Everyday and Extraordinary Things

"Tell us the details...Pay tribute to all the everyday
and extraordinary things."
~ Natalie Goldberg

Full of Surprises

Sunset, Detroit

"Life is full of surprises, isn't it?"
~ Charlton Heston

With Fervent Lips

Long Wharf, Boston

"Give thanks to God with fervent lips,
Give thanks to God to-day..."
~ Hezekiah Butterworth

Good Day

"Every day is a good day."
~ Yun-Men

Quality of the Day

"To affect the quality of the day
is the highest of all arts."
~ Henry David Thoreau

Prepared Mind

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
~ Louis Pasteur

What You Should Do

"I've often thought
when something is hard for you,
whether it's going law school
or anything else that challenges you,
that's probably what you should do."
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

Awe

"Awe is what moves us forward."
~ Joseph Campbell

Making Something

"Creativity is simply
the energy of making something
where there was nothing before.
We do this every day,
in so many unmarked ways."
~ Fran Sorin

Surprises

"Life is full of surprises, isn't it?"
~ Charlton Heston

Perfect Clearness

"The man who insists upon seeing
with perfect clearness
before he decides
never decides."
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Capacity to Care

"I feel the capacity to care
is the thing which gives life
its deepest significance. "
~ Pablo Casals

All Love

"All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand."
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Straight From the Heart

"You don't need a reason
when it's straight from the heart"
~ Stevie Wonder

Everything You Need

"If you have a garden and a library
you have everything that you need."
~ Cicero

Know

"I do not believe... know."

~ Carl Jung

Work With The Hand

"Where the spirit
does not work with the hand
there is no art."
~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Must Be the Truth

"When you have eliminated
the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth."
~ Arthur Conan Doyle

First Good

"Power is the first good."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love Affair With Knowledge

"A love affair with knowledge
will never end in heartbreak."
~ Michael Garrett Marino