Quotes Archive
17 May 2010: Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. ~Howard Thurman
13 May 2010: The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. ~Joseph Campbell
11 May 2010: In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller
9 May 2010: The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honore de Balzac
3 May 2010: If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is “Thank you,” it will be enough. ~Meister Eckhart
2 May 2010: Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. ~Hafiz of Persia
26 April 2010: Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Unknown
23 April 2010: Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. ~Zig Ziglar
20 April 2010: Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. ~Mohandas Gandhi
16 April 2010: The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. ~Lao Tzu
14 April 2010: There is the path of joy, and there is the path of pleasure. Both attract the soul. … The wise take the path of joy. Fools take the path of pleasure. ~Katha Upanishad
13 April 2010: I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. ~Katherine Anne Porter
10 April 2010: The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. ~Felix Adler
9 April 2010: Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ~Anais Nin
7 April 2010: As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau
30 March 2010: I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi proverb
28 March 2010: To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. ~Hal Borland
23 March 2010: Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~Buddha
19 March 2010: It is not far — it is within reach; Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. … ~Walt Whitman
14 March 2010: Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
10 March 2010: A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. ~Gustav Mahler
15 October 2009: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Bronte
9 September 2009: … At the still point, there the dance is … .
~T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton”
13 August 2009: Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes … .
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2 August 2009: Some keep the Sabbath going to Church –
I keep it, staying at Home –
With a Bobolink for a Chorister –
And an Orchard, for a Dome –
Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice –
I just wear my Wings … .
~Emily Dickinson
27 July 2009: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de St. Exupery
13 July 2009: Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ~Karl Barth
10 July 2009: Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso
6 July 2009: Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. ~Indra Devi
28 June 2009: Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes. ~Walt Whitman
17 June 2009: As is your desire, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny. ~The Upanishads
15 June 2009: Freedom lies in being bold. ~Robert Frost
9 June 2009: If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
8 June 2009: Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore
5 June 2009: Who practices hospitality entertains God himself. ~Proverb
2 June 2009: Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
1 June 2009: Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. ~John Barrymore
16 May 2009: It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be. ~Selma Lagerlöf
15 May 2009: It is of course possible to dance a prayer. ~Glade Byron Addams
14 May 2009: Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
13 May 2009: If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. ~Buddha
12 May 2009: When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
11 May 2009: To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson
9 May 2009: The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ~Coco Chanel
8 May 2009: One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ~Henry Miller
7 May 2009: Gratitude is the heart’s memory. ~French Proverb
6 May 2009: Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. ~Jack Kerouac
5 May 2009: Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de St. Exupery
4 May 2009: Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. ~Arundhati Roy
3 May 2009: Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. ~Albert Schweitzer
2 May 2009: God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, “Ah!” ~Joseph Campbell
1 May 2009: For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. ~William Blake
30 April 2009: Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge
29 April 2009: Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang
28 April 2009: You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
27 April 2009: The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda
26 April 2009: Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. ~Joseph Campbell
25 April 2009: Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~Denis Waitley
24 April 2009: There is nothing like a dream to create the future. ~Victor Hugo
23 April 2009: Joy is the best makeup. ~Anne Lamott
22 April 2009: The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
21 April 2009: The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. ~Anaïs Nin
20 April 2009: Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. ~Goethe
19 April 2009: Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
18 April 2009: The ideals which have lighted me on my way and, time after time, given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty … . The ordinary objects of human endeavour — property, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible. ~Albert Einstein
17 April 2009: Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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