Thought for today

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud

Marianne Williamson quotation

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."
Marianne Williamson

The Season of Peace

I received an email today from Positive Christianity dot org and it contained some lovely quotations about peace, that I would like to share with you:

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~ William Ewart Gladstone

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~ Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Golda Meir

Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ~ Francesco Petrarch

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ~ President Dwight Eisenhower

(I love this one:)
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~ Robert Fulghum

In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain't they got no shame~Nikki Giovanni

Can words be used as drugs?

I just saw this on pnosis.com and I had to copy it.

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” -- Rudyard Kipling

I think words can be used like drugs. I get high listening to some authors, like Deepak Choprah, John O'Donohue, and Marianne Williamson. I guess that's why I keep listening to The Love Trilogy tapes! See previous article, entitled "Check it out," for the audio-book review.

Healthy quotations

"Health is not just the absence of sickness." Hannah Green said this.

"Health is not just dying in the slowest way possible, as is commonly believed." Carolyn Myss

So what is health? And does your definition include mental health, as well? How about spiritual health?

Mind, body, spirit, that's what we're made of isn't it?

Expressions

Eloquence is Silver. Silence is Golden.



This is just a saying I like. And I think some may be familiar with the last sentence only. Someone from Thailand told me this is what they say there.