Quotes May 18, 2021

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace
 
 
 
 
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
William Hazlitt – 1778-1830 – English Writer-Painter-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
Basho
 
 
 
 
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.
W.S. Merwin
 
 
 
 
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther
 
 
 
 
All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.
Dean Spade
 
 
 
 
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
 
 
 
 
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
The life of an animal lies outside of conjecture. It is far beyond the scientific papers and the campfire stories. It is as true as breath. It is important as the words of children.
Craig Childs
 
 
 
 
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton
 
 
 
 
Ask what’s possible, not what’s wrong. Keep asking.
Margaret Wheatley
 
 
 
 
Grief and resilience live together.
Michelle Obama
 
 
 
 
I have decided to stick to love … Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
A.A. Milne
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is a state of being and should be directed towards everything that you are creating in this life.
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