EYE OF THE HEART
Monday, February 8th, 2010LILY TOMLIN –“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
LILY TOMLIN –“We’re the phone company. We don’t care. We don’t have to.”
LILYTOMLIN –“The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way.”
LIN YATANG – “Hope is like a road in country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
LIN YUTANG –“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
LIN YUTANG –“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
LIN YUTANG –“There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.”
LIN YUTANG –“When I was a boy I didn’t know anything. When I was in college, I thought I knew everything. When I graduated I realised I didn’t know anything. But in my middle age I thought I knew everything. In my old age, I realised again I don’t know anything.”
LINDA DIREZZI –“Everything is alright in the end. If it’s not alright, then it’s not the end.”
LINDA RAY –“…. if you have the courage to look beyond suffering, you find strength.”
LINUS PAULING –“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
LISA MARIE PRESLEY –“I don’t attempt to sound like my father —I do my own thing.”
LIVY- “Men’s plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans.”
LIZ CARPENTER –“Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we’ve learned and create something.”
LIZ CARPENTER –“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t re-read a phone call.”
LLOYD DOUGLAS –“If a man harbours any sort of fear it makes him landlord to a ghost.”
LOCILLI BALL –“If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.”
LOCKE ERICH – “He that has not a mastery over his inclinations; he that knows not how to resist the importunity of present pleasure or pain, for the sake of what reason tells him is fit to be done, wants the true principle of virtue and industry, and is in danger of never being good for anything.”
LOESJE –“At the end of my salary I always have a lot of month left.”
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH –“Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.”
LOGON PEARSALL SMITH –“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumph of mind.”
LONGCHENPA –“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”
LONGFELLOW –“All your strength is in your union; your danger is in discord.”
LONGFELLOW –“Came the Spring with all its splendour, All its birds and all its blossoms, All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses.”
LONGFELLOW- “Fame comes only when deserved, and than is as inevitable as destiny, for it is Destin.”
LONGFELLOW –“I was Easter Sunday the full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.”
LOO TZU- “Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
LOPE DE VEGA –“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.”
LORD ACTON –“Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.”
LORD ACTON –“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.”
LORD BHIKHU PAREKH –“While patriotism must be evoked, it is important to remember that the diaspora has its own legitimate interests… India’s strength is its cultural universalism and not cultural nationalism. India would be untrue to itself if it ever forgot that it was an open society.”
LORD BRYON –“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.”
LORD BRYON –“To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.”
LORD BUDDHA –“Only sacred thoughts can lead to sacred speech. The tongue has been given to man to speak the truth, to be sweet to others, to praise the Divine and enjoy the bliss derived from such sacred speech.”
LORD BYRON –“In her first passion women loves her lover. In all the others all she loves is love.”
LORD BYRON –“Romances paint at full length people’s wooing, but only give a bust of marriages; but no one cares for matrimonial cooing.”
LORD BYRON –“The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.”
LORD BYRON –“To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.”
LORD BYRON –“What if fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
LORD CHASTERFIELD- “Cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.”
LORD CHASTERFIELD- “If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.”
LORD CHESTERFIELD –“A man may if he knows not have to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grind stone.”
LORD CHESTERFIELD –“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
LORD CHESTERFIELD –“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
LORD CHESTERFIELD- “Unlike my subject, will I frame my song. It shall be witty and it shan’t be long.”
LORD CURZON –“India has left a deeper mark upon the history, philosophy and religions of mankind than any other terrestrial unity in the universe.”
LORD DAVID CECIL-“The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”
LORD GEORGE BROWN –“It is difficult to go on strike if there is no work in the first place.”
LORD JEFFERY –“Beware prejudices. They are like rats and man’s minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily; but it is doubtful if they ever get out.”
LORD JOHN RUSSELL- “If peace can not be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.”
LORD LONGFORD –“The male sex still constitutes in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.”
LORD MAHAVIRA –“Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the four powerful enemies which stimulate sinful deeds. One who desires the welfare of his self should renounce these four flaws… Faith, knowledge and conduct together constitute the path of liberation; this is the path to be followed. The saints have averred that if it is foll
owed in the right way it will lead to liberation, otherwise it will lead to bondage.”
LORD MAHAVIRA –“By scriptural study one acquires knowledge, is fixed in religion and helps others to be so fixed. Thus by studying multifarious sutras he becomes absorbed in the contemplation of what is expounded therein.”
LORD MAHAVIRA –“I surrender this body for the sake of my soul. This body is not mine. With this feeling I shall use my body. To cross a river, a boat is needed. I shall use my body as a boat to cross the river of life. I shall bear all the pangs of suffering by being immersed in the soul.”
LORD MANCROFT –“Cricket — a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.”
LORD PARKER- “A judge is not supposed to any thing about the facts of life until they have been presented in evidence and explained to him at least three times.”
LORD TENNYSON –“I chatter, chatter, as I flow, to join the brimming river, for men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.”
LORD TENNYSON -“I found Him in the shining of the stars I marked Him in the flowering of his fields But in His ways with men I find Him not.”
LOREN –“There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life.”
LORI GORDON –“Love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work.”
LORI VALIGRA –“It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet.”
LORRIE MORGAN –“When you stop dreaming, you stop living.”
LORRY GROSS –“Living’s merely the stage/untutored actors age on —/ nothing sage, nothing profound/ happens, only drowned emotions/ some uncrowned king inside/ continues to hide, refuses/to stride the world unfettered, flag unfurled against/ fate’s hurled arrows, cannot/ invent his plot, must/ speak what is penned/ for him, suspend himself,/ amend, pretend until he/ becomes someone free, someone/striding Galilee, crowned messiah/ in a world he never meant to be.”
LORRY WILCOX –“I like to sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me.”
LORRY WILDE –“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
LOTUS SUTRA –“A gracious cloud full of moisture;/ Lightning-flames flash and dazzle,/ Voice of thunder vibrates afar,/ Bringing joy and ease to all./ The sun’s rays are veiled,/ And the earth is cooled;/ The cloud lowers and spreads/ As if it might be caught and gathered;/ It’s rain everywhere equally/ Descends on all sides,/ Streaming and pouring unstinted,/ Permeating the land.”
LOTUS SUTRA –“From the one water which Issued from that cloud, Plants, trees, /thickets, forests, According to their need receive moisture. All the various trees,… Each according to its size, Grows and develops… Wherever the one rain reaches, All become fresh and glossy According as their bodies, forms And natures are great or small, So the enriching rain, Though it is one and the same, Yet makes each of them flourish. In like manner also the Buddha Appears here in the world, Like unto a great cloud Universally covering all things; And having appeared in the world, He, for the sake of the living, Discriminates and proclaims The truth in regard to all laws. The Great Holy World-honoured One Proclaims: I am the Tathagata, The Most Honoured among men; I appear in the world Like unto this great cloud, To pour enrichment on all Parched living beings, To free them from their misery To attain the joy of peace, Joy of the present world, And joy of Nirvana… I preach the Law equally; As I preach to one person, So I preach to all… Never am I weary of Pouring it copious on the world, Like the all-enriching rain.”
LOTUS SUTRA –“The Dwelling of the Tathagata is the great compassionate heart within all the living. The Role of the Tathagata is the gentle and forbearing heart. That seat of the Tathagata is the spirituality of all existence.”
LOU ERICKSON –“Gardening requires a lot of water — most of it is in the form of perspiration.”
LOU HOLTZ –“Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
LOU HOLTZ –“If you don’t make a total commitment to whatever you’re doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It’s tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on… All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.”
LOU REED- “Just a perfect day/ you made me forget myself/ I thought I was/ someone else, someone good.”
LOUIS A ALIEN –“The greatest potential for controlling the ends is to exist at the point where action takes place.”
LOUIS D BRANDEIS –“The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is the title of citizen.”
LOUIS KRONENBERG –“For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading by the hand, and with D in the distance.”
LOUIS KRONENBERGER –“The technique of winning is so shoddy the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning; is so brief; and the specter of the has-been — a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today—brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.”
LOUIS LEMERY –“It’s strengthening, restorative, and apt to repair decayed strength and make people strong.”
LOUIS PASTEUR –“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
LOUIS PASTEUR –“When meditating over a disease, I never think of finding a remedy for it, but, instead, a means of preventing it.”
LOUISA M. ALCOTT –“Work is and always has been my salvation, and I thank the Lord for it.”
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT –“Far way there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
LOUISE BROOKS –“Excellence comes at a result of ceaseless concentration.”
LOUISE ERICKSON –“Kisses may not spread germs, but they certainly lower resistance.”
LOUISE L HAY –“Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school?… We would have happy people who feel good about themselves. We would have people who are comfortable financially and who enrich the economy by investing their money wisely.”
LOUISE L HAY –“I have never understood the importance of having children memories battle dates… Instead,
we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security How | to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relation ships, and How to Create and Maintain Self Esteem and Self-Worth.”
LOUISE L HAY –“Imagine yourself in line at a…buffet in a luxurious hotel, where instead of dishes of food, there are dishes of thoughts. You get to choose any and all the thoughts you wish. These thoughts will create your future experiences.”
LOUISE L HAY –“Now, if you choose thoughts that will create problems and pain, that’s rather foolish. It’s like choosing food that always makes you ill. We may do this once or twice, but as soon as we learn which foods upset our bodies, we stay away from them. It’s the same with thoughts. Let us stay away from thoughts that create problems and pain…”
LOUISE L HAY –“What are you thinking right now? If your thoughts shape your life, would you want what you were just thinking right now to become true for you? If it’s a thought of worry or anger or hurt or revenge or fear, how do you think this thought will not come back to you?…”
LOUISE L HAY –“What are you thinking right now? If…your thoughts shape your life, would you want what you were just thinking right now to become true for you? If it’s a thought of worry or anger or hurt or revenge or fear, how do you think this thought will not come back to you?… Imagine yourself in line at a…buffet in a luxurious hotel, where instead of dishes of food, there are dishes of thoughts. You get to choose any and all the thoughts you wish. These thoughts will create your future experiences. Now, if you choose . thoughts that will create problems and pain, that’s I rather foolish. It’s like choosing food that always makes you ill… It’s the same with thoughts. Let us stay away from thoughts that create problems and pain… I have never understood the importance of having children memorise battle \ dates… Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships… Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would belike if they had I been taught these subjects in school?… We would have happy people who feel good about themselves. We would have people who are comfortable financially and who enrich the economy by investing their money wisely.”
LOUISE NEVELSON –“I never feel age — if you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.”
LOVE TROTSKY –“One must know the limitations offorce; one must know when to blend a blow with an agreement.”
LUBBOCK –“There is, however, a true music of Nature —the song of the birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore, the wail of wind or sea.”
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO –“We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
LUCILLE BALL –“Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact , that’s good taste.”
LUCILLE BALL –“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
LUCILLE BALL –“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.”
LUCILLE GAMBRELL –“You are God’s special gift to the world. You are a bright and shining star. When you look into your eyes in the mirror each morning, tell yourself, I am hope. I am joy. I am free. I am happy. I am love. More important, I am me.”
LUCILLE HARPER –“The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about the other people.”
LUCY –“ Pear God, Are you really invisible or is that just a trick?”
LUCY BENINGTON –“Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employer’s reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.”
LUCY VAN PELT –“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!”
LUDWIA VAN BEETHOVEN-“O, life is so beautiful but to me it is poisoned.”
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN –“I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN –Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.”
LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN –“0 friends! Not these sounds! But let us strike up more pleasant sounds and more joyful!”
LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN –“Do you come crashing down, you millions? Do you sense the Creator’s presence, world? Seek Him above the starry firmament, For above the stars he surely dwells.”
LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN –“Embrace each other now, you millions! The kiss is for the whole wide world! Brothers — over the starry firmament A beloved Father must surely dwell.”
LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN –“I will seize Fate by the throat. It will not wholly conquer me! Oh, how beautiful it is to live—and live a thousand times over!”
LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN –“Joy is drunk by every creature From Nature’s fair and charming breast; Every being, good or evil, Follows in her rosy steps. Kisses she gave to us, and vines, And one good friend, tried in death; The serpent she endowed with base desire And the cherub stands before God…”
LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN –“Joy, 0 wondrous spark divine, Daughter of Elysium, Drunk with fire now we enter, Heavenly one, your holy shrine. Your magic powers join again What fashion strictly did divide; Brotherhood unites all men Where your gentle wings spread wide…”
LUDWIG VON MISES –“Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.”