Stuff About Things #24

"I find that most of the time our obsession with what is wrong just breeds more wrong, more failure. The easiest way to dissect success is through gratitude, giving thanks for what we DO have, for what IS working, appreciating the simple things we sometimes take for granted. We give thanks for these things, and that gratitude RECIPROCATES, creating more to be thankful for. It's really simple and it works.... It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates."
     — Matthew McConaughey

"Thinking about solutions is more energizing than thinking about problems."
     — Unknown

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
     — Albert Camus

"The noblest art is that of making others happy."
     — P. T. Barnum

"All know the way, but few actually walk it."
     — Bodhidharma

"Whenever I make a bum decision, I just go out and make another."
     — Harry Truman

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
     — Dalai Lama

"Accept who you are and revel in it."
     — Mitch Albom

"Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth."
     — Anthony de Mello

"We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened."
     — Thomas Merton

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."
     — Rumi

"Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it."
     — Anthony de Mello

"Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you."
     — Anthony de Mello

"As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that.... Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.... Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.... If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else... an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong."
     — Anthony de Mello

"The search for the truth is more precious than its possession."
     — Albert Einstein

"I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking. I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny."
     — Charles Krauthammer

"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."
     — Rumi

"Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure."
     — Rumi

"The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."
     — Joseph Campbell

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
     — Winston Churchill

"A smooth see never made a skilled sailor."
     — Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to how to sail my ship."
     — Louisa May Alcott

"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
     — Erica Jong

"People always ask me, 'Where do you find inspiration?' and I think it's a difficult question to answer because - everywhere."
     — Kate Spade

"I'm not afraid to look like an idiot."
     — Anthony Bourdain