Incense and Candles

2011-12-31T19:31:00.000-08:00

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let each New Year find you a better man/woman."
- Ben Franklin
Happy New Year, friend!

2011-12-30T08:15:00.000-08:00

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis

2011-12-29T04:54:00.000-08:00

"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person."
- Mother Teresa

2011-12-28T20:23:00.000-08:00

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life."
- Golda Meir

2011-12-27T19:57:00.000-08:00

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Leonardo da Vinci

2011-12-26T09:10:00.000-08:00

"Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well."
- John Templeton

2011-12-25T22:11:00.000-08:00

"I slept & dreamt that life was joy. I awoke & saw that life was service. I acted & behold, service was joy."
- Rabindranath Tagore

2011-12-24T22:09:00.000-08:00

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
–e.e. cummings

2011-12-23T10:24:00.001-08:00

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?"
- Mevlana Rumi

2011-12-22T20:07:00.000-08:00

"The color black Is never tainted. It is the color of strong will."
- Sensei Eiken Shibahara (from the movie "Kuro Obi")

2011-12-21T20:45:00.000-08:00

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it."
- W.C. Fields.

2011-12-20T10:21:00.000-08:00

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
-Lou Holtz

2011-12-19T21:40:00.000-08:00

"If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
- Lao Tzu

2011-12-18T21:45:00.000-08:00

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
- Helen Keller

2011-12-17T21:11:00.000-08:00

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey."
- Babs Hoffman

2011-12-16T19:52:00.000-08:00

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together."
- Vesta Kelly

2011-12-15T21:05:00.000-08:00

"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."
- Albert Einstein

2011-12-14T20:21:00.000-08:00

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
-Yogi Berra

2011-12-13T05:00:00.000-08:00

"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do
the best you can every day."
- Marian Wright Edelman

2011-12-12T21:09:00.000-08:00

"When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have."
- Stephen Hawking

2011-12-11T13:01:00.000-08:00

"Little by little, one travels far."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

2011-12-10T05:54:00.000-08:00

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
- Lao Tzu

2011-12-09T05:51:00.000-08:00

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
- Aristotle

2011-12-08T05:50:00.000-08:00

"We could never learn to be brave & patient, if there were only joys in the world."
- Helen Keller

2011-12-07T09:56:00.001-08:00

"Be bigger than the bullshit."
- Qtip

2011-12-06T09:52:00.000-08:00

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."
- Mother Teresa

2011-12-05T20:08:00.000-08:00

"It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts."
- Addison Walker

2011-12-04T19:46:00.000-08:00

"Argumentative just means you stick up for yourself."
-Keke Palmer

2011-12-03T05:11:00.000-08:00

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to steer my ship."
- Louisa May Alcott

2011-12-02T05:07:00.000-08:00

"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."
- Gloria Steinem

2011-12-01T06:44:00.000-08:00

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
- Vince Lombardi

2011-11-30T14:19:00.000-08:00

"Forever is composed of nows."
- Emily Dickinson

2011-11-29T05:37:00.000-08:00

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

2011-11-28T05:29:00.000-08:00

"Wisdom begins in wonder."
-Socrates

2011-11-27T06:26:00.000-08:00

"Just because you haven't found your talent yet doesn't mean that you don't have one."
- Kermit the Frog

2011-11-26T05:11:00.000-08:00

"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
-Plato

2011-11-25T19:36:00.000-08:00

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."
- Cicero |

2011-11-24T14:41:00.000-08:00

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu

2011-11-22T20:14:00.000-08:00

"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it."
-Toni Morrison

2011-11-21T05:05:00.000-08:00

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
- Lao Tzu

2011-11-20T06:26:00.000-08:00

"Out of losses, you can always find blessings."
- Heavy D.

2011-11-19T05:24:00.000-08:00

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden

2011-11-18T05:04:00.000-08:00

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
- Albert Einstein

2011-11-17T05:02:00.000-08:00

"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently."
- William A. Ward

2011-11-16T04:18:00.000-08:00

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
- Aristotle

2011-11-15T05:16:00.000-08:00

"Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks."
- Oprah Winfrey

2011-11-14T04:39:00.000-08:00

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
~ Albert Einstein

2011-11-13T07:44:00.000-08:00

"Enjoy the love of others, but revel in the love of yourself."
  — Aisha Tyler

2011-11-12T07:46:00.000-08:00

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2011-11-11T05:22:00.000-08:00

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
- John Quincy Adams

2011-11-10T04:36:00.000-08:00

"Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible."
- M.C. Escher

2011-11-09T04:39:00.000-08:00

"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."
- Roger W. Babson

2011-11-08T05:07:00.000-08:00

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
- Auguste Rodin

2011-11-07T04:50:00.000-08:00

"I am still learning."
- Michelangelo

2011-11-06T16:07:00.000-08:00

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
- Anatole France

2011-11-05T04:38:00.000-07:00

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." -
- Vince Lombardi

2011-11-04T04:32:00.000-07:00

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."
- Bill Cosby

2011-11-03T05:40:00.000-07:00

"Choices are the hinges of destiny."
- Pythagoras

2011-11-02T05:01:00.000-07:00

"When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver

2011-11-01T05:32:00.000-07:00

"Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared."
-Sparky Anderson

2011-10-31T05:19:00.000-07:00

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."
- Peter T. McIntyre

2011-10-30T07:08:00.000-07:00

"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"
- Sun Tzu

2011-10-29T05:28:00.000-07:00

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good - and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
- Marcus Aurelius

2011-10-28T05:19:00.000-07:00

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
- Chinese Proverb

2011-10-27T04:58:00.000-07:00

"As long as you can laugh at yourself you will never cease to be amused."
-Anonymous

2011-10-26T05:15:00.000-07:00

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
- Lionel Hampton

2011-10-25T05:12:00.000-07:00

"When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible."
- Nido Qubein

2011-10-24T04:15:00.000-07:00

"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
- Walt Disney

2011-10-23T05:14:00.000-07:00

"Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would."
- Nelson Mandela

2011-10-22T17:43:00.000-07:00

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
- Unknown

2011-10-21T05:21:00.000-07:00

"He is able who thinks he is able."
- Buddha

2011-10-20T05:30:00.000-07:00

"Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed."
- Vincent van Gogh

2011-10-20T04:17:00.000-07:00

"Freedom isn't worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes."
- Mahatma Gandhi

2011-10-18T04:04:00.000-07:00

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."
- Robert Browning

2011-10-17T20:16:00.000-07:00

"The more I practice, the luckier I get."
- Jerry Barber

2011-10-16T04:09:00.000-07:00

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

2011-10-15T04:06:00.000-07:00

"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."
-Barbra Johnson

2011-10-14T20:51:00.000-07:00

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."
-Jane Goodall

2011-10-13T05:00:00.000-07:00

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
- Benjamin Spock

2011-10-12T04:59:00.000-07:00

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us."
- Voltaire

2011-10-11T04:57:00.000-07:00

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

2011-10-10T06:07:00.000-07:00

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
- Seneca

2011-10-09T06:21:00.001-07:00

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
- Confucius

2011-10-08T06:19:00.000-07:00

"Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success."
- H. W. Arnold

2011-10-06T06:12:00.000-07:00

"The future depends on what you do today."
- Gandhi

Remembering Genius

2011-10-05T20:24:00.000-07:00

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
- Steve Jobs

2011-10-04T06:17:00.000-07:00

"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare. "
-Bobby Knight

2011-10-03T07:42:00.000-07:00

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."
- H. Jackson Browne

2011-10-02T09:29:00.000-07:00

"Birthin' is hard, dyin' is mean, find some lovin' 'in between."
-Langston Hughes

2011-10-01T09:23:00.000-07:00

"Don't count the days, make the days count."
-Muhammad Ali

2011-09-30T13:56:00.000-07:00

"You can acquire a lot in life if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it."
- Bruce Lee

2011-09-29T13:10:00.000-07:00

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Smith

2011-09-28T21:05:00.000-07:00

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
- Titus Livius

2011-09-27T21:01:00.000-07:00

"It's repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."
- Muhammad Ali

2011-09-26T19:58:00.000-07:00

"We become what we habitually contemplate."
- George Russell

2011-09-25T19:56:00.000-07:00

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass”

2011-09-24T06:15:00.000-07:00

"Consider whatever knowledge and skill you have is a common property and share it freely without compensation. Teaching means learning twice. Sharing your knowledge will not diminish your own; instead it will enrich you."
- Dr. Jinichi Tokeshi

2011-09-23T20:35:00.000-07:00

"Follow your honest convictions and be strong."
- William Makepeace Thackeray

11:08pm

2011-09-22T20:46:00.000-07:00

In memory if Troy Anthony Davis...

"There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice."
- Tadeusz Borowski

2011-09-21T04:51:00.000-07:00

"The time is always right to do what is right."
-Martin Luther King Jr.