Laugh!!

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

Milton Berle

Edison on Opportunity

Opportunity is missed by most

because it is dressed in overalls

and looks like work -

Thomas Alva Edison

Manifesting

"Once you make a decision,

the universe conspires to make it happen.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It’s a very funny thing about life;

if you refuse to accept anything but the best,

you very often get it.

"William Somerset Maugham

Days are expensive......

Days are expensive.

When you spend a day you have 1 less day to spend.

So make sure you spend each one wisely."

~Jim Rohn

Stay Foolish - Stay Hungry - the words Steve Jobs used

below:

BUDDHA on Thoughts

The thought manifests as the word.

The word manifests as the deed.

The deed develops into a habit.

And the habit hardens into character.

So watch the thought and its ways with care.

And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings

BUDDHA (c. 563-c, 483 BC)

Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is

that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness,

that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,

gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking

so that other people won't feel insecure about you.

We were born to manifest

the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

we unconsciously give other people

permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

our presence automatically liberates others.

Until one is Committed ......

'But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money--booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence.

UNTIL ONE IS COMMITTED,

THERE IS HESITANCY

THE CHANCE TO DRAW BACK,

ALWAYS INEFFECTIVENESS.

CONCERNING ALL ACTS OF INITIATIVE AND CREATION,

THERE IS ONE ELEMENTARY TRUTH,

THE IGNORANCE OF WHICH KILLS

COUNTLES IDEAS AND PLANS:

THAT THE MOMENT ONE DEFINITELY COMMITS ONESELF,

THEN PROVIDENCE MOVES TOO.

ALL SORTS OF THINGS OCCUR

TO HELP ONE THAT WOULD

OTHERWISE NEVER HAVE OCCURRED.

A WHOLE STREAM OF EVENTS

ISSUES FROM THE DECISION,

RAISING IN ONE'S FAVOR

ALL MANNER OF UNFORESEEN INCIDENTS AND

MEETINGS AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE,

WHICH NO MAN

COULD HAVE DREAMT WOULD HAVE COME HIS WAY.

I HAVE LEARNED A DEEP RESPECT

FOR ONE OF GOETHE'S COUPLETS:

WHATEVER

YOU

CAN DO, OR DREAM YOU CAN,

BEGIN IT.

BOLDNESS HAS GENIUS,

POWER

and

MAGIC

IN IT.

W.N. Murray.

Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951

I would rather be ashes than dust by Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust

I would rather that my spark should

burn out in a brilliant blaze than

it should be stifled by dry rot.

I would rather be a superb meteor

every atom of me in magnificent glow

than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The proper function of man is to LIVE

and not to exist. I shall not waste

my days trying to prolong them

I shall use my time.

Jack London

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds...

Great spirits have

always encountered violent opposition

from mediocre minds...

Albert Einstein

I am not what happened to me - I am what I choose to become

I am not what happened to me

I am what I choose to become

Carl Jung

Pigeons or Progess

"Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of passenger pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring so many more comforts than tha pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of spring?"

---Aldo Leopold (1947)