October 2011
2 posts
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
August 2011
1 post
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
– Viktor Frankl
April 2011
4 posts
“Imagination is the incredibly valuable outcome to attending to one’s inner...”
– Martin Ping
March 2011
3 posts
“The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready...”
– Seneca
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
– “The Summer Day” Mary Oliver
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do...”
– Mark Twain
January 2011
3 posts
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
– Thomas Aquinas
“The more I examine the universe, and the details of its architecture, the more...”
– Freeman Dyson
December 2010
5 posts
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past...”
– Marcel Pagnol
“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Hurry is the deathblow to calmness, to dignity, to poise.”
– William George Jordan
“Proximity to death wakes us up. Death dispels the most potent illusion about...”
– Wayne Muller
November 2010
9 posts
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder...”
– C.S Lewis
“If you can’t get out of it, get into it.”
– Parker J. Palmer
“Fall seven times; stand up eight.”
– Japanese proverb
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...”
– Einstein
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”
– Marageret Peters
October 2010
8 posts
“Love is resilient enough for us to get out there and try.”
– Jessica Jackley, kiva.org co-founder.
“Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if...”
– C.S Lewis
“To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.”
– Wendell Berry
“Hope empties our hands that we may work with them.”
– Thomas Merton
September 2010
16 posts
“You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into...”
– Henri Nouwen
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be...”
– Frederick Buechner
Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.
Wendell Berry
“The force of character is cumulative.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson