What We Shall Do

This is what you shall do:
love the earth and sun, and animals,
despise riches, give alms to every one that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.

Have patience and indulgence towards the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown,
or to any man or number of men;
go freely with the powerful uneducated persons,
and with the young, and mothers, of families:
read these leaves in the open air every season
of every year of your life:
lt is your soul.

Walt Whitman

We Are Immersed

We cannot think first and act afterward.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action,
and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Unknown

Time Is Free

Time is free, but it's priceless.
You can't own it, but you can use it.
You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Harvey MacKay

Nature's Most Beautiful Gift

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Albert Einstein

The Best Day Of Your Life

The best day of your life is the one on which you
decide your life is your own.
No apologies or excuses.
No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.
The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey -
and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.
This is the day your life really begins.

Bob Moawad

The Heart Of Life

When you reach the heart of life, you shall find beauty in all things,
even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Kahlil Gibran

We Are The Music Makers

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream.
Wandering by lone sea breakers and siting by desolate streams.
World losers and world foresakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.
Yet we are the movers and the shakers of the world, it seems..."

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

Liberty Is A Celestial Goddess

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere,
and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds,
nor the argument of unbridled passion, nor the hatred of class against class.

Annie Besant

The Minute You Settle For Less

The minute you settle for less than you deserve,
you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

Beauty Is Not The Face

Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran

The Top Of The Mountain

I love being near the top of a mountain.
One can't get lost here.

Wislawa Szymborska

Be Who You Are

Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind, don't matter,
and those who matter, don't mind.

Dr. Seuss

A Dream Is Your Creative Vision

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
To achieve that you have to step out of your comfort zone,
and into the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Bren Parks

Allure Is The Inner Quality

Allure is an inner quality, apart from outward appearance.
It is an illumination of the soul that shines from within,
an inner light that shines forth, making the world a better place.
A goodness that cannot be denied or ignored.
It is a divine quality of the soul

Bren Parks

Life Is A Fairy Tale

Everyone's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Hans Christian Andersen

A Waste Of Time

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time;
serenity is when nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

If We Opened Our Minds

If we opened our minds to enjoyment,
we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side.
We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam,
and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.

Samuel Smiles

Let Us Not Get So Busy

Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't
listen to the music of the meadow,
or the symphony that glorifies the forest.

Some things in the world are far more important than wealth;
one of them is the ability to enjoy the simple things.

Dale Carnegie

Be Thou The Rainbow

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life.
That evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Lord Byron

Let Your Mind Start A Journey

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world.
Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before.
Let your soul take you where you long to be......
Close your eyes and let your spirit soar,
and you will live as you have never lived before.

Erich Fromm

The Fables Of Legend

I would rather believe all the Fables in Legend,
and the Talmud, and the Alcoran,
than to believe that this Universal framework
is without a Mind.

Francis Bacon

Ask Yourself

Ask yourself whether the dream of Heaven and
Greatness should be waiting for us in our graves,
or whether it should be ours here and now and on this Earth.

Ayn Rand

Success Is Not A Place

Success is not a place at which one arrives,
but rather the spirit with which one
undertakes and continues the journey.

Alex Noble

When A Man Kills A Tiger

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport;
when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

I Am Not Afraid Of Tomorrow

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White

The Thing With Magic

That's the thing with magic.
You've got to know it's still here,
all around us, or is it just invisible to you?

Charles de Lint

That Face Is Beautiful

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which,
quite apart from its exterior,
shines with the truth within the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Bird Of Paradise

The Bird Of Paradise alights upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

Music Expresses

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words
and cannot remain silent.

Victor Hugo

What Each Must Seek In Life

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

Without Mysteries

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed.
What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Charles de Lint

What Hermits Realize

But I'll tell you what hermits realize.
If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,
you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Alan Watts

A Life Lived For Others

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

Albert Einstein

The Triumph Of Evil

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

The Hunter Of Dreams

The woods were made for the hunter of dreams,
the brooks for the fishers of song.

Sam Walter Foss

Fate Is Like Gravity

Fate is like gravity.
You can jump up and down until your heart’s content,
but the earth still falls into the sun,
and the sun still courses through the galaxy,
both indifferent to your short-lived and insignificant defiance.

Unknown

Humanity Has Advanced

Humanity has advanced,
when it has advanced,
not because it has been sober,
responsible, and cautious,
but because it has been playful,
rebellious, and immature.

Tom Robbins

O Radiant Dark

O radiant dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

George Eliot

To Keep His Bed Chaste

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste,
or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Sextus Propertius

Abstract Concepts

None of the abstract concepts comes closer
to fulfilled Utopia than that of eternal peace.

Theodor Adorno

All The Works Of Man

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Carl Jung

Good And Bad Angels

Every man has a good Angel and a bad Angel attending on him,
in particular, all his life long.

Robert Burton

The Test Of Courage

Often, the test of courage is not to die,
But to live.

Vittorio Alfieri

If You Are Ruled By Your Mind

If you are ruled by your mind, you are a King.
If by the body, a slave.

Cato

If You Have Never Stared Off In The Distance

If you've never stared off in the distance,
then your life is a shame.

Adam Duritz

There Are Two Worlds

There are two worlds;
the world that we can measure with line and rule,
and the world that we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Leigh Hunt

Seek Patience and Passion

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts.
Patience alone will not build the temple.
Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Maya Angelou

The Speech of Angels

Music is well said to be the speech of Angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Divine Justice Is A Fortress

Divine Justice is an unassailable fortress,
built on the brow of a mountain,
which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents,
nor demolished by the force of armies.

Joseph Addison

The Time Which We Have At Our Disposal

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic.
The passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it,
and habit fills up what remains.

Marcel Proust