Augusta Carter

You don't have a garden just for yourself. You have it to share.

Robert Frost

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the
better lawyer.

St Basil

If you live alone who's feet will you wash?

Emily Dickinson

Angels in the early morning
may be seen the dews among.
Stooping, plucking,smiling,
flying. Do the buds to them
belong?

Thomas Merton

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves
at the same time.

Li Po

SELF-ABANDONEMENT
.
I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
Drunken I rose and walked to the moonlit stream,
The birds were gone, and men also few.

Confusius

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night
without moon and star.

Wayne Dyer

Everything is perfect in the universe- even your desire
to improve it.

Ajahn Chah

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache:
you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready,
peace will come looking for you.

Isabelle Eberhardt

One must never look for happiness: one meets it
by the way.

Joan Baez

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people,
the hardest is with one.

Petrarch

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy
anger and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly
enjoy perpetual peace.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,
and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar

John Cage

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep

Fyodor Dostoevski

The point is not to understand life,
the point is to love life.

Jack Paar

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race,
with me as the chief obstacle.

Edna St Vincent Millay

-Edna St. Vincent Millay
.
Her lawn looks like a meadow,
And if she mows the place
She leaves the clover standing
And the Queen Anne's Lace

Kahlil Gibran

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of
the mind.

John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about
doing it right, or doing it better.

Robert Hass

In California in early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings
when the mist burns slowly into day. The air stings like
Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well I have dreamed this coast
myself.

Robert Creeley

And what's fascinating in the Ten Thousand Things, is that
although there's time, an inexorable time of the three
generations of lives, actively present, but place is the
time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the
human experience of it.

Erin Brockovich

It only takes a drop of water to start a waterfall

Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad peace

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress

Norman Vincent Peale

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than
yourself, the more energy you will have.

Hannah Arendt

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely,
the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy
but left to its own course it ends in powers disappearance.

Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet

There are only 40 people in the world and five of
them are hamburgers