"How come every time I go searching for inner peace I get aggravated?"

"It's your perspective that makes it your reality." - Fred Fornicola

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." - Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

"To depend on others is to be unstable." - The Sutta Nipata

"Most people fail because they never get started." - Fred Fornicola

"The basic lesson of Zen is: "Forget yourself." - Robert Aitken

"Zazen is not a difficult task. It is a way to lead you to your long-lost home." - Shaku Soen Zenji

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is
pleased." - Katharine Hepburn

"The way down and the way up are one and the same." - Herakleitos

"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend." - Abraham Lincoln

"When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score." - John Enoch Powell

"Man has no greater enemy than himself." - Francesco Petrarch

"If decisions are a choice . . . and our thinking dictates our decisions, then we are where we are because of our thinking." — President Harry S. Truman

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you." - Arnold Palmer

"If you're too fat and out of shape to catch the ice cream truck you probably shouldn't be trying to catch it." - Fred Fornicola

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress." - Thomas A. Edison

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action." - Thomas Henry Huxley

"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots." - George Herbert

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you.'

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.

He asked her,'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?' The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.'

"A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for thedesire of the end will point out the means." - William Hazlitt

"One must look for one thing only, to find many." - Cesare Pavese

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead." - Chinese Proverb

"Like the sky, you lean on nothing." - Zen Saying

"Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved whichforce us to adjust our old programs accordingly." - Dr. Ann Faraday

"Be master of yourself everywhere. All you do proves true." - Zen Saying

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is tobe ridiculous." - Chinese Proverb

"In a certain sense Zen is to feel life instead of feeling something about life." - Alan Watts

"The first and the best victory is to conquer self." - Plato