HeartQuotes from May, 2003

Howard Schultz, CEO Starbucks Coffee, Pour Your Heart Into It
Care more than others think wise.
Risk more than others think safe.
Dream more than others think practical.
Expect more than others think possible.

Dalai Lama
If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Look at life as an energy economy game. Each day, ask yourself, "Are my energy expenditures (actions, reactions, thoughts, and feelings) productive or nonproductive? During the course of my day, have I accumulated more stress or more peace?"

William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what
sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.

Doc Childre
Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them.

Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Gail Sheehy
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Hagakure
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.

Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Charles Swindoll
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

Margaret Wheatley
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

Vaclav Havel
Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Confucius
Forget injuries, never forget kindness.

Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
Deep listening from the heart is one half of true communication.
Speaking from the heart is the other half.

Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Henry David Thoreau
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day--that is the highest of arts.

Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame
With the guidance of your heart, you can make quality decisions and your life will be more fun. Being alive in the heart is what makes life our worthwhile. When you are in touch with your heartfelt emotions, you find your true core values and enrich your life.

Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Henry David Thoreau
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day--that is the highest of arts.

Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame
With the guidance of your heart, you can make quality decisions and your life will be more fun. Being alive in the heart is what makes life worthwhile. When you are in touch with your heartfelt emotions, you find your true core values and enrich your life.

Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends, and spirit - and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.

Abigail Adams, (1744-1818), wife of John Adams, 2nd president of the U.S., and mother of John Quincy Adams, 6th president.
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974)
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Thomas Watson, Sr., Founder, IBM
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman, Overcoming Emotional Chaos: Eliminate anxiety, lift depression and create security in your life
With heart integrity and practice, it is possible for anyone, even in our chaotic society, to regulate their emotional energy and to manage overwhelm. Through the heart, we can find a new flow no matter what comes up. The choice is ours.

Helen Keller
It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Mother Teresa
It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.