"If you want to have what you have not,
you must do what you do not."

Taro Gold

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Author Unknown
But Greatly Appreciated!

Thanks so much for this Kye Nam. I have choosen the word 'contentment' to be my word for 2008. It is a very powerful word.

Fairy tales are more than true:not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936
English Author and Essayist

"You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."

Headmaster O'Halloran
From the book: Angela's Ashes

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

__Norman MacFinan

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

--Jimi Hendrix

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel
Author, Political Activist and Holocaust Survivor

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."

--Thich Nhat Hanh

"Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human."

John Cogley, 1916-1976
American Journalist

I pray
Today
That God will bring you
Peace
Where there's been pain
Harmony
Where there's been discord
Love
Where there's been loneliness

I pray
Today
That God will bring you
Solace
Where there's been sorrow
Justice
Where there's been inequality
Clarity
Where there's been chaos

I pray
Today
That He will heal your human heart
and help you face tomorrow
With a renewed sense of
Courage
Strength
And wisdom."

Ted Hibbard
American Poet and Cartoonist

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."

David Carradine
American Artist, Actor,