Quotes May 30, 2022

“As I came down from the mountain, I recalled how, not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources—it’s a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.”
Pico Iyer in The Art of Stillness
 
 
 
 
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton – Retired American Gymnast
 
 
 
 
Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse.
JRD Tata
 
 
 
 
Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
Willie Nelson
 
 
 
 
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
Anais Nin
 
 
 
 
High alert is the nature of the moment, and rightly so, but I do not intend to lose the reality that as a culture we are entering deeply mythic ground.
Martin Shaw
 
 
 
 
This rare and precious gift of human life has been bestowed upon us so that we may return to our true Home.
Dada Vaswani
 
 
 
 
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
 
 
 
 
This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies
and lads and girls.
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
And frocks and curls.
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
Love is the cause of unity in all things.
Aristotle