"The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor."
--Martha Grahm

The pure in heart need no lawyers.
--Arthur Miller The Crucible

Denied our names, our faces,
we lie in the graves of our identity
with a stranger’s pennies on our eyes,
seeking to reclaim ourselves
from the spaces between
what we remember doing
and what we might do.
Wendelsessen "The Graves of Strangers"

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids burn you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
--Dorothy Parker

"’The world as we have it,’ he went on to Jilly, ‘is here mostly because of habit. We’ve all agreed that certain things exist—we’re taught as impressionable infants that this is a table and this is what it looks like, that’s a tree out the window there, a dog looks and sounds just so. At the same time we’re informed that Goon and his like don’t exist, so we don’t—or can’t—see them.’"
--Charles de Lint Dreams Underfoot "Uncle Dobbin’s Parrot Fair"

"The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain."
--Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

"If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything."
--Mark Twain

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
--Pablo Picasso

"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five."
--Groucho Marx

"Most of the energy we spend
Is like a footprint on moving sands"
--Enigma

"In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom. Forever."
--Braveheart

"Love nothing but which comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny."
--Marcus Hurelius

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
--William Arthur Ward

"The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people’s expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be.
They are still here, walking among us. We just don’t recognize them anymore."
--Charles de Lint Dreams Underfoot "Ghosts of Wind and Shadow"

WARM SUNLIGHT
SWEET SMELLING FLOWERS
GLOWING WITH COLOR
FUNNY FURRY FRIENDS
THAT WARM OUR HEARTS
NO WONDER
I OFTEN THINK OF
OUR EARTH AS A KIND FRIEND
--Susan (from inside a folder)

When it is asked how much it will cost to protect the environment, one more question should be asked: How much will it cost our civilization if we do not?
--Gaylord Nelson

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but marerialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
--Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume

For the moon’s shining high
and the dew is wet;
and on mossy moor,
they’re dancing yet.
--Cornish Rhyme

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