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FAMOUS QUOTES "Lovers, forget your love "True solitude is a din of a birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow." -Edward Hoagland "There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go" -Richard Bach "As a painting can be hard to see in the absence of light. Such is sailing in the dark after my port has been turned to right. So I quietly plot a new course with my trusty internal compass. Experiencing bright sunsets in the distance like a spiritual Aurora Borealis." -Seamus A. Nash "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 "I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light." -Martha Beck "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." -Frank Lloyd Wright "Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."" -Robert Byrne "Patience - a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue" -Ambrose Bierre "You heard what Linus was saying out there. Those early Pilgrims were thankful for what had happened to them, and we should be thankful, too. We should just be thankful for being together. I think that's what they mean by 'Thanksgiving', Charlie Brown." -Marcie "I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants." -Kevin James "When you have come to the edge of all the light you have and step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of the two will happen. Either you will find something solid to stand on or you'll be taught how to fly." -Richard Bach "While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give." -James Joyce "The language of friendship is not words but meanings." -Henry David Thoreau "One kind word can warm three winter months." -Japanese Proverb "Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each others way; but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say." -Oscar Wilde "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." -Jim Morrison "The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." -George C. Scott "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." -Dr. Seuss "Sometimes it seems as if we actually sail our own ship. Stern captain at the bow, confidently backing out of the slip. Powering through the headwaters and setting out to sea. Eyes on the horizon as a misty fog tries to find me..." -Seamus A Nash "Courage is fear holding on a minute later." -George S. Patton "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Oliver Wendell Holmes "From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent and even here in our own hemispere, our veterans made the world a better place and America the great country we are today." -John Hoeven "Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today." -Richard Bach "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." -Albert Einstein "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed." -David Letterman "There are no ordinary moments." -Dan Millman "True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise." -Lao Tzu "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." -Carl Buchner "A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known Autumn too long." -e. e. cummings "There is no Religion higher than Truth." -from the Sanskrit "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." -Franklin P. Jones "Shadows of a thousand years "Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will." -Dan Millman "I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence." -Henry James "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." -Mother Teresa "Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it." -Jean Paul Richter "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend." -Albert Camus "I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with the meaning of happiness." -Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes "Give us grace and strength to forbear and perservere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies." -Robert Louis Stevenson "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -Seneca "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." -Andre Gide "Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." -Jack Buck "Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence." -David Byrne "To understand everything is to forgive everything." -Buddha "I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests." -Pablo Neruda "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." -Richard Bach
December 2010
And list to the love of these
She a window flower
And he a winter breeze..."
-Robert Frost
Rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees
'Tonight is Halloween." -Dexter Kozen
UPDATED OCTOBER 2010
"Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night " -Hal Borland
"Waves are not measured in feet and inches; they are measured in increments of fear." -Buzzy
"And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)." -Dr. Seuss
"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns." -George Elliot
"I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses." -William Shakespeare
"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be oneself and need not roam." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." -Richard Bach
"The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect." -Henry Ward Beecher
"It is a wise man who seeks not the answers to his questions until he has fully prepared himself for the ultimate truth." -Seamus A. Nash
"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems." -Paul J. Meyer
"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane." -Robert Frost
"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do." -Kahlil Gibran
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." -Lao Tzu
"Human Kind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." -Chief Seattle 1854
"Forgiveness... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened." -Rhonda Britten
"I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal." -Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbbes
"The more I think I know the more I realize there is so much not to know." -Seamus A. Nash
"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true." -Richard Bach
"Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long." -Richard Bach
"Colors blind the eye. Sounds deafen the ear. Flavors numb the taste. Thoughts weaken the mind. Desires wither the heart. The Master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is open to the sky." -from the Tao Te Ching
"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been." -Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Snow Goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself." -Lao Tzu
"We must become the change we want to see." -Mohatma Gandhi
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -Charles Darwin
"I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point." -Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." -Buddha
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." -Henry Drummond
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." -Langston Hughes
"To have danced with you across the summer sky was one of the greatest joys I have ever known." -Me
"Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not paid by gold or silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased." -Adam Smith
"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor." -Ulysses S. Grant
"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach." -Henry Beston
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." -Vince Lombardi
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires." -Francois de La Rochefoucould
"The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons." -Bhagavad Gita B.C. 400
"Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear." -Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Self - reverence, self - knowledge, self - control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power." -Lord Alfred Tennyson
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." -William Shakespeare
"It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply BE." -Eileen Caddy
"The purpose of relationship is not. l to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness." -Neale Donald Walsch
“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find
someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” -Author Unknown
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world." -Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes
"If you will not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing." -Benjamin Franklin
"You listen to so much more than I can say. You hear consciousness. You go with me where the words I say can't carry you." -Kahlil Gibran
"Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky." -Dr. Seuss
“Forgiveness is The ultimate sacrifice. Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror." -Serj Tankian
"What angers us in another person is more often than not an unhealed aspect of ourselves. If we had already resolved that particular issue, we would not be irritated by its reflection back to us." -Simon Peter Fuller
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." -Carl Jung
"The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity, and endless regarding our own being." -Sorin Chen
"Believe in you - So you can believe in me - Then just believe." -Seamus A. Nash
"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head." -Mark Twain
"True friends stab you in the front." -Oscar Wilde
"Those who know don't talk, Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity." -Lao Tzu from the Tao Te Ching
"As you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow." -Dr. Seuss
"I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you, I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass." -Walt Whitman
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, and simpler." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"Dancing backwards - caught up in another place in time - never really knew where I was headed to. How did I wind up - back where I started - I'm so glad I found you there." -Warren Haynes
"Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me" -Mary Haskell
"When we are together, we are never apart. When we are apart, we will always remain together." -Seamus A. Nash
"But thy eternal summer shall not fade." -William Shakespeare
"If I accept the sunshine and warmth I must also accept the thunder and the lightening." -Kahlil Gibran
"The affections are like lightening: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen." -Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
"Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart." -Robert Sexton
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." -Sam Keen
"Arrogance and ignorance are the root of all evil." -My Neighbor on GP
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." -Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes
"I escape into my tv - I know you understand. Man, they call that shit reality I'd like to see those fools in
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you." -Langston Hughes
"Essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form... that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences... that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences." -Deepok Chopra
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." -Leo Buscaglia
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." -Helen Keller
"May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence make you strong." -Chief Dan George
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." -John Lennon
"In order to achieve world peace mustn't we first make peace in our own worlds." -Seamus A. Nash
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." -Lord Alfred Tennyson
"I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another." -Homer
"Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Peace will be when you accept it in your heart." -Hiawatha
"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them them into one can create that atom which is called love." -Kahlil Gibran
"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!" -Oliver Wendell Holmes. *Have a happy and safe 4th of July!!!*
"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself by forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy." -Mark Twain
"Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." -Native American Proverb
"Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." -Henry James
"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats." -Woody Allen
"Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words." -Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." -Helen Keller
"May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence make you strong." -Chief Dan George
UPDATED JULY 2010
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart." -Buddha
"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young." -Oscar Wilde
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." -John Lennon
"In order to achieve world peace mustn't we first make peace in our own worlds." -Seamus A. Nash
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." -Lord Alfred Tennyson
"I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another." -Homer
"Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love." -Kahlil Gibran
"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!" -Oliver Wendell Holmes. *Have a happy and safe 4th of July!!!*
"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself by forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy." -Mark Twain
"Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." -Native American Proverb
"I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that." -Confucius
"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers." -Kahlil Gibran
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." -Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes-
"There is here no measuring with time, no years matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful.” -Ranier Maria Rilke
"Dance like no one is watching.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live like it's heaven on earth."
-William Purkey
“One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child." -Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter." -Long
"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation." -Eileen Caddy
"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." -Plutarch
"The oil can is mightier than the sword." -
"Two atoms they collide, in all the random ways. The meeting of you and I, not so random some might say." John Butler Trio from April Uprising
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." -Herman Hesse
"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear those trees are now silent, their songs never cease." -John Muir
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." -Ralph Walso Emerson
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another." -Gaily Sheehy
"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help." -Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes
"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." -Henry Ward Beecher
"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecision does not grow." -Kahlil Gibran
"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails." -Romain Rolland
"Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?
Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!"
-Bill Watterson
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." -Mark Twain
"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him 'I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?'" -Friedrich Nietzsche
"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends." -Sir Francis Bacon
"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better." -Abraham Lincoln
"Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *In memory for those who fought and died for our freedoms, for those whose uniforms hang in the closet, and to those who still proudly fight to this day to protect and preserve the American Dream*
"Life is a song... sing it.
Life is a game... play it.
Life is a challenge... meet it.
Life is a dream... realize it.
Life is a sacrifice... offer it.
Life is love… enjoy it!”
lIfe is love... enjoy it."
-Sai Baba
"O earth, what changes hast thou seen." -Lord Alfred Tennyson
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently." -Bill Watterson *Calvin & Hobbes*
"Pure spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation - guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and of work." -Aldous Huxley
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." -Carlos Castenada
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -Buddha
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao Tzu
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here,
and whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding
as it should. –from the poem Desiderada by Max Ermannas
"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." -Steve Martin
"All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allan Poe
"Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal, Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel." -Percy Bysshe Shelley
"This heart, my own dear Mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!" -Thomas Moore. *Happy Mothers Day to all the beautiful Mothers of the world*
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." -John Muir
"And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being." -Black Elk
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." -White Elk
“O' Great Spirit help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence." -Cherokee Prayer
"Peace will be when you accept it in your heart." -Hiawatha
"Certain things catch your eye, But pursue only those that capture your heart." -Old Indian Saying
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit." -E. E. Cummings
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods; There is rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more..." -Lord Byron
“And the turtles, of course... All the turtles are free - As turtles, and, maybe, all creatures should be." -Dr. Seuss
"Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours." -Ludwig von Beethoven
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." -Leo Tolstoy
"The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth." -Yuan Sou
"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" -Richard Bach
"The pockets of air fill the voids in my soul where the water used to flow. Its been a long time since I seen you my friend, in fact I don't even know." -Seamus A. Nash
"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop." -Mark Twain
"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today." -Mark Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -Mark Twain
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." -Vincent Van Gogh
"Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in." -Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements
"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon... everything's different." -Bill Watterson 'Calvin & Hobbes'
"Faith builds the bridge from this world to the new." -Young
"The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech." -Dogen
"I have sometimes thought about the final cause of dogs having such short life spans and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after ten or thirteen years, what would it be if they were to live to double that time?" -Sir Walter Scott *for Kev, Cyndi & the family
"They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained." -Marie Ebner Eschenbach
"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem." -Benjamin Hoff from The Tao of Pooh
"Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much larger and better in every way." -John Muir
"Our task must be to free ourselves... By widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." -Albert Einstein
"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake." -Basil C. Hume. *Happy Easter*
"Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child." -Buddha
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." -Walt Whitman
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than you." -Dr. Seuss
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasure. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world." -Lao Tzu
"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it." -Steven Wright
"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm." - Mohandas Gandhi
“Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no
victories without it.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Who is wise in love, love most, say least." -Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be." -Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincides as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being." -James Redfield author of 'The Celistine Prophesy'
"If you only feel at home in your heart, perhaps your heart is not in the house you call a home." -Seamus Nash
UPDATED APRIL 2010
"If you only feel at home in your heart, perhaps your heart is not in the house you call a home." -Seamus Nash
"Live the life you've dreamed.' -Henry David Thoreau
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." -Rabindranath Tagore
"The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite." -William Shakespeare
"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain." -Marcus Aurelius
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." -Lao Tzu
"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life." -Stephen F. Gaskin
"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest." -Epicurus
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." -Aeschylus
"Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand." -Henry David Thoreau
"I can't give you everything you want. But I could give you what you thought you need. A map to keep beneath your seat in time I'll get you there. Fold it up so we don't find our way back so nobody knows we're here." -Jack Johnson from the song What You Thought You Need
"Illusions can often provide a sustainable reality." -Seamus Nash
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." -Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy
"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way!" -Dr. Seuss
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." -Antoine De Saint - Exupery
"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." -Lisa Hoffman
Prior to your denim cutoffs on the porch, Prior to my notes and your notes And before your name became a pulsing star, Before all of this Ah safer and smoother and smaller was my heart *an excerpt from the poem 'Before' by Mark Halliday*
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." -Vincent Van Gogh
“The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or accommodations." -Oliver Goldsmith
"The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." -Charles Darwin
"Don't let someone be a priority in your life when you are still an option." -Anonymous.
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." -William Allen White
"Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again." -Unknown
"The only Zen you can find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." -Robert M. Pirsig
"Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." -Sir Francis Bacon
"An old man loved is winter with flowers." -German Proverb
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going." -Aldous Huxley
"Getting old is simply a case of mind over matter; if you don't mind, it doesn't matter!" -Seamus A. Nash. *thanks for all the thoughtful birthday wishes!!!*
"A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows." -Anonymous
"We must become the change we want to see." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always." -Ranier Maria Rilke
"I want to be like a tree; provide you the air and give you enough room to breathe it." -Seamus A. Nash
"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." -Anonymous
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." -Josiah G. Holland
"On the mountain of truth you can never climb in vain: you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains." -John Muir
"Patience cures many an old complaint." -Irish Proverb
"Don't you see what's goin' on here??? No boxers, no jockeys.. The only thing between him and us is a thin layer of gaberdine." -Jerry Seinfeld
"I'm out there, Jerry, an' I'm lllovin every minute of it!!! I'm unfettered.. I'm like a naked innocent boy rrroaming the countryside." -Cosmos Kramer
UPDATED JANUARY 2010
"Always do what you are afraid to do." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough." -Dave Berry
"Snow once again dancing in front of me. I can't help but think of thee. And those twinkling green eyes. Like bright stars in my winter sky." -Seamus Nash
"If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am." -Cyril Cusack
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." -Ben Franklin
"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves." -Henri Frederick Amiel
"Living inside my own head is a melody of noise with intermittent silence. Sounds last no longer than time will allow to strike the next note. So melodic to listen to your own tune and tune outside distractions in. While the rhythm of the rock spinning beneath my feet goes unheard." -Seamus Nash
"It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged." -Lord Byron
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin
"The problem with relationships is that people are so busy falling in Love they forget to fall in like." -Anonymous
"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." -George Moore
"There's far many questions to ask to answer any of them tonight. And Confusion casts a shadow upon me like a great big cloud in the sky. And I pray for rain because its been so long since I let myself cry. For so long, I sang this sad ole' song, and it feels like my time is up. For she came and landed in my arms and filled my half empty cup.” -The John Butler Trio from the song Peaces & Creamilled my half empty cup." -The John Butler Trio from the song Peaches & Cream
"Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present." -Sir John Lubbock
"The future lies before you Like a field of driven snow, Be careful how you tread it, For every step will show." -Unknown
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." -Carl Jung
"Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." -John Muir
"To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon." -Chinese Proverb
"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?" -J. B. Priestley
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." -Erma Bombeck
"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do." -Victor Hugo
"We that are true lovers run into strange capers." -William Shakespeare
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." -Alfred Lord Tennyson
"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life." -T.S. Elliot
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." -Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.'' -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"If I have learned just one thing from the Sun it is this; never impose your light upon a beautiful flower. Better to simply provide the source, water with Love, and revel in the beauty of its own growth." -Seamus Nash
"Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us." -William Wordsworth
"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you." -Lao Tzu
"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest." -Reverend Larry Lorenzoni
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEV!!!
"Patience means self-suffering." -Mahatma Gandhi
"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true." -John Steinbeck
"I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong." -Christopher McCandless
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." - Sara Teasdale
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." -Buddha
"A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world." -Jack Kerouac
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." -John Muir
"Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders." - Rabindranath Tagore
UPDATED OCTOBER 2009
"The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature." –
"Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But let’s just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer." -Homer Simpson
"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night." -Edgar Allan Poe "Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny." –Anonymous "If you want to be happy, be." -Leo Tolstoy "Such is the way of the world, you can never know. Just where to put all your faith, and how will it grow. Gonna' rise up - burning black holes in dark memories. Gonna' rise up - turning mistakes into gold." -Eddie Vedder -Rise- Into The Wild "Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand." -Michael Franti of Spearhead "Ultimately, we gain mastery over emotions by controlling the body. And a good place to begin is to observe and control your breathing. Yogis, Zen masters, and martial artists have all placed great emphasis on proper breathing." -Dan Millman's book Mind Body Mastery "Do not hold onto your leaves or the past. Do not dwell on the fruit or the future. Focus on the Now growth so your leaves can dance purposefully from your branches." -Seamus Nash "Is a person who strives for a new future actually finding himself in pursuit of a past not far behind." -Seamus Nash "I've had many troubles in my life, most of which never happened." -Mark Twain "Our full attention to each moment will result in a life well lived." -Hidy Ochiai "My stroke of insight is that at the core of my right hemisphere consciousness is a character that is directly connected to my feeling of deep inner peace. It is completely committed to the expression of peace, love, joy, and compassion in the world." -Jill Bolt “We make ourselves a place apart Behind light words that tease and flout, But oh, the agitated heart Till someone find us really out.” -Robert Frost's poem 'Revelation' "I believe that what you sing to the clouds, will rain upon you when your sun has gone away. And I believe that what you dream to the moon, will manifest before you rest another day." -Michael Franti of Spearhead "Strange as it may be, sometimes life ya know it ain't what is seems. It's like going to war to make peace. Sometimes life ya know it ain't what it seems." -The John Butler Trio "With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike." -Henry David Thoreau "In order to achieve all that is demanded of us we must regard ourselves as greater than we are." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 'Lift up your hearts with a smile. Lift up your feet with a dance. Lift up your spirits with a song. It's family time, its family time.' -Ziggy Marley's new cd Family Time "Who has not known a journey to be over and dead before the traveler returns? The reverse is also true: many a trip continues long after the movement in time and space have ceased." -John Steinbeck "Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars." -Serbian proverb "Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner-what is it? if not intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming." -Ranier Maria Rilke "When I was a very young man and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch." -John Steinbeck "Faith dares the soul to go further than it can see." -William Clarke "That I feed the hungry, forgive an insult, and love my enemy-these are great virtues. But what if I should discover that the poorest of beggars and the most impudent offenders are all within me, and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness; then what?” "Our lives are shaped not as much by our experience, as by our expectations." -George Bernard Shaw "You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water." -Rabindranath Tagore "I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have." -Abraham Lincoln
"Never, never, never, never give up." -Winston Churchill
"Never, never, never, never give up." -Winston Churchill
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -Leonardo da Vinci
"Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
-Albert Einstein
"The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing." –Socrates
"The human spirit is a spiral, and it can go up or down by the application of our free will, but it cannot remain stagnant. The martial arts are a beautiful and perfect tool for teaching the human spirit how to spiral upward. After all, what else in the world really matters, other than helping each other realize our potential as we spiral upward…just as a ‘Dragon in the Clouds.’” -Hidy Ochiai
