Activating Thoughts: June 2013

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Beautiful Nature Pics

Saturday, June 29, 2013

1. Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

2. Bravery never goes out of fashion.

3. Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

4. Bravery comes from daring to fail.

5. Bravery is not being afraid of who you are.

6. A brave arm makes a short sword long.

7. Bravery is not the absence of fear. But action in the face of fear.

8. Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

9. Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the
middle.

10. History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

Friday, June 28, 2013

Courage

Inspiring Nature Pics

Quotes on Peace

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Quotes On Courage

1. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

2. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

3. Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

4. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, “I'll try again tomorrow."

5. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

6. You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it.

7. It 's not about ideas, It's about making ideas happen.

8. One man with courage makes a majority.

9. Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

10. Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Cute Babies Images

Monday, June 24, 2013

Inspiring Chinese Quotes 1

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.

A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

A man's conversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

A nation's treasure is in its scholars.

A person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat.

A bad workman blames his tools.

A book holds a house of gold.

Inspiring Quotes

I am not the person who is singing
I am the silent one inside. . . .
I am not my house, my car, my songs
They are only stops along my way. . . .
—Paula Cole, "Me"

It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days,
but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze.
—Boris Pasternak, poet

I have been running so sweaty my whole life
Urgent for a finish line
And I have been missing the rapture this whole time
Of being forever incomplete
—Alanis Morissette, "Incomplete"

I found out that there
weren't too many limitations,
if I did it my way.
—Johnny Cash,

Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity.
Good is what we all agree on.
As long as you stick to good,
you'll never have real growth.
—Bruce Mau, designer
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,
then it better not come at all.
—John Keats
I do not want to be folded
for where I am folded,
there I am a lie.
—Rilke

The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder
in modern life.
—Thomas Moore, Original Self

Whenever there is enthusiasm, there is a creative
empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is
capable of.
—Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering
expresses the great natural potential of mind.
—Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist lama

The one who asks
questions doesn't lose his way.
—African proverb

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is the ability to receive
from the universe.
—I Ching

You are what you think about all day.
—Allen Ginsberg