Curiosity

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.~Eleanor Roosevelt

Movement

I'm not interested in how people move, but in what moves them. ~Pina Bausch

Growth

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. ~Julia Margaret Cameron

Summertime

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll

Intoxicate

Flowers really do intoxicate me. ~Vita Sackville-West

Mountain

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. ~Sivananda Saraswati

Opening

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis

Dragon

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. ~Stephen Brust

Let Go

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

~Leo Buscaglia

Cherry Tree

I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, "How gay 'twould be
To hang me from a flowering tree."

~Dorothy Parker

Happiness

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

~Alice Walker

Art

[Art] means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage.

~Adrienne Rich

R.I.P. Ms. Rich

Spring

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Believe

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Inner Peace

Holding to our object of focus and recognizing our repeated distraction serves to interrupt the obsessive train of thoughts and preoccupations, so that over time we develop some inner peace and stability.

~Dorje Loppön - Eric Holm

Concentration

Watch little children at play: From their absorption in the moment, learn the secret of concentration.

~J. Donald Walters

Life Story

Also, I thought I am old, so after I die I cannot bring my story with me. So I leave this story.

~Ani Pachen

Race

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

~Margaret Atwood

Creativity

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

~Kongtrul Jigme Namgyel

Homeless

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

~Jan Schakowsky

Snow

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

~J. B. Priestley

Good Composition

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

~Robert Henri

Spiritual Path

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring to them the transformative power of our heart.

~Jack Kornfield