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Quotes September 05, 2020

Courtesy of Daily Good.org

 
 

Our relationship to most living things is, and must be I think, a moral one not a practical one.
Carl Safina
 
 
 
 
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Roald Dahl
 
 
 
 
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel.
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
Scarcity appears when wealth cannot flow.
Lewis Hyde
 
 
 
 
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
 
 
 
 
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
 
 
 
 
God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.
Michele Harper
 
 
 
 
What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You only know where you are by knowing precisely where you have been and how you got to where you are.
Wade Davis
 
 
 
 
If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
…to begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and
to live life as a process –live to become…
Paulo Freire
 
 
 
 
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.
e.e. cummings
 
 
 
 
We suffer, ironically, from our indifference to those among us who suffer.
Parker J. Palmer
 
 
 
 
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
 
 
 
 
The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
Plutarch
 
 
 
 
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
After awhile, looking and listening became something much more; I came to see and to hear the world, existence, more and more acutely. The more I watched and listened, the more I saw and heard.
Laurie Seagel
 
 
 
 
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall

Quotes April 14, 2019

Courtesy of DailyGood

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
Kahil Gibran
 
 
 
 
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John Muir
 
 
 
 
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
William Sloane Coffin Jr.
 
 
 
 
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott
 
 
 
 
No problem can be solved by the same kind of thinking that created it.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
Alberto Caeiro
 
 
 
 
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
 
 
 
 
Nobody can defeat you when you all are working together.
Jason Pierre-Paul
 
 
 
 
We must recognize that our crises emerge from clinging too tightly to a single story.
Bayo Akomolafe
 
 
 
 
I’m always pulling away from the rational. I think that maybe the unfathomable is the magnet in the world that, if we allow ourselves, we are drawn to.
Linda Connor
 
 
 
 
Life is like carrying a message from the child you were to the old man you’ll become, without losing it along the way.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
 
 
 
 
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
George Eliot
 
 
 
 
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.
Chief Seattle
 
 
 
 
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
 
 
 
 
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.
William Blake
 
 
 
 
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer.
Rachel Naomi Remen
 
 
 
 
Healing begins by embracing the state of not knowing in the spaciousness of the mind so that in the darkness a flicker of light can be seen.
Lobsang Rapgay
 
 
 
 
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
Joseph Conrad
 
 
 
 
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
Carlos Santana

Quotes August 25, 2018

Quotes courtesy of Daily Good

 
 
 
 
Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response to what happens. And response is something we can choose.
Maureen Killoran
 
 
 
 
By awakening the Native American teachings, you come to the realization that the earth is not something simply that you build upon and walk upon and drive upon and take for granted.
It is a living entity. It has consciousness.
Edgar Cayce
 
 
 
 
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all of its ills.
Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
John Lennon
 
 
 
 
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
Seth Parker
 
 
 
 
Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.
Rachel Carson
 
 
 
 
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
Hippocrates
 
 
 
 
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.
Rebecca Solni
 
 
 
 
Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

Quotes December 11, 2017

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
Meister Eckhart
 
 
 
 
Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
Ayn Rand,
writer
 
 
 
 
“There is no right or wrong path. There is only the path that you choose. Whatever you choose, there will be many opportunities for you to grow and expand.”
Kuan Yin
 
 
 
 
Our heart, when it breaks open, can hold the whole universe.
Joanna Macy
 
 
 
 
Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing clutter can completely transform your entire existence.
Karen Kingston
 
 
 
 
A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
Jacqueline Novogratz
 
 
 
 
Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels
Elinor Ostrom
 
 
 
 
As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
 
 
 
 
The soul’s bliss and suffering are bound together like the grasses.
Jane Kenyon
 
 
 
 
Day by day, stone by stone, build your secret slowly.
Day by day, you’ll grow too, you’ll know heaven’s glory.
Donovan
 
 
 
 
poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-

of turning silence
into eloquence.
Sanober Khan

 
 
 
 

Remember:

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower,
34th US president
 
 

Our lives are formed not just by the conflicts that we’ve experienced, but by the ones we’ve not resolved
Ken Cloke
 
 
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman