HeartQuotes from September, 2002

Leonardo Da Vinci
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose your power of judgement. Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.

Mother Teresa
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Hans Selye
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Creating a joint venture between head and heart puts a power pack behind your goals. Getting your head in sync with your heart and harnessing the power of coherence gives you the energy efficiency you need to achieve changes that haven't been possible before. The head can notice what things need to change, but the heart provides the power and direction to actually bring about the changes....

Leo Buscaglia
Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Haddon W. Robinson
What worries you, masters you.

Myla Kabat-Zinn
Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.

Leo Buscaglia
To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.

Lao Tzu
Simplicity is the highest quality of expression. It is that quality to which art comes in its supreme moments. It makes the final stage of growth. It is the rarest, as it is the most precious result which men secure in their self-training.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the Great Man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him-or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress momentum, others benefit. As more individuals learn to maintain their poise and balance and refrain from adding to the incoherence around them, they help to counterbalance the frequency of stress.

Jonas Salk
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.

Bruce Cryer, CEO, HeartMath LLC
"The anniversary of 9/11 reminds all Americans of vulnerability, of grief, of compassion, and of strength. Those events, as tragedy often does, brought Americans together and erased division, hatred, and judgment — for a time. Our wealth and our strength comes from 225 years of building and maintaining a culture of respect, freedom, and courage. Without the heart, so many of the lessons of 9/11 will be forgotten; with the heart we can help the world — and ourselves — move to the next level of global cooperation, care and creation.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Care inspires and gently reassures us. Lending us a feeling of security and support,it reinforces our connection with others. Not only is it one of the best things we can do for our health, but it feels good — whether we're giving or receiving it.

James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Albert Einstein
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.