09/04/15

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. -William James

09/03/15

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles. -Voltaire

09/02/15

Poetry breaks through the skin of suffering in which children are often imprisoned: silent, confused, scared.  A child's poetry is an intimate, trusting gift to her parent or to anyone who wishes to "read" her heart. -Alice Walker

09/01/15

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -Albert Schweitzer

08/31/15

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. -Eckhart Tolle

08/28/15

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo Buonarroti

08/27/15

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. -Jonathan Swift

08/26/15

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. -Greek proverb

08/25/15

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

08/24/15

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson