#105 One Day at a Time

That person is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. ~ Euripides

#104 No Need for Certainty

I said here's the river I want to flow on, here's the direction I want to go, and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles. ~ Nancy Woodhull

#103 Making It Through the Day

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.
Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.
Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.
And this is all life really means. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

#102 Confronting Fear

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings. ~ Florence Earle Coates

Want to review the myth of Icarus through the ages?

#101 Hopes over Fears

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. ~ John F. Kennedy

#100 Release

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew. ~ Dale Carnegie

(A fitting quote as I reach 100 out of 1,000 quotes. Thanks for reading and sharing.)

#99 Courage as Nurture

The best protection any woman (or man) can have... is courage. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#98 Love First

I don't want to live- I want to love first, and live incidentally. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

#97 Open to Opportunity

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. ~ Emily Dickinson

#96 Forward Thinking

I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes. ~ Sarah Teasdale

#95 A Call to the Living

The following two quotes by Algernon Black are like cool spring water. Black (1932-72) was a graduate of Harvard, a humanist leader, educator, radio commentator, and affiliated with the New York Society of Ethical Culture. I posted these two quotes over two years ago and they seem most appropriate for my new focus.

The first selection appeals to our sense of justice, to our sensitivity to the community in which we live, both locally and globally, to our human spirit which can reach out to those who are hurting.

“This is a call to the living,
To those who refuse to make peace with evil,
With the suffering and the waste of the world.
This is a call to the human, not the perfect,
To those who know their own prejudices,
Who have no intention of becoming prisoners of their own limitations.
This is a call to those who remember the dreams of their youth,
Who know what it means to share food and shelter,
The care of children and those who are troubled,
To reach beyond barriers of the past
Bringing people to communion.
This is a call to the never ending spirit
Of the common man, his essential decency and integrity,
His unending capacity to suffer and endure,
To face death and destruction and to rise again
And build from the ruins of life.
This is the greatest call of all
The call to a faith in people."

This next passage asks us to reflect upon the world's philosophies and religions, those ideas we hold quite close to our heart, and consider the common threads of each which can bind us together with a common compassionate interest.

"Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.

The religions of humanity should be a unifying force, for all the great religions reveal a basic unity in ethics. Whether it be Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or Confucianism, all grow out of a sense of the sacredness of human life. This moral sensitivity to the sacredness of human personality -- the Commandments not to kill, not to hurt, not to put a stumbling block in the path of the blind, not to neglect the widow or the fatherless, not to exploit the servant or the worker -- all this can be found in the Bibles of humanity, in all the sacred books. All teach in substance: "Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you." There is, then, a basic unity among the great religions in the matter of ethics. True, there are religious philosophies which turn people away from the world, from the here and now, concentrating life-purposes on salvation for one's self or a mystic union with some supernatural reality. But most of the great religions agree on mercy, justice, love -- here on earth. And they agree that the great task is to move people from apathy, from an acceptance of the evils in life, to face the possibilities of the world, to make life sweet for one another instead of bitter. This is the unifying ethical task of all the religions -- yes, of all the philosophies of humankind. There is no need to force our own theological points of view upon one another or to insist that the moral life grows out of final, absolute authority."

#94 Don't Ask

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand- relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it. ~ Osho

#93 Seeking and Finding

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it. ~ Alan Watts

#92 Like your Hair Cut?

A haircut is a metaphysical operation. ~ Julio Cartazar

(Had to chuckle with this one... The metaphysicist attempts to clarify the fundamental notions by which people understand the world such as existence, objects and their properties, space and time, cause and effect, and possibility.)

#91 Kindness and Courage

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own. ~ Adam Lindsay Gordon

#90 One Wild Place

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a person can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks. ~ G. K. Chesterton

#89 Three Questions

All men should strive to learn before they die
What they are running from, and to, and why. ~ James Thurber

#88 The Daily Challenge

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. ~ Goethe

#87 How Young are You?

It takes a long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso

#86 The Beauty of Microcosm

The more specific you are, the more general it will be. ~ Diane Arbus