var quotes = new Array( "It doesn't take a belly to be the Buddha.
-- jsw" , "That and a handful of jellybeans will get you an ant for a pet.
-- jsw" , "Holy cheese sticks!
-- jsw" , "Karma is like laundry: you're never completely done with it.
-- jsw" , "Keep things in perspective: we're just a bunch of big, bald monkeys with oversized brains and delusions of divinity. Or is that divinities of delusion?
-- jsw" , "A miracle is the act of looking at things differently." , "Status report: The Year 2000 compliance initiative continues to fill my life with joy and excitement.
-- jsw" , "I refuse to be defeated by a filing cabinet.
-- jsw" , "I'd rather be a folk hero than a legend. You don't even have to actually exist. You can be 200 feet tall and have green hair.
-- jsw" , "Why don't you name your band HulaFish or The Dog Chow Skin Puppets?
-- jsw" , "Life is magic.
-- jsw" , "You are alive; now what are you going to do about it?
-- jsw" , "Act like a genius, look like an idiot; act like an idiot, look like a genius: welcome to Los Angeles.
-- jsw" , "My dog is not an anthropologist.
-- jsw" , "I have a handful of socks. I need nothing else in this world.
-- jsw" , "Go sit on a cornflake.
-- jsw" , "I'd rather set my toenails on fire.
-- jsw" , "If a messy office is indicative of genius, I must be Albert Einstein in a dress.
-- jsw" , "It jives. It grooves. It's down with its bad self. (Mike: 'Okay, you can stop that now.')
-- jsw" , "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
-- Seneca" , "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
-- Norman Cousins" , "If you always give
You will always have.
-- Chinese Proverb" , "Anyone who angers you conquers you.
-- Sister Kenny's mother" , "A coincidence is when God performs a miracle, and decides to remain anonymous.
-- unknown" , "Your art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
-- Twyla Tharp" , "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
-- Alan Alda" , "Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
-- Frank Tyger" , "Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
-- Rachel Carson" , "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
-- Confucius" , "In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
-- Edward Hoagland" , "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-- Confucius" , "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei" , "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller" , "You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
-- John Mason" , "You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
-- Dr. Seuss" , "You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
-- Christopher Robin to Pooh" , "Broken hearts can be like eggs - broken open.
-- Joe Breskin" , "Sometimes God calms the raging storm in the life of His child.
Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child.
-- Author Unknown" , "The challenge is to hate the sin but love the sinner.
-- Gandhi" , "Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
-- Sydney J. Harris" , "We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
-- Carl Jung" , "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead" , "If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Don't complain.
-- Maya Angelou" , "If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever.
Is that good news?
-- Robert Anthony" , "Nothing changes more consistently than the past; the past that influences our lives is not what actually happened but what we believed happened.
-- Gerald W. Johnson" , "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
-- Buckminster Fuller" , "Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonald's makes you a hamburger.
-- unknown" , "Awaiting within is the clarity so apparent it is clouded over.
-- Moose" , " Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-- Carl Jung" , "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson" , "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
-- Sam Keen" , " Compassion is the best healer.
-- Lama Zopa Rinpoche" , "Compassionate consumption is not about sacrificing or giving up things we need. It is about reawakening to the sacred need within and around us and celebrating this awareness in every action ­ and in every transaction.
-- Julia Butterfly Hill" , "Attitudes are contagious.
Are yours worth catching?
-- Unknown" , "Courage does not always come in a loud roar. Sometimes courage comes as a small voice at the end of the day saying, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'
-- Flo Hartmann" , "Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
-- Gautama Buddha" , "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce" , "From the Emperor down to the masses of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything else.
-- Confucius" , "Strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut" , "Death ends a life, but not a relationship.
-- Jack Lemmon" , "God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
-- Aughey" , "One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
-- Henry Miller" , "I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
-- Abraham Lincoln" , "We can only treat badly those things or people whose souls we disregard.
-- Thomas Moore" , "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'
-- Yoda" , "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
-- Mother Teresa" , "I am always doing things I can't do; that's how I get to do them.
-- Pablo Picasso" , "Every day is Saturday to a dog.
-- Author unknown" , "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
-- Unknown" , "Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
-- Louis E. Boone" , "The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
-- John Holt" , "The whole world is a door of liberation, but people are unwilling to enter it.
-- Hui-Wu" , "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
-- Khalil Gibran" , "Great doubts deep wisdom...
Small doubts little wisdom.
-- Chinese Proverb" , "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
-- Oscar Wilde" , "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
-- Mother Teresa" , "I dwell in possibility.
-- Emily Dickinson" , "The wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realize it ourselves, and we seek the advice and the guidance of enlightened ones.
-- Hui-neng" , "Within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty; to which every part and every particle is equally related; the eternal One.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson" , "Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.
-- Epictetus" , "No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
-- Mohandas Gandhi" , "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein" , "To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
-- Katherine Paterson" , "We understand why children are afraid of darkness, but why are men afraid of light?
-- Plato" , "He who forgives ends the quarrel.
-- African proverb" , "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre" , "Sometimes when you don't get along with your friend, it is good to apologize and so be friends again.
-- Ladysmith Black Mambazo" , "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt" , "God has no religion.
-- Mohandas Gandhi" , "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out he hates all the same people you do.
-- Anne Lamott" , "God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire" , "God is singing and Creation is the melody.
-- David Palmer" , "A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray" , "Count your blessings. A grateful heart attracts more joy, love, and prosperity.
-- Cheryl Richardson" , "Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
-- Sally Koch" , "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.
-- Unknown" , "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
-- William James" , "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-- Elbert Hubbard" , "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-- Walter Bagehot" , "We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
-- Frank A. Clark" , "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
-- Chuang-tzu" , "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-- Mahatma Gandhi" , "He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
-- Marcus Aurelius" , "When you train yourself to hear the Voice of God in everything, you attain the quintessence of the human spirit.
-- Kabbalah" , "We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
-- Fred 'Mister' Rogers, children's TV show host" , "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
-- Buddha" , "To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
-- Stephen R. Covey" ,"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything god-like about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
-- Henry Miller" , "My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents, and I lay them both at His feet.
-- Mohandas Gandhi" , "The things we call impossible may be only one more step away from where we are right now. Don't stop trying too soon.
-- Joan Chittister" , "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
-- Albert Schweitzer" , "Kindness is the mark of faith; and whoever has not kindness has not faith.
-- Muhammad" , "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh" , "Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond to it.
-- author unknown" , "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-- Anais Nin" , "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
-- Lao-Tzu" , "Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
-- George Bernard Shaw" , " Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
-- Bernie S Siegel,MD" , "Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
-- Stephen Vincent Benet" , " Even with its hassles, life seems to be the best thing they've come up with yet.
-- Alan Harris" , "Life's mysteries prompt many feelings. Awe, surprise, even fear. And, to the ready heart, profound joy. Grow joyful by opening to mystery.
-- Eric Maisel" , "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-- Joseph Campbell" , "It is not doing the things we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed.
-- Goethe" , "When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
-- Jared Sparks" , "O let us live in joy, although having nothing! In joy let us live like spirits of light!
-- Buddha Gautama" , "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
-- Henry David Thoreau" , "The greatest thing that I've learned is that it doesn't matter whether you love me. It does matter that I love you.
-- Sylvia Browne" , "When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
-- Michael Bridge" , "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
-- Mark Twain" , "Whatever you want to do, just do it. Don't worry about making a fool of yourself. Making a fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
-- Gloria Steinem" , "It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
-- Loesje" , "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
-- Macaulay" , "Nature is a writer's best friend.
-- Agavé Power" , "The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
-- Empedocles" , "The need to be right is the beginning of an act of violence.
-- Jack Kornfield" , "The man who has no problems is out of the game.
-- Elbert Hubbard" , "We only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it.
-- Jon Blais" , "All things in the world come from being.
And being comes from non-being.
-- Lao-Tzu" , "Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything.
-- Madeleine L'Engle" , " Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
-- George Eliot" , "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-- Kenji Miyazawa" , "Poetry makes you remember what you didn't know you knew.
-- Robert Frost" , "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James" , "As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
-- Bhagavad Gita" , "The purpose of life is to find one's gift. The meaning of life is to give it.
-- Author Unknown" , "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
-- Oscar Wilde" , "Those who have not asked the question are not ready to accept the answer.
-- Author Unknown" , "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
-- Joseph Addison" , "The reason that we exist must surely be for each other.
-- Albert Einstein" , "Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
leave behind to conquer time.
-- Goethe" , "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
-- John Atkinson" , "The important thing is this: To be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.
-- Charles Dubois" , "To see things in the seed, that is genius.
-- Lao-Tzu" , "When we have seen Reality, there is not a grain of dust which has not a sublime meaning.
-- J. Vanderleeuw" , "You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places.
But the spring of joy is in your heart.
The haven of peace is in yourself.
-- Satya Sai Baba" , "Silence is the only language God speaks.
Everything else is a bad translation.
-- Unknown" , "It is in the silence of the heart that God speaks.
-- Mother Teresa" , "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." , "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr." , "Small miracles are all around us. We can find them everywhere - in our home, in our daily activities, and, where they are hardest to see, in ourselves.
-- Sue Bender" , "To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
-- Deepak Chopra" , "Speak your heart and have the courage to follow it. Centering yourself allows others to be.
-- Moose" , "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
-- Arthur Ashe" , "You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
-- St. Bernard" , "If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
-- Will Rogers" , "When you stumble make it part of the dance.
-- Author Unknown" , "The Supreme Wisdom is the Oneness of things;
The Supreme Compassion is the Manyness of things.
-- D T Suzuki" , "Growth requires a temporary surrender of security.
-- author unknown" , "When angry, count four.
When very angry, swear.
-- Mark Twain" , "Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
-- Anthony de Mello, SJ" , "The white man goes into his church house and talks about Jesus. The Indian goes into his teepee, and talks to Jesus.
-- Native American Saying" ,"I want to write, but more than that I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried in my heart.
-- Anne Frank" , "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate; to include the excluded; and to say, 'I was wrong.'
-- Unknown" , "Three things there are that when too close are harmful, when too far are useless and are best kept at middle distance: fire, the government, and the guru.
-- Anthony de Mello, SJ" , "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-- Mark Twain" , "Remember that the ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic was built by professionals.
-- Unknown" , "We are all of us trapeze artists; to get from one side to the other we have to be willing to let go of the trapeze we are holding, and hang on for a few moments in suspended animation before we grasp the next support on our own wild ride into the unknown.
-- Mike Riddell" , "Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend oneself to encounter and know the other.
-- David Spangler" , "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
-- Albert Einstein" , "True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess.
-- J.F. Wright" , "You will have to acquire trust before you can surrender your control.
-- Deepak Chopra" , "Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.
-- Andre Gide" , "There are only two commandments:
1. God dwells in you;
2. See God in each other.
All the other commandments were given because people couldn't understand the first two.
-- Ryanto" , "There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with all that you have.
-- Unknown" , "He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
-- Bhagavad Gita" , "The Universe is in each person in such a way that each person is in it; and so every person in the Universe is the Universe.
-- Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa" , "There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
-- Elie Wiesel" , "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-- Isaac Asimov" , "Victory gained by violence is tantamount to a defeat.
-- Gandhi" , "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
-- Mother Teresa" , "What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.
-- Henry David Thoreau" , "Wherever you go, there you are.
-- Buckaroo Banzai" , "He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
-- Raymond Hull" , "To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace.
-- Terry Tempest Williams" , "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
-- Kahlil Gibran" , "In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.
-- Lao Tse" , "All men should strive to learn before they die - what they are running from, and to, and why.
-- James Thurber" , "I have said, ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
-- Psalms 82:6" , "You are a gift worth receiving.
Accept the gift.
-- Anonymous" , "The only important thing you wear is your expression.
-- author unknown" , "Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.
-- Buddha Guatama" , "I wouldn't say that a zero is even. I think that it's a void, a nothingness, a potential. Like an egg. You just don't know what it's going to be until it cracks itself open.
-- jsw" ) qte = quotes.length function chooseQuote(){ randomNum = Math.floor ((Math.random() * qte)) document.write(quotes[randomNum]) }