Author Archives: TA Loeffler

Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. – Doris Mortman

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination. ― George Eliot

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu

There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and … Continue reading →

You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. –Ralph Marston

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. –Victor Hugo

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson

Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings. – Pema Chödrön

If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too. –Dr. Seuss

Think and wonder, wonder and think. –Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.– Dr. Suess

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ― Dr. Seuss

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One … Continue reading →

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.~Antoine De Saint Exupery

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of … Continue reading →

The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. –Sydney Smith

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil … Continue reading →

The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team. ~Lewis B. Ergen

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ~Lady Bird Johnson

To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. ~Stephen Levine

Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ~G.K. Chesterton

Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature. ~Jean Baitaillon

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran