Par défaut pour la gaieté.
Por defecto a la alegría.
Predefinito per allegria.
默认开朗。
陽気にデフォルト。
پیش فرض برای طرب.
الافتراضية إلى الابتهاج.
ברירת מחדל עליזות.
Προεπιλογή με κέφι.
उत्साह के लिए डिफ़ॉल्ट.
Sjálfgefið til glaðværð.
쾌활하는 것 기본적으로.
По умолчанию для бодрости.
Подразумевану ведрину.
ค่าเริ่มต้นให้ความเบิกบานใจ
Mặc định để vui vẻ.
Diofyn i sirioldeb.
פעליקייַט צו טשעערפולנעסס.
Výchozí k veselí.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Default to Cheerfulness
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he; this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness. ri Upanishad
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
"He is far more blessed who gets along without things because he does not need them, than he who owns everything because he needs it all; but best of all is the person who can go without because he has no need."
-Meister Eckhart
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." ~Nietzsche
"Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls." ~Melodie Beattie
"Everything that lives is holy." -William Blake
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"It is important to understand that between you and others, others are more important because they are far more numerous." ~ HH Dalai Lama
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman
“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.” ~Lao-Tzu
"Life is a zoo in a jungle."-- Peter De Vries
I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this much love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things. - Rumi
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde~
"Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet." -Chinese proverb (on criticism)
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” — Gore Vidal
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."-- Jean de la Bruyere
"Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like."-- Ernest Benn
"The chief means of happiness in this life is the ability to consider externally always, internally never." -Gurdjieff
“...the highest aim and sense of human life is the striving to attain the welfare of one’s neighbor...this is possible exclusively only by the conscious renunciation of one’s own." -Gurdjieff
"No job is beneath me or above me. If something needs doing, I do it." Louise L. Hay
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mohandas Gandhi
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence". -Robert Frost
A liberal is a man, woman or child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. - Leonard Bernstein
"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but how they are held: instead of dogmatically, they are held tentatively, with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." Bertrand Russell
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Nelson Mandela
Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. -Paul Johannes Tillich
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." ~Elie Wiesel
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. -Sri Aurobindo
"Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture... It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.--The XIVth Dalai Lama
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content. ~Helen Keller
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. -Sri Aurobindo
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road. -Walt Whitman
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover... yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patanjali
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." (Sinclair Lewis)
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ::: Buddha
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)
"Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn't one." Wei Wu Wei
"Anything won through violence, bribery or intimidation must be maintained with those things. That is not democracy." - Cynthia Boaz
"I get up when I want and write in my pajamas. Hate me, it's ok." - Jessica Valenti
“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.” ~ Isaac Asimov
"Whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal, beyond what our imagination can conceive" -Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804)
"To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their society's ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
- President Barack Obama
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” Howard Zinn
Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine,
and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these mean nothing.
If you DO come, these mean nothing.
-Rumi
"PRASHANTI" - Glass/Shankar
"Hey Nath, hama para kripa kijiye. Door kara andhakar, gyan ka aloka dijiye, hinsa dwesh lobha bamese chhin lijiye, manamey prem shanti bhar dijiye."
(Oh, Lord. Be benevolent to us. Drive the darkness away. Shed upon us the light of wisdom. Take the jealousy, envy, greed and anger from us, and fill our hearts with love and peace.)
'Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends'' - George Bernard Shaw
"Resist much, obey less" ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”— Elizabeth Kubler Ross
The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of ‘I’, the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.-Dalai Lama
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he; this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness. ri Upanishad
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
"He is far more blessed who gets along without things because he does not need them, than he who owns everything because he needs it all; but best of all is the person who can go without because he has no need."
-Meister Eckhart
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." ~Nietzsche
"Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls." ~Melodie Beattie
"Everything that lives is holy." -William Blake
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"It is important to understand that between you and others, others are more important because they are far more numerous." ~ HH Dalai Lama
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman
“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.” ~Lao-Tzu
"Life is a zoo in a jungle."-- Peter De Vries
I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this much love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things. - Rumi
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde~
"Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet." -Chinese proverb (on criticism)
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” — Gore Vidal
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."-- Jean de la Bruyere
"Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like."-- Ernest Benn
"The chief means of happiness in this life is the ability to consider externally always, internally never." -Gurdjieff
“...the highest aim and sense of human life is the striving to attain the welfare of one’s neighbor...this is possible exclusively only by the conscious renunciation of one’s own." -Gurdjieff
"No job is beneath me or above me. If something needs doing, I do it." Louise L. Hay
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mohandas Gandhi
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence". -Robert Frost
A liberal is a man, woman or child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. - Leonard Bernstein
"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but how they are held: instead of dogmatically, they are held tentatively, with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." Bertrand Russell
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Nelson Mandela
Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. -Paul Johannes Tillich
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." ~Elie Wiesel
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. -Sri Aurobindo
"Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture... It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.--The XIVth Dalai Lama
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content. ~Helen Keller
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. -Sri Aurobindo
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road. -Walt Whitman
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover... yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patanjali
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." (Sinclair Lewis)
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ::: Buddha
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)
"Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn't one." Wei Wu Wei
"Anything won through violence, bribery or intimidation must be maintained with those things. That is not democracy." - Cynthia Boaz
"I get up when I want and write in my pajamas. Hate me, it's ok." - Jessica Valenti
“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.” ~ Isaac Asimov
"Whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal, beyond what our imagination can conceive" -Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804)
"To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their society's ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
- President Barack Obama
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” Howard Zinn
Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine,
and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these mean nothing.
If you DO come, these mean nothing.
-Rumi
"PRASHANTI" - Glass/Shankar
"Hey Nath, hama para kripa kijiye. Door kara andhakar, gyan ka aloka dijiye, hinsa dwesh lobha bamese chhin lijiye, manamey prem shanti bhar dijiye."
(Oh, Lord. Be benevolent to us. Drive the darkness away. Shed upon us the light of wisdom. Take the jealousy, envy, greed and anger from us, and fill our hearts with love and peace.)
'Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends'' - George Bernard Shaw
"Resist much, obey less" ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”— Elizabeth Kubler Ross
The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of ‘I’, the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.-Dalai Lama
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