A Great Way to Start Your Day with Some Great Inspirational Quotes

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. 
..Chuang-tzu (fl. B.C. 350) 12/31/2003

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none...William
Shakespeare  12/30/2003

"Teachers open the door . . . You enter by yourself....Chinese Proverb 12/29/2003

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection..Buddha 12/26/2003

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better--whether by a healthy child, a garden path or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success! Ralph Waldo Emerson 12/23/2003

"Happiness is permanent.
It is always there.
What comes and goes is unhappiness.
If you identify with what comes and goes,
you will be unhappy.
If you identify with what is permanent and always there,
you are happiness itself....Poonjaj 12/19/2003i 

"While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates....For I can see in themidst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in 
the midst of darkness light persists ...Mohandas K. Gandhi  12/17/2003

"The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free 
from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace... Bhagavad 
Gita (c. B.C. 40012/15/2003)

"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot 
be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each 
passing generation...Sid Taylor 12/12/2003

"Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
leave behind to conquer time.

--Goethe (1749-1832)12/11/2003

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -John Ruskin,
author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-19001) 12/09/2003

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoidundue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. -Socrates,philosopher (469?-399 BCE) 12/08/2003

"If money could talk, it would say Goodbye!"...Unknown 12/07/2003

"The definition of the word 'dollar' has undergone such a transformation to hide the fact that it is not money, but a unit of measurement for gold and silver coin. Logically, if there are no gold and silver coins, there are no dollars of anything. Dollars cannot be money any more than quarts can be milk. A unit of measurement cannot replace or become the "thing" for which it is a measure."... Steven Jacobson, Journalist,Wake Up America"  12/06/2003

"It’s not getting what you want It’s wanting what you’ve got".... Sheryl Crow from "Soak Up The Sun"

wisdomwoman's comment: this is the true recipe for happiness  12/05/03

"Another delusion about money has often led nations into trouble - the idea that a government could "make money" simply by stamping certain words upon pieces of paper, just as any of you can "make money" by writing a note promising to pay one hundred dollars on demand. But you know that when you do that, you are not making "money," but making "a debt"; so is any government that issues its promise to pay. And there is this about both the individual and the government who take to issuing such notes on a large scale: they seldom pay them. The French did this during their revolution, and more recently the Confederate States "made money" at a great pace, and issued bonds which are now scarcely worth the paper they are printed upon. Every experiment of this kind has proved that there can be no money "made" where there is not value behind it"... Andrew Carnegie 12/05/03

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on". -- Winston Churchill 12/04/03

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.''
-Alan Greenspan, 1967 12/03/03

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well- meaning but without understanding"... Louis D. Brandeis, Dissenting Opinion, OLMSTEAD V. UNITED STATES, U.S. Supreme Court (1928). 12/01/03

"The Supreme Court ruled there cannot be a nativity scene in Washington, DC this Christmas.
This isn't for any religious or constitutional reason, they simply have not been able to find three wise men and a virgin in the nation's capitol.There was no problem however finding enough asses to fill the stable" 11/30/03

The quality of your life will be determined by the depth of your commitment to excellence, no matter what your chosen field... Vince Lombardi  11/29/03

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and notgiving it". -William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994) 11/27/03

'Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." 
-- Mahatma Gandhi    11/19/2003

"We hang the petty thieves and elect the big thieves to office"...Aesop from Aesop's Fables 11/18/2003

"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the 
light of even one small candle". --Robert Alden   11/16/2003

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today"...Franklin D. Roosevelt   11/15/2003

"Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite--but they all worship money". 
- Mark Twain's Notebook    11/14/2003

"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do". -- Henry Ford.      11/13/2003

"We die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond all reason." We don't have to quarrel about a word, because "God" is only a word, a concept. One never quarrels about reality; we only quarrel about opinions, about concepts, about judgments. Drop your concepts, drop your opinions, drop your prejudices, drop your judgments, and you will see that"...Dag Hammarskjold, former UN Secretary-General


"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well- meaning but without understanding." Louis D. Brandeis, Dissenting Opinion, OLMSTEAD V. UNITED States Supreme Court (1928)

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." 
--Kahlil Gibran ( Lebanese Poet and Philosopher)


"The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth
but carries jewels in his bosom;
He knows himself but does not display himself;
He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem".
--Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)

"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore." ... Dorothy Bryant 

"Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is a impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before."
Eleanor Roosevel