I believe that living a harmonious life is a creation, a work in progress. It is feeding the mind and the body with nourishing food, learning, getting excited and opening the heart and being to new thoughts, ideas and people.
Here are some of the things which inspire me:
Links:
TED Inspiring talks of inspiring people
Think simple now Tina Su's blog
Gary Goldstein Israeli-American artist and my father
La Blogotheque Beautiful music clips filmed live
Pandora Internet radio that plays only music you like
Anat Ronen Muralist and graphic artist
Books:
Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar
The Art of Possibility by Rosmund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
The Power of Now by Ekhart Toll
What Happy People Know by Dan Baker, Ph.D. and Cameron Stauth
Quotes:
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.
J.K Rowling
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
My definition of success in not about wealth, money and power.
It's about how many shiny eyes you have around you.
Benjamin Zander
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot seek the path that demands your whole being.
Leave that which is not, but appears to be seek that which is, but is not apparent.
Rumi: Hidden Music
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
To be happy and to make others happy.
The Dalai Lama's answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?"
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