Understanding You...

"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are." HOUSSAYE

Mankind

"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind." MOHANDAS K. GANDHI

HUMANITY?

"Fear is not the natural state of civilized people."

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

The Artist

"My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." PABLO PICASSO

...individuality...

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

A New Day

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision." HELEN KELLER

Talking About A Revolution

Simple wisdom...

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." ALBERT EINSTEIN

...truth...

"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give."

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Humor

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Feminism

"A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place." MICHELE LE DOEUFF

Secrets

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." Kahlil Gibran

...first step...

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao-tzu

阿千里之行，始于足下。

Money Talks...

"The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you." KATHERINE WHITEHORN

Poetry

"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing." JOHN CAGE

...discovery...

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

"Nothing Else Matters"

On the inside looking out...

"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." CONFUCIUS

Color My World

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." HENRY DAVID THOREAU

...imagination...

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

JOHN LENNON

What is genius?

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." BRUCE FEIRSTEIN

Discovery

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." FRANK HERBERT

Two Left Feet?

"I may very well be losing my mind but I have not lost my sense of humor!" Unknown Writer

...work...

"The Roots of Violence:

Wealth without work,

Pleasure without conscience,

Knowledge without character,

Commerce without morality,

Science without humanity,

Worship without sacrifice,

Politics without principles."

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI

In The End

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle." THICH NHAT HANH

Apathy?

"Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care." JIMMY BUFFETT

Doubts?

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

Faces in a crowd...

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain." LORD BYRON

"In the End"

Losing My Religion?

"When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place." PEARL S. BUCK

Friendship

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." EPICURUS

"No Woman No Cry"

...nature...

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature." ANNE FRANK

"Let's live with hope!"

"All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope." HENRI J. M. NOUWEN

If You Want To Sing Out...

Language

"England and America are two countries divided by a common language." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"I Gotta feeling"

...etc...

"Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process." ANNE WILSON SCHAEF

Get a haircut and get a new job...

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you." FRAN LEIBOWITZ

Common Sense?

"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." GOETHE

Another Reason To Smile

"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons." WILL ROGERS

Here Comes The Sun

"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong." CHARLES KETTERING

No Regrets

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

...pain...

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." KAHLIL GIBRAN

"If Everyone Cared"

Faith

"I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up . . . they have no holidays." HENNY YOUNGMAN