“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.”
— Source Unknown
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
— Lao Tzu
“When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. … Forgive yourself and move on.”
— Bernie S. Siegel
“It is important not to ‘need’ what you are calling to you but rather to have a certain detachment about it. Let it be all right if it doesn’t come, or if it comes in a different form than what you expect. After you have asked for something, surrender to whatever comes as being appropriate.”
— Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
“Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I’ll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I’ll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.”
— Catherine Marshall
“This business of hozho. The way I understand it … I’ll use an example. Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried out. No water. The Hopi, or the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what’s beyond human power to change, and then to change the human’s attitude to be content with the inevitable.”
— in ‘Sacred Clowns’ by Tony Hillerman
“If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.”
— Francis Bacon
“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”
— Billy Graham
“Keep in mind that all experiences, when approached with the correct attitude, are spiritual and that sometimes trying so hard to achieve your expectation of a spiritual experience will make you miss the spiritual experiences that are happening all around you.”
— John-Roger
“A big-hearted soul does not sentence others on the basis of a single act, but appreciates others through understanding their entire journey.”
— Unknown
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
-— Scott Adams
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
— Joshua J. Marine
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
-– Cynthia Ozick