Idea Title:  Keep happy

Sent to me by Kat Lordi: As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Idea Title:  Grief As a Blessing

I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, "It tastes sweet, does it not?" "You've caught me," grief answered, "and you've ruined my business, how can I sell sorrow now when you know it's a blessing?"

</blockquote>JALALUDDIN RUMI (1207-1273) Persian mystical poet and Sufi saint.<blockquote>

Quotedin "Wisdom of the Ages", by Wayne W. Dyer, who adds: One of the great teachings of my life came from my exploration of the <i></i>Kabbalah, a mystical text of Judaism that goes back many centuries, as do Rumi's teachings. <blockquote></blockquote>

The simple lesson for me was “The falls of our life provide us with the energy to propel ourselves to a higher level.” I read and reread this ancient wisdom....I discovered the truth of this idea that every fall provides us with the opportunity to generate the energy to move to higher consciousness.

Idea Title:  Quotes on creativity

“Throwing away ideas too soon is like opening a package of flower seeds and then throwing them away because they’re not pretty.”
— Arthur VanGundy, Ph.D. (Idea Power, 1992)

Daydreams are fertile ground for the imagination. While daydreaming rational thought goes out the window, so new perspectives can find their way in.
— Linda Naiman (Dynamic Graphics Magazine Dec/Jan 03)

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arthur Molella, Lemelson Center Director,
“Play is serious business. At stake for us are the ways we socialize and teach future generations of scientists, inventors, artists, explorers, and other individuals who will shape the work in which we live. It is safe to say that humans, as a species, have always had a concept of play. But only recently has play begun getting the serious attention it deserves as a source of discovery.” (Creativity at Work Newsletter July 02)

Albert Einstein
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Julius Sextus Frontinus
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
–Highly regarded engineer in Rome, 1st century A.D.

Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) U. S. engineer and inventor.
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

Albert Szent-Gyorgi
(Nobel-prize winning biochemist who discovered vitamin C)
And if everybody says that you are wrong, then you are one step ahead. But here is one situation which is better still, when everyone begins to laugh about you, then you know you are two steps ahead.

Max Planck
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
In “Shorter Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations,” by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.

Idea Title:  SOME QUOTES

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.... It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

</blockquote> - Benjamin Elijah Mays<blockquote>

"Man can harness the winds, the waves and the tides, but when he can harness the power of love, then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

</blockquote> - Teihard de Chardin -<blockquote>

Do not worry if our harp breaks, thousands more will appear. We have fallen in the arms of love where all is music. If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

</blockquote> Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die we have the spark that starts the fire. The songs we sing are like foam on the surface of the sea of being while the precious gems lie deep beneath. But the tenderness in our songs is a reflection of what is hidden in the depths.<blockquote>

Stop the flow of your words, open the window of your heart and let the spirit speak.<blockquote></blockquote> - Mevlana Jelaluddin (Jalalu'd-Din) Rumi (13th Century sufi mystical poet)

Idea Title:  Bush and Hitler: God's Chosen Leaders?

Two quotes: One from a founding light of the Nazi Nightmare, the other from one of today's most powerful U.S. Generals... You decide what it means.

God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.</i>

-- <font size="3">Hermann Göring,</font> Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and Hitler’s designated successor (Hitler’s Elite, Shocking Profiles of the Reich’s Most Notorious Henchmen,” Berkley Books, 1990)

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Why is this man [GW Bush] in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. He’s in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.<i>

-- <font size="2">Lt. Gen. William Boykin</font>, the defense undersecretary in charge of hunting down top terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan