Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 19

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

  ~ Louis Sachar

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 18

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

 ~ Carlos Castaneda

Daily Zen - Monday, June 17

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. 

~ Dolly Parton

Weekend Zen, June 15-16

Nobody is perfect, and in the end, affection is always greater than perfection.

~ Ritu Ghatourey

Daily Zen - Friday, June 14

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

~ John Wooden

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 13

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

 ~ Hermann Hesse

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 12

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

 

~ Anne Frank

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 11

It's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

~ Joe Montana

Daily Zen - Monday, June 10

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

 ~ Robert Frost

Weekend Zen, June 8-9

The main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

~ Mary Richards

Daily Zen - Friday, June 7

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 6

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

               ~ Paulo Coelho 

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 5

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 4

Freedom lies in being bold.

 ~ Robert Frost

Daily Zen - Monday, June 3

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Weekend Zen, June 1-2

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

                                      ~ Walt Whitman

Daily Zen - Friday, May 31

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

~ Walt Whitman

It's Friday AND it's Uncle Walt's birthday. Yawp it up! 

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 30

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

                                ~ Walt Whitman

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 29

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

                               ~ Melissa Etheridge

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 28

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

~ George Bernard Shaw