Moon, plum blossoms

The Tides of Providence

It's not what you gather, but what you sow,
That gives the heart a warming glow.
It's not what you get, but what you give,
Decides the kind of life you live.

It's not what you have, but what you spare.
It's not what you take, but what you share
That pays the greater dividend
And makes you richer in the end.

It's not what you spend upon yourself
Or hide away upon a shelf,
That brings a blessing for the day.
It's what you scatter by the way.

A wasted effort it may seem.
But what you cast upon the stream
Comes back to you recompense
Upon the tides of providence.

Patience Strong

Strength and courage

It takes strength to be firm,
It takes courage to be gentle.

It takes strength to conquer,
It takes courage to surrender.

It takes strength to be certain,
It takes courage to have doubt.

It takes strength to fit in,
It takes courage to stand out.

5 weaknesses of leaders

1. A Reckless Leader Might Get Killed

2. A Cowardly Leader Might Get Captured

3. A Temperamental Leader Might Easily Be Provoked

4. A Megalomaniac Leader Might Easily Fall Victim To Slander

5. A Submissive Leader Might Be Disappointed

Man - a being in search of meaning

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. 

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

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato

Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Planning for Success

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base with your foot on first base.
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

proverbs

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

proverbs

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Never explain

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you.
Elbert Hubbard

Art of Timing

There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia Butler

Friend

A friend is one
To whom one may pour out all
The contents of one's heart
Chaff and grain, together,
Knowing that the gentlest of hands
Will take and sift it,
Keep what's worth keeping
And blow the rest away.

Dinah Craik

Out of Solitude

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

Trailblazers

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey not the arrival matters.
TS Elliot

Not all those who wander are lost.
JRR Tolkien

Quotes on Travel

One destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller

A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Loa Tzu

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
St Augustine

The Five Laws Of Gold

5. Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment.

The Five Laws Of Gold

4. Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keeping.

The Five Laws Of Gold

3. Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of wise men in its handling

The Five Laws Of Gold

2. Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field.

The Five Laws Of Gold

1. Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

Babylonian wisdom

Wisdom

Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Solomon

Knowing And Seeing

We never see anything completely...We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree.

Krishnamurti

Knowing and Seeing

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.


Goethe

Knowing and Seeing

I shut my eyes in order to see.


Paul Gaguin

Knowing and Seeing

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.


Anton Chekhov

Knowing and seeing

The thing known and the thing seen are not the same.


Harriet Shorr

Guide my steps

Guide my steps
Little angel
Be a light on my path
Let your tiny hands
Heal my wounds

Lao Tzu

A tree as big as a person’s embrace begins as a tiny shoot.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A love like that

Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."

Look what happens with
A love like that.
It lights the whole sky.

Hafiz

हेयं दुःखम् अनागतम्

Heyam dukham anagatam

patanjali

In a child eyes

"In the eyes of a child, there are 7 million wonders of the world."

from Ikram Kurdi blog