Quotes #21 : Luck 2

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have."
Thomas Jefferson

The more chances you take the more of them turn into lucky ones !

Quotes #21 : Luck

"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck."
Henry Ward Beacher

Quotes #21 : Be yourself

"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."

Quotes #21 : Intuition

"Engineers are trained to make decisions analytically and largely without emotion. When it comes to a decision between alternatives, we enumerate the cost and benefits and decide which one is better. But there are times in our lives when the careful consideration of costs and benefits just doesn't' seem like the right way to make a decision. There are times in all of our lives when our reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate when a particular course of action just feels right, and interestingly, I've discovered, it's that in facing life's more important decisions, intuition seems the most indispensable to getting it right…" 
http://www.edibleapple.com/tim-cook-joining-apple-was-the-best-decision-that-i-ever-made/

Поднимайте самооценку !

"Вот в чем проблема с теми, кто «меньше, чем ничто». Они получают награду, но чувствует себя настолько недостойными, что не ценят ее. " Бернард Вербер  

Две цитаты о желаемом...

"Твои желания заставляют тебя страдать, - говорит Жак. - Ты постоянно чего-нибудь хочешь. И, когда ты получаешь желаемое, ты даже не можешь это оценить. Постарайся просто ценить, что ты здесь и сейчас, что ты жив." Бернард Вербер

"Реальность, каково бы ни было ее эмоциональное воздействие, — это самый прекрасный из всех фильмов." Бернард Вербер

Эта цитата помогла мне лучше понять, о чем же говорят индийские мистики, когда призывают нас отстраниться и быть просто наблюдателем за своей собственной жизнью.

Quotes #20 : И снова об ошибках

"Совершим все возможные ошибки, потому что иначе мы не узнаем, почему их не надо было делать" Бернард Вербер "Империя Ангелов"

Quotes #20: Dare to pay dearly

 "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;
  it is dearness only that gives everything its value."  Thomas Paine 

Quotes #20 : Про меня...

"He who reflects too much will accomplish little."
         Johann Friedrich von Schiller

Quotes #20 : Stop thinking..

 "Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
         Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity,
  Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them
  scarcely have room to breathe." Virginia Woolf

"Ты уйдешь отсюда изменившимся, потому что это то, зачем ты родился. Вспомни на мгновение о своих родителях и поблагодари их, потому что они видели это и дали тебе возможность сделать это." Крайон

Часть Вселенной

"Человек - это часть целого, которое мы называем Вселенной, часть, ограниченная во времени и пространстве. Он ощущает себя, свои мысли и чувства как нечто отдельное от всего остального мира, что является своего рода оптическим обманом. Эта иллюзия стала темницей для нас, ограничивающей нас миром собственных желаний и привязанностью к узкому кругу близких нам людей. Наша задача - освободиться из этой тюрьмы, расширив сферу своего участия до всякого живого существа, до целого мира, во всем его великолепии. Никто не сможет выполнить такую задачу до конца, но уже сами попытки достичь эту цель являются частью освобождения и основанием для внутренней уверенности." Альберт Эйнштейн

Quotes #20 : MEaning of life...

"Life is a great big canvas...throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye

"Old age is just a record of one's whole life." Muhammad Ali 

"What will your record say?" dr. Mardy

I am looking at my life and I want to be proud of my record in the old age. I want the story of my life to be inspiring and interesting, daring other people to change the world by changing themselves. 

Quotes #20: Mistakes

Every mistake you make is progress.

Mistakes teach you important lessons.  Every time you make one, you're one step closer to your goal.  The only mistake that can truly hurt you is choosing to do nothing simply because you're too scared to make a mistake.

So don't hesitate – don't doubt yourself.  In life, it's rarely about getting a chance; it's about taking a chance.  You'll never be 100% sure it will work, but you can always be 100% sure doing nothing won't work.  Most of the time you just have to go for it!

And no matter how it turns out, it always ends up just the way it should be.  Either you succeed or you learn something.  Win-Win.  Remember, if you never act, you will never know for sure, and you will be left standing in the same spot forever.

http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/01/10/10-simple-truths-smart-people-forget/

Quotes #19: The way to the Better

"If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst." Thomas Hardy

Quotes# 19 : The best things in life ...

"The best things in life aren't things." Art Buchwald 

Quotes #20 : Why you should do what you like

"To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction" Bhagavad Gita

I cannot control the results of my action. I can't control how someone reacts to what I say or what I do. 

I should do what I do just because it is something I want to do rather than because of some outcome I'd like. 

But at the same time I should not let these two ideas lead me to become passive and get stuck in sitting on my hands and not taking action at all.

Basically, I do what I think is right and that is my responsibility. And then the rest (the possible results), well, that is not up for me to decide about or try to control. I let it go.

Quotes # 19 : Be true to yourself

"To go wrong in one's own way
  is better than to go right in someone else's."
         Fyodor Dostevsky

 "Be what you are.
  This is the first step towards becoming better than you are."
         Julius C. Hare & Augustus W. Harе

Бесполезно пытаться изменить себя силком. Для начала надо позволить себе быть. 

И наблюдая за этим удивительным процессом со стороны играть с ним, импровизируя и реализуя интересные идеи, приходящие в голову. Тогда изменения происходят сами собой. 

И всегда в лучшую сторону. Самое важное, что в сторону бОльшего самоуважения, согласия с собой и радости от того, что происходит в нашей жизни.

СтОит только позволить себе быть.

  

 "At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being,
  only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance
  will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity
  as he is, ever be put together a second time."
         Friedrich Nietzsche

 "There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,
  there is only the meaning we each give to our life,
  an individual meaning,an individual plot,
  like an individual novel, a book for each person."
         Anais Nin

Quotes #19 : Жизнь по сценарию

"Я не хочу больше жить по сценарию. Лучший способ предвидеть будущее - это создавать его самим." Бернард Вербер "Дыхание Богов"

Мы часто думаем, что строим свою жизнь сами, не замечая, что живем по замысловатому сценарию программы, родившейся в ходе прошлого опыта, как правило, негативного. Своего рода "искуственный интеллект" подсознания, который берет власть в свои руки и, пользуясь силой и хитростью нашего ума, убеждает нас в том, что мы - САМИ, в то время как он из-за кулис "рулит процессом". В этой пьесе зачастую множество сюжетных линий и неординарных авторских находок. Чем многограннее и сильнее характер, чем мощнее творческий потенциал, тем сложнее и хитроумнее сценарий, и тем труднее порой бывает его осознать, увидеть и изменить. Но в жизни наступает момент, когда вдруг из актера драматических пьес Театра Подсознания мы становимся зрителем и оказываемся в зале, с удивлением наблюдая, что происходит в нашей собственной жизни и сопереживая самому себе. Едва досидев до антракта, мы задумчиво пьем в буфете чай и размышляем над вопросами "и что теперь с этим делать?" "оно мне надо?" "а как по-другому?" . После этого мы, возможно даже сходим еще на одну, а может, и две премьеры в качестве зрителя, после чего наша деятельная и творческая натура пишет новый сценарий для одного актера, берется за режиссуру и начинает руководить....

"И тогда наступает счастье.." Евгений Гришковец "ОдноврЕменно"

"if the very beginning is wrong, the end cannot be right." Osho

Osho on relationship and love

If you are unhappy you will find somebody who is unhappy. Unhappy people are attracted towards unhappy people. And it is good, it is natural. It is good that the unhappy people are not attracted towards happy people; otherwise they would destroy their happiness. It is perfectly okay.
...

Only happy people are attracted towards happy people.

...

I teach you that the first and foremost thing is to be loving towards yourself. Don't be hard; be soft. Care about yourself. Learn how to forgive yourself — again and again and again — seven times, seventy-seven times, seven hundred seventy-seven times. Learn how to forgive yourself. Don't be hard; don't be antagonistic towards yourself. Then you will flower.

In that flowering you will attract some other flower. It is natural. Stones attract stones; flowers attract flowers. Then there is a relationship which has grace, which has beauty, which has a benediction in it. If you can find such a relationship, your relationship will grow into prayer;your love will become an ecstasy and through love you will know what the divine is.

Вполне логично говорить, что научное открытие уменьшает область неизвестного. Но не менее логично утверждать, что она при этом увеличивается. По вине самого открытия и увеличивается. Когда человек идет в гору, перед ним все раздвигается горизонт, но и все протяженней становятся земли, лежащие за горизонтом

Quotes #18 : If tomorrow comes...

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles M. Schulz

Quotes #18 : In despair ? Take action !

"Action is the andidote to despair." Joan Baez 

Act even if not sure, even if clumsy, even if not right the first time. Step, sway, stumble, fall, get up and step again.

It is OK to be wrong, it is OK to be confused as long as you are doing something.

"Confusion is a great opportunity. It simply says that through the mind there is no way. If you are really confused you are blessed. Now something is possible, something immensely valuable; you are on the verge. If you are utterly confused, that means the mind has failed; now the mind can no longer supply any certainty to you." Osho, The Book of Wisdom, Talk #4

Interesting reading on confusion by Osho : http://www.osho.com/library/online-library-confusion-heidegger-rate-535e3374-394.aspx .

Quotes #18 : Self-acceptance

" I can be nothing but what I am, and I am trying to be that to the best of my ability." Osho Zen Transformation Tarot

Heart's-ease in the king's garden

You cannot improve upon yourself. And I am not saying that improvement does not happen, remember--but you cannot improve upon yourself. When you stop improving upon yourself, life improves you. In that relaxation, in that acceptance, life starts caressing you, life starts flowing through you. Nobody else has ever been like you and nobody else will ever be like you; you are simply unique, incomparable. 

Accept this, love this, celebrate this--and in that very celebration you will start seeing the uniqueness of the others, the incomparable beauty of the others. 

Love is possible only when there is a deep acceptance of oneself, the other, the world. Acceptance creates the milieu in which love grows, the soil in which love blooms.

I have heard: 
A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs and flowers. The oak said it was dying because it could not be tall like the pine. Turning to the pine, he found it drooping because it was unable to bear grapes like the vine. And the vine was dying because it could not blossom like the rose. He found Heart's-ease blooming and as fresh as ever. Upon inquiry, he received this reply: 

"I took it for granted that when you planted me you wanted Heart's-ease. If you had desired an oak, a vine or a rose, you would have planted them. So I thought that since you put me here, I should do the best I can to be what you want. I can be nothing but what I am, and I am trying to be that to the best of my ability." 

You are here because this existence needs you as you are. Otherwise somebody else would have been here!--existence would not have helped you to be here, would not have created you. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental, as you are. If God wanted a Buddha he could have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. He produced only one Buddha--that was enough, and he was satisfied to his heart's desire, utterly satisfied. Since then he has not produced another Buddha or another Christ. 

He has created you instead. Just think of the respect that the universe has given to you! You have been chosen, not Buddha, not Christ, not Krishna. You will be needed more, that's why. You fit more now. Their work is done, they contributed their fragrance to existence. Now you have to contribute your fragrance. 

But the moralists, the puritans, the priests, they go on teaching you, they go on driving you crazy. They say to the rose, "Become a lotus." And they say to the lotus, "What are you doing here? You have to become something else." They drive the whole garden crazy, everything starts dying--because nobody can be anybody else, that is not possible. 

That's what has happened to humanity. Everybody is pretending. Authenticity is lost, truth is lost, everybody is trying to show that he is somebody else. Just look at yourself: you are pretending to be somebody else. And you can be only yourself--there is no other way, there has never been, there is no possibility that you can be anybody else. You will remain yourself. You can enjoy it and bloom, or you can wither away if you condemn it.

Quotes #18 : Self is made through action

"The self is not something ready-made,
 but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
          John Dewey

And even if you choose it wrong the first time, and the second time, and even the third time, still only through action you can learn the best course, get the best relationships and - what is most important - find and feel the best feeling of self-respect and accomplishment.

Quotes #18 : Dream and it happens

"Nothing happens unless first a dream." Carl Sandburg (born Jan, 6, 1878).

 When you really set your mind upon something, when you really want something to happen, you don't even have to do anything. 
It comes to you itself, immediately, without your effort, without even a single movement from your side, right to your door and knocks. You only have to open and come out.

Quotes #18 : Is money really worth it ?

"A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money." Everett Dirksen (b. Jan. 4, 1896), on federal spending.

Quotes #18 : The greatest wisdom

"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it." Konstantin Stanislavsky (born Jan. 5, 1863).