. Covey

"Have you heard about the latest 12 step group for compulsive talkers? It's called ... On and On Anonymous."
Source Unknown

Addiction Quotes 2

"All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal."
Thomas Szasz

"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
C.S. Lewis


"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
Henry Ward Beecher


"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."

"He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie."
Anais Nin

"I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug."
Maynard James Keenan

"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."
Jacob M. Braude

"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
Jean Cocteau

"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."
Franklin P. Jones

"Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual’s body."
Thomas Szasz
Franklin P. Jones

Addiction Quotes 1

"Habits are first cobwebs, then cables."
Spanish proverb

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."
Ramona L. Anderson

"A habit is a shirt made of iron."
Czech proverb


"Our sickness is between our ears."
Source Unknown

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
Frank Outlaw

"In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country."
Aldous Huxley

"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation"
Wystan Hugh Auden

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Gustav Jung

"My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Jung

Quotes On Achievement 4

"I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty."
Barbara Walters

"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
Alfred A. Montapert

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,"
Simone Weil

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
Charles F. Kettering

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
Napoleon Hill

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Orison Swett Marden

"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
Georgia O'Keeffe

"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
Plutarch

Quotes On Achievement 3

"We will either find a way, or make one."
Hannibal

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
Eddie Robinson


"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."
Helen Hayes


"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."
Mark Victor Hansen

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of"
Eric Hoffer


"I want to put a ding in the universe."
Steve Jobs

"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
Jean De La Fontaine

"Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done."
Julia Woodruff

"Be not afraid of flying. Angels live in the clouds and the devil on the earth."
Greg Evans

Quotes On Achievement 1

"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

"The journey is the reward."
Chinese Proverbs

"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."
Aristotle

""No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything." "
Ronaldo(Ronaldinho) Assis Moreira

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent van Gogh

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
Confucius

"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."


"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort."
Oliver Wendell Holmes


"Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest."

Quotes Ability Part 7

"Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light."
Dale Adams


"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains"
Ken Carey

"You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm."
Dale Adams

"Without a goal, you cannot survive."
Dale Adams

"Others have done it before me. I can, too."
Corporal John Faunce

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."
T.S. Elliot

"Friends will always say 'go for it' even though deep inside they feel really hurt."
michelle santoso

"The trust is in the stars my dear Brutus"
William Shakespear

Quotes Ability Part 6

"Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition."
Dale Adams

"Your integrity is more precious than your life."
Dale Adams

"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."
Bob Marley

"Someday will never come and take you by the hand."
Dale Adams

"Loneliness cannot be shared."
Dale Adams

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
Henry David Thoreau

"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem."
Dale Adam

"Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come."
Dale Adams

"There is the finest line between data and evidence"
Dale Adams

Quotes Ability Part 5

"A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman."
Thomas Somerville

"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
Grace Moore

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
Henry David Thoreau

"I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad."
Dale Adams

"Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably"
Dale Adams

"Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot."
Dale Adams

"There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else."
Dale Adams

"The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live."
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right."
Dale Adams

Quotes Ability Part 4

"Not many men have both good fortune and good sense."
Titus Livy

"God does not ask about our ability, but our availability."


"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."
John Henry Newman

"If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened"
Dale Adams

"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

""In the Land of The Blind a One-Eyed man is King""

"Adams first law of survival: Get even first."
Dale Adams

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced."
Swami Vivekananda