John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases;

it will never pass into nothingness.

Aeschylus

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate

you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are

unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the

picture away.

Christina Rossetti

Better by far you should forget and smile, that you should remember

and be sad.

Saigyo

Should I blame the moon

For bringing forth this sadness,

As if it pictured grief?

Lifting up my troubled face,

I regard it through my tears.

English Proverb

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

Thich Nhat Hanh

So if we love some one, we should train in being able to listen.

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the

suffering of another person.

Steven Covey

Live out your imagination, not your history.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act

when confronted with peace.

Wendell Berry

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most

urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Joseph Conrad

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles

from the nearest land.

Kobayasi Issa

No aliens in this world

We all are brothers

Under the cherry blossom trees.

Lao Tzu

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world

belongs to you.

Mizhuo Ota

A priest all alone

taking a nap at midday -

beyond the eaves

of the abbot's chamber

the deep blueness of the sky.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are

the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Douglas Steere

Work without contemplation is never enough.

Robinson Jeffers

A little too abstract, a little too wise,

It is time for us to kiss the earth again,

It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,

Let the rich life run to the roots again.

Don Van Vliet

LSD: An awfully overrated aspirin and very similar

to old people's Disneyland.

Vita Sackville West

It isn't that I like sweet disorder,

but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Alexander Pope

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

Israel Salanter Lipkin

Spirituality is like a bird:

If you hold it too closely, it chokes,

And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

Robert Lynd

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the the way

in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

James M. Barrie

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others

cannot keep it from themselves.

A.S. Kline

Feeling is the phoenix that rises from the ashes of exhausted being.

Hung Tzu-ch'eng

A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas:
there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The
reflection of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same
moon: the mind must be full of light.

Henryk Skolimowski

The first act of awe, when man was struck with beauty

or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience

Stephen Jay Gould

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistant.

Albert Camus

In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay

an invincible summer.

Doug Larson

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill

except for learning how to grow in rows.

Robert Frost

Poetry is what gets lost in the translation.

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,

while loving some one deeply gives you courage.

Isabel Allende

We live in an era where masses of people come and go

across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees,

emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.