Sojoumer

"I alternate between thinking of the planet as home
 - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden -
 and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners."  -  Annie Dillard from Teaching a Stone To Talk -

Move

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr. -

Wrong

"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."  - Sir Ken Robinson -

Grace

"Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow;
you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall."  - Annie Dillard -

Happiness

"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."  - Rabbi H. Schachtel -

History

"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."  - Edmund Burke -

Courage

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."  - Winston Churchill -

Book

"A book is like a garden carried in your pocket."  - Chinese Proverb -

Medicine

"A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine."  - Ray Bradbury -

Heart

"If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?"  - G.K. Chesterton -

Sacred

"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."  - Tom Robbins -

Poet enough

"If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place."  - Rainer Maria Rilke -

Days

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."  - Annie Dillard -

Feel

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."  - Maya Angelou -

Craftsman

"If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset ("what can the world offer me?") and instead adopt the craftsman mindset ("what can I offer the world?")."  - Cal Newport -

Progress

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." - Martin Luther King -

Change

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."  - James Baldwin -

Now

"And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment … a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present…"  - Wendell Berry -

Hope

"Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning."  - Barbara Kingsolver -

Think

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right."  – Henry Ford -

Knowledge

"Knowledge is learning something every day.  Wisdom is letting go of something every day."  - a Zen proverb -

 

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Adversity

"Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity."  - Charles Spurgeon -

Future

"The future's already here. It's just not evenly distributed yet."  - William Gibson -

Times

"I sit beside the fire and think
 Of all that I have seen
 Of meadow flowers and butterflies
 In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
 In autumns that there were
 With morning mist and silver sun
 And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
 Of how the world will be
 When winter comes without a spring
 That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
 That I have never seen
 In every wood in every spring
 There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
 Of people long ago
 And people that will see a world
 That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
 Of times there were before
 I listen for returning feet
 And voices at the door."

- J.R.R. Tolkien -

Service

"Do what you love in the service of people who love what you do."  - Steve Farber -

Prayer

"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."  - Socrates -

Learn

"Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!"  - Dr. Seuss -

Drop

"Individually, we are one drop.  Together, we are an ocean."  - Ryunosuke Sataro -

Turnings

"There are no wrong turnings.  Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk."  - Devin di Tigana -

Searching

"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."  - Joan Baez -

Looking

"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."  - J.R.R. Tolkien -

New year

"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul." - G.K. Chesterton -
 

Inaction

" Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."  - Leonardo da Vinci -

Patience

Have patience.  "He who can have patience can have what he will."  - Author unknown -

Help

"When a man realizes he can call others in to help him do a job better than he can do alone, he has taken a big step in his life."  - Andrew Carnegie -

Time

"Does thou love life, then do not squander time,

For that is the stuff that life is made of."  - Sir Walter Scott -

Singleness

"Singleness of purpose is one of the

chief essentials for success in life."  - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -

Idle

"I call that man idle

who might be better employed."  - Socrates -

Notion

"but they shortly found out

That the Captain they

Trusted so well

Had only one notion for

Crossing the ocean

And that was to tingle his Bell."  - Lewis Carroll, in The Hunting of the Snark -

Life

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."  - T.S. Eliot -

Passion

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."  - Oprah Winfrey -

People

"You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot please all of the people all of the time."  - Author unknown -

Yawn

"A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion."  - Voltaire -

Simple

"The best explanation is the simplest one."  - Occam's Razor -

As usual

"If you want to succeed in business, avoid "business as usual."  - Author unknown -

Leap

"Leap and the net will appear." - John Burroughs -

Progress

"Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress."  - Mahatma Gandhi -

Reclaim

"Wherever you are today, reclaim your power in it.  Make your situation better by repairing broken relationships, building more respect, finding your voice, growing your skills, and becoming more competent."  - Kathy Caprino -

Teacher

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."  - Albert Einstein -

Ribbon

"A soldier will give you his life for a bit of colored ribbon."  - Napoleon -

Small things

"You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."  - Alvin Toffler -

World

"The swan, like the soul of the poet,

By the dull world is ill understood."  - Heinrich Heine -

Let it go

"To live in this world

You must be able

To do three things:

To love what is mortal;

To hold it

Against your bones knowing

Your own life depends on it;

And, when the time comes to let it go,

To let it go."  - Mary Oliver -

Bell

"I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."  - Annie Dillard -

Yourself

"To find yourself, think for yourself."  - Socrates -

Stay

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."  - Albert Einstein -

Movement

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."  - Blaise Pascal -

Become

 "You will become like the five people you associate with the most - this can be either a blessing or a curse." - Billy Cox -

Computer

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."  - Robert S. McNamara -

Small

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."  - Churchill -

Humble

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble."  - Helen Keller -

Never

"Resolved, never to do anything which I would be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life."  - Jonathan Edwards -

Calm

"Never did sun more beautifully steep

In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

The river glideth at his own sweet will:

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;

And all that mighty heart is lying still!."  - William Wordsworth -

Knowledge

"Be curious always!  For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it."  - Sudie Back -

Now

"I want it now, Daddy"

Patience

"A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap!"  - Abraham Lincoln -

Exploration

"We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive at where we started

And know the place for the first time."  - T. S. Eliot -

Children

"Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today."  - Gabriela Mistral, a Chilean teacher -

Success

"There are no secrets to success.  It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure"  - Colin Powell -

Attention

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."  - Henry Miller -

Home

"There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there."  - G. K. Chesterton -

Change

"To seldom speak is the essence of nature. Why the winds and storm do not last whole day? Because the earth that manifests the winds and storm is constantly changing."  - Laozi Tao Te Chin, 4th Century BC -

Enquiry

"We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.  - Peter Senge -

You

"The best camera is the one that's with you."  - Chase Jarvis -

Vote

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.  Those who count the votes decide everything."  - Joseph Stalin -

Involve

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."  - Benjamin Franklin -

Friends, happy teachers day!

Gone

"You don't know what you got till it's gone."  - Joni Mitchell from They Paved Paradise -

Faith

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."  - Blaise Pascal -

Standard

"Aspire to decency.  Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will, adjust your lives, not the standards."  - Ted Koppel -

Be simple

"I will bow and be simple

I will bow and be free

I will bow and be humble

Yea, bow like the willow tree

I will bow, this is the token

I will wear the easy yoke

I will bow and be broken

Yea, I'll fall upon the rock."  - a Skaker Hymn, 1840s-

Boring

"Life is too short to work at a boring company."  - Author unknown -

Heaven

"Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Unreasonable

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable."  - George Bernard Shaw -

Create

"What I can not create, I do not understand."  - Richard Feynman -

Measure

"Measure twice, cut once."   - A wise carpenter - 

Leaf

"Walk around feeling like a leaf.  Know you could tumble any second.  Then decide what to do with your time."  - Naomi Shihab Nye -

Thin

"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."  - J R R Tolkien -

Encourage

"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."  - Neil deGrasse -

Cooperation

"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."  - Bertrand Russell -

Live for

"If you want to identify me, 

ask me not where I live, 

or what I like to eat, 

or how I comb my hair, 

but ask me what I am living for, 

in detail, 

ask me what I think is keeping me 

from living fully 

for the thing I want to live for."  - Thomas Merton -

Action

"Action is the foundational key to all success."  - Pablo Picasso -

Alterations

"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."  - Faith Baldwin -

Trust

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."  - Blaise Pascal -

Delightful

"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage, it can be delightful. - George Bernard Shaw -

Bicycle

"Life is like a ten speed bicycle.  Most of us have gears we never use."  - Charles M. Schultz -

Learning

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."  - Henry Ford -

Needs

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."  - Kathleen Norris -

Enlightened

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."  - Lao Tzu -

Learn

"There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation.  The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."  - Will Rogers -