"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~ Anais Nin

"It's the worst of bad manners -- and self-protection, I think, in a nervously cynical society -- to ridicule the small gesture. Ultimately they will, or won't, add up to having been the thing that mattered." ~ Barbara Kingsolver

"People do not lack strength;

they lack will."

~ Victor Hugo

"You can never have a

greater or a less dominion

than that over yourself."

~Leonardo da Vinci

"When moral superiority combines with

billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air

balloon that's awfully hard not to poke."

~ Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

"Life is not measured by breaths we take,

but the moments

that take our breath away."

~ Anonymous

"Fall seven times.

Stand up eight."

~ Japanese proverb

"The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence."

~ Joao Magueijo

"Dream as if you'll live forever,

live as if you'll die today."

~ James Dean

"In fact, we can discover more about the divine by exploring our dark side, because we are unconscious of much more than we are conscious of. So God is proportionately more present in the darkness of the unconscious than in the light of what we already know."

~ Jeremy Taylor

"Pessimism destroys,

Optimism creates"

~ Joseph Fazio

"The reason we dream in symbols is that the symbol is simple enough on the

surface to be grasped by the current state of consciousness,...

Symbols carry within them seeds of understanding that will later grow and

blossom." ~ Jeremy Taylor

"You don't vote with the ballot; you vote with your feet and your life."

~ the Wobblies

"The process of social change can be helped

along by a person's actions,

even if he or she hasn't changed

entirely on a personal level."

~ Tom Hayden

"Hate me for my words and actions as an individual,

not as an invisible part of a generalized group."

~ David Petersen

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open."

~ Bob Marley

"We are often able

because we think we

are able."

~ Joel Hawes

"When love and skill work together

expect a masterpiece."

~ John Ruskin

"Bitter are the tears of a child:

Sweeten them.

Deep are the thoughts of a child:

Quiet them.

Sharp is the grief of a child:

Take it from him.

Soft is the heart of a child:

Do not harden it."

~ Lady Pamela Wyndham Glenconner

"Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

~ Buddha

"All things in moderation." ~ Cosmo Fazio

Time's corrosive dewdrop eats

The giant warrior to a crust

Of earth in earth and rust in rust.

~ Francis Turner Palgrave

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

~ Aristotle

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."

~Amelia Earhart

"Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness."

~ Mary Oliver, Why I Wake Early

"At what point do concepts get so complex that you have to have language to form them?"

~ Temple Grandin, Animals in Translation

"Always tell the truth - that way you don't have to remember what you said."

~ Mark Twain

"We have been slow to give up on the myth of Earth's

infinite generosity. Rather grandly, we have overdrawn

our accounts."

~ Barbara Kingsolver

"Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure."

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark.
Zen Proverb