Monthly Archives: October 2011

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ~Dag Hammarskjold

  Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

What saves a person is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. –Albert Einstein

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. –Winston Churchill

Speed kills colour… the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. –Paul Morand quotes

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.–Emily Bronte

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. –Oscar Wilde

Each place is the right place–the place where I now am can be a sacred space. ― Ravi Ravindra

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go ― Jack Kornfield

Realize that this very body, with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. ~Pema Chodron