Birthday Blog!

WOW! The big 3-0! Time sure flies by. In honour of my thirtieth birthday I have compiled a list of thirty quotations. These proverbs represent and summarize what I have learned in those thirty years:

"Man is the artificer of his own happiness." - Henry David Thoreau

"To venture causes anxiety; not to venture is to lose oneself." - Soren Kierkegaard

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never underestimate your capacity for change." - Nathaniel Branden

"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows." - Japanese proverb

"You can do hard." - Bo Lozoff

"Put your hands up high 'cause you never know how long ya gonna live 'til you die." - Michael Franti and Spearhead

"Love each other or perish." - W.H. Auden

"Invest in experiences, not just objects."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." - George Santayana

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - e.e. cummings

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and reign yourself to the influences of each." - Henry David Thoreau

"Respect yourself and others with respect you." - Confucius

"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." - Patricia Neal

"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message; that is love, compassion, forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives." - Dalai Lama

"We belong to the whole world, living not for ourselves but for others." - Mother Teresa

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

"The secret of success is to experience unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings every single day." - Christopher Hansard

"Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour." - William Cowper

"Wilderness...is a spiritual necessity, an anecdote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium." - Sigurd Olson

"Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." - Zen proverb

"Give yourself time to consider what you most want to contribute to the world."

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." - Mother Teresa

"Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot." - Hausa people of Nigeria

"He who knows he has enough is rich." - Lao-Tzu

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau