If

"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, 'there goes another day of my life, never to return,' you will become time conscious."

-- A. B. Zu Tavern

Lost

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."

-- Horace Mann

Advice is like snow

"Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet

The grand essentials

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

-- Joseph Addison

And though you should live

And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.

~Rose Fyleman

Every time a child says

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

~James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

Nothing can be truer

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

~Douglas Jerrold

Faeries

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

~William Butler Yeats

No child

No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Soft moss

Soft moss a downy pillow makes, and green leaves spread a tent,
Where Faerie fold may rest and sleep until their night is spent.
The bluebird sings a lullaby, the firefly gives a light,
The twinkling stars are candles bright, Sleep, Faeries all, Good Night.

~Elizabeth T. Dillingham, "A Faery Song"

Deep within

Deep within the winter forest among the snowdrift wide
You can find a magic place where all the fairies hide....

~Author Unknown

Wind chimes

Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures - squirrels, fairies and angels.

~Author Unknown

I believe in everything

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

~John Lennon

A rustle in the wind

A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near.

~Author Unknown

Blind folk see the fairies

Blind folk see the fairies.
Oh, better far than we,
Who miss the shining of their wings
Because our eyes are filled with things
We do not wish to see.

~Rose Fyleman

This is a work of fiction

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

~Neil Gaiman

Each fairy breath

Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose.

~Author Unknown

We the Fairies

We the Fairies, blithe and antic,
Of dimensions not gigantic,
Though the moonshine mostly keep us,
Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.

~Thomas Randolph

A lady, with whom I was riding

A lady, with whom I was riding in the forest, said to me, that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward: a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "History"

Come away

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

~William Butler Yeats, "The Stolen Child"

When the winds of March

When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets,
Did you ever find a fairy near some budding little thickets,...
And when she sees you creeping up to get a closer peek
She tumbles through the daffodils, a playing hide and seek.

~Marjorie Barrows

Spread your wings

Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!

~Author Unknown

We call them faerie

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

~Charles de Lint

The wall is silence

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep,
Tall trees of peace their vigil keep,
And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled
Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

~Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

The Realm of Fairy

The Realm of Fairy is a strange shadow land, lying just beyond the fields we know.

~Author Unknown

And as the seasons come and go

And as the seasons come and go, here's something you might like to know. There are fairies everywhere: under bushes, in the air, playing games just like you play, singing through their busy day. So listen, touch, and look around - in the air and on the ground. And if you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wing.

~Author Unknown

If we opened our minds

If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.

~Samuel Smiles

Garden fairies

Garden fairies come at dawn,
Bless the flowers then they're gone.

~Author Unknown

Any man

Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind.

~Irish Saying

There never was

There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring.

~John Selden, "Parson," Table Talk, 1689

The fairies

The fairies break their dances
And leave the printed lawn.

~A.E. Housman

Fairies are invisible

Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature.

~Lynn Holland

The fairy poet

The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.

~Joyce Kilmer

When I sound the fairy call

When I sound the fairy call,
Gather here in silent meeting,
Chin to knee on the orchard wall,
Cooled with dew and cherries eating.
Merry, merry, Take a cherry
Mine are sounder, Mine are rounder
Mine are sweeter, For the eater
When the dews fall. And you'll be fairies all.

~Robert Graves, "Cherry-Time," Fairies and Fusiliers, 1918

Oh! where do fairies hide

Oh! where do fairies hide their heads,
When snow lies on the hills,
When frost has spoiled their mossy beds,
And crystallized their rills?

~Thomas Haynes Bayly

I think that people

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

~Tori Amos

Angels

Angels, pixies, faerie dust
Treading love and living lust.

~Jaesse Tyler

Buttercups in the sunshine

Buttercups in the sunshine look like little cups of gold.
Perhaps the Faeries come to drink the raindrops that they hold.

~Elizabeth T. Dillingham, "A Faery Song"

Raindrops

Raindrops are like fairy whispers.

~Author Unknown

The little Plumpuppets

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds;
They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads;
They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight,
And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

~Christopher Morley

The iron tongue

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.

~William Shakespeare

Deaf folk hear

Deaf folk hear the fairies
However soft their song;
'Tis we who lose the honey sound
Amid the clamor all around
That beats the whole day long.

~Rose Fyleman

I'll seek

I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells,
And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

~Samuel Lover

The fairies went

The fairies went from the world, dear,
Because men's hearts grew cold:
And only the eyes of children see
What is hidden from the old...

~Kathleen Foyle

Come cuddle close

Come cuddle close in daddy's coat
Beside the fire so bright,
And hear about the fairy folk
That wander in the night.

~Robert Bird

Are those the magic fairy wands

Are those the magic fairy wands
glistening on the tree
or only winter icicles that I see?

~Author Unknown

When the first baby

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.

~James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

Hand in hand

Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place.

~William Shakespeare

It's easy to believe

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

~Charles de Lint

How we spend

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

-- Annie Dillard

It is an important and popular fact

It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars, and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversly, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reason.

~Douglas Adams, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sometimes I feel

Sometimes I feel there is a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear you could probably hear the ocean. Heh. The moon tonight, there's a circle around it, a sign of trouble not far behind. I have this dream of being whole. I'm not going to sleep each night wanting... but sometimes when the wind is warm or the crickets sing, I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen. I don't know; maybe I've had my happiness. I don't want to belive it, but there is no man, Gilly, only that moon…

~Practical Magic, the movie.

Being normal

Being normal is not necassarily a virtue, It rather denotes a lack of courage.

~from Practical Magic

And this is what comes

And this is what comes from dabbling; I mean you can’t practice witchcraft while you look down your nose at it.

~Practical Magic, the movie.

Always throw

Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.

~Practical Magic, the movie.

Do you ever

Do you ever put your arms out and spin and spin and spin? Well that’s what love feels like.

~Practical Magic, the movie.

Don't die on me

Don’t die on me Gilly please, ’cause we’re supposed to die together remember, at the same time, you promised me that and this is not that day!

~Practical Magic, the movie

You cannot

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I'm not so good with advice

"I'm not so good with advice...can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?"

-Matthew Perry as 'Chandler', American TV character

If I cannot give

"If I cannot give consent to my own death, then whose body is this? Who owns my life?"

~Sue Rodriguez

This above all

"This above all:
to thine own self be true."

-William Shakespeare

One thing we can do

"One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety."

-- Deepak Chopra

There are no guarantees

"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary."

-- Emmanuel

Until we take

"Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective."

-- Stephen Covey

Persons and societies

"Persons and societies do not submit passively to surroundings and events. They make choices as to the places where they live and the activities in which they engage -- choices based on what they want to be, to do and to become. Furthermore, persons and societies often change their goals and ways; they can even retrace their steps and start in a new direction if they believe they are on a wrong course. Thus, whereas animal life is prisoner of biological evolution which is essentially irreversible, human life has the wonderful freedom of social evolution which is rapidly reversible and creative. Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny."

-- Rene Dubos

I like thinking of possibilities

"I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment."

-- Doug Hall

My initial response

"My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."

-Charles Barkley, American basketball player

He who is not

"He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith."

-Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian statesman

Feedback

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

-Ken Blanchard, American author

If it's free

"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."

-Jack Adams, Canadian hockey player

We are sick with the desire

We are sick with the desire for the sun
And grass on the mountain.

~Paiute Song

A house

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

~Phillip Moffitt

To keep the body

To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

~Buddha

Man is

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

~Montaigne

Criticism

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

~Winston Churchill

Some patients

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

~Zacharty Bercovitz

the only time

"... the only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment."

-- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Very few of us

"Very few of us know how much we can put into life if we use it properly, wisely, and economically. Let us economize our time -- lifetimes ebb away before we wake up, and that is why we do not realize the value of the immortal time God has given us."

-- Paramahansa Yogananda

Forget

Forget any sounds or touch you knew
that did not help you dance.

~Rumi

When all is said and done

When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.

~Lou Holtz

If you are pained

“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.”

-- Marcus Aurelius

Security is

"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life."

-- Germaine Greer

Life Rules

Life is short!
Break the rules!
Forgive quickly!
Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably..
And never regret anything that made you smile.

~anonymous

A good intention

"A good intention clothes itself with power."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are what you think

"You are what you think.
You are what you go for.
You are what you do!"

-- Bob Richards

There are three kinds of people

"There are three kinds of people and three kinds of richness:
- people who want to have, to collect
- people who want action, work and labor
- people who want to be
The real richness is in be-ness. People can take all that you have, all that you collected. People can stop your labor, or an accident can stop you. When you are, you never lose what you are."

-- Torkom Saraydarian

Every human action

"Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation."

-- Dalai Lama

Every artist

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

The people

"The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors reflecting their beliefs. So relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth... if we look honestly at our relationships we can see so much about how we have created them."

-- Shakti Gawain

Any situation

"Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outward reflection of your inner state of beingness."

-- El Morya

You should not

"You should not do magic you do not understand!"

~~ from The Indian in the Cupboard.

Advice is

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

-Erica Jong, American author

Positive Quitting

"Employ the power of positive quitting. Most of us view quitting as something negative, but it’s not. ‘Winners never quit,’ we’re told, when, in reality, winners quit all the time: choosing to stop doing things that aren’t creating the results they desire. When you quit all the things that aren’t working for you, when you quit tolerating all the negative things that hold you back, you’ll create a positive ‘charge’ in your life as well as create the space in your life for more positive experiences."

-- Jim Allen

Adventure can be

"Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring."

-- Grace Lichtenstein

Our lives

"Our lives improve only when we take chances ... and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

-- Walter Anderson

Getting in touch

"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."

-- Tom Hopkins

Two people

"Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide."

-- Sogyal Rinpoche

Everything

"Everything seeks its source."

-- a universal principle

You, yourself

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

-- Buddha

Unkind criticism

"Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish."

-- Barbara Sher

A critic

"A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

-- Channing Pollock

If you had a friend

"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"

-- Rob Bremer

I’m not crazy!

I’m not crazy! The voices tell me I am entirely sane…

~anonymous

With the gift of listening

"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing."

-- Catherine de Hueck Doherty

Knowledge of the self

"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."

- Kahlil Gibran

The time has come

“The time has come to take stock of ourselves, to discriminate between priorities, to assess the use we are making of our power and capabilities, and above all, to recognize the limits and truth of our own nature and humanity.”

- Howard Sasportas

The greatest wisdom

"The greatest wisdom is in simplicity, love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way."

- Carlos Barrios

Three hundred years ago

"Three hundred years ago astrology was suppressed under a tide of mechanical scientific views and religious instability. Science did not want to deal with any study that utilised invisible energy fields amd religion did not want the masses to have a tool for self-realisation. Today, quantum physics has opened science to the possibility of invisible forces and people are fed up with the dogmatic, limiting structures of the religious institutions. Astrology is re-emerging just in time for the spiritual revolution."

- Kelly Lee Phipps

Dum vivimus

Dum vivimus, vivamus
- let us live while we live.

~unknown

In lak 'ech

In lak 'ech -
I am another yourself or I am you, you are me!

~unknown

Act Now

Act now - this day will never come again.

~unknown

When there is light

When there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person;
When there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the home;
When there is harmony in the home, there is honour in the nation;
When there is honour in the nation, there is peace in the world.

~Old Chinese Proverb

The first duty of love

"The first duty of love is to listen."

-- Paul Tillich

The purpose of therapy

"The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites."

-- James Hollis

Often people attempt

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you love to do, in order to have what you want."

-- Margaret Young

Who does not

"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."

-- Estonian proverb

Even though you may want

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life."

-- Mary Manin Morrissey

In truth

"In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages."

-- Swami Brahmanada

This business of hozho

"This business of hozho. The way I understand it ... I’ll use an example. Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried out. No water. The Hopi, or the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what’s beyond human power to change, and then to change the human’s attitude to be content with the inevitable."

~from ‘Sacred Clowns’ by Tony Hillerman

Acceptance says

"Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I’ll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I’ll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."

--Catherine Marshall

It is important

"It is important not to ‘need’ what you are calling to you but rather to have a certain detachment about it. Let it be all right if it doesn’t come, or if it comes in a different form than what you expect. After you have asked for something, surrender to whatever comes as being appropriate."

-- Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer

Peace is not won

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

- Katherine Paterson

Peace comes

"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it."

~ Unknown

Where there is great doubt

Where there is great doubt,
there will be great awakening;
small doubt, small awakening,
no doubt, no awakening."

- Zen saying

Be patient and strong

Be patient and strong; for someday this pain will be useful to you.

~ Ovid

Don't be too timid

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world you see

The world you see is just a movie in your mind.

~Jack Kerouac

there is no one

...there is no one in this world who is not looking for God. everyone is trudging along with as much dignity, courage and style as they possibly can.

~ Hafiz

Men are from earth

Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.

~unknown

Going to church

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

~unknown

The grass may be greener

The grass may be greener on the other side but at least you don’t have to mow it.

~unknown

Sometimes I need

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

~unknown

The tree of liberty

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

~Thomas Jefferson

We do survive

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

~John Updike

God sent dogs

"God sent dogs to earth to teach humans how to love."

~Allen Griggs

Countless numbers of people

Countless numbers of people who pray for diseases to go away would be utterly baffled and stunned should this actually happen.

~Larry Dossey

Some people

Some people want to recognize God only in some pleasant enlightenment - and then they get pleasure and enlightenment, but not God.

~Meister Eckhart

If God

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

~C.S. Lewis

When the Gods

When the Gods want to punish us, they answer our prayers.

~Oscar Wilde

Wherever there are no limits

Wherever there are no limits, where Infinity and Eternity and Immortality exist, that is where God is.

~Mikhael Alvanhov

There is a type

There is a type of person in whose mind God is always mixed up with vitamins.

~Manly P. Hall

Short prayer

Short prayer penetrates heaven.

~unknown

Prayers are sometimes answered

Prayers are sometimes answered by the experience of more struggle, by our being plunged into situations where we must risk more than we ever dared before.

~Barry Ulanov

Jesus said

Jesus said, "Love your enemies," not "Don't have any."

~Larry Dossey

When we pray

When we pray in accordance with the law of love, we pray in accordance with the will of God.

~Agnes Sanford

As a holistic being

"As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate."

-- Wayne Dyer

Beliefs separate

"Beliefs separate. Loving thoughts unite."

-- Paul Ferrini

I lived in solitude

"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

-- Albert Einstein

I learned

"I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness."

-- Brenda Ueland

If we fail

"If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living."

-- Marion Woodman

Our prayers

"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be."

-- Morris Adler

Your life

"Your life has to do with the agenda that has been set for you by you, by that part of you that we’ve come to call, in our language, your soul."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

Everyone says

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

~C.S. Lewis

Forgetting is something

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

~Simon Wiesenthal

Forgiveness does not mean

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

~Marianne Williamson

Grace is

Grace is getting something that you don’t deserve; and mercy is not getting something that you do deserve.

~Francis Bacon

Forgiveness is

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

~John Arnott

In Him we have

In Him we have redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of His grace.

~Ephesians 1:7

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

~Anonymous

Without being forgiven

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to a single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice, who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.

~Hannah Arendt

Though justice be

Though justice be
Thy plea, consider this:
That in the course of justice
none of us should see salvation.
We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer
doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

~William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy

The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the heart of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice.

~William Shakespeare

Seeing with better eyes

Seeing with better eyes, "We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer’s misguided attempt to meet his
or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them."

~Holmgren

I could

I could see peace instead of this.

~Course in Miracles©

To be wronged

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

~Course in Miracles©

I can forgive

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note--torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.

~Paul Boese

It is easier

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

~William Blake

To carry a grudge

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

~William H. Walton

What power has love

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

~William Carlos Williams

Many promising reconciliations

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

~Charles Williams

If one by one

If one by one we counted people out
For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long
To get so we had no one left to live with.
For to be social is to be forgiving.

~Robert Frost

Resentment is

Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.

~Dan Zadra

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

~Isaac Friedmann

Forgiveness is better

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

~Epictetus

Little vicious minds

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

~Earl of Chesterfield

What is forgiven

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

~Louis Dudek

Do you prefer

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

~Course in Miracles©

As forgiveness allows

As forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness,
I will see a world of peace and safety and joy.

~Course in Miracles©

Never does

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when is foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

~Confucius

Forgive yourself

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

~E. H. Chapin

God pardons

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Forgiveness does not change

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

~Les Brown

The glory of

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

~William Blake

They who forgive

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

~William Blake

This is certain

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

~Josiah Bailey

Keeping score

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

~Malcolm Forbes

Reason to rule,

Reason to rule,
mercy to forgive:
The first is law,
the last prerogative.

~John Dryden

Life is

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

~Norman Cousins

I can tell you

I can tell you that it takes great strength to surrender. You have to know that you are not going to collapse. Instead, you are going to open to a power that you don't even know, and it is going to come to meet you. In the process of healing, this is one of the huge things that I have discovered. People recognized the energy coming to meet them. When they opened to another energy, a love, a divine love, came through to meet them. That is what is known as grace. We all sing about amazing grace. It is a gift.

I think that it comes through the work that we do. For some people, it can come out of the blue, but I know that in my own situation, the grace came through incredible vigilance.

-Marion Woodman

I love cats

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul."

-Jean Cocteau

Thousands of years ago

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.”

-Anonymous

There are many

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats."

--Anonymous

Cats are kindly masters

"Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."

-Anonymous

With the qualities

"With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?"

-Fernand Mery

A meow

"A meow massages the heart.”

-Stuart McMillan

Kittens are born

"Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives."

-Stephen Baker

The smallest feline

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."

-Leonardo da Vinci

Women and cats

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."

-Robert A. Heinlein

I have studied

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."

--Hippolyte Taine

People who hate cats

"People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life."

--Faith Resnick

Cats are rather delicate

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."

--Joseph Wood Krutch

Dogs come

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later."

--Mary Bly

As every

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."

--Ellen Perry Berkeley

There are two

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

-Albert Schweitzer

There are no

"There are no ordinary cats."

-Unknown

There are few things

"There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat."

-Tay Hohoff

Every life

"Every life should have nine cats."

-Anonymous

I purr

"I purr, therefore I am."

-Anonymous Kitteh

There is no more

“There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten."

-Jules Champfleury

Cats are smarter

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."

--Jeff Valdez

There is

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."

-- Unknown

Small projects

Small projects need much more help than great.

~Dante Alighieri

Worldly fame

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

~Dante Alighieri

You shall find out

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

~Dante Alighieri

For where the instrument

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

~Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

- Dante Alighieri

The fair request

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.

- Dante Alighieri

He who sees a need

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

- Dante Alighieri

I am searching

I am searching for that which every man seeks - peace and rest.

- Dante Alighieri

Pride, envy, avarice

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

~Dante Alighieri

O conscience

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

~Dante Alighieri

No one thinks

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

~Dante Alighieri

Nature

Nature is the art of God.

~Dante Alighieri

In the middle of the journey

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

~Dante Alighieri

If the present world

If the present world go astray,
the cause is in you,
in you it is to be sought.

~Dante Alighieri

Heaven wheels above you

Heaven wheels above you,
displaying to you her eternal glories,
and still your eyes are on the ground.

~Dante Alighieri

Heat

Heat cannot be separated from fire,
or beauty from The Eternal.

~Dante Alighieri

He listens well

He listens well who takes notes.

~Dante Alighieri

Follow

Follow your own star!

~Dante Alighieri

Consider your origins

Consider your origins:
you were not made to live as brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.

~Dante Alighieri

Beauty

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

~Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower

Be as a tower firmly set;
Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

~Dante Alighieri

Art

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

~Dante Alighieri

All hope

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

~Dante Alighieri

We must overact

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

~Dante Alighieri

A mighty flame

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

~Dante Alighieri

We not only live among men

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

~Henry Ward Beecher

For every soul

For every soul, there is a guardian watching it.

~The Koran

So in a voice

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be.

~John Donne

What know we

What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

~William Wordsworth

If some people really see angels

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

~John Ruskin

Be an angel

Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you.

~Eileen Elias Freeman

God does not deal directly

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

~Socrates

I have seen a thousand

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Give of yourself

Give of yourself as the Angels do, and wonderful things will come to you.

~Ramadan

Perhaps children's innocence

Perhaps children's innocence, wherever it comes from, contributes to the fact that they seem to see angels more often.

~John Ronner

Every man contemplates

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To see the angel

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

~James Hillman

Few people realize

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

~Billy Graham

An Angel can

An Angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates.

~St. Thomas Aquinas

So far as the Angels

So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

For he shall give

For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.

~Psalm 91:11

It is impossible

It is impossible to see the Angel unless you first have a notion of it.

~James Hillman

And whoever disbelieves

And whoever disbelieves in God and his angels and his books and his messengers and the last day, he indeed strays far away.

~The Koran

I believe

"I believe most at-home accidents happen in the bathroom because our Guardian Angels give us our privacy".

~Cathy L. Poulin

There is

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

~St. Thomas Aquinas

Smells are

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

~Helen Keller

Angels

Angels (it's said) would be often unable to tell whether they moved among living or dead. The eternal torrent whirls all the ages through either realm for ever, and sounds above their voices in both.

~Rainer Marie Rilke

God assures us

God assures us that his angels are always nearby, ready to help. This is what matters.

~Timothy Jones

but we all are men

...but we all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels...

~William Shakespeare

We feel isolated

We feel isolated and lonely, and it's not necessary. Each of us has a guardian angel who works with us as much as we will allow.

~Eileen Elias Freeman

Making the outer

"Making the outer meet the inner
is the function of the artist."

—Joseph Campbell

Words reduce reality

"Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much."

— Eckhart Tolle

You find peace

"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."

— Eckhart Tolle

Life is the dancer

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."

— Eckhart Tolle

Death is a stripping away

"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death."

— Eckhart Tolle

Give up defining yourself

"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are."

— Eckhart Tolle

Man made God

"Man made God in his own image..."

— Eckhart Tolle

whenever there is inspiration

"...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of."

— Eckhart Tolle

You do not become good

"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge."

— Eckhart Tolle

Don't let a mad world

"Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment."

— Eckhart Tolle

Can you look

"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"

— Eckhart Tolle

Nonresistance

"Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe."

— Eckhart Tolle

Through the present moment

"Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life."

— Eckhart Tolle

Doing

"Doing is never enough if you neglect Being."

— Eckhart Tolle

The primary cause

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but you thoughts about it."

— Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you fight

"Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists."

— Eckhart Tolle

Is there a difference

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."

— Eckhart Tolle

If you get

"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place."

— Eckhart Tolle

Even a stone

"Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it and let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you."

— Eckhart Tolle

One thing we do know

"One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment."

— Eckhart Tolle

The ego

"The ego wants to want more than it wants to have."

— Eckhart Tolle

A genuine relationship

"A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever."

— Eckhart Tolle

Life isn't

"Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be."

— Eckhart Tolle

Sometimes letting things go

"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."

— Eckhart Tolle

Awareness

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change."

— Eckhart Tolle

Wherever you go

"Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality."

-- Deepak Chopra

The affairs of the world

"The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation."

-- Milarepa

Freedom is

"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."

-- Dr. Rollo May

Most people

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

-- Sigmund Freud

In a world

"In a world filled with noise, we need to quiet ourselves to hear God’s voice."

--Paul Borthwick

Meditation helps me feel

"Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit."

-- Wayne Muller

All man's miseries

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."

-- Blaise Pascal

It is not my business

"It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me."

-- Simone Weil

Faith is not complacent

'Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move."

-- Betty Eadie

When we take one step

"When we take one step toward God, he takes seven steps toward us."

-- Hindu Proverb

Change is created

"Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances"

~ Unknown

Your imagination

"Your imagination is your preview to life’s coming attractions."

~ Albert Einstein

Life is just an experiment

Life is just an experiment.
We live in a test tube,
where we are constantly mixed and tested
to see how we will react or respond.

~David Bolen

I am just a bud

I am just a bud
I have dreamed of a season
A new world is upon me
A warm light nurtures my spirit
My fragrance smells of life.

~David Bolen

We merely lease space

We merely lease space in the universe to accommodate the existence of our eternity in its various forms.

~David Bolen

Experience happens

Experience happens when you least expect it.

~David Bolen

You need not cry

You need not cry, for the well is full
You need not mourn the past,
for the present is upon us.
You need not grieve,
for the essence of existence is the
Transformation of form.

~David Bolen

In the invisible world

In the invisible world of existence lies the intelligence that eludes the scope of our mental vision.

~David Bolen

As students of life

As students of life we never pass or fail; we just become more aware of our possibilities.

~David Bolen

True greatness

True greatess is when people get over our deaths but don't get over our lives.

~David Bolen

Most people

'Most people are walking around, umbilical cord in hand, looking for a new place to plug it in.'

~Cavett Robert

Money can't buy you happiness

'Money can't buy you happiness but it will buy you a yacht big enough to pull up alongside it.'

~David Lee Roth

There are no more prizes

'There are no more prizes for predicting rain.
There are only prizes for building arks.'

~Lou Gerstner

Composting

"Composting is easier to do than to describe, and, like lovemaking, magic when you do it well."

~Sim Van der Ryn

Patience in the presence

Patience in the presence
Of teeming obstacles
Is the only way
To surprisingly succeed in life.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Every second

Every second
Either you are going to miss
Or you are going to avail yourself of
A golden opportunity.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Life has no limits

Life has no limits.
It is the mind that creates
Life's so-called limits.

~ Sri Chinmoy

We forget to remember God

We forget to remember God.
Therefore our life on earth
Remains uninspired, unillumined
And unfulfilled.

~ Sri Chinmoy

If I do not accept myself

If I do not accept myself
As imperfect,
How am I going to transcend
My limitations?

~ Sri Chinmoy

Our mind-windows

Our mind-windows
Have to be cleaned every day
If we want to see truth through them.

~ Sri Chinmoy

There is no way

There is no way
To achieve goodness
Without offering it first.

~ Sri Chinmoy

We shall definitely be successful

We shall definitely be successful in life,
If we take each outer difficulty
As an opportunity.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Do you want to be happy

Do you want to be happy,
Really happy?
Then just think
Of your outer life less,
A little less,
And live more,
A little more,
In your inner life.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Anyone

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

~Albert Einstein

Far away there in the sunshine

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

~Louisa May Alcott

If I am not

"If I am not for myself, who will be?"

~Pirke Avoth

The tragedy is

"The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search."

Dr Nathaniel Branden

Let the world know you

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

~Fanny Brice

Other people's opinion

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

~Les Brown

It took me a long time

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

~Sally Field

Never be bullied

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

~Harvey Fienstein

The way you treat yourself

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others."

~Dr Sonya Friedman

In my day

"In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned."

~Jane Haddam

It's surprising

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

~Sidney J. Harris

Every individual

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is only one corner

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

~Aldous Leonard Huxley

Self confidence

"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

~Dr. Samuel Johnson

Accept everything about yourself

"Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets."

~Clark Moustakas

At bottom every man knows

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvellously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Do not walk behind me

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.
~unknown

Never miss

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

~unknown

Duct tape

Duct tape is like ‘The Force’. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

~unknown

Some days you’re the bug

Some days you’re the bug; some days you’re the windshield.

~unknown

Always remember

Always remember that you’re unique. Just like everyone else.

~unknown

The journey

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire.

~unknown

Never, under any circumstances

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

~unknown

I won’t say ours was a tough school

I won’t say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I’m going to be if I grow up.

~unknown

Experience is

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

~unknown

Nothing is more discouraging

Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.

~unknown

“Are you sarcastic?”

“Are you sarcastic?”
“Well no duh!”

~unknown

I like you

I like you.
People say I’ve got no taste,
but I like you.

~unknown

You were looking good

You were looking good from afar..
now you’re far from looking good.

~unknown

Someone who thinks logically

Someone who thinks logically, provides a nice contrast to the real world.

~unknown

Sarcasm

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil.

~unknown

Thou shalt not

Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.

~unknown

I find television very educating

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

~unknown

He has no enemies

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

~unknown

He was happily married

He was happily married - but his wife wasn’t.

~unknown

I feel so miserable

I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.

~unknown

Don’t be humble

Don’t be humble. You’re not that great.

~unknown

Our enemies are innovative

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

~unknown

If you’re too open-minded

If you’re too open-minded, your brains will fall out.

~unknown

If you’re one in a million

If you’re one in a million, there are six thousand people exactly like you.

~unknown

For a long time

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

-- Fr. Alfred D’Souza

I have never

"I have never been contained except I made the prison."

~Mary Evans

If you play it safe

"If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more."

~Shirley Hufstedler

I never know

"I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we’re not supposed to know; we’re supposed to trust ourselves to discover it."

~Melody Beattie

I trust so much

"I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn."

~Melody Beattie

Consciousness

Consciousness naturally resists anything uncounsious and unkown.

~Carl G. Jung

Say: O unbelievers

Say: O unbelievers!
I do not serve that which you serve,
Nor do you serve Him Whom I serve:
Nor am I going to serve that which you serve,
Nor are you going to serve Him Whom I serve:
You shall have your religion and I shall have my religion.

~Quran 109:1-6

The haves

The haves and have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and did-nots.

~D.O. Flynn

It is better

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

~Joseph Joubert

Any sufficiently advanced technology

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

~Arthur C. Clarke

We humans are

We humans are Pilgrims on the Path and also the Path itself. Not only do we burn, we are the burning ground.

~Sarah Leigh Brown

Even trees understand me

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don’t I? I’m just like a pile of leaves.

~Frank O'Hara

I am

I am the least difficult of men.
All I want is boundless love.

~Frank O'Hara

My eyes are

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up. It makes me restless and that makes me unhappy, but I cannot keep them still. If only I had grey, green, black, brown, yellow eyes; I would stay at home and do something. It’s not that I’m curious. On the contrary, I am bored but it’s my duty to be attentive, I am needed by things as the sky must be above the earth. And lately, so great has their anxiety become, I can spare myself little sleep.

~Frank O'Hara

Why should I

Why should I share you?
Why don’t you get rid of someone else for a change?

~Frank O'Hara

Each time my heart is broken

Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there’ll be nothing left with which to venture forth.

~Frank O'Hara

Do you really want

"Do you really want to look back on your life
and see how wonderful it could have been
had you not been afraid to live it."

~ Caroline Myss

Contain your experience

"Contain your experience with the divine
so that it does not escape you but rather shapes you.
Be silent.
Silence will help you avoid engaging in the games of competition and illusion
that regularly seduce us in the outside world.
Silence also helps you avoid distraction.
It helps focus the busy mind -
the mind that always has to be doing something, thinking something,
the mind that always has to be otherwise engaged
lest it become introspective and allow the soul's voice to override its own.
The silence I am describing is a silence that you use
to contain the grace you receive when you enter the Castle of your soul.
This quality of silence allows you to engage in discernment.
You carry this silence within you, even when you are with others.
It allows you to hold your center amid the chaos of your life;
it keeps you clear so that you do not do or say things you will regret
or make decisions out of fear. "

~ Caroline Myss

Therefore

"Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being,
that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart."

~ Caroline Myss

Forgive

"Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events."

~ Caroline Myss

In order to heal

"In order to heal oneself,
we must learn how to forgive."

~ Caroline Myss

One of the greatest struggles

"One of the greatest struggles of the healing process
is to forgive both yourself and others
and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts."

~ Caroline Myss

It is your birthright

"It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract.
It will guide you to find your divine destiny."

~ Caroline Myss

Our goal while on this earth

"Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life."

~ Caroline Myss

Spirituality on the other hand

Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path
of developing intimate relationships with God.
It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional."

~ Caroline Myss

The forgiving heart

"The forgiving heart is capable of anything.
I believe that deeply.
And that’s where in terms of becoming an empowered individual....
when you get to the point where you realize you can look at someone and say
“I love myself enough -
not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff,
I’m talking respect myself -
I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it."

~ Caroline Myss

There is no such thing

"There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion
or an inconsequential act of service.
Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences."

~ Caroline Myss

The act of forgiveness

"The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time.
And that's why when one has become a forgiving person,
and has managed to let go of the past,
what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

~ Caroline Myss

Intuition is

"Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
It is actually the ability to use energy data
to make decisions in the immediate moment."

~ Caroline Myss

The love that flows

"The love that flows through your heart
purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others."

~ Caroline Myss

The soul

"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.
The challenge is to silence the mind."

~ Caroline Myss

Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is no longer an option
but a necessity for healing."

~ Caroline Myss

When we harbor

"When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves,
or when we intentionally create pain for others,
we poison our own physical and spiritual systems.
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit
is the inability to forgive oneself or another person.
It disables a person's emotional resources.
The challenge is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves
and to develop the power of forgiveness. "

~ Caroline Myss

We grow primarily

"We grow primarily through our challenges,
especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize
aspects of our nature that make us different from the family
and culture in which we have been raised."

~ Caroline Myss

Always go

"Always go with the choice that scares you the most,
because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. "

~ Caroline Myss

Whenever

"Whenever you become empowered,
you will be tested."

~ Caroline Myss

You are afraid

"You are afraid of your own empowerment as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered."

~ Caroline Myss

If anyone

"If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them."

~ Caroline Myss

All birds

All birds, even those of the same species, are not alike, and it is the same with animals and with human beings. The reason WakanTanka does not make two birds, or animals, or human beings exactly alike is because each is placed here by WakanTanka to be an independent individuality and to rely upon itself.

~Shooter, Teton Sioux

I have seen

... I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.

~Lone Man (Isna-la-wica) Teton Sioux

The Great Spirit

The Great Spirit is in all things, he is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us, that which we put into the ground she returns to us....

~Big Thunder (Bedagi) Wabanaki Algonquin

The traditions of our people

The traditions of our people are handed down from father to son. The Chief is considered to be the most learned, and the leader of the tribe. The Doctor, however, is thought to have more inspiration. He is supposed to be in communion with spirits... He cures the sick by the laying of hands, and payers and incantations and heavenly songs. He infuses new life into the patient, and performs most wonderful feats of skill in his practice.... He clothes himself in the skins of young innocent animals, such as the fawn, and decorated himself with the plumage of harmless birds, such as the dove and hummingbird ...

~Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute, (1844-1891)

From Wakan-Tanka

From Wakan-Tanka, the Great Mystery, comes all power. It is from Wakan-Tanka that the holy man has wisdom and the power to heal and make holy charms. Man knows that all healing plants are given by Wakan-Tanka, therefore they are holy. So too is the buffalo holy, because it is the gift of Wakan-Tanka.

~Flat-Iron (Maza Blaska Oglala Sioux Chief)

everything on the earth

...everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

~Mourning Dove, Salish, 1888-1936

In the beginning

In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beast, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and moon should man learn.. all things tell of Tirawa.

All things in the world are two. In our minds we are two, good and evil. With our eyes we see two things, things that are fair and things that are ugly.... We have the right hand that strikes and makes for evil, and we have the left hand full of kindness, near the heart. One foot may lead us to an evil way, the other foot may lead us to a good. So are all things two, all two.

~Eagle Chief (Letakos-Lesa) Pawnee

You have noticed

You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

~Black Elk, Oglala Sioux Holy Man, 1863-1950

The American Indian

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged....

~Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux, 1868-1937

One does not

"One does not sell the land people walk on."

~Crazy Horse, Sept. 23, 1875

Treat the earth well

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."

~Ancient Indian Proverb

You ask me

"You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

"You ask me to dig for stones! Shall I dig under her skin for bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.

"You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men, but how dare I cut my mother's hair?

"I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother."

~Wovoka, Paiute

Once I was in Victoria

"Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest.

We are Indians and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank."

~Chief Maquinna, Nootka

I will follow

"I will follow the white man's trail. I will make him my friend, but I will not bend my back to his burdens. I will be cunning as a coyote. I will ask him to help me understand his ways, then I will prepare the way for my children, and their children. The Great Spirit has shown me - a day will come when they will outrun the white man in his own shoes."

~Many Horses

I love this land

"I love this land and the buffalo and will not part with it. I want you to understand well what I say. Write it on paper...I hear a great deal of good talk from the gentlemen the Great Father sends us, but they never do what they say. I don't want any of the medicine lodges (schools and churches) within the country. I want the children raised as I was.

I have heard you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains. I don't want to settle. I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die.

A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go up to the river I see camps of soldiers on its banks. These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill my buffalo and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting."

~Santana, Kiowa Chief

My Father

"My Father: a long time has passed since first we came upon our lands; and our people have all sunk into their graves. They had sense. We are all young and foolish, and do not wish to do anything that they would not approve, were they living. We are fearful we shall offend their spirits if we sell our lands; and we are fearful we shall offend you if we do not sell them. This has caused us great perplexity of thought, because we have counselled among ourselves, and do not know how we can part with our lands.

My Father, we have sold you a great tract of land already; but it is not enough! We sold it to you for the benefit of your children, to farm and to live upon. We have now but a little left. We shall want it all for ourselves. We know not how long we shall live, and we wish to leave some lands for our children to hunt upon. You are gradually taking away our hunting grounds. Your children are driving us before them. We are growing uneasy. What lands you have you may retain. But we shall sell no more.

~Metea, a Potowatami chief of the Illinois nation

I love this land

"I love this land and the buffalo and will not part with it. I want you to understand well what I say. Write it on paper...I hear a great deal of good talk from the gentlemen the Great Father sends us, but they never do what they say. I don't want any of the medicine lodges (schools and churches) within the country. I want the children raised as I was.

I have heard you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains. I don't want to settle. I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die.

A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go up to the river I see camps of soldiers on its banks. These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill my buffalo and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting."

~Santana, Kiowa Chief

Success

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
-Sloan Wilson

Social order

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

~Marquis De Sade

In order to know

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

~Marquis De Sade

Happiness

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

~Marquis De Sade

Happiness is ideal

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

~Marquis De Sade

Between understanding

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

~Marquis De Sade

Are wars anything

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

~Marquis De Sade

Are not laws dangerous

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

~Marquis De Sade

All is theft

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

~Marquis De Sade

The more defects

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

~Marquis De Sade

The imagination

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

~Marquis De Sade

Man's natural character

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

~Marquis De Sade

Lust's passion

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

~Marquis De Sade

Lust is

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

~Marquis De Sade

It is always

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

~Marquis De Sade

My manner of thinking

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

~Marquis De Sade

It is not my mode of thought

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

~Marquis De Sade

I've already told you

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

~Marquis De Sade

We are no guiltier

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

~ Marquis de Sade

Destruction

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

~Marquis De Sade

All universal moral principles

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

~Marquis De Sade

'Til the infallibility

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

~Marquis De Sade

To judge

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

~Marquis De Sade

Truth titillates

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

~Marquis De Sade

Variety

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

~Marquis De Sade

What is

What is more immoral than war?

~Marquis De Sade

Woman's destiny

Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.

~Marquis De Sade

Your body

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

~Marquis De Sade

Some people

Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.

~unknown

We all need space

We all need space -- free from demands, deadlines, expectations and judgments -- to explore who we are and what life is all about. Free time, with absolutely no agenda, is rich with potential. How can we grow if we have no space and freedom to dream?

"Deny children -- or anyone else -- the chance to do ‘nothing,’ and we may be denying them the chance to do ‘something’ -- to find and do any work that is truly important to themselves or to someone else."

-- John Holt

No one can

"No one can find his work, what he really wants to put all of himself into, when everything he does he is made to do by others. This kind of searching must be done freely or not at all."

-- John Holt

Our distress comes

"Our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for.

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life begets life

Life begets life. Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

-Sarah Bernhardt

If you take

"If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification."

-William Bradford Shockley

You build on failure

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

-Johnny Cash

Life is meant

Life is meant to be lived in the flesh and in action... not in cyberspace and thought alone. We need to connect in a real way with what lives around us... we need to go outside and smell the air, touch the trees, visit the birds with our eyes and our ears.

~Shirley Gibson

Don't think

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

-Lao-Tzu

Do not assume

"Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems.
It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas,
flowing through dreams and illuminations.
Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however,
it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it"
~ Caroline Myss

I firmly believe

"I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill -a skill based in self-esteem."
~ Caroline Myss

You can have anything

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
-Sheilah Graham

Man is

Man is a self-balancing, 28-jointed adapter-base biped, and electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with the segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent activation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries, millions of warning signal, railroad and conveyor systems, crushers and cranes, and a universally distributed telephone system needing no service for seventy years if well managed, the whole extraordinary complex mechanism guided with exquisite precision from a turret in which are located telescopic and microscopic self-registering and recording range-finders, a spectroscope, etc. .. the turret control being closely allied with an air-conditioning intake and exhaust, and a main fuel intake.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller

The madness of depression

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
-William Styron

Our greatest prejudice

Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.
-Andy Webster

Creativity represents

"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."
-Norman Podhoretz

Walk in the rain

Walk in the rain, jump in mud puddles, collect rocks, rainbows and roses, smell flowers, blow bubbles, stop along the way, build sandcastles, say hello to everyone, go barefoot, go on adventures, act silly, fly kites, have a merry heart, talk with animals, sing in the shower, read childrens' books, take bubble baths, get new sneakers, hold hands and hug and kiss, dance, laugh and cry for the health of it, wonder and wander around, feel happy and precious and innocent, feel scared, feel sad, feel mad, give up worry and guilt and shame, say yes, say no, say the magic words, ask lots of questions, ride bicycles, draw and paint, see things differently, fall down and get up again, look at the sky, watch the sun rise and sun set, watch clouds and name their shapes, watch the moon and stars come out, trust the universe, stay up late, climb trees, daydream, do nothing and do it very well, learn new stuff, be excited about everything, be a clown, enjoy having a body, listen to music, find out how things work, make up new rules, tell stories, save the world, make friends with the other kids on the block, and do anything else that brings more happiness, celebration, health, love, joy, creativity, pleasure, abundance, grace, self-esteem, courage, balance, spontaneity, passion, beauty, peace, relaxation, communication and life energy to...all living beings on this planet.
-Bruce Williamson

Age is only

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
-Bernard Baruch

Let no one be discouraged

"Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation...

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man (or a woman) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he (or she) sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
-Robert Francis Kennedy

There is a vitality

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
-Martha Graham

The Force

Obi-Wan: The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

Princess Edane

Princess Edane... heard a voice singing on a May Eve like this, and followed half awake and half asleep, until she came into the Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

~William Butler Yeats

If money

"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master."

-- Francis Bacon