Expand your Horizons

Open up your world, and expand your horizons. Only then will you be able to enjoy this beautiful world and this beautiful life. (Submit by Putu Agung Wija Putera)

Life is an experiment

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be Happy

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. --Scottish Proverb

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." -- Mildred Barthel.

"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor..."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. --Marcus Tullius Cicero

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. --Anne Frank

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. --George Bernard Shaw

No one is happy all his life long. --Euripides

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. -- Kitaro Nishida

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert

If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." -- Richard Bach.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony.

To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy. --Unknown

Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections. --Unknown

Helping People

..... Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny. — Princess Diana

Reflection Quotes

Lao Tzu:
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.


John Quincy Adams:
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglass

Confucius: By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. Rudolf Steiner

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” Thomas Merton

H. L. Mencken:
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. Maynard James Keenan

About Life

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. Ann Landers

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.-- Buddha

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out. Albert Camus

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.-- Samuel Butler

Leadership and Success

“A leader does not change because of a sentence. I came into prison to fight for freedom. I leave it the same I was.” – Sukarno – An Authobiography by Cindy Adam (page 115) Sukarno: The first President of Indonesia. He declared of Indonesian Independence Day in August 17, 1945. Sukarno is the founding father of Indonesia.

“My friends and my children, I am no Communist… I am not prejudiced. I am no dictator. I am no holy man or reincarnation of God. I am just an ordinary human being like you and you and you… Why is it that people ask me to give a speech to them, even when the sun is at its hottest? The answer is this: What Bung (brother) Karno says is actually written in the hearts of the Indonesian people. The people want to hear their own voice but… they cannot speak eloquently for themselves… (Therefore) when I die… do not write on the tombstone: ‘Here rests His Most Exalted Excellency Dr. Ir. Raden Sukarno, the first President of the Republic of Indonesia’ … [but] write… ‘Here rests Bung Karno, the Tongue of the Indonesian People”.

-Sukarno, 1959

“In every Seventeenth of August meeting [Independence Day] … it is as though I held a dialogue. A dialogue with the people of Indonesia. A two-way conversation with Sukarno-the-man and Sukarno-the people, a two-way conversation between comrade in arms and comrade in arms. A two-way conversation between two comrades who in reality are one. That is why, every time I prepare a Seventeenth of August address I become like a person possessed”.

-Sukarno, 1963

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
- John F. Kennedy


An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag.
- Latin proverb

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
- Matthew

Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
- Benjamin Franklin

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
- Tacitus


Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin

The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi


If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
- John F. Kennedy

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
- Indira Gandhi


I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela


No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln

Change is the law of life.
- John F. Kennedy

Everything changes but change itself.
- John F. Kennedy

When we think we lead we most are led.
- Lord Byron

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
- Swami Sivananda

Inspirations

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese proverb

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

Goal and Quotations

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Aldous Huxley

If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor Frankl

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca

Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
Burmese Saying

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Author Unknown

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
David Ogilvy

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Inspiration

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time and Opportunity

You are the opportunity of life, for as long as you live! All opportunities exist from within!!


"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
---Mary Pickford


" If you can see it, and believe it, you can be it!"
Kerissa Kuis --- Pennsylvania


" Life has no pause button! Dreams have no expiration date! Time has no holiday! Don't waste a single moment of your life. LIVE IT! ROCK IT!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Giriraj Sharma --- India

" When all opportunities are lost, you still aren't." Shyam S. --- India

A New Day. A New Inspiration

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good." Author Unknown


"There is no such thing in anyone's life
as an unimportant day." Alexander Woollcott American Author

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 American Essayist and Poet