Looking through the slips of paper on which I've written random thoughts and quotes throughout the year, I found some fun, funny and touching ones. May you find one that resonates with you.
The best things in life are nearest:
Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
~Robert Luis Stevenson
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
~Mevlana Rumi, 13th Century Sufi poet and mystic
Tsunami Mommy is one who, in an effort to do everything for her sweet darling child, knocks his feet out from under him.
~Melinda M-S
We turn to writing because no one will let us finish a long-winded story (that they've heard before).
~ Jennifer Castrup
Learning is weightless: A treasure you can always carry easily.
~Chinese Proverb
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
~ Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist
In the web of life
Our rhythms reverberate
Let us dance with love
~M M-S
I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) it. This makes it hard to plan the day.
~ E. B. White
The secret of Happiness is insensitivity.
~ Tennessee Williams
If you're happy and you know it, you're oblivious.
~ Mark Robert Maxwell-Smith
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
No Society can function democratically until women are considered equal on every basis, particularly to themselves. You will never attain such a thing other than through your own self-support.
~ Mayan prediction
Art disease is caused by a hardening of the categories.
~ Adina Reinhardt
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson, to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into power which can move the world.
~ Mohandas Ghandi
If you ever find
yourself, some where
lost and surrounded
by enemies
who won't let you
speak in your own language
who destroy your statues
and instruments, who ban
your omm bomm ba boom
then you are in trouble
deep trouble
they ban your
oom boom ba boom
you in deep deep
trouble
humph!
probably take you several hundred years
to get
out!
~ Amiri Baraka
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
~ Rosa Parks
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
~ Margaret Atwood
"Remember only this one thing," said Badger. "The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put theses stories in each other's memory. This is how people care for themselves."
~ Barry Lopez
May we care for ourselves and for one another, and may we act to preserve this world. May our wonder stir gratitude of such magnitude that it fuels our current actions to preserve the planet's magic for future generations so they too may marvel at its intricate and inexplicable beauty.
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