Meditations' Archive 

April 2013

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open. (Frank Zappa) 

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. (William James) 

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. (Mahatma Gandhi) 

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed yours. (Jessamyn West) 

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved. (J E Buchrose) 

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle. (Woody Allen) 

April 2012 

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. (Agnes De Mille) 

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes) 

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. (Buddha) 

An avalanche begins with a snowflake. (Joseph Compton) 

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (Eden Phillpotts) 

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become. (Arthur Schopenhauer) 

June 2011

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict. (Anon) 

Going to church does not make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you a car. (Laurence J Peter) 

The only man who can't change his mind is the man who hasn't got one. (Edward Noyes Westcott) 

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. (Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco) 

Yard by yard is hard, inch by inch is a cinch. (Anon) 

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. (Bruce Atkinson) 

May 2011

When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. (Anon) 

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

He who limps still walks. (Stanislaw Lec) 

Action is the antidote to despair. (Joan Baez) 

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. (Abigail Van Buren) 

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde) 

April 2011

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. (Marge Piercy) 

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the seas. (Anon) 

When we are not sure, we are alive. (Graham Greene) 

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. (Socrates) 

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. (Angelique Arnauld) 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Theodore Roosevelt) 

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