Life in Shades of F-Major: Quotes

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On creativity and tolerance: Yo-Yo Ma

>> Wednesday, March 18, 2009

What I look for in musicians is generosity. There is so much to learn from each other and about each other's culture. Great creativity begins with tolerance. ~Yo-Yo Ma

>> Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ~ Roald Dahl

>> Tuesday, December 2, 2008

In the depths of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus, French philosopher and writer, 1913-1960

>> Sunday, October 26, 2008

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss

>> Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

~ Roald Dahl

>> Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Every morning, when we wake up we have twenty-four brand new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy and happiness to ourselves and others.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Kindness counts

>> Monday, August 25, 2008

When you have the choice between being right and being kind just choose kind.

~ Wayne Dyer

It's about the change in me

>> Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Do not change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.

~ Neville Goddard

On slowing down

>> Thursday, August 7, 2008

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

~ Lao Tzu

The law of giving

>> Sunday, August 3, 2008

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

~ Deepak Chopra

The power of the joyful woman

>> Thursday, July 24, 2008

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves. When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom. A joyful woman, by merely being, says it all. The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. BE ONE ANYWAY.

~ Marianne Williamson

Hidden strength

>> Tuesday, July 22, 2008

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

~ Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist, 1795-1881

The progress of human thought

>> Saturday, June 21, 2008

That which is looked upon by one generation as the apex of human knowledge is often considered an absurdity by the next, and that which is regarded as a superstition in one century, may form the basis of science for the following one.

~ Paracelsus

The accuser

>> Friday, June 20, 2008

Criticism never changes a thing. Refuse to criticize yourself. Accept yourself exactly as you are. Everybody changes. When you criticize yourself, your changes are negative. When you approve of yourself, your changes are positive.

~ Louise Hay

You are what you see

>> Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the idea that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

~ J.L. Allen

To love me is to know me

>> Saturday, June 7, 2008

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

~ Sam Keane, To Love and Be Loved

Internal Summer

>> Saturday, May 31, 2008

In the depths of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

~ Albert Camus, French philosopher and writer, 1913-1960

The Divine spark

>> Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Whomever you meet, remember this Truth: Each person is a unique expression of God. Even the person you consider the most vile is God's child too, and has a core self that is never lost to our Creator. We can bring to each encounter extraordinary respect, looking always for that aspect of the Divine.

~ Mary Manin Morrissey