Life

When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don’t talk about your grievances, you’ll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly. - Thomas Dreier

The currents of life are always streaming in one direction. They will never change the course of their flow, just as the sun never changes its direction. Man must adapt himself to this flow of life, and as a reward he can find complete harmony. All of man’s ills come from his crossing life’s currents. No man can cross the ocean in a sailing-boat by defying the winds; he must adjust his sails to use them. - K. Sri Dhammananda

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Discovery - Quotes

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. - Albert Von Szent-Gyorgyi

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. - Henry Brooks Adams

A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career – why, you’d be very lucky indeed. - Alan Toomre

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. - Charles Henry Parkhurst 

All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering. - Herman Melville

Although there are discoveries which are said to have been made by accident, if carefully inquired into, it will be found that there has really been very little that was accidental about them. For the most part, these so-called accidents have only been opportunities, carefully improved by genius. As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered, which can seldom or never be fitted into creeds that are changeless. - Clarence Day

Before you discover, you must explore. - Unknown

Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. These fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries. - Benjamin Graf von Rumford

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. - Unknown

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Dr. Albert Szebt-Gyorgyi

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each enduring a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. - Robert Oppenheimer

Discovery is a two-track process: on one track, we discover places or things or people; on the other track, we discover our own selves. The two tracks are interconnected: our discovery in the external world helps us discover hitherto unknown elements in our internal world, and with a new understanding of our inner self, we discover further possibilities in the external world. These two tracks thus support and reinforce each other. - Unknown

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. - Noam Chomsky

Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery. - William Jevons

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than myself. - Alexander Graham Bell

History shows that new discoveries are always just over the horizon. - Harry Levine

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. - Albert Einstein

I invent nothing. I rediscover. - Auguste Rodin

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. - Isaac Newton

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance, rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design. - Charles Caleb Colton

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. - Stanislaw Lem

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. - Susan Langer

New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew. - Tom Vilsack

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. - Isaac Newton

No one ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. - George Henry Lewes

Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found. - Max Wertheimer

One discovers how far one can go only by travelling in a straight line until one is stopped. - Norman Mailer

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide

The great obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

One of the advantages to being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. - Henry Ford

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth. - Benjamin Wiker

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The fall of the apple at Newton's feet has often been quoted in proof of the accidental character of some discoveries. But Newton's whole mind had already been devoted for years to the laborious and patient investigation of the subject of gravitation; and the circumstance of the apple falling before his eyes was suddenly apprehended only as genius could apprehend it, and served to flash upon him the brilliant discovery then opening to his sight. - Samuel Smiles

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James

The greatest discoveries are usually owing to hints given by others whose names are forgot. - Alban Butler

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, its continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel Boorstin

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

The knack of discovery requires that one be ready to abandon any fixed notion so that a more comprehensive view, a deeper experience of realization, can take its place. - Unknown

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. - Albert Einstein

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. - Humphrey Davy

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents. - Pliny

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Mike Lancelot

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

There are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon

There are, and in our nature there ever must be, a diversity of opinions and affections. Experience seems to teach, that in the society where these are most freely expressed – where men most freely emulate each other in endeavours to promote their favourite views – the greatest discoveries are made, and the greatest actions are performed. - George Oliver

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. - George Eliot

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. - Thomas Merton

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! - Mark Twain

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. - Jonas Salk

Who never walks save where he sees men’s tracks makes no discoveries. - J. G. Holland

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. - Alan Alda

Quote Worthy

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible. - Richard Bach  

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. - John Burroughs  

You are not responsible for what people think about you. But you are responsible for what you give them to think about you. - Stanley Ferrand  

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely. - Marcus Aurelius  

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man. - Marcus Aurelius  

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. - Marcus Aurelius  

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. - Chanakya   

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix   

Existence

Existence consist in the interplay of a plurality of elements whose true nature is indescribable and whose source is unknown. Combinations of these elements instantaneously flash into existence and instantaneously disappear, to be succeeded by new combinations of elements appearing in a strict causality. - Earle Ernst

A yogi who through perfect mediation has merged his consciousness with the Creator perceives the cosmical essence as light (vibrations of life energy): to him there is no difference between the light rays composing water and  the light rays composing land. Free from matter-consciousness, free from the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time, a master transfers his body of light with equal ease over or through the light rays of earth, water, fire, and air. - Yogananda

Existence is nothing but a vain struggle against decay.

Forgive / Forgiveness - Quotes

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. - Samuel Johnson

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. - Emma Goldman

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then discover the prisoner was you. - Lewis B. Smedes

Forgive everyone everything. - Unknown

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. - Unknown

Forgive those who have hurt you, betrayed you, or broke your heart, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious when you open your heart. - Unknown

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it. - Unknown 

Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who betrayed you. Sometimes a good heart doesn’t see the bad. - Unknown

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. - Les Brown

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way. - Unknown

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. - William A. Ward

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. - Betty Smith

Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong - Unknown

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness is the fragrance a rose gives to the heel of the boot that crushes it. - Unknown

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. - Unknown

Forgiveness is the key to freedom. - Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness - it's one of the most precious gifts we can choose to give to ourselves and to others. without it, we are like a barren tree, unable to bear the sweet bounty it was destined to. - Unknown

Forgivers are not doormats; to forgive a person is not a signal that we are willing to put up with what he or she does. - Unknown

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. - Lewis B. Smedes 

Forgiving happens in three stages: we rediscover the humanity of the person who wronged us; we surrender our right to get even; and we wish that person well. - Unknown

Forgiving is a journey; the deeper the wound, the longer the journey. - Unknown

Forgiving does not require us to reunite with the person who broke our trust. - Unknown

Forgiving is not a way to avoid pain but to heal the pain. - Unknown

Forgiving is the only way to be fair to ourselves. - Unknown

Forgiving someone may cost you your pride, but not forgiving them will cost you your freedom. - Unknown

Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace. - G. Weatherly

Hatred in our hearts causes our enemies to triumph over us. Forgiveness causes us to triumph over them. - Unknown

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. - Thomas Fuller

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. - Henry Ward Beecher

I forgive myself, and then I move on. You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you’ve been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. - Wayne Dyer

I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become my foolishness. - Unknown

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. - Thomas Fuller

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake 

It is not always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes we have to learn to forgive ourselves. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. - Publilius Syrus

It really doesn’t matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. - Unknown

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. - Maya Angelou

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. accept people for  who they are and always be ready to forgive. - Deepak Chopra

One forgives to the degree that one loves. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. - Dan Zadra

Sometimes, the first step towards forgiveness is realizing the other person was born an idiot. - Unknown

The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person. - Louise Hay

The first person to benefit from forgiving is the one who forgives. - Unknown

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. - Catherine Ponder

The most creative power given to the human spirit is the power to heal the wounds of a past it cannot change. - Unknown

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind. And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again. Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory. Forgiving sets you free. - Lewis B. Smedes

Waiting for someone to repent before we forgive is to surrender our future to the person who wronged us. - Unknown

We do not forgive because we are supposed to; we forgive when we are ready to be healed. - Unknown

We do our forgiving alone inside our hearts and minds; what happens to the people we forgive depends on them. - Unknown

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. - Martin Luther King Jr.

We must recognise that there is great sweetness in forgiveness for it is the balm for the scars of life. - Unknown

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. - Alan Paton

When someone has wronged you, repay them with forgiveness and it will be remembered forever. - Unknown

When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future. - Bernard Meltzer

Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. - Roberto Assagioli

You are never so strong as when you forgive. - Kimberly Converse

You don’t need to wait to hear the apology to forgive. It may never come. Let forgiveness be a gift that is not dependent on someone else’s behaviour, but on your own generous heart. - Unknown

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. - Lewis B. Smedes

Food For Thought

Instead of taking care to acquaint ourselves with others, we only think of making ourselves known to them. It would be better to listen to other people in order to become enlightened rather than to speak so as to shine in front of them. - Magdeleine Sable

When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth. - Magdeleine Sable

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. -  William Shakespeare

A Backup Job

            A man who had been in a mental institution for some years finally improved to the point where it was thought he might be released. The psychiatrist that ran the institution decided it was better to proceed with caution, and chose to interview him first.

            “Tell me," said the doctor. “If we release you, as we are considering, what do you plan to do with your life?’’

            The inmate said. “It would be wonderful to get back to real life, and if I do, I will certainly refrain from making my former mistake. I was a nuclear physicist, you see, and it was the stress of my work in weapons research that helped to put me here. If I am released, I shall limit myself to work in pure theory, where I believe the situation will be less difficult and stressful.’’

            “Wonderful," said the psychiatrist.

            “Or else,” continued the patient, “I might teach. There is something to be said for dedicating your life to expanding the knowledge of young people.”

            “Definitely,” said the psychiatrist.

            “Then again, I might write. There is always a need for books on science, or I may even write a novel based on my experiences in the psychiatric institution.’’

            “Another interesting possibility,” agreed the doctor.

           “And finally, if none of these things appeals to me, I can always continue to be a tea kettle.”

Philosophy - Quotes

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you. - Neil DrGrasse Tyson

Forgiveness

              Forgiveness is something that many people struggle with after someone has wrong them. We are programmed by television shows, movies, and those in our lives to get even or at least to hold grudges when someone has wronged us.

              This is wrong thinking and only does us more harm. I can pretty much guarantee you that the person who wronged you doesn't go around thinking about it daily, if at all. He is done with it. He did what he did and moved on.

              When you continue to remember and playback how he hurt you, you only allow his actions to continually hurt you time and time again. Thinking of how you will get even doesn’t hurt him, it only robs you of your peace of mind. Forgiveness ends this cycle of pain and renders his actions powerless. Do yourself a favour – forgive and continue on your path. - Bohdi Sanders

Discretion - Quotes

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions. - William O. Douglas

An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. - American Proverb

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. - Arthur Wellesley

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. - Unknown

Discretion is the better part of valour. - Unknown

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. - Sir Walter Scott

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. - Francis Bacon

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. - Philip Stanhope

Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action. - Hamlet

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. - Jean De La Fontaine

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring. - Julia Glass

There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life. - Joseph Addison

Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend: be discreet. - Unknown