Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Life is full of possibilities!



Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back - a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

~ Anaïs Nin



Friday, February 17, 2012

On friendship and gratitude


Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Nothing like a cheerful disposition :)



I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

- Martha Washington


Saturday, February 4, 2012

Prayer of the grateful

Image: Wolfgang Staudt


I am grateful for what I am and have.
My thanksgiving is perpetual...
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches.
No run on my bank can drain it
for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

- Henry David Thoreau



Wednesday, February 1, 2012

We are all one



Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

- Albert Schweitzer