Quotes to think about later

To study the Way is to study the self.  To study the self is to forget the self.  To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.  To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between one's self and others.
- Zen master Dogen

Absorb what is useful, eliminate the rest.
- Bruce Lee

What lies behind you and what lies before you pales in significance when compared to what lies within you.
R.W. Emerson

There is nothing more important than imagination.
- Albert Einstein

Most people are about as happy as they make up thier minds to be.
- Abe Lincoln

I am not discouraged by failure because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
- Thomas Edison

People usually fail when they are on the verge of success.  So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
- Henry David Thoreau

One hand to grasp the past and one hand on the future leaves no hand to grasp the present.
- Chinese proverb

Success is not to be measured by the position one has achieved in life, but by the obstacles overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.  To affect the quality of the day that is the highest of the acts.
- H.D. Thoreau

It is important to walk the Path continually, it being a grave error to be satisfied with one's attainments.
- Kishomaru Ueshiba

He who asks is a fool for a few minutes.  He who doesn't ask remains a fool forever.
-Chinese proverb

The trouble with most of us is we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
- N.V. Peale

An unpleasing truth is better than a pleasing falsehood.
- Swahili proverb

The journey through life is beset by many hardships.  Success comes to those who resolve thier difficulties with flexibility and open-mindedness.  Those who force situations in an unnatural manner will see no positive result from thier training ...
- Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido

We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle