Truth

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. ~Claude Adrien Helvetius

Travel

Travel is more than the seeing of sights. It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~Miriam Beard

Love

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh

Happy Valentine's Day to All!

Desire

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ~Epicurus

Twins

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. ~Josh Billings

Jealousy

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ~Erica Jong

Take a Chance

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

~George Bernard Shaw

Winter

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson

Ocean Drop

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~Mother Teresa

Happy New Year to All!

Change

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ~Maya Angelou

Blessed

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.

~Hannah Senesh

Happy Hanukkah!

Style

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ~Orson Welles

Unity

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~Baha'u'llaha

Happy Thanksgiving to All!

Salt Water

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen

Just Go

Just go out there and do what you have to do. ~Martina Navratilova

Meditation

What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance. ~Pema Chödrön

Autumn's Fire

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. ~William Allinghamy

Harvest

Believe in yourself, your neighbors, your work, your ultimate attainment of more complete happiness. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in Autumn. ~B. C. Forbes

Drum Dance

He who cannot dance will say: "The drum is bad”.
~African Proverb

Rainbow

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
~Rita Mae Brown

Smile

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ~Andy Rooney

Praying

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think. ~Thich Nhat Hanh


Happy Autumn!

Music

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. ~Zoltan Kodaly

Repetition

Repetition is the mother of learning. ~Russian proverb

Ocean

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. ~H. P. Lovecraft

Walk Alone

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Twice the Child

An old man is twice the child. ~ William Shakespeare

Courage

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ~Ruth Gordon

Just back from vacation and spending 9 days with my nephews (7 & 9), I needed courage at times :)

Presence

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.
When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ~Thich Nhat Hanh


Hang On

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Perpsective

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ~Faith Whittlesey

Dreams

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. ~Dorothy Gilman

Dragon

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ~J.R.R. Tolkien


When I think of dragons, I think of fireworks - Happy 4th!

Self-Realized

For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. ~Mabel Maney

Summer

In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams

Normal

Normal is in the eye of the beholder. ~Whoopi Goldberg

Progress

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. ~Frank Zappa

...of Nature

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering. ~Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi)

Spring

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall

Own Feelings

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. ~Jim Morrison

Teaching

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

~Colleen Wilcox


Foolishness

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. ~May Sarton

Admonishments

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. ~Lynn Lavner

Humor

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. ~Bill Cosby

Regret

They who spend time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. ~Francisco de Quevedo

Women

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
~Margaret Atwood

A Process

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~Anais Nin

Springtime

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
~Margaret Atwood


Happy Spring Equinox!

Stand and Stare

What is this life if, full of care, 

We have no time to stand and stare.

~W.H. Davies

Rekindled

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. ~Albert Schweitzer