Quotes for the Day

 "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~ Goethe

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." ~ Thoreau

"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about... Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe." ~ Rumi

"Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don't have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish." ~ Jessamyn West

May the warm winds of Heaven
Blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit
Bless all who enter there.
May your Mocassins
Make happy tracks in many snows,
and may the Rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.

Cherokee Blessing

North American Indian Nation

Friends are the Angels that help you fly.

~ Julia VeRost

Do you want me to tell you
something really subversive?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for,
being brave for and risking everything for.

Erica Jong

American Author and Teacher

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

~ Oscar Wilde

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

South African Activist and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

~ Swedish Proverb

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

Tom Bodett

The Guest House, poem by Rumi

To know we must begin with solitude. It all comes from there. From the perspective of solitude we become sensitive to the pressure of our conditioning.

- Nisargadatta

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence.  Silence gives us a new perspective.

- Mother Teresa

What you get by reaching your destination
is not nearly as important
as what you will become
by reaching your destination.

Zig Ziglar

American Author, Salesman and Inspirational Speaker

The Guest House

You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the

mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet.

- Nisargadatta

Mindfulness meditation is simply stopping in this moment and seeing, clearly.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

In every moment you are either creating suffering for yourself and others or you are not.

- Phillip Moffitt

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep.

- Rumi

“I don’t know” is the only true statement the mind can ever make.

- Nisargadatta

“Know who you are. Live your life according to that. Forgive yourself. Forgive others.”

- Dipa Ma

If you don't know the kind of person I am
and I don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

William Stafford, 1914-1993

American Poet and Pacifist

What are we here for, if not to help one another?
Surely, we didn't come all this way to be comfortable
We didn't travel across so much time and space
To impress our neighbors with our fancy cars.
And we're certainly not here to sit on the sidelines
And watch the world go by on our big screen tv's...
So what are we here for, if not to help one another?

 

Ron Atchison

The Mayor of Inspiration Peak

Everywhere I look I see myself. There I go: that bald man, this angry child, that fearful cat, that cool stone, that bubbling brook, that worm struggling for its life, that bird desperate to feed her hungry babies, that one trapped in his rage, this one anxious but fearful of finding out why. Hardly strangers! Empathy is the life of the soul, I think, because the soul that allows us to see the one in the other is the soul that finds joy.

Claudia Michele

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

One can live
   magnificently
     in this world
   if one knows how to work
       and how to love.

Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910

Russian Novelist and Social Reformer

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

~ Jean Anouilh

For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.

Arne Garborg, 1851-1924

Norwegian Author and Journalist

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

~ A. C. Benson

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

Steven D. Woodhull
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
by the way its animals are treated”.
Mahatma Ghandi

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

~ Clara Schumann

"In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away "

(Shing Xiong)

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other’s gaze that wins out and decides.
~Jacques Derrida

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatness of a nation consists not so much in the number of its people or the extent of its territory as in the extent and justice of its compassion.

— inscription on a memorial in Port Elizabeth, South Africa,
to the thousands of animals that died in the Boer War, 1899-1902

 

Hear our prayer, Lord, for all animals; May they be well fed and well trained and happy. Protect them from hunger and fear and suffering And, we pray, protect specially, dear Lord, The little cat who is the companion of our house.       Keep her safe as she goes abroad       And bring her back to comfort us.

                                              — Russian prayer