When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. ~Rumi
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha Kitt
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them." ~U Thant, speech, 1970
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. ~Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness. ~Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988
My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. ~James McNeill Whistler My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder
Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life. ~John Wooden Legs, "Back on the War Ponies," 1960, quoted in We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May and Clint Willis (Thanks, Jamie)
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow." ~Louis L'Amour
May thy ball lie in green pastures... and not in still waters. ~Author Unknown
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. ~Abraham Lincoln
I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. ~Ronald Reagan
Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. ~Arnold Toynbee
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. ~Charles Luckman
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ~Neil Gaiman
Fate, Chance, God's Will - we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. ~Charles Dickens
Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving. ~Author Unknown
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. ~Author Unknown
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ~W. Somerset Maugham
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~Margaret Mitchell
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown
