Cecil Beaton - integrity of purpose

"Be daring, be different, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers." ~Cecil Beaton

Aulus Persius Flaccus Quotes

"But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp." ~Persius (Cum lux altera venit, iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra.)

"Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies." ~Persius (Nostrum est quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies. Vive memor leti, fugit hora.

"The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears – not tears that have been got ready overnight." ~Persius (Nec nocte paratum, plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querella.)

“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.” ~Persius on Worry

PERSIUS, Roman Satirist

Tony Robbins Quotes

"Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit—of stepping up, of taking action—more than anything else, will move you in a different direction." ~Tony Robbins

"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself." ~Tony Robbins

"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives." ~ Tony Robbins

"Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more." ~Tony Robbins

"Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility." ~Tony Robbins

"Meaning is the force that shares life, emotion is what colors it." ~Tony Robbins

"Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life." ~Tony Robbins

"Stand guard at the door of your mind. The information you feed on your mind on a daily basis  - whatever you focus upon consistently -  will affect your thoughts,  feelings and actions." ~Tony Robbins 

"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results." ~Tony Robbins

"The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be." ~Tony Robbins

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." ~Tony Robbins

               

"The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. Time to change. It's time to live life at a new level." ~Tony Robbins

"The quality of your lifej is the quality of your relationships." ~Tony Robbins

"Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes for you." ~Tony Robbins

"We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others." ~Tony Robbins

"Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision." ~Tony Robbins

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G.D. Budhiraja -creating self

"If we are creating ourselves all the time, it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want." ~G.D. Budhiraja

Peter Robert Fleming - somewhere

“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.” ~Peter Robert Fleming on Inspirational

Ted Kooser - address

"Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address." ~Ted Kooser

FRANZ KAFKA Quotes

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us." ~Franz Kafka

"And still, no one attends the burial, because the world has never noticed I was alive." ~Franz Kafka

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." ~Franz Kafka

"Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within." ~Franz Kafka

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." ~Franz Kafka 

"Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form." ~Franz Kafka, Kafka and the Doll, The Pervasiveness of Loss

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way." ~Franz Kafka 

"For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie sleekly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance." ~Franz Kafka

"I am free that is why I am lost." ~Franz Kafka

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” ~Franz Kafka

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy." ~Franz Kafka

"I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party; and I attended with my real face." ~Franz Kafka 

"It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves." ~Franz Kafka

"Only the moment counts. It determines life." ~Franz Kafka

"So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being." ~Franz Kafka

“The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.” ~Franz Kafka

"The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other." ~from THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka

“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.” ~Franz Kafka

"You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart." ~Franz Kafka

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." ~Franz Kafka

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ~Franz Kafka (The Beauty of a Woman)

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Robert Burton Quotes

"A quiet mind cureth all." ~Robert Burton

"All places are distant from heaven alike." ~Robert Burton

“Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.” ~Robert Burton

"Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven." ~Robert Burton

"No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread." ~Robert Burton

"Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell." ~Robert Burton

"The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill." ~Robert Burton on Water

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Justine Willis Toms - voice

"Notice when your heart leaps up in joyous exuberance - in these moments the voice of your spirit is speaking directly to you." ~Justine Willis Toms

Barbara Myerhoff - self

"The self is made, not given." ~Barbara Myerhoff

Leo Burnett - ideas

"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas." ~Leo Burnett

Thought for Today - Words Colour Our Behaviour

"Words! They are all around me! I see them. I use them. Harsh words, soothing words, biting words; words that give pain and sorrow; words that give joy and pleasure. They are vital to communication. When words are spoken there are reactions, negative or positive. Either thoughts are triggered or emotions fired or actions performed. Words colour our behaviour. And how lovely it is to hear words that are calm and free from rancour and aggression. To hear words that lift the soul and leave it with renewed vigour. Such words come from always seeing the best in people and situations." ~Thought for Today-UK

Edna O'Brien - seasons

“In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.” ~Edna O'Brien on Seasons

Shinso - Road

A view from Sagbayan Peak
Bohol, Philippines
8 November 2011

"No matter what road I travel, I'm going home." ~Shinso

Peter Matthiessen Quotes

"In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us." ~Peter Matthiessen

"Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn." ~Peter Matthiessen

"The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day. . . we become seekers." ~Peter Matthiessen

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Jakusho Kwong Quotes

"Breath sweeps mind." ~Jakusho Kwong

"It is through the essence of mind, which is unborn, indestructible, calm and clear, that we deliver ourselves within ourselves." ~Jakusho Kwong

"When the focus of your practice becomes like the light of the sun penetrating a magnifying glass so sharply that it makes a fire, it dissolves greed, anger, and ignorance, the three great obstacles to our original heart/mind." ~Jakusho Kwong

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

“Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion ; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing. It seems to me that most of us are not aware, not only of the trees, the clouds, the movement of water. Perhaps it is because we are so concerned with ourselves, with our own petty little problems, our own ideas, our own pleasures, pursuits and ambitions that we are not objectively aware. And yet we talk a great deal about awareness.” - Freedom from the Unknown (Krishnamurti)

"Conflict is the denial of what is or the running away from what is; there is no conflict other than that..." ~Krishnamurti

“For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities – would there be these separations?" ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"If we lose our relationship with nature, we lose inevitably our relationship with humans." ~Krishnamurti

"If your eyes are blinded by your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset." ~Krishnamurti

"In the cultivation of the mind, our emphasis should not be on concentration, but on attention. Concentration is a process of forcing the mind to narrow down to a point, whereas attention is without frontiers." ~J. Krishnamurti

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~J. Krishnamurti

"It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Learn from all of life...
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Man has always sought immortality; he paints a picture, puts his name on it, that is a form of immortality; leaving a name behind, man always wants to leave something of himself behind." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus, or walking in the woods full of light and shadows, or listening to the singing of the birds, or looking at the face of your wife or child." ~J. Krishnamurti

"Our minds are conditioned by a particular culture or society, influenced by various impressions, by the strains and stresses of relationships, by economic, climatic, educational factors, by religious conformity and so on." ~Krishnamurti

"Our minds are trained to accept fear and to escape, if we can, from that fear, never being able to resolve, totally and completely, the whole nature and structure of fear." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence. You cannot go out and buy freedom in the market. You cannot get it by reading a book, or by listening to someone talk. Freedom comes with intelligence." ~J. Krishnamurti

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The day you teach the child the name of the bird, the child will never see that bird again." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment." ~Krishnamurti

 “The ignorant man is not the unlearned, but he who does not know himself, and the learned man is stupid when he relies on books, on knowledge and on authority to give him understanding. Understanding comes only through self-knowledge, which is awareness of one’s total psychological process. Thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is within each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered.” ~J. Krishnamurti, “Education and the Significance of Life.”

(Born: May 11, 1895. Died: Feb. 17, 1986)

"There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"There is hope in people,  not in society,  not in systems... but in you and in me." ~J Krishnamurti 

"To deny conventional morality completely is to be highly moral, because what we call social morality, the morality of respectability, is utterly immoral; we are competitive, greedy, envious, seeking our own way – you know how we behave. We call this social morality; religious people talk about a different kind of morality, but their life, their whole attitude, the hierarchical structure of religious organization and belief, is immoral. To deny that is not to react, because when you react, this is another form of dissenting through one’s own resistance. But when you deny it because you understand it, there is the highest form of morality." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"... to negate social morality, to negate the way we are living – our petty little lives, our shallow thinking and existence, the satisfaction at a superficial level with our accumulated things – to deny all that, not as a reaction but seeing the utter stupidity and the destructive nature of this way of living – to negate all that is to live. To see the false as the false – this seeing is the true." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"To understand truth, one must have a very sharp, precise, clear mind; not a cunning mind, but a mind that is capable of looking without any distortion, a mind innocent and vulnerable." ~J. Krishnamurti

"To understand what is, you have to be undisturbed, undistracted you have to give your mind and heart to it." ~Krishnamurti

"You see, you are not educated to be alone. Do you ever go out for a walk by yourself? It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Elizabeth Morris - Azaria Chamberlain Inquest

"I'm so sorry for your loss. Time does not remove the pain and sadness of the death of a child." ~Elizabeth Morris, N.T. Coroner on Azaria Chamberlain Inquest (adressed to the Chamberlains: the longest enduring and most famous Australian case, nationwide TV coverage, 12 June 2012).

Pietro Aretino - friends

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." ~Pietro Aretino

Steve Vizard -hostage

"Masterchef is like hostage in a pantry." ~Steve Vizard (The Circle, Channel Ten, 12 June 2012)

Kamila Urbaniak - courage

“It takes courage to fall, but more to stay together." ~Kamila Urbaniak

Loretta Larroche - guardian

"It takes a lot of vigilance to be the guardian of your thoughts, words, and deeds; and you’re often at the mercy of years of conditioning that make you operate as if you’re on autopilot." ~Loretta Larroche

H. Stein - Needs

“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.” ~H. Stein

Salman Rushdie Quotes

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” ~Salman Rushdie

“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.”

~Salman Rushdie

“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” ~Salman Rushdie

"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable." ~Salman Rushdie

"Our lives teach us who we are." ~Salman Rushdie

“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.” ~Salman Rushdie

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” ~Salman Rushdie

"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy." ~Salman Rushdie

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Thought for Today - Coolness

"Maintaining a state of inner calmness protects me from becoming a slave to my emotions. It also helps me to keep a cool head when I see others becoming heated or angry. Coolness is not to be distant or uncaring; rather it requires that I develop the deeply caring nature of a peacemaker and serve others in the best possible way." ~Thought for Today-UK