Linked

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased. ~Janez Drnovsek

Optimist

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ~Peter Ustinov

Accommodation

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ~Jimmy Carter

Artists

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. ~Nikki Giovanni

No War

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ~Carl Sandburg

Free

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable. ~June Jordan

Dreams

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias Canetti

The Edge

Life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go. ~Thoreau

Fun

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. ~Katharine Hepburn

Forgive

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. ~Suzanne Somers

Liberation

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted, and shaky - that's called liberation. ~Pema Chödrön

Dyke

I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, "Who's the dyke in the dress? ~Karen Ripley

Believe

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail. ~Dorothea Brande

Happy Easter!

Anger

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. ~Naomi Campbell

Siblings

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb

Let Go

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~Lao Tzu

Silence

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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!