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

That Rapture

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"Beauty is an expression
of that rapture of being alive."
~ Bill Moyers

Trivial Accidents

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"It is amazing
the number of trivial accidents
which have made a difference."
~ B.F. Skinner

From a Snake!

"It seems necessary to completely shed
the old skin before the new, brighter,
stronger, more beautiful one can
emerge...
I never thought I’d be getting
a life lesson from a snake!"
~ Julie Ridge

Four Million Tons

"The sun, each second,
transforms 4 million tons of itself
into light ."
~ Brian Swimme

Watching a Sunrise

"Watching a sunrise,
we open ourselves up to the beauty
that Nature creates,
knowing it will never repeat itself
just like this again."
~ Jake Rajs

Truth

"It is not truth that makes man great;
but man that makes truth great."
~ Confucius

Divine the Future

"Study the past,
if you would divine the future."
~ Confucius

Providence Protects

"Providence protects
children and idiots.
I know because I have tested it."
~ Mark Twain

Oreo Cookies

"Taking pictures is like
tiptoeing into the kitchen
late at night
and stealing Oreo cookies."
~ Diane Arbus

Hitch Your Wagon...

"Hitch your wagon to a star!"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love Winter

"Let us love winter,
for it is the spring of genius."
~ Pietro Aretino

Fairy Tales

"Fairy tales are more than true -
not because they tell us
dragons exist,
but because they tell us
dragons can be beaten."
~ G. K. Chesterton

Your Daily Life

"Your daily life
is your temple and your religion."
~ Kahlil Gibran

Change the World

"If you want to change the world,
change yourself."
~ Madonna

Into the Impossible

"The only way to discover
the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them
into the impossible."
~ Arthur C. Clarke

Sea of Experience

"All writing begins
in the sea of experience."
~ Barry Lane

Every Little Thing

"Every little thing counts
in a crisis."
~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Poetic Truths

Happy birthday, Steven

"After all,
the commonplaces
are the great poetic truths."
~ Robert Lewis Stevenson

Thing of Beauty

"I am a thing of beauty."
~ Frank Sinatra

Our Truest Life

"Our truest life is when
we are in our dreams awake."
~ Henry David Thoreau

Be Yourself

"Be yourself, that’s all there is of you"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Second Self

"In my friend, I find a second self."
~ Isabel Norton

Starting At Zero

"I love the challenge
of starting at zero every day
and seeing how much
I can accomplish."
~ Martha Stewart

Done Everything

"The man who has done his best
has done everything."
~ Charles Schwab

Truth and Beauty

Goodness is a special kind
of truth and beauty.
It is truth and beauty
in human behavior."
~ H. A. Overstreet

Chase Perfection

"Perfection is not attainable.
But if we chase perfection,
we can catch excellence."
~ Vince Lombardi

Miniature Eternity

"A day is a miniature eternity."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I Can

"I can, therefore I am."
~ Simone Weil

First Step

"It is only the first step that is difficult."
~ Marie De Vichy Chamrond

Good Is Not Good

"Good is not good
where better is expected."
~ Thomas Fuller

There Never Was

"There never was
a good war or bad peace."
~ Benjamin Franklin

Different Degrees

"We boil at different degrees."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Miracles Occur Naturally

"Miracles occur naturally
as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love
that inspires them.
In this sense everything
that comes from love is a miracle."
~ Marianne Williamson

Own Mind

"My own mind is my own church."
~ Thomas Paine

World of Silence

"To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence." 
~ Louise Bourgeois

Create Yourself

"But if you have nothing
at all to create, then perhaps
you create yourself"
~ Carl Jung

Little Birth

"Each day is a little life;
every waking and rising a little birth;
every fresh morning a little youth."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer