When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
The sun shines not on us but in us.
The snow is melting into music.
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is
never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever
rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and
continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
Quotes by John Muir
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Open your mind before your mouth.
By words the mind is winged.
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
Advanced a stage or two upon that road
Which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Quotes by Aristophanes
I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Quotes by Anne Lamott
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
To live is to change, to acquire words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
Small change, small wonders- these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for.
And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a
distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Stop a minute, right where you are Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still...
Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
May you live every day of your life.
Books, the children of the brain.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
Quotes by Jonathan Swift
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
Quotes by May Sarton
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Prejudice is a great time saver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get the facts.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded
forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of
courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and
struggles to the light amid the thorns.
Quotes by George Santayana
Smile, breathe and go slowly.
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.
Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.
Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your
happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search or
struggle. Just Be.
You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.
Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is a picnic on a precipice.
The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.
You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart.
Let all your thinks be thanks.
Quotes by W. H. Auden
-so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
- To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force, the imagination.
- Mothlike in mists, scintillant in the minute brilliance of cloudless
days, with broad bellying sails they glide to the wind tossing green
water from their sharp prows while over them the crew crawls.
-It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
-It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.
Quotes by William Carlos Williams
-Oh Me! Oh Life! of the questions recurring,...
Answer
That you are here - that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
-Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.
-Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
-I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
Quotes by Walt Whitman
I can teach anybody how to get what they want to get out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Quotes by Mark Twain
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
To accomplish great things one must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things.
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload
them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff,
it will catch fire.
The Truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter and that is everything.
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what
we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life
before we can enter another.
Quotes by Anatole France
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Remember your humanity and forget the rest.
Quotes by Bertrand Russell
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring
one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
We're all just walking each other home.
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
The next message you need is always right where you are.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including
the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Quotes by Ram Dass
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It
is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a
worthy purpose.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections.
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but
trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they
do is inconceivable.
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves
in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what
was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth.
Quotes by Joseph Addison
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Quotes by Seneca
A person sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
The best that mankind ever knew:
Freedom and life are earned by those alone
Who conquer them each day anew.
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
Quotes by Goethe
In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's
loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward,
along its twisted road.
This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.
Potential has a shelf life.
What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
Quotes by Margaret Atwood
