Seasons

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

 - Andrew Wyeth

Strength

Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness.
I think this is a mistake.
It is anger that is a sign of weakness,
whereas patience is a sign of strength.

- Dalai Lama

Faith

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Busy Life

He, who every morning plans the
transactions of the day, and follows that
plan carries a thread that will guide him
through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

- Victor Hugo

Eternal Life

Life is an endless cycle of souls, swirling along the path of the universe, being reborn, but never truly dying before being reborn again. As long as this cycle continues, we will never really die.

- Ameila Wolfe

Change and Growth

Change and growth take place
when a person has risked himself and
dares to become involved with
experimenting with his own life.

- Herbert Otto

Perseverance

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

- Charles F. Kettering

My Creed

My Creed

To live as gently as I can;
To be, no matter where, a man;
To take what comes of good or ill
And cling to faith and honor still;
To do my best, and let that stand
The record of my brain and hand;
And then, should failure come to me,
Still work and hope for victory.

To have no secret place wherein
I stoop unseen to shame or sin;
To be the same when I’m alone
As when my every deed is known
To live undaunted, unafraid
Of any step that I have made;
To be without pretense or sham
Exactly what men think I am.

To leave some simple mark behind
To keep my having lived in mind,
If enmity to aught I show,
To be an honest, generous foe,
To play my little part, nor whine
That greater honors are not mine.
This, I believe, is all I need
For my philosophy and creed.

By Edgar A. Guest

Give

Give what you have.
To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Peace

Peace is not something you wish for;
It's something you make,
Something you do,
Something you are,
And something you give away.

- Robert Fulghum

Clarity

In the attitude of silence
the soul finds the path in a clearer light,
and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself
 into crystal clearness.

 - Mahatma Gandhi

Love

The Eskimos have 52 words for snow
because it is so special to them;
there ought to be as many for love.

-  Margaret Atwood

Opportunities

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

 - Lee Iacocca

Good Deeds

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

- William Shakespeare

Dream

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

- James Allen

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

- Joan Borysenko

Soulful Person

You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences.

To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

- Jean Shinoda Bolen

Environmental Legacy

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

- Barack Obama

Environment

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit.

- David Suzuki

Remind Thyself

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

— Og Mandino