Two People

There are always two people in every picture:
the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

Only One Way to Learn

There is only one way to learn.
It's through action. Everything
you need to know you have learned
through your journey.

Paulo Coelho

Louder Than Failure

Fear is louder than failure and
far more expensive over time.

Paulo Coelho

Know Yourself

If you are never alone,
you cannot know yourself.

Paulo Coelho

Direction is More Important

Change. But start slowly,
because direction is more
important than speed.

Paulo Coelho

The Universe Conspires

When you want something,
all the universe conspires in
helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

Too Expensive

If it costs you your peace,
it's too expensive.

Paulo Coelho

What Needs to be Done

Zen practice is about doing
what needs to be done.

Charlotte (Joko) Beck

Be the Buddha

Don't quote the Buddha,

be the Buddha.

Eckhart Tolle

A Diplomat Remembers

A diplomat is a man
who always remembers
a woman's birthday but
never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

A Trained Mind

Life never calms down.
Peace isn't the absence of problems.
It's a trained mind that stops
collapsing inside them.

Andrew Brunswick, MD

Life is Lived

Life is lived 
in the space
between

highlights.

Andrew Brunswich, MD

About the Other

Romantic love is all about "I" this and "I" that.
But true love is about the other.

Joni Mitchell

Music and Dance

In most languages,
the word for music
and dance is the same.

Daniel Levitin

Musical Pleasure

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

Death is Not the End

When you're sad and you're lonely
and you haven't got a friend,
just remember that death is not the end.

Bob Dylan

The Long Way to Happiness

Waiting for someone else to change
is the long way to happiness.

Byron Katie

Forget Yourself

The more one forgets himself - 
by giving himself to a cause to 
serve or another person to love -
the more human he is.

Viktor Frankl

Find the Way

Those that find the Way in the morning,
can gladly die in the evening.

Confucius

I Love You

I love you.
I don't want
a thing from you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti