Archive for January, 2008

wholly

31Jan08

‘I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I [...]


struggles

30Jan08

‘But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.’
- Paulo Coelho


enduring

29Jan08

‘Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.’
- St. Catherine of Siena


today

28Jan08

‘We must not be hampered by yesterday’s myths in concentrating on today’s needs.’
- Harold S. Geneen


for

27Jan08

‘If you’re still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today’
- Joyce Chapman


peace

26Jan08

‘Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous’
- George Bernard Shaw


of

25Jan08

‘Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.’
- Tenzin Gyatso


signals

24Jan08

‘Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the [...]


send

23Jan08

‘There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.’
- Oscar Wilde


progression

22Jan08

‘I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.’
- Margaret Fuller