Mother Teresa

“In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East — especially in India — I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving — it is not in the result of loving.”

Henry David Thoreau

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."

Antoine de Saint-Exupe

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Socrates

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."

Timbisha

"....the white rays of the silver moon soften the great chasms round about, and the evening star glows like a blue-white diamond... Our movies are the moving of the breezes through the pinion pines; our dances are the dances of the stars in their courses; and our stories are the romantic reminiscences of lingering memories..."  ~Bessie Johnson~

Georgia O'Keeffe

"The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable -- and knows no kindness with all its beauty."

To Start...

"Start where you are, not where you think you should be."

John Milton

"The mind is its own place, and in it self. Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."

JFK

“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came."

Yoko Ono

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream;
A dream you dream together is reality"

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Dr. Khalid Mahmud

"Eat God-made foods, not man-made foods."

Kahlil Gibran

"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable."

~Kendra~

26.2

“If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.”
~Bingham~

Hippocrates

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”

Melville

"God's one and only voice is silence."

Leo & Albert

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."    ~Leonardo da Vinci~

"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."  "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."   ~Albert Einstein~

Nisargadatta

"Mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it."

Nelson Henderson

"The true meaning of life
is to plant trees,
under whose shade
you do not expect to sit."

William James

“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction”

Raramuri Proverb

"When you run on the earth and with the earth, you can run forever."

can you see what i see

"The colors are such as no pigments can portray. They are deep, rich and variegated and so luminous that the light seems to flow out of the rock rather than be reflected by it."
Clarence Dutton

The Sun Never Says

Even

After

All this time

The sun never says to the earth,

"You owe

Me."

Look

What happens

With a love like that,

It lights the

Whole

Sky   ~Hafiz~

Anais Nin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Will Shakespeare

"How poor are they that have not patience.  What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

George Bernard Shaw

"In an ugly and unhappy world the richest person can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness."

Marley

"Open your eyes and look within.  Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"

Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

Byron

"I doubt sometimes whether
a quiet and unagitated life
would have suited me, yet I
sometimes long for it."

Dr Seuss

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."