just a few quotes for thought
Current mood: curious


Mostly my own thoughts that is.

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." -Saint Jerome

"Hope is the denial of reality."-Margaret Weis,

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours." -Swedish Proverb

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." -E. M. Forster

Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard.
Purkey is the source of this quotation that is attributed to many others: it was made popular in the song "Come From The Heart" written by Susannah Clark and Richard Leigh. Purkey closed his speeches with this poem and it has now made it into the public domain. -William W. Purkey

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland

"Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is." -Virgil

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." -Anon.

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered." -Stanley Kubrick

Beauty lies within the soul
and should always be set free
take a glimpse at love so true and pure
found only.......within me -Mara E. Dvorak, "The Soul Within"

"When your soul quits taking refuge in the pretenses and stops being a fugitive from Spirit, it will catch on fire and serve as a beacon lighting the way to your calling, your destiny, to being completely and entirely you." -John Renesch

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Helen Keller

"Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air." -- Leonard Bernstein

"Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon." -- Robert Green Ingersoll

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air." -- T. Starr King

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air." -- Sir John Lubbock

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?" -- Erich Fromm

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." -- John Muir

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them." -- Louisa May Alcott


If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard; One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went- Then you may count that day well spent." -- George Eliot

[Faith] is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine." -- Ruth Fulton Benedict