Daily Zen - Thursday, July 31

Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, 

how much a heart can hold.

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 30

Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity. 

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 29

Be what you are. This is the first step 

toward becoming better than you are.

~ Julius Charles Hare

Daily Zen - Monday, July 28

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship. 

~ Louisa May Alcott

Weekend Zen, July 26-27

True enlightenment means rejoicing in the 

happiness of others; compassion appears.

~ Taisen Deshimaru 

Daily Zen - Friday, July 25

Every artist was first an amateur. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Thursday, July 24

Perhaps loving something is the only starting 

place there is for making your life your own.

~ Alice Koller

Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 23

It takes a lot of courage to show 

your dreams to someone else. 

~ Erma Bombeck

Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 22

Your capacity to love others depends entirely on your

capacity to love yourself and take care of yourself.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Monday, July 21

All life is an experiment. The more 

experiments you make the better. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Zen, July 19-20

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of 

simple joys with the trees of problems.

~ Christiane Collange

Daily Zen - Friday, July 18

Daily I seek happiness more and more within my mind,

and less and less through material pleasures. 

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Daily Zen - Thursday, July 17

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being 

something helpless that wants help from us.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 16

Keeping a sense of proportion about things and 

giving others a place without losing one's own, 

this is the secret of success in the theater of the world.

~ Okakura Kakuzo

Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 15

One is loved because one is loved. 

No reason is needed for loving.

~ Paulo Coelho 

Daily Zen - Monday, July 14

The first step to getting the things you want

 out of life is this: decide what you want. 

~ Ben Stein

Weekend Zen, July 12-13

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

~ Johann von Goethe 

Daily Zen - Friday, July 11

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; 

but often, we look so long at the closed door that we 

do not see the one which has been opened for us. 

~ Helen Keller

Daily Zen - Thursday, July 10

When you know in yourself that something is bad, 

then give it up, and accept the good and follow it.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 9

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: 

where there is compassion even the most 

poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. 

~ Eric Hoffer