What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared with
what lies within us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Destiny is not matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
"If you reach
For the moon,
If you aim
For the sky,
Then the moon
And the sky
Can be yours --
Come on and try!
."
From Aspects of Love
"The Wind blows out of the gates of the day,
The wind blows over the lonely of heart."
-W.B.Yeats
"Here is the test to find out whether your mission on Earth is finished.
If you are alive, it isn't."
Richard Bach
"Imagination is the highest kite a person can fly." Lauren Bacall
"If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotton
that we belong to each other."
Anonymous
"As above, so below
as within, so without
As the Universe, so the soul..." Hermes Trismegistus
"Soulmates are friends before they meet.
They struggle through life apart.
To greet each other from the Heart!
Anonymous
"...The essence of all growth is a willingness to change
for the better and then an unremitting willingness
to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails."
Bill W.
"A dream is a wish your heart makes"
Walt Disney
"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."
~ Bernard Edmonds ~
Compassion is your pain I feel in my heart.
~ Anonymous ~
Life is what happens as you plan yours.
~ Anonymous ~
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it".
~ William Arthur Ward ~
All my life I used to wonder what I would become
when I grew up.
Then, about seven years ago, I
realized that I was never going to grow up -
that
growing is an ever ongoing process.
M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Further Along the Road Less Traveled
Be creative.
You're the artist here.
You're the one who can
brush away the clouds
and make the sun shine.
Paint your own picture
choose your own colors.
And forget all that
business about having to
stay between lines.
Alin Austin
Many people go from one thing to another
searching for happiness; but with each new
adventure they find themselves more
confused and less happy
until they discover that what they are
searching for is inside themselves
and what will make them happy is sharing
their real selves with the one they love.
Susan Polis Shultz
Don't Ever Give Up On Your Dreams<
May your dreams
never disappear with age,
but may they continue
as alive and as beautiful as you
with the knowledge that they
will someday come true
Joanne Domenech
I am,
in every thought
of my heart,
yours.
Woodrow Wilson
...And think not you can direct the course of love,
for love, if it finds you worthy,
directs your course
Kahlil Gibran
Count your blessings by smiles, not tears
Count your age by friends, not years
Anonymous
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved
except by those who dared believe
that something inside of them
was superior to circumstance.
Anonymous
Writers On Writing:
Only those things are beautiful which are
inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre' Gide
On Love:
Love bears all things.
Believes all things
Endures all things
Love never ends
1 Corinthians 13:7-8
On Creativity:
Creative activity could be described
as a type of learning process
where teacher and pupil
are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
You cannot change the
music of your soul..
Katherine Hepburn
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful...
...What you will discover will be yourself
Alan Alda
Creativity is so delicate a flower
that praise tends to make it bloom,
while discouragement often nips it in the bud.
Any of us will put out more and better ideas
if our efforts are appreciated.
Alex F. Osborn
Heaven can wait
And all I got is time
until the end of time
I won't look back
Let the alters shine...
Jim Steinman
It seems to me
we can never give up
longing and wishing
while we are thoroughly alive.
There are certain things we feel
to be beautiful and good,
and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot
Society never advances.
It recedes as fast on one side
as it gains on the other.
It undergoes continual changes;
it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific;
but for everything that is given,
something is taken.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self Reliance" Essays: First Series
(1841)
Friendship is
the breathing rose,
With sweets in every fold
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would rather have had
one breath of her hair
one touch of her mouth
then an eternity without it...
from "The City of Angels" (confession to a fellow angel after one angel fell from grace to become human to be with his love...and then God took her life)
There are certain things
human beings are not permitted to know -
like what we're doing.
- William Burroughs
If you love something... set it free
if it returns to you it is yours
if it doesn't, then it never was
- Unknown
And that's the way it is.
Walter Cronkite
It is not irritating to be where one is.
It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
John Lennon
It's through our dreams that we are whole...
It's what's inside, our very soul...
Everything else may fade and die...
But on our dreams shall we rely...
So hold your dreams within your heart...
And never ever let them part..
Internet poem by Rose L.
