HeartQuotes from May, 2002

Chinese proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.

Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman, Overcoming Emotional Chaos: Eliminate anxiety, lift depression and create security in your life
If we can learn to understand the language of the feeling world at the root of our beliefs and actions, we can better understand how to love and embrace hope for new solutions. The hope of the new millennium and this decade is that we will recognize that emotions are the next frontier to be understood and managed for personal, social and global peace and quality of life.

Anonymous
It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out - It's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.

Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it) but That's funny...

Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science [1992]
The things we fear most in organizations fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - need not be signs of an impending disorder that will destroy us. Instead, fluctuations are the primary source of creativity.

Epictetus
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Anita Koddick
If you think you're too small to have an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

Hasidic saying
Everyone should carefully observe
Which way his heart draws him
And then choose that way with all his strength

Max Lerner
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt.

Kahlil Gibran
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

Malcolm Forbes
At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

Doc Childre
We have to become more conscious of our feeling-world. By learning to identify the emotional baggage and manage our feeling-world reactions, we can view life based on current information instead of being held captive by our past. However, since emotional processes can work faster than the mind, it takes a power stronger than the mind to bend perception, override emotional circuitry, and provide us with intuitive feeling instead. It takes the power of the heart.

Bruce Cockburn, A Dream Like Mine
When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations

Managing at the Speed of Change, Daryl R. Conner, (c)1995, Villard Books
The future will generate even more ambiguity and chaos than we face today. Learning how to raise our individual and collective resilience is not just a good idea - it is imperative.

George Washington Carver
Most people search high and wide for the keys to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180)
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Stephen Covey
To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which life is made.