09/11/15

It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good. -Lisa Williams

09/10/15

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. -Patrick Rothfuss

09/09/15

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge. -Jim Butcher

09/08/15

If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody. -Malcolm Bane

09/07/15

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. -Abraham Lincoln

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