Quotes June 01, 2021

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen – 1828-1906 – Norwegian Playwright
 
 
 
 
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson – 1850-1894 – Scottish Novelist
 
 
 
 
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896 – American Author
 
 
 
 
Bowing helps to eliminate our self-centered ideas.
Shunryu Suzuki
 
 
 
 
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.
Adam Grant
 
 
 
 
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
 
 
 
 
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
 
 
 
 
Leave the door open to the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit
 
 
 
 
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
In every moment the Universe is whispering to you
Denise Linn
 
 
 
 
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
 
 
 
 
People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.
Moshe Feldenkrais
 
 
 
 
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end
Ursula K. Le Guin
 
 
 
 
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J.B. Priestley
 
 
 
 
The practice of Blessing is a simple way to develop a constantly centered awareness. It is also a tool for growing in Universal Love and avoiding judgment.
Pierre Pradervand