From the Quote of the Week Files; September 21, 2015

Comparing quotes for this week!  Enjoy!

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"Comparison is the thief of Joy," 

Theodore Roosevelt

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Two Recycled Quotes of the Week Classic...

“Listen. The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.”

Louis C.K.

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“Nine rules of life: Don't analyze. Don't complain. Don't compare yourself to others. Don't expect things to be done for you. Don't expect perfection in the relative. Look to the knowledge aspect daily. Own the movement. Problems are all in your head. Hold yourself together.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Wishing you a most beautiful wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week File; September 14, 2015

British neurologist and best selling author Oliver Sacks passed away on August 30th at age 82. Here are some of his insights upon learning he had terminal cancer...

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On individuality

"When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death."

On being truly alive

"Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight."

On love and gratitude

"I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. "

On living each moment

"It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can."

On the joy of life

"Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."

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​http://www.oliversacks.com/

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Wishing you a most BEAUTIFUL day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; September 7, 2015

“For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”

Lev Grossman

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Go Straight to the Good in Everything

"It is the happy lot of those with good taste. The bee goes straight for the sweetness, and the viper for the bitterness it needs for its poison. So with tastes: some go for the best, others for the worst. There is nothing that doesn't have some good, especially books, where good is imagined. Some people's temperaments are so unfortunate that among a thousand perfections they will find a single defect and censure it and blow it all out of proportion. They are the garbage collectors of the will and the intellect, burdened down with blemishes and defects: punishment for their poor discernment rather than proof of their subtlety. They are unhappy, for they batten on bitterness and graze on imperfections. Others have a happier sort of taste: among a thousand defects they discover some perfection that good luck happened to drop."

Baltasar Gracian

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Wishing you a most BEAUTIFUL day, wherever this may find you!