...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

Erotica

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. ~Isabel Allende

Wings

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. ~Ray Bradbury

Heart Love

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have a Happy Valentine's Day!

Food For Thought

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian. ~Linda McCartney

Ride a Bike!

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells

Happy Chinese New Year!

We write our own destiny; we become what we do.

~Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

It's the year of the Ox.

Tea

Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one. ~Chinese Proverb