RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 31, 2011: “Please… tell me who you are and what you want..."

“Please… tell me who you are and what you want.

And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.” 

~Gary Zukav

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 30, 2011: "I'll bet living in a nudist colony..."

"I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween."

~Author Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 29, 2011: "Halloween was confusing..."

"Halloween was confusing. 

All my life my parents said, 

"Never take candy from strangers." 

And then they dressed me up and said, 

"Go beg for it." 

I didn’t know what to do! 

I’d knock on people’s doors and go, 

"Trick or treat. No thank you."

~Rita Rudner

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 28, 2011: "From ghoulies and ghosties..."

"From ghoulies and ghosties

And long-leggedy beasties

And things that go bump in the night,

Good Lord, deliver us!"

~Old Scottish Saying

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 27, 2011: "One need not be a chamber to be haunted..."

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;

One need not be a house;

The brain has corridors surpassing

Material place."

~Emily Dickinson

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 26, 2011: "For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness..."

"For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true."

~Titus Lucretius Carus, 99-55 BC, De Rerum Natura, bk. III, l. 87

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 25, 2011: "If a man harbors any sort of fear..."

"If a man harbors any sort of fear, 

it makes him landlord to a ghost."

~Lloyd Douglas

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 24, 2011: "Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have..."

"Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold."

~Judith Olney

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 23, 2011: "I don't need to completely understand the big picture..."

"I don't need to completely understand the big picture to know that my role is important.
I don't have to know the destination to know I'm headed in the right direction.
Though I may not know where I am going, I'm not lost, I am exploring."

~Jana Stanfield

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 22, 2011: "As you manage your money, you manage your life."

"As you manage your money, you manage your life."

~Dan Millman

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 21, 2011: "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves..."

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, 

and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

~Agnes Repplier

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 20, 2011: "Meditation may require a lifetime to master..."

"Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. 

...If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: 

Am I more loving? 

Is my judgment sounder? 

Do I have more energy? 

Can my mind remain calm under provocation? 

Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed?

Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states."

~Eknath Easwaran

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 19, 2011: "All the people we call ‘geniuses’ are men and women who..."

"All the people we call ‘geniuses’ are men and women who somehow escaped having to put that curious, wondering child in themselves to sleep."

~Barbara Sher

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 18, 2011: “By becoming a conscious choice-maker..."

“By becoming a conscious choice-maker, 

you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.”

~Deepak Chopra

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 17, 2011: "Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance..."

"Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

~Thomas Carlyle

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 16, 2011: “We can respond creatively to what we experience as life-depriving..."

“We can respond creatively to what we experience as life-depriving and become richer in spirit for having met the challenge.” 

~Tad Crawford

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 15, 2011: "Forgiveness will never fail to free you."

"Forgiveness will never fail to free you."

~Jerrold Mundis

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 14, 2011: "Inside every older person is a younger person..."

"Inside every older person is a younger person -

wondering what the hell happened."

~Cora Harvey Armstrong

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 13, 2011: “Instead of frittering away your vibrancy with worry or distraction..."

“Instead of frittering away your vibrancy with worry or distraction, 

realize your mind and body are inextricably united.

What calms and tones up one, 
soothes and improves the other.”

~Marsha Sinetar

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 12, 2011: "To every disadvantage..."

"To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage."

~W. Clement Stone

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 11, 2011: "Dream of your brother's kindnesses..."

"Dream of your brother's kindnesses instead of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes.
Select his thoughtfulness to dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave."

~A Course in Miracles

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 10, 2011: "Love is not only something you feel..."

"Love is not only something you feel.

It is something you do."

~David Wilkerson

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 9, 2011: “Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced..."

“Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.”

~Andrew Schneider

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 8, 2011: "We are what we believe we are."

"We are what we believe we are."

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 7, 2011: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else..."

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 6, 2011: "Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea?

"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? 

Nothing!" 

~Donald Gardner

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 5, 2011: "There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace..."

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 4, 2011: "Nature is a revelation of God..."

"Nature is a revelation of God;
Art a revelation of man."

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 3, 2011: "Don't hurry, don't worry..."

"Don't hurry, don't worry.

You're only here for a short visit.

So be sure to stop and smell the flowers."

~Walter Hagen

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 2, 2011: "The great Western disease is..."

"The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when…

When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job.’ 

Well, the reality is, you never get to when.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. 

It's in here. 

And happiness is not next week. 

It's now."

~Marshall Goldsmith

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 1, 2011: "Character isn’t inherited..."

"Character isn’t inherited.
One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.
If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."

~Helen Douglas