“Thoughts become words, words become acts, acts become habits, habits express your character and your character becomes your destiny.”

Hua-Ching Ni

“there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter.  Everything is within.  Everything exists.  Seek nothing outside of yourself.”  ―    Miyamoto Musashi,    The Book of Five Rings

TV or no TV, that is the question--Da Cain

"You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don't have to be. Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you're still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself."

~Frederick Terral

“When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.”
— Muhammad Ali.

Do  you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an  intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room,
drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.
Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through
the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for
potential."

-- Ellen Goodman

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?           __ George Eliot

“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy. ~Aristotle~

"Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity."
-- Jack Canfield

"Wanting to be someone you are not is a waste of the person you are. Be daring. Be different. Be impractical. Be yourself."

Rev

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. Miyamoto Musashi

"We're all a little weird--and life's a little weird--and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours--we join up with them in mutual weirdness--and call it love." Dr. Seuss

"Don't be afraid to show who you really are because as long as you are happy with yourself, as long as you are having fun, and as long as you are living life as an adventure, no one else's opinion matters." Rev

For the new year for the GNIers old and new, good, bad and indifferent:

I guess that Antabanta itch can do that! Profound!

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects" Albert Einstein

A girl I once dated and broke up with one told me this.

To the World you are one person, but to one person you are the world,

Hahahaha! That's Bollywood talk. I'll try and find the song.

Must have ben thinking about this:

Bai Mitwa, thanks a lot for posting such a lovely song.

bump for Miraver

Bad news for me because I hard aze

You will keep getting the lessons, Ksaz

Thanks for bringing it to the top, Amral

Here's a quote from June of 2009.

Don't be in too big of a rush to reach your destination; go slowly at times and enjoy and savor the unexpected detours.
~ Sonrisa

Kudos to Anta for starting this thread! It has been going since 2008.

Let keep it alive, GNIers:-)

Hola Mira.

“One should perform his deeds for the benefit of mankind with an unbiased approach because bias gives birth to evil, which creates thousands of obstacles in our path.” Rig Veda quote

"Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge, any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master both....and surpass the result." - Tien T'ai

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

~~Lao Tzu

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

Harry Lauder

"A hungry belly becomes full one noodle at a time."

-- Lao Mein aka Gilbakka

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

~ Florence Shinn

nice

"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."~ Wayne W. Dyer 

i read somewhere that...

You can't always choose what experiences you will have in life, but you can choose how to handle them.