Archive for October, 2006

Samuel Johnson

Monday, October 9th, 2006

“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

“Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.”

Anton Chekhov

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”

John Stuart Mill

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”

Thich Nhat Hahn

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

“When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.”