August 23rd, 2007: Thoughts for the Day
ARE YOU ON FIRE!!!!
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
Are YOU the MASTER?:
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,—an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are you the Captain?!:
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the Captain of my soul.
- Willian Ernest Henley (1875)
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Have you examined your heart and soul Lately?
You can paint your own nature in the things you want:
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Henry Ward Beecher
A determined heart will not be counselled.
Asian Proverb
A drop of water breaks a stone.
Italian Proverb
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”
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“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Oscar Wilde
“What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands”
C.S. Lewis
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Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see”
William Newton Clarke
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories.”
George Eliot
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“Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
gayatri Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak”
Thomas Carlyle
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“Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body”
De Saint-Real quotes
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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau
(My Fav Dude)
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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
Plato
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Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
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A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
- Germaine Greer
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Your soul can be your worst enemy as well, Wake it up, shake it up!
The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend-
Or the most agonizing Spy-
An Enemy- could send- . --Emily Dickinson
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My Body, My Soul and I.
My body is mine, but my body is not me,
My body is an expression of my soul.
My soul is mine, but my soul is not me,
My soul is an expression of me -
for I am.
Ian Gardner
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To my wife: (Kathy)
I want your sun to reach my raindrops,
So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Pull out that soul of yours and self examine it. Set it on FIRE and let the FLAMES be your HEAT, and may you continue to burn toward your goals and other accomplishments your desire (Chillen)
In my heart I hope your day went well and you ran over, squashed, flattened, squished, and burst, any thing that go in your way.
Best regards as always.
I wish you all the best.
Keep the head up high and keep trying and you will never fail yourself.
FORUM BROTHERS AND SISTERS UNITE! COME TOGETHER Help one another, push-positive for the benefit of the other member. Be consistant in this help, constructively criticize do not belittle each other........push up one another. There is so much power and resource in this................
Chillen
