Thursday, April 29, 2010

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

-Margaret E. Sangster

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

-Herbert N. Casson

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Space reaches out from us and translates the world.
-Rilke
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
-William Blake
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a
butterfly in the winter woods.
-Edith Wharton
It always comes back to the same neccessity - go deep enough and there
is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
-May Sarton
Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
-Sylvia Plath
I am not interested in fiction. I want faithfulness.
-Anais Nin
Another world is not only possible, She is on her way. And on a quiet
day, if you really listen, you can hear her breathing.
-Arundhati Roy
Read me the bit / again about the thing / that is pure ... / read that
bit, the thing / we cannot turn our eyes to, / you begin it.
-John Holloway
The work of the poet is to name what is holy.
-Diane Ackerman
O I am sincerely / Plumb crazy About your every thought and yearning...
-Hafiz
One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
-Nietzsche
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors
are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever
again.
-Elizabeth Lawrence
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it
produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and
spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The
rest is literature.
-Jean Cocteau
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The
world would split open.
-Kathe Kollwitz
For Lucid dreamers nothing is impossible.
-S. Laberge
Learn to dream, gentleman.
-Friedrich Kekode
Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.
-Archibald Macleish
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
-Alice Walker
The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we
see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in
ourselves.
-Kahil Gibran
Sell your cleverness; buy bewilderment.
-Rumi
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something
sensational to read in the train.
-Oscar Wilde
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic
door and a lost kingdom of peace.
-Eugene O'Neill
Courage lies not in the heat of pursuit. But in the moments spent
silent. Deep in wait.
-Munna
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like
mine. I have been eating poetry.
-Meryl Pataky
What are the earth and it's interests beside the deep surmise which
pierces and scatters them?
-Maurizzio Pellegrin
A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it
solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly.
-Marianne Lettierre

Monday, April 26, 2010

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy,
and dividing our grief.
-Joseph Addison

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon
as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with
too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

-H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Oh I wish
I could sometimes
hear the silence
a little
louder.
-Annemie Eeckhout

Monday, April 12, 2010

Life is not merely being alive, but being well.

-Martial

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. 

It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. 

We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' 

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.

-Maryanne Williamson
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
-Brendan Behan
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. 
-Erich Fromme
Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. 
-Ludwig van Beethoven
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion. 
-Samuel Johnson

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

And he departed from our sight
that we might return to our heart,
and there find Him.
For He departed, and behold,
He is here.
-St. Augustine

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
-Jim Rohn

Saturday, April 3, 2010

That's the real trouble with the world,
Too many people grow up.
They forget.
They don't remember what it's like
To be ten years old.
-Walt Disney
Grey skies are just clouds passing over.
-Duke Ellington
Just because something doesn't do
What you planned it to do
Doesn't mean it's useless.
-Thomas Edison
If i could put fear and doubt aside, what would i really want to do
with this one precious life?
-Mary Oliver
Surviving is important, but thriving is elegant.
-Maya Angelou
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up
a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to
balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...
not looking for flaws, but for potential.
-Ellen Goodman
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
Do not spoil what you have
By desiring what you have not;
But remember that what you now have
Was once among things only hoped for.
-Epicurus
Memory is a man's real possession.
In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
-Alexander Smith
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We
have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting
like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
-Marie Beyon Ray
 

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