HeartQuotes from April, 2002

Epictetus, c 200 AD
People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them.

Mother Teresa
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
When we learn to manage our emotions long enough to stop and shift our attention to the quieter message of the heart, we can gain a wider perspective on any situation, often saving ourselves from hurt, frustration and pain.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Whether we're aware of it or not, an energy economy game is going on inside of us throughout life. Our inner experience over the course of each day includes thousands of thoughts, feelings, and impressions that directly impact our energy level.

Vance Havner
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

Igor Stravinsky
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Goethe
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

N. Smith
When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.

Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.

Dr. Charles H. Mayo
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action.

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Intuition does not always appear as the ingenious breakthrough or something grandiose. Intuitive thoughts, feelings, and solutions often manifest themselves as good old common sense. Common sense is efficient.

Hellen Keller
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
You can never get to peace and inner security without first acknowledging all of the good things in your life. If you're forever wanting and longing for more without first appreciating things the way they are, you'll stay in discord.

John Foster Dulles
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Sir Edmund Hillary, first to summit Everest (1953)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Keith Ellis, Bootstraps
Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. When it comes to understanding the power we have to make a difference in our own lives, we might as well be asleep. If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall energy levels, health, and well-being to a far greater extent than most people realize. Every thought and feeling, no matter how big or small, impacts our inner energy reserves.

Catherine Ponder
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
If you are dealing with fears and insecurities from old head programs, have compassion for yourself. Just love your insecurities, fears and resentments. Release and forgive them as they come up. Judging, beating or repressing insecurities just gives them power. Then you have a pattern that never gets resolved. Recognize that your real security is built from your relationship with your own heart.

William Jennings Bryan
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.