Since early May, Wendy has been sharing a quotation every day with our Yahoo! Group. Many of us have been including these in our journals as we wait for our daughters and sons.
October 4, 2004
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannnot be seen, nor
touched.......but are felt in the heart."
- Helen Keller
- Amelia Earhart October 2, 2004 "Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood."
- Louisa May Alcott October 1, 2004 "I have found that among it's other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
- Maya Angelou September 30, 2004 "He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."
- Henry David Thoreau
September 29, 2004
"A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
- Walt Whitman
September 28, 2004
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for
the moment."
- Georgia O'Keefe
September 27, 2004
"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."
- Abraham Lincoln
September 26, 2004
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
- Ovid
September 25, 2004
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."
- Helen Keller
September 24, 2004
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."
- Phyliss Dyler
September 23, 2004
"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
- HG Wells
September 22, 2004
"Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
September 21, 2004
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up."
- Mark Twain
September 20, 2004
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not get bent out of shape."
- Anonymous
September 19, 2004
"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."
- Zen Saying
September 18, 2004
"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."
- Albert Schweitzer
September 17, 2004
"It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game."
- Proverb
September 16, 2004
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will
help create the fact."
- Henry James
September 15, 2004
"The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears."
- John Cheney
September 14, 2004
"Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances."
- Anonymous
September 13, 2004
"Smile. It improves your face value."
- Anonymous
September 12, 2004
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity."
- Anonymous
September 11, 2004
"No one needs a smile more than the person who doesn't have one."
- Anonymous
September 10, 2004
"A gentle word
Like summer rain
May soothe the heart
And banish pain."
- Anonymous
September 9, 2004
"Life is trying things to see if they work."
- Ray Bradbury
September 8, 2004
"Live and let live."
- Anonymous
September 7, 2004
"What comes from the heart goes to the heart."
- Caldridge
September 6, 2004
"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little
failings."
- Jean De La Bruyere
September 5, 2004
"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on
yourself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 4, 2004
"Gratitude is the heart's memory."
- French Proverb
September 3, 2004
"We love the things we love for what they are."
- Robert Frost
September 2, 2004
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but
manifestations of strength and resolution."
- Kahlil Gibron
September 1, 2004
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown
away."
- Sir Arthur Helps
August 31, 2004
"For memory has painted this perfect day with colors that never fade. And we
find at the end of a perfect day the souls of the friends we've made."
- Carrie Jacobs Bond
August 30, 2004
"Forgive thyself little, and others much."
- Leighton
August 29, 2004
"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must
pass."
August 28, 2004
"What thought youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine."
- Thomas Moore
August 27, 2004
"We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us,
and call that hanfull of sand the world."
- Robert M. Pirsig
August 26, 2004
"It's never too late to mend."
- Proverb
August 25, 2004
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
- Henry David Thoreau
August 24, 2004
"Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every
effort to teach them good manners."
- Anonymous
August 23, 2004
"Give me a house to call my own, and family and friends to make it a home."
- Anonymous
August 22, 2004
"Miles can't separate us when we are close in heart."
- Anonymous
August 21, 2004
"It doesn't matter where you go in life, or what you acquire;
it's who you have beside you that really matters."
- Anonymous
August 20, 2004
"Genius is childhood recaptured."
- Bauldelaire
August 19, 2004
"Children have neither past nor future. Thus they enjoy the present- which
seldom happens to us."
- Jean De La Bruyere
August 18, 2004
"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have
forgotten what it is like to be a child."
- Randall Jarrell
August 16, 2004
"We work to become, not to acquire."
- Elbert Hubbard
August 15, 2004
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
- Baba Ram Dass
August 14, 2004
"No answer is also an answer."
- German Proverb
August 13, 2004
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
- Chinese Proverb
August 12, 2004
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
- Thomas LaMance
August 10, 2004
"After the game, the King and Pawn go into the same box."
- Italian Proverb
August 9, 2004
"Control your emotions or it will control you."
- Chinese Proverb
August 8, 2004
"The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe."
- Joanna Macy
August 6, 2004
"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backward without turning around."
- Henry David Thoreau
August 5, 2004
"Opinion has caused more trouble on this earth than all the plagues and
earthquakes."
- Voltaire
August 4, 2004
"Even our enemy is useful to us because, in order to practice compasion we need
to practice tolerance, forgiveness, and patience, the antidote to anger."
- Dalai Lama
August 3, 2004
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us "the universe." Our task must
be to widen our circle of compasion to embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
August 2, 2004
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents
determinism, the way you play it is free will."
- J. Nehru
August 1, 2004
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"
- Satchel Paige
July 31, 2004
"A good traveler leaves no tracks."
- Tao Te Ching
July 30, 2004
"Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear."
- Lao-Tzu
July 29, 2004
"What time would it be if all the clocks were stopped?"
- Zen Question
July 28, 2004
"The first sign of you becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful."
- S. Vivekananda
July 27, 2004
"How can you think and hit at the same time?"
- Yogi Berra
July 26, 2004
"Yearn to understand first and to be understood second."
- Beca Lewis Allen
July 25, 2004
"The mind is everything; what you think, you become."
- Buddha
July 24, 2004
"Think with the whole body."
- T. DeShimaru
July 23, 2004
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
- Henry Miller
July 22, 2004
"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go
together."
- John Ruskin
July 21, 2004
"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Pablo Picasso
July 20, 2004
"Nature contains the elements in colour and form, of all pictures."
- James McNeill Whistler
July 19, 2004
"Children need models more than they need crictics."
- Joseph Joubert
July 18, 2004
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
- Abraham Lincoln
July 17, 2004
"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."
- Alfred Mercier
July 16, 2004
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats
July 15, 2004
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters
in the end."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
July 14, 2004
"The quality not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
July 13, 2004
"Time heals all wounds."
- Proverb
July 12, 2004
"Variety is the spice of life."
- Proverb
July 11, 2004
"Where's there's a will there's a way."
- Proverb
July 10, 2004
"Never insult the alligator 'til after you've crossed the river."
- Anonymous
July 9, 2004
"I add my breath to your breath.
That our days may be long on this Earth.
That the days of our people may be long, that we shall be as one person,
that we may finish our road together."
- Laguna Pueblo Prayer
July 8, 2004
"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
- Proverb
July 7, 2004
"Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light."
- Anonymous
July 6, 2004
"Gowing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional."
- Anonymous
July 5, 2004
"Our five senses are incomplete without a sixth.....a sense of humor."
- Anonymous
July 4, 2004
"May all your days be filled with memories and flowers, friendship and happy
hours."
- Anonymous
July 3, 2004
"In each day ahead I wish for you a rainbow whose colors are bright with hope,
a flower whose fragrance is made of joy, and a dream whose promise always shines
in your heart."
- Anonymous
July 2, 2004
"May every new sunrise bring you closer to your dreams."
- Anonymous
July 1, 2004
"I shut my eyes in order to see."
- Paul Gauguin
June 30, 2004
"Romance is the glamour which turns dust of everyday life into a golden haze."
- Elinor Glyn
June 29, 2004
"Soft and drowsy hours are creeping,
Hill and dale in slumber sleeping,
Love alone his watch is keeping -
all through the night."
- Old Welsh Lullaby
June 28, 2004
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."
- Anonymous
June 27, 2004
"The course of true love never runs smooth."
- Proverb
June 26, 2004
"The first duty of love is to listen."
- Paul Tillich
June 25, 2004
"To love is to feel the sun from both sides."
- David Viscott
June 24, 2004
"A butterfly flies besides us like a sunbeam,
And for a brief moment it's glory and beauty belong to our world.
But then it flies on again, and though we wish it could have stayed,
we feel so lucky to have seen it."
- Anonymous
June 23, 2004
"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth...
We did not weave the web of life; we are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."
- Chief Seattle
June 22, 2004
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have
a right to be here."
- Desiderata
June 21, 2004
"Happily may I walk.
May it be beautiful before me.
May it be beautiful behind me.
May it be beautiful below me.
May it be beautiful above me.
May it be beautiful all around me.
In beauty it is finished."
- Anonymous Navaho Night Chant
June 20, 2004
"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows."
- St. Francis of Assisi
June 19, 2004
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
- Voltaire
June 18, 2004
"The best inhertance we can give our children is a few minutes of our time each
day."
- Battista
June 17, 2004
"Grown men can learn from very little children, for the hearts of little
children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show them things which older
people miss."
- Black Elk
June 16, 2004
"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss
the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking
leaves."
- Marcelene Cox
June 15, 2004
"Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother.
- Ann and Jane Taylor
June 14, 2004
"Praising what is lost, makes the remembrance dear."
- William Shakespeare
June 13, 2004
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness.”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
June 12, 2004
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse
June 11, 2004
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
June 10, 2004
"A minute's success pays the failures of years."
- Robert Browning
June 9, 2004
"When the voices of children are heard on the green
And the laughing is heard on the hill
My heart is at rest within my breast
And everything else is still."
- William Blake, Nurses Song
June 8, 2004
"Honesty's the best policy."
- Miquel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
June 7, 2004
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
- Goethe
June 6, 2004
"Let us watch our beginnings, and results will manage themselves."
- Alexander Clark
June 5, 2004
"Yesterday is the past, Tomorrow is the future, Today is a gift; that's why it's
called 'the Present.'”
- Anonymous
June 4, 2004
"Life is tragic only for those who have nothing to live for."
- Anonymous
June 3, 2004
"Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder."
- General Lew Wallace
June 2, 2004
"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
- Mark Twain
June 1, 2004
"Art is the difference between seeing and just identifying."
- Jean Mary Norman
May 31, 2004
"You can not shake hands with a clenched fist."
- Indira Ghandi
May 30, 2004
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Eistein
May 28, 2004
"You're getting old when the only thing you want for your birthday is not to be
reminded of it."
- Anonymous
May 27, 2004
"A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops."
- Henry B. Adams
May 26, 2004
"The test of any man's character is how he accepts praise."
- Anonymous
May 25, 2004
"Procrastination is the thief of time."
- Anonymous
May 24, 2004
"Character, like tea, reveals its strength in hot water."
- Anonymous
May 23, 2004
"The road of life is made smoother when traveled with someone we love."
- Anonymous
May 22, 2004
"Friendship is love with understanding."
- Anonymous
May 21, 2004
"You're never too old to learn."
- Anonymous
May 19, 2004
"A teacher is someone who takes your hand, opens your mind, and touches your
heart."
- Anonymous
May 18, 2004
"All experience is an arch, to build upon."
- Henry Brooks Adams
May 16, 2004
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows
up."
- Pablo Picasso
May 15, 2004
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
- Anonymous
May 14, 2004
"All the sounds of the earth are like music."
- Oscar Hammerstein
May 13, 2004
"A rose is a rose is a rose."
- Gertrude Stein
MAY 11, 2004
"For the happiest sound in the whole world is that of children laughing."
- Anonymous
MAY 10, 2004
"Of all the gifts to the human race, what is sweeter than a child?"
- Anonymous
Here is a collection of other favorites.
"For the happiest sound in the whole world is that of children laughing"
- Anonymous
"When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And the laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast
And everything else is still."
- William Blake, Nurses Song
"Go Placidly amidst the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence"
- Max Ehrman, Desiderata
"Be the change you would like to see in the world."
- Ghandi
