#976 This grotesque folly

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty .  ~ George Bernard Shaw

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun.  ~ Benjamin Franklin

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.   ~ Anatole France

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.   ~ Miguel de Cervantes

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.  ~ Winston Churchill

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.  ~ Mark Twain

Quotes about folly, life

- What is your attitude toward happiness and beauty?
- How do you try to manage despair?
- What examples of intolerant idealism come to your mind?
- How pitiable is the human race?

#975 Must pass through fire

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.  ~ Etty Hilsum

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.  ~ Barbara De Angelis

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.  ~ Pablo Picasso

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.    ~ Norman Douglas

Quotes about harmony, life

- To what extent can you find harmony in your thoughts, words, and deeds?
- To your feelings, beliefs, and ideas?
- What hidden harmony can you appreciate?
- What fire have you experienced which contributed to an inner harmony?

#974 Teaching My Blood Whispers

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.  We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.  ~ Albert Einstein

Instinct is the nose of the mind.  ~ Madame De Girardin

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.  ~ Michael Burke

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.  ~ Malcolm Gladwell

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.  ~ Hermann Hesse

Quotes about instinct, life

- When has your intuition served you well?
- How could you develop your intuitive powers?
- What does your blood whisper to you?

#973 Something incredible is waiting

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.  ~ Voltaire

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.  ~ Ogwo David Emenike

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.  ~ Carl Sagan

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.  ~ E. M. Forster

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.  ~ Bertrand Russell

Quotes about waiting, life

- To what degree are you living?
- What are you waiting for?
- Of what plans must you let go?
- What magical things await your exploration?

#972 If we opened our hearts more

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.  ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Trouble creates a capacity to handle it....meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.   ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.   Keep in the sunlight.  ~ Benjamin Franklin

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.  ~ Montesquieu

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.  ~ Chief Joseph

Quotes about trouble, life

- How happy are you?
- How do you try to cope with trouble?
- Where could you open your heart more?

#971 Get up and do something

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.  ~ Barack Obama

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.  ~ Mother Teresa

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?  ~ Henry Ford

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.  ~ Claire Cook

Quotes about determination, life

- What resolve have you shown recently?
- When have you gone out and made good things happen?
- Where do you need to show some resiliency and determination?

#970 Let it produce joy

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.  ~ Mark Twain

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.  ~ Anton Chekhov

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man dies. Not every man lives.  ~ William Ross Wallace

-Do anything, but let it produce joy.
-The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.  ~ Walt Whitman

Quotes about living, life

- What do you owe the world?
- How worn out are you with life?
- How do you cope?
- How can you strive to live a life of vitality?