If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding...

If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding,
then you are a mine of understanding in the making.
If you live to reach the Essence one day,
then your life itself is an expression of the Essence.
Know that in the final analysis you are that
which you search for.

Abu-Said Abil-Kheir (967-1049)

English version by Vraje Abramian

Friends

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 AM that matter."
*Marlene Deitrich

On Our Wall Now

A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

*Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

*Marilyn vos Savant

May you live every day of your life. *Jonathan Swift


There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... Pursue those. *Michael Nolan

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. *Alexander Hamilton


Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
*RalphWaldo Emerson

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
*Babe Ruth

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
*George Eliot (George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans, 1819-1880)

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
*Anonymous


Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
*Mark Twain