Monday, May 31, 2021

trees



This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

Sunday, May 30, 2021

space


Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor Frankl

Saturday, May 29, 2021

paths



Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. 

Leo Tolstoy

Friday, May 28, 2021

joy



To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Thursday, May 27, 2021

meet



People can only meet you as deeply as they've met themselves.

Anonymous

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

passion



You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

Martin Parr

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

never


You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

Monday, May 24, 2021

he



He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard

Sunday, May 23, 2021

blessings



May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude. 

Leonard Cohen

Saturday, May 22, 2021

human



It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

George Orwell

Friday, May 21, 2021

known


A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

Thursday, May 20, 2021

artist



The artist observes something invisible to others.

William S. Burroughs

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

wander



It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires.

Clarissa Pinakola Estéa, Women Who Run With the Wolves"

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

disturbs



Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Carl Sagan


Monday, May 17, 2021

failings


 

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective.

Stephen Fry

Sunday, May 16, 2021

art



We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Nietzsche

Saturday, May 15, 2021

trees




Trees indeed have hearts.

Henry David Thoreau 

Friday, May 14, 2021

dreams

 

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Salvador Dali

Thursday, May 13, 2021

peace


 


may peace prevail on earth

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

worry




Worry gives a small thing a great shadow.

Swedish proverb

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

every



Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Thomas Merton

Monday, May 10, 2021

shadow



To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sunday, May 9, 2021

most



It may be that those who do most, dream most.

Stephen Butler Leacok

Saturday, May 8, 2021

touch



Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.

Never touch your idols: the gilding may stick to your fingers.

Gustave Flauber

Friday, May 7, 2021

dreams

 


Dreams are foreign lands within the bounds of our hearts.

Terri Guillemets

Thursday, May 6, 2021

sanity



For me insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means a lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

change



The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

forest



I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realize that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Gunter Grass

Monday, May 3, 2021

grief



Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

Sunday, May 2, 2021

silence




Silence is so freaking loud.

Sara Dessen, Just Listen 

Saturday, May 1, 2021

room


 


Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Mary Oliver