Inspirational Bites for Daily Living

"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe."

(Muhammad Ali)

If you understand that the world is full of irrational and irrelevant reactions to mental events, then even if you react to them, you can recognise your reaction and control it better.

(Orgyen Chowang)

You can learn something from anyone, no matter who they are or what their station in life is.

“Love is more important than opinion.

If people love each other, the most varied opinions can be reconciled.

That’s why one of the most important tasks for humanity today and in the future is that we must learn to live together and understand each other. “

Rudolf Steiner

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” -Jean-Paul Sartre

"My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you."

No Country f

Belief holds on

Faith lets go

“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories, and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.

-Bonnie Friedman

Emerson:

"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majest