inspired
not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece,
but you get out there and you try
and sometimes it really happens.
the other times you're just stretching your soul.
~ maya angelou
what is wrong with the world?
what is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.
~ g.k. chesterton
of what value is learning that does not turn to love?
~ anthony of padua
what you are speaks so loudly that i cannot hear what you say.
~ ralph waldo emerson
if everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
~ john lennon
the eyes of my eyes are opened.
~ e.e. cummings
you never find yourself until you face the truth.
~ pearl bailey
i have learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
~ leo rosten
somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. somewhere we know that without a lonely place our actions quickly become empty gestures.
~ henri nouwen
every day i live i am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
~ mary cholmondeley
don't wait; the time will never be just right.
~ napoleon hill
every now and then a mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportions.
~ oliver wendell holmes
truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
~ william penn, some fruits of solitude
the question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
~ joan borysenko
as we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
~ albert einstein
we shall not cease exploring.
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
~ t.s. eliot, the four quartets
in three words i can sum up everything i have learned about life:
it goes on.
~ unknown
if you want life, expect pain.
~ martin buber
write down the bad things that are done to you in sand,
but write the good things that happen to you on marble.
~ arabic proverb
no man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. it is the heart that makes a man rich. he is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
~ henry ward beecher
men go abroad to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
~ st. augustine
write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~ emerson
for everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
~ ralph waldo emerson
the work is not yours to finish, but neither are you free to take no part in it.
~ rabbi tarfan
there's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their discomfort like a favourite shirt.
~ jhonen vasquez
our language has widely sensed the two sides of being alone. it has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. and it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
~ paul tillich
forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again.
~ dag hammarskjold
peace cannot be kept by force. it can only be achieved by understanding.
~ albert einstein
maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.
~ patricia hampl
we don't see things as they are. we see them as we are.
~ anais nin
the quality of mercy is not strained.
it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven...
and earthly power doth then show likest God's
when mercy seasons justice.
~ shakespeare, the merchant of venice
the beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
~ george sand
the first and often the only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness... when we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.
~ lewis smedes
on with the dance!
let joy be unconfined.
~ lord byron
be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
~ henry van dyke
in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
~ tolstoy
besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. the wisdom of life consists in elimination of non-essentials.
~ lin yu-t'ang
our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to attempt.
~ shakespeare
the recovery of hope can only be accomplished when we have had the courage to stop and wait and engage fully in the winter of our dark longing.
~ gertrud mueller nelson
miracles, whether sudden or slow, have to do with becoming whole, with somehow being set free.
~ jeffrey essman
when we are no longer able to change a situation -
we are challenged to change ourselves.
~ viktor frankl
washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
~ paulo freire
the world will never starve for want of wonders;
but only for want of wonder.
~ g.k. chesterton
although the world is very full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~ helen keller
and now here is my secret, a very simple secret;
it is only with the heart that one can see properly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
~ antoine de saint-exupery
i have decided to stick with love.
hate is too great a burden to bear.
~ martin luther king, jr.
we are all in the gutter, but some of us
are looking at the stars.
~ oscar wilde
men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
~ henry david thoreau
no man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
~ nathaniel hawthorne, the scarlet letter
it is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
~ seneca
until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
~ doris mortman
isn't what you call an illusion simply someone else's dream with which you disagree?
~ chaim potok, davita's harp
it is wrong to face this world with one's eyes closed, no matter how deep the weariness. keep your eyes open, wide open.
~ chaim potok, davita's harp
we read books to find out who we are. what other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
~ ursula k. leguin
how we spend our days, of course,
is how we spend our lives.
~ annie dillard
there will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
that will be the beginning.
~ louis l'amour
it is never too late to be what you might have been.
~ george eliot
be not afraid of growing slowly.
be afraid of standing still.
~ chinese proverb
there are years that ask questions and years that answer.
~ hurston
the world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.
~ ernest hemingway
and the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ erica jong
i pray thee, o God, that i may be beautiful within.
~ socrates
we need courage to throw away old garments which have had their day and no longer fit the requirements.
~ fridtjof nanson
nothing is so strong as gentleness;
nothing so gentle as real strength.
~ francis of sales
victories that are easy are cheap.
those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
~ henry ward beecher
hold on. hope hard.
~ robert browning
some say, "how hard it is that we have to die" -
a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
~ mark twain
out of clutter, find simplicity.
~ albert einstein
one should never be ashamed to own that one has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that one is wiser today than yesterday.
~ alexander pope
the holiest of all holidays are those
kept by ourselves in silence and apart,
the secret anniversaries of the heart...
~ longfellow
i walk the world in wonder.
~ oscar wilde
