Tag Archives: 2013

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.- C. S. Lewis

St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic. ~Adrienne Cook

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth,”You owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky. –Hāfez

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the … Continue reading →

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel us to unfold our powers. –Erich Fromm

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

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a … Continue reading →

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.- Vernon Law

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

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 →