John Muir: “Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature’s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
Gloria Swanson: “Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.”
Jane Austen: “If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”
Anne Frank: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Christine Bovee: “Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”
Annie Lennox:Â Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
Denise Levertov: “Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.”
Hugh Elliott: “Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume – snap… crackle… this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world…”
Henri Matisse: “What I dream of is an art of balance.”
Joss Whedon: “Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.”
Edward Everett Hale: “Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.”
Hadewijch of Antwerp: “May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.”
Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Eric Schmidt: “We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world’s information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It’s a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.”
Wayne Dyer: “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
Barbara Hall: “Because you are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.”
Izaak Walton: “Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
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