"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

"May your pen happily writes ...™ ©Leah C Dancel

7/29/12

Terry Tempest Williams Quotes


"As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone." ~Terry Tempest Williams

"I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out." ~Terry Tempest Williams

"I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned." ~Terry Tempest Williams

"Once upon a time … there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated." ~Terry Tempest Williams 

“Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the centre of our  own paved-over souls with no way out.” ~Terry Tempest Williams 

"Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future." ~Terry Tempest Williams

"The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you." ~Terry Tempest Williams

"The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves." ~Terry Tempest Williams

"There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private." ~Terry Tempest Williams

"This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. To seek: to embrace the questions, be wary of answers." ~Terry Tempest Williams

"When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart." ~Terry Tempest Williams

“Wilderness is not a place of isolation but contemplation.” ~Terry Tempest Williams

“Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.”  ~Terry Tempest Williams

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Mohammed Nabeeh - sound of silence

"There is a time of night when work ends, traffic sleeps, and silence is the only sound. At that time—while the world around us sleeps—there is One who remains awake and waits for us to call on Him!" ~Mohammed Nabeeh

Ricky Gervais Quotes


“If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.” ~Ricky Gervais

“Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.” ~Ricky Gervais

“The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.” ~Ricky Gervais

“You do your own thing and you see if you survive.” ~Ricky Gervais

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Michael Pollan - nature to culture

"Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds." ~Michael Pollan

Marius - old people

"Old people have more experience. They understand things that are deep in the soul and the lights up and down everyday life." ~Marius

Thought for Today - Harmony In Relationships

"Speak always with a conscious control and only what is necessary and helpful." ~Thought for Today-UK

Kate Munger - bridge

"A song is a bridge between what we know, what we can feel, and the big mystery." ~Kate Munger

George Mueller - He never fails

"Be assured, if you walk with Him, and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you." ~George Mueller

Quotes on GARDENS

"We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden. " ~Anon

GARDEN RULES
1. Welcome all bees and butterflies!

2. A garden is a friend you can visit anytime.

3. May all my weeds be wild flowers.

4. A garden is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

5. If you can only do one thing, keep the lawn mowed. 

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"A rule to remember when dealing with garden pests: if it is slow-moving, stamp on it; if it is fast-moving, leave it alone--it will probably kill something else." ~Esme Boughey

"Bees, especially honeybees, are born attracted to the colour purple. ... as flowers in the violet-blue range produce the highest volumes of nectar." ~Plews Garden Design 

"Cares melt when you kneel in your garden." ~Anon 

"Don't chase the butterfly. Mend your garden, let the butterfly come." ~5d truth 

"Don't wear perfume in the garden unless you want to be pollinated by bees." ~Anne Raver 

"Every child is a different kind of flower. And altogether make this world a beautiful garden." ~Anon 

"For the city dwellers, a 'garden in the sky' mat been just the stuff that dreams are made of." ~Louise Riotte

"Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes." ~Clare Ansberry 

"Gardens are a form of autobiography." ~Sydney Eddison


"Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature." ~Penelope Hobhouse

"Gardening: a leisure-time activity involving lots of time and little leisure." ~Anon 

"Gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well-being." ~David Hobson

"Gardening in the mind is a gentle vice with an impetus of its own it may not be as potent as actually making one, but there is a whole different threshold where gardening in the head can fill our winter tranquility with unrest." ~Mirabel Osler

"Gardening is a medicine that does not need a prescription... and has limit on dosage." ~Anon

"Gardening is art to me." ~Christine Chandler, Awesome Australia (on her pale pink pig face daisies garden)

"Gardening requires lots of water-most of it in the form of perspiration. " ~Lou Erickson

"Gardening is the work of a lifetime you never finished." ~Oscar De La Renta

"He  who has a garden and a library wants for nothing." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero 

"How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"I am fonder of my garden for the trouble it gives me." ~Reginald Farrer 

Mt Annan
January 7, 2023

"If I had a flower for each time I thought of my mother,  I could walk in my garden forever." ~Jane Maxwell,  from her book with the same title 

Photo by Lovely Greens

"If there's one thing that could bring more peace to our world, it's gardening. As the saying goes...if you have time for drama, you're not gardening enough." ~Lovely Greens

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful." ~Abram L. Urban

"It is an exciting time in gardening. Attitudes are changing. More people are keen to tend their bits of land in a way that is in tune with nature." ~Jane Powers 

"Of all the shade plantings, the woodland garden is the most forgiving and the one dearest to my heart." ~Sydney Eddison

"First day of Spring. One of the joys of lockdown is to able to enjoy your garden especially in Spring." ~Ku-ring-gai Art Center, September 1, 2021

Nene Mamone's Garden
23 February 2023

"Plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul,  instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." ~Jorge Luis Borges 


"Silence and alone time will give us energy and endless peace spent mine in my garden."~Elena Zaragoza Escubio 

"The garden has been part of my life every day, in every season and in all weather. It has witnessed my greatest joys and absorbed my deepest sorrows." ~Sydney Eddison 

"The garden is the poor man's apothecary." ~German Proverb 

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses." ~Hanna Rion 

"The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?" ~Jack Kornfield



“The heart is the garden that always has room for the flowers of kindness and friendship to bloom.” ~Anon

"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." ~George Edward Moore from Mastering Relationship With Love

"The hum of bees is the voice of the garden." ~Elizabeth Lawrence

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." ~Gertrude Jekyll

"The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee…gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own." ~Leonardo da Vinci

7 October 2012

"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers." ~Basho

"... there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye." ~Katherine S. White

"There are so many cheery wee robins in the garden this morning. Always the first birds to appear, even before sunrise. Such happy heart-warming chirps all around." ~FB, Happy and Free to be Me. 

"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." ~Mirabel Osler


"There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colours are brighter, the air softer, and the morning air more fragrant than ever again." ~Elizabeth Lawrence

"There is always music amongst the trees in the garden but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it." ~Anon

"There's no quicker way than to extinguish the spark that ignites the joy of gardening than by taking on too much too soon." ~Edward C. Smith 

"There's nothing like a homegrown vegetable garden ... Feed on nothing but water and sunlight fortified by earthworms." ~Leah C. Dancel, 29 April 2013


Home garden of Matt and Irene
The Blue Mountains 
1 September 2023

"Think of your garden as a feeding station and safe haven for bees, birds and other wildlife, with flowers, berries and seed heads, etc." ~Dear Bees from Buzz About Bees

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." ~Audrey Hepburn

Guimaras Island
December 12, 2019

"Walked for half an hour in the garden.  A fine rain was falling, and the landscape was that of autumn.  The sky was hung with various shades of gray, and mists hovered about the distant mountains - a melancholy nature.  The leaves were falling on all sides like the last illusions of youth under the tears of irremediable grief.  A brood of chattering birds were chasing each other through the shrubberies, and playing games among the branches, like a knot of hiding schoolboys.  Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail." ~Henri Frederic Amiel H

"We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” ~Dale Carnegie

"We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden." ~Anon

Cactus Garden 
Elena Zaragoza Escubio's
Home Garden 
5 October 2023

"We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it is our garden that is really nurturing us." ~Jenny Uglow 

"We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature." ~Bryant McGill

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.” ~Leonora Carrington

"When I look at many of the flowers in my own garden, their names give an extra bonus to their beauty." ~Francis Gay 1987 (from CAH)

"When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us." ~Ram Dass

"When you enter a well-tended garden and see a fresh, beautiful rose, you want to pick it. But to do so, you have to touch some thorns. The rose is there, but the brambles are also there. You have to find a way to understand the thorns so you can pick the rose. Our practice is the same. Don't say that because there are thorns you cannot be happy. Don't say that because there is still anger or sadness in your heart, you cannot enjoy anything at all. You have to know how to deal with your anger and sadness so you don't lose the flowers of joy." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms." ~Ma Jaya

Photo credit to Hedda Tady 
Thailand 

"When I see heaven and earth as my own garden, I live that moment outside the universe." ~Japanese Folk saying

"Wherever there is a garden to be tended there is a soul ready to bloom." ~Adele Basheer

"When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden." ~ Minnie Aumonier

"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy." ~Lope de Vega


Photo credit to  Australian School of Herbal Medicine 

"Within us, a flower and fruit garden thrives and blooms." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Would it not be more tranquil and serene to be a gardener and tend the plants?” ~Sun Tzu

"You are a beautiful flower in the garden of humanity." ~Thich Nhat Hanh


"You whispered in my ears like early spring:
“I am the call of Love,
can you hear me in the full grasses,
in the scented winds,
it is I who makes the garden smile.”
~Rumi
  
"Your life is your garden, your thoughts are the seeds. If your life isn't awesome, you've been watering the weeds." ~Anon

"Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits." ~Dorothea Dix

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VERSES

"Down by the sally gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the sally gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree."
~William Butler Yeats

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"I have a garden of my own,
Shining with flowers of every hue;
I love it dearly while alone,
But I shall love it more with you."
~Thomas Moore

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THE GARDEN

What makes a garden?
Flowers, grass and trees,
Fragrance, grace and color:
Lovely gifts like these.

What makes a garden
And why do gardens grow?
Love lives in gardens--
God and lovers know!

~Caroline Giltinan
From God is Love 1975

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"Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair
Wine scented and poetic soul
of the capacious salad bowl."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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MARCH

"Blossoms on the plum,
Wild wind and merry,
Leaves upon the cherry
And one swallow come.
~Norah Hopper
TFBFG 1998/MPW

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"Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the blossoms,
Kind deeds are the fruits.

Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine
Kind words and kind deeds."
~Anon

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"We went down into the silent garden.
Dawn is the time when nothing breathes,
the hour of silence.
Everything is transfixed,
only the light moves."
~ Leonora Carrington




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"A plant produces a million seeds, and who knows how any single one will do?
A tiny acorn becomes an oak forest.  Another gets squashed by a bulldozer clearing ground for the new condo complex." ~David Tracey

"A simple leaf for me is God's handiwork with its intricate mechanism to feed the world." ~Francisco Amoy, FB, 23 May 2016

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."~Emily Bronte

"Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant Oak in an acorn." ~William Arthur Ward

"Flowers of course are famous for their fragrances, forms, and inspirational displays, but there is something wonderfully satisfying about plucking a vegetable from its bed, brushing the soil off its roots, and thinking about how you will cook it in the evening meal." ~Janelle McCulloch

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” ~Rumi

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." ~John Burroughs

"I don’t have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard." ~Queen Latifah

“I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.” ~Rumi

"Keeping things simple with a drop of water into your pond and lots of plants looks stunning!" ~The Splosht Team

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." ~Marcel Proust

"Let us linger a while in the wonderful old Lilac walk. It is a glory of tender green and shaded amethyst and the grateful hum of bees, the very voice of Spring." ~Alice Morse Earle

"Real friends overlook your broken fence and admire your flowers." ~Muses from a Mystic

"Some things will grow for you; some will not. Climate is not something to ignore; nor is the consistency of soil, nor location." ~Gladys Taber

"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive... Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." ~George Moore

"The soil of our mind contains many seeds, positive and negative. We are the gardeners who identify, water, and cultivate the best seeds." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"There's nothing like homegrown vegetables ... Feed on nothing but water and sunlight, fortified by earthworms." ~Leah C. Dancel, 29 April 2013

"We all have the seeds of love in us. We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"What makes a real gardener?... There are many elements, but I think they should include a fondness for dogs and an amazing taste in hats." ~Robin Lane Fox 

"We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature." ~Bryant McGill

“When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.” ~Rumi

FRUITS and VEGETABLES

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." ~Henry L. Mencken

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." ~Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

"Better to eat vegetables and fear no creditors, than eat duck and hide from them." ~The Talmud

"He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers." ~Jonathan Swift

"I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse

"In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon." ~Carl Sandburg

"It's a guy thing to plant vegetables in your front flower bed, but then again, it's also a guy thing to put them out back in a big rectangle. It's a little radical to put them in front, a statement that you can do whatever you want in your own damn yard." ~Warren Schultz

"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." ~Lewis Grizzard

"Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be." ~E. B. White

"The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown." ~Alice B. Toklas


"There's a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow... it's called good health." ~Growing Organic, Eating Organic, FB Page, 28 April 2013

"Vegetable gardening might be considered one of the great conservative rituals." ~David M. Tucker, 1993

"We try to create our gardens by giving them form, depth, dignity and character. But in the end, I think it's our gardens that give those things to us." ~Janelle McCullough 

VERSE

in the water bucket
a melon and an eggplant
nodding to each other
- Yosa Buson

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"Now thin mists temper the slow ripening beams
Of the September sun: his golden gleams 
On gaudy flowers shine, that prank the rows 
Of high-grown hollyhocks, and all tall shows
That Autum flauntreth in his bushy bowers..."
~Robert Seymour Bridges
from "The Garden in September,"(1914)

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OTHERS

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~Anais Nin

"Bees, especially honeybees, are born attracted to the colour purple. ... as flowers in the violet-blue range produce the highest volumes of nectar." ~Plews Garden Design 

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn." ~Elizabeth Lawrence

🌿"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'" ~The Talmud

"Every plant you pass has a cultural or medicinal significance, and many of those have been learned from watching animals." ~Mark Hunter

"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place." ~Phillip E. Johnson

“Farming is not just a job, it’s a way of life.” ~Anon

 "Flowers of course are famous for their fragrances, forms, and inspirational displays, but there is something wonderfully satisfying about plucking a vegetable from its bed, brushing the soil off its roots, and thinking about how you will cook it in the evening meal." ~Janelle McCulloch

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." ~Aeschylus

"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about." ~Saskya Pandita

"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture." ~Thomas Jefferson

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings." ~Masanobu Fukuoka

"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" ~John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)

"Their nest is a few leaves in the bottom of a hollow in a tree, where they lay up to eight eggs. They feed on seeds and like open spaces with scattered clumps of trees for roosting and nesting. Land-clearing and cereal crops have favoured galahs and they are now often so common that we forget how beautiful they are."
Source: Birds Australia (The Galah is one of the natural clowns of the bird world.

"When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop" ~ Henry David Thoreau

“You grow plants at home; from the time of sowing to when they are full-grown, ... If they do not bear fruit, would you not be very disappointed?" ~Y M Yang

Garden Info 

FUN FACT: A sunflower is not just one flower. In fact, the fuzzy brown centre and classic yellow petals are actually 1000+ individual flowers held together with one stalk 🌻Lifted from Donna Beazley 

"Begin by cleaning up what you already have and ensuring your flower beds have plenty of mulch. You can then divide your existing flowers and herbs (if you're on a budget) to fill up your garden or get some new plants to add in."~Donna Beazley  🌷🍊

LIFTED POSTERS 

From All Gardening Cafe, UK Group by Phil 

Shared by Sandra Nicoll 

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Thought for Today on Happiness

"Constantly sing the song of happiness. Happiness is the greatest nourishment, there is no other nourishment like that of happiness. Those who eat the nourishment of happiness every day are always healthy, they are never weak. Therefore, make your mind and intellect powerful with the nourishment of happiness." ~Thought for Today-UK

"Great souls take advantage of every moment and every opportunity to give happiness to others through kindness in their thoughts; such souls are willing to overlook weaknesses and mistakes and have the desire to help everyone reach their potential." ~Thought for Today-UK

"No matter what adverse situations come in front of you, no matter how many obstacles come in front of you, your happiness should not disappear. An obstacle that comes will also go away. That obstacle comes and goes away but what belongs to you should not go. So, happiness is your property. Whenever an obstacle comes, just think that it has come to go away. When a guest comes to your home, it isn't that he has come as a guest and will go away having taken everything from your home. So an obstacle has come and it will go away but it should not take away your happiness. Happiness should always remain with you." ~Thought for Today-UK

"The happiness you give makes you more happy than the happiness you receive." ~Thought for Today-UK

"You are a jewel of happiness who sparkles with the wisdom of knowing that all will be well." ~Thought for Today-UK

Jean Vianney - springtime

"It is always springtime in the heart that loves God." ~Jean Vianney

7/25/12

Carol Quotes

"There is just the right moment for everything. If you find obstruction on your path, back off just a minute. Take time to allow for an integration of this new information. Your being wants to create perfection, but perfection cannot be forced. If things are not working out well, take a break, especially a mental break. Let go of how you were looking at the situation. Allow the superconscious to do its tempering work of synthesis." ~Carol

Waikatu River, Taupo, New Zealand
October 2010

"It will re-inspire you to right and harmonious action. Imagine there is a smooth flowing river of life with a strong current just for carrying you effortlessly forward. Step into it in your mind’s eye. Feel the gentle push and let your body float on it. Just a moment’s visualization can put you on the right course. It gives your higher being time to see what’s really needed. It may only be an adjustment of thought, a slight change in plans, but the increment of difference may be all that is needed to make everything happen easily." ~Carol

Source: Positive Thoughts

Thought for Today - Serenity

Lakes Entrance, VICTORIA
17 July 2012

"The real sign of serenity is not seen so much in the face, as found in the depth and stillness of the eyes." ~Thought for Today-UK

Yun-Men - sound of a bell

"The world is so wide, so vast, why put on a formal vestment at the sound of a bell?" ~Yun-Men

Knut Hamsun - letters

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived." ~Knut Hamsun

The Sandokai - value

"Each thing has its own intrinsic value." ~The Sandokai




7/22/12

Faith Sawey - gift of joy

Tinago Falls
Linamon, Lanao del Norte
PHILIPPINES 19 November 2011

"A free flowing energy of forgiving and giving brings forth an overflowing gift of joy and abundance like the waterfall as it continuously exhibit the freedom of constant flow, it exudes the radiance of PURITY and PROSPERITY." ~Faith Sawey

Justin Guzman - stay positive

"One of life's greatest joys is realizing that you've made a positive impact in someone else's life. We are all capable of creating positivity for others: stay healthy, stay happy; be safe, live free, stay positive." ~Justin Guzman

Tom Walsh Quotes

"Giving is one of the best ways there is to augment our own awareness of what we really do have in life, and when we see the effects of what we give on others--even if the effects aren't immediate, we have to trust that there will be effects--then we can appreciate more the many gifts that we do have, as well as our power to contribute positively to the world. When we're able to look at something that we have and realize that someone else could probably use it more or in better ways, then we can start to see the power of letting go of things in our lives." ~Tom Walsh

"I believe that the most important thing to consider when thinking about forgiveness is the effect that it has on ourselves. Forgiveness isn't always about the person being forgiven; often, that person will have asked forgiveness and will be very grateful when we do forgive, but probably more often we need to forgive for our own sakes." ~Tom Walsh

"I want my view of the world to be a view filled with wonder and awe, and carrying a grudge taints that view; I'm the one who suffers from my own inability to forgive; just as I'm the only one who can save myself from that suffering by putting things behind me where they belong." ~Tom Walsh

"There's a whole day ahead of me, today, tomorrow, and the next day. What I contribute to each of these days is, in short, my contribution to the world. So what am I going to do? Shall I contribute to the positive energy of the world, or to the negative? The choice always is mine." ~Tom Walsh

J. G. Holland Quotes


"A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction." ~JG Holland

"A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them." ~J. G. Holland

"All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness." ~JG Holland

"Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him." ~J. G. Holland

"Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence, is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings he bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream." ~JG Holland

King Parrot
Wonboyn Lake, NSW
19 July 2012

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." ~J. G. Holland

"Joys divided are increased." ~J. G. Holland

"The heart is wiser than the intellect." ~JG Holland

"The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence." ~JG Holland

"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." ~J. G. Holland

"There is no royal road to anything - One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures." ~J. G. Holland (Native American Spirituality and Thoughts).

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VERSES

"God give us men. The time demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and willing hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie.
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And dam his treacherous flatteries without winking;
Tall men, sun-browned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking."
~J.G. Holland

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"Heaven is not reached at a single bound;
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit round by round."
~JG Holland

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THERE'S A SONG IN THE AIR
By J. G. Holland


There's a song in the air! There's a star in the sky!
There's a mother's deep prayer and a baby's low cry!
And the star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King!

There's a tumult of joy o'er the wonderful birth,
For the virgin's sweet Boy is the Lord of the earth.
Ay! the star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King!

In the light of that star lie the ages impearled;
And that song from afar has swept over the world.
Every hearth is aflame, and the beautiful sing
In the homes of the nations that Jesus is King!

We rejoice in the light, and we echo the song
That comes down through the night from the heavenly throng.
Ay! we shout to the lovely evangel they bring,
And we greet in His cradle our Savior and King!

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BIO
Josiah Gilbert Holland (July 24, 1819 – October 12, 1881) was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb.

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Arnold Bennett Quotes


"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like." ~Arnold Bennett

"The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose." ~Arnold Bennett

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." ~Arnold Bennett

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Master Choa Kok Sui - family life

"Family life is one of the fastest way to Spiritual Development.Inevitably.there is relationship friction.You develop Self sacrifice,Self Control,Patience,Flexibility,and Tolerance." ~Master Choa Kok Sui

Gail Sheehy Quotes


"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living." ~Gail Sheehy

"The delights of self-discovery are always available." ~Gail Sheehy, author

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." ~Gail Sheehy

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Thought for Today - Dream

"Most of us have forgotten how to dream. We have exchanged our creativity for security. The current state of the world is a wake up call that brings us back to our dreams and hopes. This is the time to realise that beyond us there is another, unlimited, energy in action. This energy will surpass our expectations, if only we trust. The more we remember our dream, the more we become alert for the coincidences and synchronicity that will bring us in its direction." ~Thought for Today-UK

Sigmund Romberg - music

"A love song is just a caress set to music." ~Sigmund Romberg

William Durant Quotes

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ~Will Durant on Ignorance

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." ~William Durant

"To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy." ~Will Durant

Gary Kowalski - animals

"It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being — closer than our own breathing — and our souls will suffer when they are gone." ~Gary Kowalski, Author of The Souls of Animals

Thought for Today - Balance

"Maintain the balance of responding to situations with a cool head and to people with a warm heart." ~Thought for Today-UK

7/10/12

Thought for Today - Vibrations

"With your own vibrations of peace and happiness, give everyone else the experience of happiness and comfort." ~Thought for Today-UK

7/9/12

Edward Counsel - power of good

"Envy wealth for its power of good, not ill." ~Edward Counsel

El Cid - triumph without glory

"To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory." ~El Cid

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh -courage

"There is only one courage, and that is the courage to let go of the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past, and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Lord Mansfield - speech

“A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.” ~Lord Mansfield

Thought for Today - Choices

"Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life." ~Thought for Today-UK

7/8/12

Leah C. Dancel - Reflection: Glowing Sunrise

Quarantine Bay
5 March 2011

"What a beautiful morning!
That sends sunrise aglowing
of ember bouquet of rays
its light to the calm sea radiates."
~@Leah C. Dancel, Australia, Return to Me
21 March 2011

Thought for Today - Inner Landscape

Wonboyn Lake
7 March 2011

"When my inner landscape is full of beautiful thoughts, everything I do is a pleasure. Gently, I calm down chaotic situations and offer solace to troubled minds." ~Thought for Today, UK

7/7/12

Marlo Thomas Quotes

“If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.” ~Marlo Thoma

“My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.” ~Marlo Thomas (Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas, American actress)

Patrick Buchanan Quotes

“Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.” ~Patrick Buchanan

“If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?” ~Patrick Buchanan

“Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.” ~Patrick Buchana

“The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.” ~Patrick Buchanan

“What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple - a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law” ~Patrick Buchanan


W. M. Lewis - tragedy

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." ~W. M. Lewis

William Barclay Quotes


"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory." ~William Barclay

"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way." ~William Barclay

"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." ~William Barclay

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Laurie R. King - fear

"Tears wash away the fear and cool the hate." ~Laurie R. King

Laura Stavoe Harm - culture

"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong." ~Laura Stavoe Harm

John Ogwyn - truth

"Someone who only has a shallow, superficial understanding of the truth, even if he has great emotional fervor, will lack staying power over the long haul, and will probably crumble when serious difficulties arise." ~John Ogwyn

Sallust - harmony

Green Hill
9 June 2011

"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay." ~Sallust

Stanely A. Cain - estuaries

SH Duck Pond
9 June 2011

"Estuaries are a happy land, rich in the continent itself, stirred by the forces of nature like the soup of a French chef; the home of myriad forms of life from bacteria and protozoans to grasses and mammals; the nursery, resting place, and refuge of countless things." ~Stanely A. Cain

Russell Hoban - mirror

Tangara Train
27 June 2011

"An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do." ~Russell Hoban

Thought for Today - Lotus Life

Sydney Royal Botanical Garden
30 December 2010

"The lotus is a symbol of purity. Its roots are in the mud, but the flower remains above dirty water. Live a lotus life. Be in the world, but unaffected by impurities." ~Thought for Today-UK

7/6/12

John Howard Payne - There's no place like home

“Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home” ~John Howard Payne

William L Shirer - happiness

"Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline." ~William L Shirer

BJ Olson Quotes

"Peace comes from living in the moment and looking for the good in others. Peacefulness comes from facing our fears and letting them go - trusting that things will turn out all right. Peacefulness is also a way of approaching conflict with others so no one is made wrong. Everyone wins because we then work to find a peaceful solution."~BJ Olson

"Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and trouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present."~BJ Olson


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William Plomer - creativity

“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” ~William Plomer

Edmund Spenser Quotes

"For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow." ~Edmund Spenser

"Gather the rose of love whilst yet it time." ~Edmund Spenser

Morris West - sunshine

"If you spend your life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." ~Morris West

Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes


"Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." ~Robert Green Ingersoll

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." ~Robert Green Ingersoll

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." ~Robert Green Ingersoll

“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.” ~Robert G. Ingersoll

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds." ~Robert Green Ingersoll

"In the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." ~Robert G. Ingersoll

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense." ~Robert G. Ingersoll

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." ~Robert Green Ingersoll

"We rise by lifting others." ~Robert Ingersoll

"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man." ~Robert Green Ingersoll

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Scott Heron expression

“The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces.” ~Gil Scott Heron






Seth Godin Quotes

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from." ~Seth Godin from Ups, Downs and Roundabouts

“Trust is built when no one is looking.” ~Seth Godin

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High Eagle - vision

“The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!”
~High Eagle

Barbara Jordan - excitement

“I live one day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.” ~Barbara Jordan

Leonard Nimoy Quotes


“I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.” ~Leonard Nimoy

“I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.” ~Leonard Nimoy

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." ~Leonard Nimoy

“Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.” ~Leonard Nimoy, Come Be With Me

“The means of many out way the means of the few or one.” ~Leonard Nimoy

"The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have." ~Leonard Nimoy

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7/5/12

T'ao Shan - rainbow

Photo Credit: G. Seierstad

"Look at that rainbow. It is only when the sky cries that you see the colors in the light." ~T'ao Shan

Moses Hadas - gap


"This book fills a much-needed gap." ~Moses Hadas

Quotes on AGE


WHAT IS AGE

"Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress. And as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars invisible by day." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." ~Robert Frost

"A man is not old as long as he has intelligence and affection.” ~Anon

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. " ~John Barrymore

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." ~Gabriel García Márquez

"Age and experience doesn't always equate to wisdom." ~Gillian Ehlers

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." ~Anais Nin

"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.” ~Gabriel García Márquez

"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years." ~George William Curtis

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” ~Tom Stoppard

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” ~Mark Twain

“Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value.” ~Christiane Northrup, M.D

"Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you." ~Anon

"Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man." ~Joseph Murphy 

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." ~Don Marquis

"Age is nothing but a number as long as I never let go of the child living inside of me." ~Mountain Wisdom

"Age is opportunity no less than youth itself." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." ~Billie Burke (1884-1970)

"Age is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years." ~Martha Graham (1894-1991)

"Age matters, especially when it comes to health. Some health issues are inevitable and come with the package of getting older." ~Jaleesa Bell

"Age  of  shrinkage  is part  of a  natural  process in  Ageing. In the culinary  parlance -  it's a  stage  or  process  of  REDUCTION." ~Leah C.  Dancel 

"Age should not have its face lifted,  but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience." ~Ralph B. Perry 

"Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.” ~George H. W. Bush

"Ageism is a prejudice against our own future selves." ~Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks

"Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been." ~David Bowie

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ~Bettie Friedan

“And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they’ll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow’s sky. and I will never grow so old again, and I will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain…” ~Van Morrison

"And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!” ~Audrey Hepburn

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ~Henry Ford

"As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere." ~Rachel Naomi Remen

"As I get older, I am becoming more selective of who I consider a friend. I find that I would rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies." ~Anon

"As we get older and our inner compass develops, we become less interested in the opinions and judgments of others." ~Kay Mo

"As we get older, we don't lose friends. We just find out who the real ones are." ~Joy of Mom

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As we grow older and wiser, we begin to realize what we need and what we need to leave behind. Sometimes walking away is a step forward." ~Anon

"As we grow older, real beauty travels from the face to the heart, appeal turns to charm, hurt turns to wisdom, and great moments to shared memories. The true beauty of life is not how happy you are now, but how happy others are because of you." ~Kelly's Treehouse

"As you get older you find out that true happiness isn't how much you make, how many degrees you have, how big your house is, or how fancy your car is.. It's finding peace, joy, and calmness in your life that will soon become the most important thing to you. Your family is what matters to you, love is what matters to you. Things that are of quality, not just quantity." ~Anon

"As you get older you will understand more and more that it's not about what you look like or what you own, it's all about the person you've become." ~Anon

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." ~Audrey Hepburn

"At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it." ~Camille Pissarro

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Beauty exists at every age, it's not about youth and perfection." ~Anon

"By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it." ~George Burns

"Centenarians — people 100 years or older — are a rarity. Their lives are often scrutinized as holding the key to aging." ~Michael Calcagno

"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age," ~Booth Tarkington

"Chivalry never died. The gentleman in most men did. Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But, being a gentleman is a matter of choice." ~Vin Diesel, (Knights of the Free Company)

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." ~John Lennon

"Don't get all weird about getting older. Our age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying us." ~Anon

"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like a curious child before the Great Mystery into which we were born." ~Albert Einstein

"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like a curious child before the Great Mystery into which you are born. For a human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. Cherish the laugh lines and wrinkles – the memories that made those lines are the most important part of you today. Have the same energy that God invested in you at birth and live under the consciousness that He has set His love upon you – you'll find blessings in every circumstance." ~Gilbert 'Gibo' Teodoro, Jr.

"Don't let age change you. Change the way you age." ~Anon

"Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.” ~Irish proverb

"Ears of my old age; the summer rains falling down the rainpipe." ~Buson

"Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment." ~Anon

“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.” - Brigitte Bardot

"Every age explodes old errors and created new ones." ~Precious Little Dove

"Everyone has a story to tell. It's our job to pull out a chair and listen to the older generation." ~Highest Quality of Chairs, using Australian Standards

"Everyone is the age of their heart." ~Guatemalan Proverb

"Feeling young comes from happiness, contentment, peace of mind, and a happy family!" ~Eloi Casis

"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." ~John Glenn 

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age." ~Victor Hugo

"Getting older is this beautiful process whereby we shed the layers of our ego to reveal our true self." ~Rebranding Middle-Age

"Good cheekbones are the brassiere of old age." ~Barbara de Portago 

"Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." ~Robert Browning

"Growing old can be fun, if you do it with the right people." ~from Start at 60

"Growing old is never something to be afraid of. It works both ways: For the one you were once told to abhor; and for yourself." ~Anon

"Growing old is not for the cowards. What scares me is getting to the end before I finish." ~Winston Churchill

"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.” ~Plato

"Help me age with grace and dignity, as you will one day walk the same road traveled now by me." ~Mountain Wisdom

"I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles." ~Edward Grey 

"I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation." ~Erica Jong

"I'm 72 and my perfect age is now." ~Diana, Balłet Dancer

"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely." ~Camille Pissarro

"I choose the thoughts that make me feel comfortable with growing older." ~Louise Hay

"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates." ~T.S. Elito (1888-1965)

"I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.“ ~Rush Limbaugh

"I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged."
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

"I look forward to a healthy old age because I take loving care of my body now." ~Louise Hay

"I look forward to being older., when what you look like become less and less an issue and what you are is the point." ~Susan Sarandon

"I love getting older. My understanding deepens. I can see what connects. I can weave stories of experience and apply them. I can integrate the the lessons. Things simply become more and more fascinating. Beauty reveals itself in thousands of forms." ~Victoria Erickson

"I love my age. Old enough to know better. Young enough not to care. Experienced enough to do it right." ~Angela Basset

"I never forget how young I am now that I'm getting old." ~Leah C. Dancel, 11 October 2017

"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!" ~Camille Pissarro

"If we celebrate the years behind us they become stepping stones of strength and joy for the years ahead." ~Anon

"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old." ~Lord Chesterfield

“If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should not grow old.” .~James Garfield

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." ~Elizabeth Arden

"In an aged man appears ripeness of wisdom: it is the oldest sandal-tree which emits the most fragrance." ~Sataka

"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"In order to become old and wise, we need to have been young and foolish." ~Anon

"In youth we believe everybody but nobody believes us. In old age we believe nobody but everybody believes us." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir

"...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” ~Terry Pratchett

"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides." ~George Sand

"It is autumn; not without.. but within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It's direction at a young age to work to become wealthy, to determine in the age the bones to pain to the wealth to enjoy too much" -Simon Freigericht

"It is not the length of life, but the depth." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It remains a great challenge for caretakers, helping our elderly loved ones experience life that, no matter the constraints and limitations, no matter the place they live, is purposeful and enriching." ~Barry Eisenberg, Lessons on living from my 106-year-old Aunt Doris

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." ~Hubert Humphrey

"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years." ~Ausonius

"Life humbles you so deeply as you age." ~Daily Vibes

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." ~Benjamin Franklin

"Live your life and forget your age.” ~Norman Vincent Peale

"Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away, and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast. Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind. Be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again. When you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old,  are afraid of the aloneness that you trust, and don't expect any understanding. But believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"Meaningfulness is central to what we yearn for, and this doesn’t stop just because we get old." ~Dr. Atul Gawande

"Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning." ~Bob Hope

"No matter my age, now is the time to live it up, to acknowledge my self-worth." ~Louise Hay

 "No one is ever too old to know better." ~Margaret Preston

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Old age come at a bad time. When you finally know everything, you start to forget everything you know." ~Anon

"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice." ~Marcus Porcius Cato

"Old age is frail. It is as dainty as a crystal vessel." ~Leah C. Dancel, 2 August 2014

"Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it." ~Crow

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man." ~Leon Trotsky

"Older than my years, an old soul, timeless soldier of war- I was made to carry pain more than the others."
©Estelle Cortes 

“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.” ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher, (1879-1958)

"Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied." ~Maria von Trapp

"Our age has robbed millions of simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to simplicity of wisdom." ~William Robertson Davies

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time." ~Jean Paul Richter 

"Pain and discomfort go hand in hand with getting older. Try not to dwell on them but accept them as a part of the cycle of life we’re all going through. Try to minimize them in your mind. They are not who you are, they are something that life added to you. If they become your entire focus, you lose sight of the person you used to be." ~Greg Howard

"Seek ye counsel of the aged, for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have heartened to the voices of life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them ." ~Khalil Gibran

“That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.” ~Anon on Proverbs

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The beauty of being old is knowing that you did not get there alone and that you have a chance to get older." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo

"The great secret that all old people share is that you haven’t really changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.” ~Doris Lessing

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." ~Madeleine L'Engle

"The greatest discovery of my age is that men can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of their mind." ~William James

"The heart has no wrinkles. The soul has no age." ~The Journey Home

“The human spirit does not know what old age is. As the body of the outer person ages, the inner person makes a passage into a new life.” ~Emanuel Swedenborg

"The key to aging is to not mourn what's lost but to celebrate what remains." ~Marc Middleton

 “The music that touches you in your youth is magnified as you get older. Each record can be a virtual time machine - all you need is to hear a second or two and you go back to that place and time when you first heard it. It’s a brilliant feeling when music touches you so profoundly and stays with you through time.” ~ Rob Halford

"The old one are still the best. Old jeans, old boots, old friends, old tunes and old times." ~from Birthday Wishes dot Expert

"The older I get the more I realise I don't want to be around drama, conflict or stress. I want a cosy home, good food, and to be surrounded by happy people." ~Anon

"The older you get, the more quiet you become." ~Daily Vibes

"The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realise how much nonsense you've wasted time on." ~Keep Quotes

"The older you get, the more you realize
It's not about material things, pride, or ego.
It's about what your heart beats for."
~R.A.

"The older you get, the more you realise that it is okay to live a life others don't understand." ~FB/Heaveness

"The sad part about getting older is that no one can see you're still young on the inside." ~Beautiful Italy

"The secret of good old-age is none other than an honest pact with solitude." ~Gabriel García Márquez

"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." ~Lucille Ball

"The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy." ~Oscar Wilde

"The three ages of man: youth, middle age and ‘my word you do look well’." ~June Whitfield

"The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that. Finally." ~Elizabeth Berg

"The truth of the matter is our metabolism does slow with age, our body does lose muscle mass and bone density over time and our energy level does diminish over the passing years. However none of these necessarily prevent everyone from doing the things that help us stay fit. Age alone is not the factor that prevents us from walking or from enjoying a healthy diet of more water, fruits and vegetables." ~Richard Franz (Source: The Lies We Believe and the Truths We Reject By Richard Franz | Tuesday, January 20, 2015

"The wisdom of old age: knowing how to exchange immediate victories for lasting conquests." ~Paulo Coelho

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations." ~William Feather

"There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen." ~Dana Reinhardt

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." ~Sophia Loren

"There’s more real beauty as we age, the beauty of wisdom, maturity, and growing in grace and knowledge that will never tarnish or disappear with time." ~Mirella Macatula

"There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow." ~Edith Wharton

 "These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism." ~Virginia Woolfe

"Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart." ~Caryn Lesche‪n‬

"This is the aging process worth celebrating. Chronological age marks how long you’ve lived, but emotional age reflects what you’ve done with the time." ~Judith Sills

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." ~Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To get better with age, get spiritually fit." ~from Our Daily Bread

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.” ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am." ~Bernard M. Baruch

"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love."~Karl von Bonstetten

"Today is the oldest you've ever been, yet the youngest you'll ever be, so enjoy this day while it lasts." ~Anon

"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age." ~George Sand

"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten." ~Aldous Huxley

"We are always the same age inside." ~Gertrude Stein

"'We are always the same age inside'. Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious; you can only live it once." ~Richard Gere

"We're growing freer … not older." ~Anon

"We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it." ~Stu Mittleman 

"We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age." ~Anthony Robbins

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ~George Bernard Shaw

"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair." ~Charles Lamb

"We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals." ~Samuel Beckett

"What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body." ~Dr. Hans Selye

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age." ~Victor Hugo

"Where children are, there is the golden age." ~Novalis

"Whether one is twenty, forty, sixty or eighty; whether one has succeeded, failed, or just muddled along - Life Begins Each Morning!" ~L.M. Hodges

"With age comes beauty and character." ~House of Fifty

"With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding." ~Sandra Lake

"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair." ~Douglas MacArthur

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."~C. S. Lewis

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." ~Woody Allen (1935-)

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." ~George Burns

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." ~Michael Pritchard

"You're never too old to grow up." ~Shirley Conran on Maturity

"You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." ~Bob Hope

"You might be getting older, but you don't have to get old". ~from Starts at 60 Style

"Youth is a state of the soul - nothing to do with age - everything to do with attitude." ~Anon, 1998/mpw


VERSE

"And though age and infirmity
overtake me, and I come not within
sight of the castle of my dreams,
teach me still to be thankful
for life, and for time's olden
memories that are good and
sweet; and may the evening's
twilight find me gentle still."
~Max Erhmann
(The Desiderata of Happiness)

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OTHERS

"Blessed are those who get to get old and have wrinkles. Grey hair and wrinkles they say are marks of wisdom." ~Jollee A. Baeyens

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life." ~Jean Paul

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.” ~Simone de Beauvoir

"I speak the truth, not as much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older." ~Catherine Bowen

"In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt." ~Alyson Richman

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." ~Charles Schulz

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." ~Benjamin Franklin

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time." ~Jean Paul Richter 

"Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be." ~Lauren Hutton

"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature." ~Albert Einstein

"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts." ~Martin Buxbaum

"Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both." ~Gabrielle Zevin

"Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age." ~Vera Nazarian

"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy." ~Henri Frederic Amiel

“The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.” ~L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables)

"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities." ~Khalil Gibran

"Time really does seem to fly as we get older, that's because we"ve forgotten to stop for a while to enjoy the time." ~Steven Aitchison

"We all go through phases of aging as part of our existence. Old age is the ultimate pinnacle of life. Our duty is to be thankful to our Creator and to appreciate all of His goodness and mercy. Shabbat shalom!" ~Leah C. Dancel,  April 17, 2021
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"When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not." ~Yoda

"When you're young, thunderstorms seem scary. Like the sky is angry at you. But now that I'm older, something about its roar soothes me; it's comforting to know that even nature needs to scream sometimes." ~Anon

"You can't help getting older,  but you don't have to get old." ~George Burns

“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ~Franz Kafka

VERSE

Aches and pains are here to stay,
They seem to change day by day,
The list of ailments seems to grow,
As the body starts to slow.
You can't be young, weak or prissy;
Getting old is not for sissies.
~Anon

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