Quotes August 18, 2018

Quotes courtesy of Daily Good
 
 
 
 
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
 
 
 
Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?
Pema Chodron
 
 
 
 
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes
 
 
 
 
The Zuni maps remind all of us that we, too, must take the time to deeply listen, to hear and share stories in which we and the land have equal voice.
Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
 
 
 
 
Some people say the longest path we will ever walk is from our head to our heart. What I call the path of Heartmindfulness.
Pancho Ramos Stierle
 
 
 
 
You are an important person just the way you are.
Fred McFeely Rogers
 
 
 
 
Huh, think about the circumstances before going after this person. Your time is valuable and it might be better spent.
Go after that person who said the offensive thing. Form a relationship with them. Invest.
Betsy Leondar-Wright
 
 
 
 
And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for in our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
 
 
 
 
The inner work can be so much harder than the outer work and so underrated. But its so necessary.
Eliza Ramos
 
 
 
 
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
 
 
 
Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
 
 
 
 
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
 
 
 
 
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
A mind that has no walls, that is not burdened with its own acquisitions, accumulations, with its own knowledge, a mind that lives timelessly, insecurely – to such a mind, life is an extraordinary thing. Such a mind is life itself, because life has no resting place.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
 
 
 
 
Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a good shovel.
Aldo Leopold
 
 
 
 
We’re all just walking each other home.
Ram Dass
 
 
 
 
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
James Baldwin