HeartQuotes from September, 2003

"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time -- just like it does for you and me."
--Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart, (c) 1998, HeartMath

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

"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."
-- The HeartMath Solution, Doc Childre and Howard Martin, (c) 1999, Harper SanFrancisco

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence."
-- Robert Frost

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
-- Galileo Galilei

"In communications that are difficult or draining, ease into the heart and find something to appreciate about the person you're dealing with, or find a feeling of compassion or kindness. This will clear your mind and give you the coherence you need to know what to say next. That's energy efficiency at work."
-- The HeartMath Solution, Doc Childre and Howard Martin, (c) 1999, Harper SanFrancisco

"Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds."
-- The HeartMath Solution, Doc Childre and Howard Martin, (c) 1999, Harper SanFrancisco

"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape."
-- Unknown

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
-- Charles Dickens

"When man is serene, the pulse of the heart flows and connects, just as pearls are joined together or like a string of red jade, then one can talk about a healthy heart."
-- The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine, 2500 B.C.

" A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
-- Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"I am still learning."
-- Michelangelo

"We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover."
-- Shakti Gawain

"Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny."
-- Daniel Goleman

" Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
-- Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

"Every day doctors have to deal with people who are worn out and unable to stand up to the life they lead. They generally assert that it is impossible to alter the way they live, and sincerely believe that their overwork is the product of circumstance, whereas it is bound up with their own intimate problems. It is ambition, fear of the future, love of money, jealousy, or social injustice that makes men strive and overwork, invent all sorts of unnecessary tasks, keep late hours, take too little sleep, take insufficient holidays, or use their holidays badly. Their minds are overtense, so that at night they cannot sleep and by day they doubly fatigue themselves at their work."
-- Paul Tournier, M.D.