Up, Up and away

"Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom.
Our thoughts, our words and deeds
are the threads of the net
which we throw around ourselves."
--Swami Vivekananda

"We are more powerful than we even imagine."
--KLBseagull

"You'll see it when you believe it!"
--Dr. Wayne Dyer

"If you are open to new possibilities in your life, then that alone will give you access to those possibilities - readiness is all."
--Dr. Deepak Chopra

"There is no such thing as chance; And what to us seems merest accident
springs from the deepest source of destiny."
--Friedrich von Schiller

"Make divine choices. This is a matter of refusing to make a choice based upon the expectations of others. Instead, you decide to act in ways consistent with your purpose and who you really are."
--Dick Sutphen

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
--Goethe

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

"Do or do not. There is no try."
--Yoda

"People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
--Sir Winston Churchill

"If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing - you're right!"
--Henry Ford

"Let the waters settle. You will see stars and moon mirrored in your being."
--Rumi

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world."
--Buddha

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
--Albert Einstein

"If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you'll see obstacles."
--Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there."
--Rumi

"I believe in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life."
-Brian Tracy

After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed,
"I don't believe it!"
His Jedi mentor responded...
"That is why you fail."
--The Empire Strikes Back

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
--Harry S Truman

"Life is like a phone call with a loved one. When it is cut short, we realize how much of it we have wasted."
--KLBseagull

"People will forget what you said, and people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
--Astraea

"When given the choice between being right or being kind, always choose kind."
--Dr. Wayne Dyer

"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good; Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood!"
--The Animals

"Never fight with an ugly person. They have nothing to lose."
--Edwin R. Saferite

"Follow the path of serenity.Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?"
--Mother Teresa

"Never are we nearer the Light than when darkness is deepest."
--Swami Vivekananda

"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
--Robert Pirsig

"Everyone is doing the best they can - not the best they know how but the best they can. So to judge others by our own standards is always a mistake."
--Dick Sutphen

A former inmate of a Nazi concentration camp was visiting a friend who had shared the ordeal with him.
"Have you forgiven the Nazis?" he asked his friend.
"Yes."
"Well, I haven't! I'm still consumed with hatred for them!"
"In that case," said his friend gently,
"They still have you prisoner."
--Ernest Kurtz and Katharine Kitcham

"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."
--John Locke

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
--Montel Williams

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
we were at when we created them."
--Albert Einstein

"In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof."
--John K. Gilbraith

"Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss you will land among the stars."
--Les Brown

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
--Joseph Joubert

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
--Sun Tzu

"Obstacles are things people see when they take their eyes off their goal."
--E. Joseph Cossman

"When we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success."
--Dr. Deepak Chopra