Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves.
Perhaps, then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar of
empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope.
-- Albert Camus
We do not
believe in ourselves until someone reveals deep inside of us there's
something valuable ... Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk
curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any other experience that
reveals the human spirit.
-- e.e. cummings
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over
the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each
child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it
would last throughout life.
--Rachel Carson
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-- Teddy Roosevelt
Mine is the mysticism of everyday life, of the heaped laundry and the
bruised toe, of overcooked broccoli and leaves spangled with dew, of sunrise
and sorrow, laughter and linguine, music and mold. This everyday mysticism requires
no special powers, only imagination, a doting and practiced attention to the ordinary,
a willingness to be surprised by grace. -- Philip Simmons, from "Learning to Fall"
True forgiveness and love arise naturally,
effortlessly, from the silence of your heart broken all the way open.
-- Gangaji
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. --Audre Lord
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics
are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
A great many people think they are thinking when they are
merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways
of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers,
and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.
Think of it - always.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Nobody sees a flower
really
it is so small
we haven't time
and to see takes time
like to have a friend takes time."
--- Georgia O'Keefe
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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