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 -

Error

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."  - MK Gandhi -

Reveal

"Authority, power or wealth do not change a man, they only reveal him."  - Imam Ali -

Interrupt

"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God."  - Dietrich Bonhoeffer -

Reasons

"There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient."  - Marilynne Robinson -

Forever

"Last forever!' Who has n't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying."  - Annie Dillard -

You

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."  - Emily Dickinson -

Quiet

"Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts: the sight of the deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above seem to impart a quiet to the mind."  - Jonathan Edwards -

Do it

"The realms of time are narrow,

Neither is yesterday important,

Nor is tomorrow.

Do it today, at this instant,

Or you will come to sorrow -

For time is something you can't

Beg, steal or borrow."  - Author unknown -

Quiet

"You need not do anything.

Remain sitting at your table and listen.

You need not even listen, just wait.

You need not even wait,

just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.

And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.

It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." - Franz Kafka -

Trail

"Do not go where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Pain

"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."  - C.S. Lewis -

Flow

"Something of God flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."  - C.S. Lewis -

Heaven

"Every spirit builds itself a house,

and beyond its house a world,

and beyond its world a heaven."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Destiny

"Watch your thoughts; they become words

Watch your words; they become actions

Watch your actions; they become habits

Watch your habits; they become character

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny"  - Frank Outlaw -

Suffering

"I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering."  - C. S. Lewis -

Underestimate

"If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you."  - Bob Dylan -

Happiness

"Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them."  - Robert R. Updegraff -

Counts

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."  - Albert Einstein -

Laugh

"Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one."  - Frederick Buechner -

Innovation

"If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure til you come up with something that works."  - Seth Godin -

Light

"The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side."  - G.K. Chesterton -

Kind

"What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind."  - Cleveland Amory -

Purpose

"The primary purpose of life is in being in the 'NOW'".  - Eckhart Tolle -

Teacher

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." - Nikos Kazantzakis -

Difference

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."  - William James -

Friends

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."  - Martin Luther King Jr. -

Failure

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."  - Henry Ford -

Alone

"…good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone."  - John Taylor Gatto -

Freedom

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."  - Albert Einstein -

Play

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."  - Joseph Chilton Pearce -

Education

"Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself." — John Dewey -

Lives

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -

Change

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."  - Martin Luther King, Jr. -

Right

"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."  -  Martin Luther King, Jr. -

Hope

"Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day."  - Kathleen Norris -

Drops

"Little drops of water wear down big stones."  - Russian Proverb -

Grass

"When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers."  - an African proverb -

Wisdom

"You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person.  The seed is already there.  A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow."  Thich Nhat Hanh -

Education

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."  - Albert Einstein -

Quality

"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."  - Mahatma Gandhi -

Quality

"Quality means doing it right when no one else is looking."  - Henry Ford -

Distraction

"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries."  - Blaise Pascal -

Doubt

"There is no harm in doubt and skepticism; for it is through these that new discoveries are made."  - Richard Feynman -

Time

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."  - Albert Einstein -

Positive Difference

"Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others."  - Richard Branson -

Happy

"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful."  - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama -

Wait

"If you don't like the weather, just wait a minute."  - an old saying -

Life

"The unexamined life is not worth living."  - Socrates -

Butterfly

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."  - Trina Paulus -

Happiness

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."  - Nathaniel Hawthorne -

Happiness

"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness."  - Augustine -

Sow

"It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn."  - Adrian Rogers -

Longing

"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."  - C.S. Lewis -

Live

"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"  - T S Eliot -

Truth

"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."  - Sir Isaac Newton -

Overflow

"When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart."  - Charles Spurgeon -

Punishment

"When God wants to punish you, he gives you what you ask for!"  - an old saying - 

Love

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."  - Jimi Hendrix -

Education

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."  - Robert Frost -

Life

"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful."  - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama -

Play

"Play is the highest form of research."  - Albert Einstein -

Tomorrow

"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow."  - John Dewy -

Freedom

"The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience."  - Leo Tolstoy -

Power of hoping

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. 

But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."  - G.K. Chesterton -

Hope

"To love means loving the unlovable. 

To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. 

Faith means believing the unbelievable. 

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."  - G.K. Chesterton -

Haste

"Make haste slowly"  - Benjamin Franklin -

Regret

"Things without all remedy should be without regard; what's done is done."  - Lady Macbeth -

Spiritual life

"Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of spiritual life."  - Simone Weil -

Blessing

"I don't want you to just sit down at the table.

I don't want you to just eat and be content.

I want you to walk out into the fields

Where the water is shining and the rice has risen.

I want you to stand there far from this white tablecloth.

I want you to fill your hands with mud, like a blessing."  - Mary Oliver -

Human

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."  - Desmond Tutu -  

Traveling

"Traveling makes one modest – you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."  - Gustave Flaubert -

Experience

"The only purpose of education is Freedom, the only method is experience" - Leo Tolstoy -

Titles

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."  - Niccolo Macchiavelli -

Important

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."  - Margot Fonteyn -

Heart

"Stay far from timid. Only make moves if your heart's in it."  - Notorious B.I.G. -

Chance

"Chance favors the connected mind."  - Steve Johnson -

Education

"Education is not the filling of a pail (bucket), but the lighting of a fire."  - William Butler Yeats -

Together

"If you want to run fast, run alone; if you want to run far, run together."  - an African proverb -

Food

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."  - Virgina Woolf -