Last revision: 19 Sept. 2006
"The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground."
- Anonymous
"Honour the past, live the present, create the future."
- Anonymous
"Actions speak louder than words."
- Anonymous
"If you can shape it in your mind, you will find it
in your life."
- Anonymous (from a fortune cookie)
"Love goes nowhere uninvited."
- Anonymous
"Magick Happens"
- Anonymous
"Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible."
- Anonymous
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person
you may be the world."
- Anonymous
"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
- Anonymous
" It is difficult to recognize the error of something
we have always done wrong."
- Anonymous
"If we could read the secret history of those we would
like to punish, we would find
in each life enough grief and suffering to make us stop wishing anything
more on them."
- Anonymous
"Parvis e glandibus quercus."
(Tall oaks from little acorns grow)
- Anonymous
"Interdum stultus bene loquitur."
(Sometimes a fool speaks aright)
- Anonymous
"Never make someone a priority in your life when you
remain an option in theirs."
- Anonymous
"The past is no ghost at this banquet; rather, it sits
at the head of the table."
- Anonymous
"Quitters never win, and winners never quit."
- Anonymous (seen on a license plate frame)
"Serious things are often said in jest."
- Anonymous
"You can't squeeze blood from a turnip."
- Anonymous
"You never know who you touch."
- Anonymous
"Your mind understands what you have been taught; you
heart, what is true."
- Anonymous (from a fortune cookie)
"It's no coincidence that the word 'pathetic' is found
in 'apathetic.' "
- Anonymous
"Time cannot be bought, sold, or saved -- it can only
be spent. Spend it wisely."
- Anonymous
"We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp,
some are pretty,
some are dull, some have weird names, and all are differnet colors,
but all exist very nicely in the same box."
- Anonymous
"Keep a green tree in your heart, and one day the singing
bird will come."
- Asian proverb
"One joy scatters a hundred griefs."
- Chinese proverb
"One who wants a rose must respect the thorn."
- Persian proverb
"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."
- Attributed to Aesop
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse
"While there's life, there's hope."
- Attributed to both Publius Terentius Afer and Marcus Tullius Cicero
(both were born in the last century B.C., but were not contemporaries)
"They wear so many faces; show up in the strangest
places -- to grace us with their mercies, in our time of need."
- Alabama, Angels Among Us
"Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't
go on together,
let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can."
- Dante Alighieri
"Nature does nothing uselessly."
- Aristotle
"In all things of nature there is something of the
marvelous."
- Aristotle
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship
is a slow-ripening fruit."
- Aristotle
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing
can be changed until it is faced."
- James Baldwin
"When one door closes, another door opens; but we often
look so long and so regretfully upon the
closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"Whatever we deny or embrace, for worse or for better
-- we belong. We belong, we belong together!"
- Pat Benatar, We Belong
"In a world older and more complete than ours, animals
move finished and complete,
gifted with extensions of senses we have lost or never attained, living
by voices we shall never hear."
"For the animal shall not be measured by man.....They are not brethren;
they are not underlings;
they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,
fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth."
- Henry Beston, both excerpts from The Outermost
House
"Ask and ye shall receive."
- The Bible (I don't have the exact text citation; will look it up
later)
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the
eyes."
- H. Jackson Brown
"Bloom where you are planted."
- Nancy Reader Campion
"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated
refrains of nature --
the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
- Rachel Carson
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering,
and take without forgetting."
- Elizabeth Bibesco
"Like a flower in some forest that the world will never
see,
I will stand so proud for I know what we can be."
- Big Country, Remembrance Day
"There is more of what she said much better left alone,
For who are we to question her who stands among the stones?"
- Big Country, The Seer
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wildflower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
- Victor Borge
"Wilderness is a benchmark, a touchstone. In wilderness
we can see where we have come from,
where we are going, how far we've gone. In wilderness is the only unsullied
earth sample
of the forces generally at work in the universe."
- Kenneth Bower
"The human heart has hidden treasures - in secret kept,
in silence sealed."
- Charlotte Bronte, Evening Solace
"Life is not tried, it is merely survived, if you're
standing outside the fire."
- Garth Brooks, Standing Outside the Fire
"So don't you sit upon the shoreline, and say you're
satisfied.
Choose to chance the rapids, and dare to dance the tide!"
- Garth Brooks, The River
" 'Cause you can't hold back the wind, and if it's
meant to be again,
then someday he'll find his way back to her arms."
- Garth Brooks, That Ol' Wind
"You move me
You get me dancing and you make me sing
You move me
Now I'm taking delight in every little thing
How you move me...."
- Garth Brooks, You Move Me
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
"The best-laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry,
And leave us naught but grief and pain, for promised joy."
- Robert Burns, To A Mouse
"Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust."
- Andrew Carnegie
"All kids are gifted; some just open their packages
earlier than others."
- Michael Carr
"We must have perseverance and above all, confidence
in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must
be attained."
- Marie Curie
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be
understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie
"It's always good to marry your best friend."
- Marie Curie (advice to her daughters, in reference
to her husband Pierre)
"But dreams move on, if you wait too long...."
- Billy Ray Cyrus, It Could've Been Me
"Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little
jumps."
- Anthony de Mello, S.J.
"As soon as you look at the world
through an ideology, you are finished.
No reality fits ideology."
- Anthony de Mello, S.J.
"There are always more choices than you think."
- Catherine DeVrye
"Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal;
Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real."
- Catherine DeVrye
"If I can stop one heart from breaking / I shall not
live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching / Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin / Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain."
- Emily Dickinson, from Poem No. 919
"...So I'll walk the plank, and I'll jump with a smile
If I'm gonna go down, I'm gonna do it with style
And you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess
'Cause you've left me with nothing, but I've worked with less."
- Ani DiFranco, Dilate
"So don't surrender, 'cause you can win, in
this thing called love --
When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.
When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt,
Don't give up on your faith -- love comes to those who believe it;
And that's the way it is!"
- Celine Dion, That's the Way It Is
"You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
- Shortened quote from the writings of Lorenzo Dow
"He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles
of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there."
- John Dryden, Essay of Dramatic Poesy
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where
there is no path, and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks
in everywhere."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, Friendship
"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render
no reason."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond
to this person,
this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless
trouble.
It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to
be in now."
- Epictetus
"We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by
our thoughts about what happens."
- Epictetus
"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances
for a happy ending."
- Euripides
"Flowers unfold slowly and gently, bit by bit in the
sunshine, and a soul, too, must never be pushed or driven,
but unfolds in its own perfect timing to reveal its true wonder and beauty."
- The Findhorn Community, The Findhorn Garden
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
- Sigmund Freud
"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree."
- Thomas Fuller
"All my instincts -- they return.
And the grand facade -- so soon will burn.
Without a noise, without my pride,
I reach out from the inside....
In your eyes -- the light, the heat
Your eyes -- I am complete
Your eyes -- I see the doorway to a thousand churches
Your eyes -- the resolution of all my fruitless searches
Oh I want to be back in your eyes;
I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes."
- Peter Gabriel, In Your Eyes
"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help
him discover it within himself."
- Galileo
"Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God
is within each of us.
It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"To have joy one must share it."
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie
awake about them afterwards."
- Baltasar Gracián
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."
- Martha Graham
"...You've got to play your hand --
Sometimes your cards ain't worth a dime,
If you don't lay 'em down.
Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me;
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me
What a long, strange trip it's been."
- The Grateful Dead, Truckin'
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
- Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
"Maybe if I listen closely to the rocks
Next time, I'll hear something, if not
A word, perhaps the faint beginning
of a syllable."
- Phoebe Hanson
"Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply
with its ways...
they serve as models of how things should be...."
- Lawrence Halprin
"Indeed, we are but shadows; we are not endowed with
real life till the heart be touched...That touch creates us.
Then we begin to be."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Obstacles are what we see when we take our eyes off
our goal."
- Howard Hendricks
"Desperado -- why don't you come to your senses? Come
down from your fences; open the gate.
It may be raining, but there's a rainbow above you. You better let somebody
love you, before it's too late!"
- The Eagles, Desperado
"Storms make oaks take deeper root."
- George Herbert
"The answers come when you are quietly willing to be
without them."
- Vernon Howard, Pathways to Perfect Living
"Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the
world spin properly,
which is precisely what makes it wobble."
- Vernon Howard, Esoteric Mind Power
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
- James Howell, Proverbs
"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the
kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite;
medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but
not loyalty;
days of joy, but not peace or happiness."
- Henrik Ibsen
"The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty."
- L.P. Jacks
"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping
them up."
- Rev. Jesse Jackson
"A human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
- William James
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and
careful watchfulness;
it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust."
- Gertrude Jekyll
"You may be right; I may be crazy! But it just may
be a lunatic you're looking for!"
- Billy Joel, You May Be Right
"Where flowers bloom, so does hope."
- Lady Bird Johnson
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word 'happiness' would lose
its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
- Carl Gustav Jung
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot
be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see
the shadow."
- Helen Keller
"Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the
powers of the spirit."
- Helen Keller
"The military's job is to win the war. The President's
job is to win the peace."
- John Kerry
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Do it because you love it, not just for the money."
- Edmund Lee
"Give what you have; to someone it may be better than
you dare to think."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's
no easier to make than an oak."
- James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics
"That which you vividly imagine, sincerely believe,
ardently desire and enthusiastically act upon
will inevitably come to pass."
- William R. Lucas
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger
the wind, the stronger the trees."
- J. Willard Marriott
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
"When trysts of the attitudes meet, a keyhole shall
speak truth."
- Colleen Meridian
"Just remember, in the Winter, far beneath the bitter
snows --
lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the Spring becomes the Rose."
- Bette Midler, The Rose
"Life's a dance you learn as you go -- sometimes you
lead, sometimes you follow.
Don't worry 'bout what you don't know -- life's a dance you learn as you
go!"
- John Michael Montgomery, Life's a Dance
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest
wilderness."
- John Muir, John of the Mountains
"I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Here is the rainbow I've been praying for;
It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright, bright sunshiny day!"
- Johnny Nash, I Can See Clearly Now
"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"There's a heart as cold as ice, in a vault that's
made of stone.
Over years the walls got higher; over years the walls have grown.
Is there anybody in there, in this self-inflicted tomb?
If you peel away the layers, is there someone in this room?"
- Oingo Boingo, Skin
"Don't promise what you can't deliver, and always deliver
what you promise."
- Larry Olmstead
"Talking about eating will not satisfy hunger any more
than discussing
life will replace the experience of living."
- P.D. Ouspensky
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
"Le coeur a ses raisons, que la raison no connait point."
(The heart has its reasons, which the reason does not know)
- Blaise Pascal, Penseés
"Affirm it, visualize it, believe it, and it will actualize
itself."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Enthusiasm is infectious, stimulating, and attractive
to others. They'll love you for it."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Expect great things, and great things will come."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about
the realization of itself."
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
- Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast."
- Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
"There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying."
- John Popper of Blues Traveller
"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try.
I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
And I know you do the same things too,
So we're really not that different - me and you."
- Collin Raye, Not That Different
"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light
shining somewhere nearby."
- Ruth E. Renkel
"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without
your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without
knowing what you mean to say,
and to finish without knowing what you have written."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The only thing that will keep you from finding that
which you seek is calling off the search."
- Rumi, The Open Secret
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat
it."
- George Santayana, The Life of Reason
"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the
way it is. The way you cope with it
is what makes the difference."
- Virginia Satir
"Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a
strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
- Chief Seattle
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women
merely players."
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Act II,
Scene vii)
"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it
must follow,
as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act I, Scene
iii)
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking
makes it so."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act II, Scene
ii)
"...I will wear my heart upon my sleeve, for daws to
peck at."
- William Shakespeare, Othello (Act I, Scene
i)
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act
II, Scene iii)
"...lest too light winning make the prize light."
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Act I, Scene
ii)
"O brave new world, that has such people in it!"
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Act V, Scene
i)
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed
if you never try."
- Beverly Sills
"When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember
the stupidity, the envy,
the frustration from which it has arisen."
- Edith Sitwell
"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go
to seek."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one."
- Sun Yat-Sen
"A ship in harbour is safe, but that's not what ships
are for."
- John A. Shedd
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think."
- Dr. Benjamin Spock
"Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening
heaven."
- Rabindranath Tagore
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win
it."
- Margaret Thatcher
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within
reach of every hand."
- Mother Theresa
"It takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak and
another to hear."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Not all who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkein
"What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the
world calls a butterfly."
- Lau Tsu
"Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish
the rest."
- Mark Twain
"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!"
- Mark Twain
"Fata Viam Invenient"
(Fate will find a way)
- Virgil, The Aeneid
"Audentes fortuna iuvat"
also I've also seen it as "Fortes fortuna adjuvat"
(Fortune favours the brave)
- Virgil, The Aeneid
"Omnia Vincit Amor"
(Love conquers all)
- Virgil, Ecologues
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color
purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
- Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons.
They were not made for humans
any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men."
- Alice Walker
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
- Attributed to William Wallace in Braveheart
"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the
harvest you may not see."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"It's only slander if it's untrue!"
- Kendall Willis
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
- Oprah Winfrey
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without
it."
- Jonathan Winters
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