Our attitudes ...

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes

are a secret power working twenty-four

hours a day, for good or bad. It is of

paramount importance that we know

how to harness and control this great

force."

Irving Berlin

An epitaph I'd like......

"I played the game as called to do

Fought every gain; stuck like glue

to my heart's call - I paid my due!

So as my ashes scatter in the air

there's no lament: "life's unfair!"

And as my atoms in space just jest

I'll know I really did my best!"

Somwang

Book of Epitaphs

Have faith in your dreams ...

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“Have faith in your dreams and someday your

rainbow will come shining through. No matter

how your heart is grieving, if you keep believing,

the dream that you wish will come true.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wars in the West...

"Fought by heroes, led by armchair idiots."

Somwang

Tactics...

"Appear weak when you are strong

and strong when you are weak."

Sun Tzu

Releasing attachment

"Gone to the beyond of becoming,

you let go of in front, let go of behind,

let go of between.

With a heart everywhere let go,

you don't come again to birth & aging."

Dhammapada, 24,

(Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu).

Anger vs Happiness

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“For every minute you are angry,

you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you reach for the stars...

"When you reach for the stars, you are reaching

for the farthest thing out there. When you reach

deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the

opposite direction. If you reach in both directions,

you will have spanned the universe. "

Vera Nazarian

Butterflies...

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“We are like butterflies who flutter for a 

day and think it is forever.”

Carl Sagan,

Cosmos