secret

 

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan Watts

strength

Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

believed

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Jean Cocteau

hope

 

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Paris

 

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.

Thomas Jefferson

right

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

learned

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. - It goes on.

Robert Frost

tragedies

 

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. 

George Bernard Shaw

you

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

do

 

If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry abouth whether you're good enough. Just do it.

Glennon Doyle

courage

What would life be if we didn't have the courage to risk something?

Vincent van Gogh

interior life

Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

James Baldwin

run

 

Run my dear,  From anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.

Hafez

love

 

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

done

You will know that you are completely done with something when you give it up and you feel freedom instead of loss.

Emily Maroutain

love

 

Love is the state in which man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

continue

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Maya Angelou

silence

 

And please forgive the silence for you know, of course, the love is there.

Anne Sexton

2023

 

Happy New Year

may 2023 be a better year for all of us.

courage

 

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

Maya Angelou

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth

        and in me

listen

 

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't bethinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway

failings

 

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

Stephen Fry

god

 

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Aldous Huxley

bridge

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to burn and which to cross.

Bertrand Russell

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

sacrilege

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

Sigurd F. Olson

importance

 

The life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

David Hume

ask

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Deepak Chopra

safety

Safety is not the absence of threat. It is the presence of connection.

Gabor Mate

judgement

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.

Will Rogers

alone

There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone.

May Sarton 

time

 

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past.

T.S. Eliot

diamond

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Confucius

if

 

If you wish to seek peace of mind and happiness then believe. If you wish to be a disciple of truth, then investigate.

Friedrich Nietzsche

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

mindfulness

mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. it isn't more complicated than that. it is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. sylvia boorstein

writing

 

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

Ivern Ball

practice

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

Philip Glass

tree

Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree.

Herman Hesse

living

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

tragedies

 

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

soul

 

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis

burn

Some people will burn the bridge, then ask why you don't visit.

Anonymous

extreme

Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self.

Baruch Spinoza

fooled

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Søren Kierkegaard

different

If you want the present to be different from the past study the past.

Baruch Spinoza

burn

Some people will burn the bridge, then ask why you don't visit.

Anonymous

she

 

She thought not so much of what had happened as of how she could describe it.

E.M. Forster