Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"All great acts of genius began with the same consideration: do not be constrained by your present reality." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is never finished, only abandoned.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye." ~Leonardo da Vinci

“Even the smallest feline is a work of art.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation. For when you come back to your work, your judgement will be surer." ~Leonardo Da Vinci

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” ~Leonard da Vinci

"Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"He turns not back who is bound to a star." ~Leonardo Da Vinci

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast." Leonardo da Vinci

"Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity — by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles..." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"I awoke only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep." ~Leonardo Da Vinci

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." ~Leonardo Da Vinci (Da Vinci claimed that flesh eaters were using their bodies as "grave yards.)

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings." ~Leonardo da Vinci c 1490 (from Peter Mamone, FB, October 2013)

"If you want to be trusted,  be honest." ~Leonardo da Vinci 

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Learning is the only thing that mind doesn't exhaust." ~Da Vinci 

"Learning never exhausts the mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the pace is darkest." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"My works are the issue of pure and simple experience, who is the one true mistress." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as "silence." ~Leonardo da Vinci

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Our life is made by the death of others." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. " ~Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519

CTTO 

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Realize that everything connects to everything else." -Leonardo da Vinci

"Self-absorption brings confusion, sitting around thinking in circles brings complexity. Wisdom is discernible and straightforward." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~Leonardo da Vinci

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

"The eye — which sees all objects reversed — retains the images for some time." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"The greatest deception men suffer from is in their own opinions." ~Leonardo Da Vinci

"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

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"The painter has the universe in his mind and hands." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"The soul is the life of the body, just as a doll is the life of a child." ~Leonardo Da Vinci 

“The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." ~~Leonardo da Vinci

"Water is the driving force in nature." ~Leonardo Da Vinci

“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?" ~Leonardo da Vinci

"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a mans success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others." ~Leonardo Da Vinci

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes

"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man is related to all nature." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. ” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Eyes speak all languages." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualities are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humour, vast curiosity, good silence and nothing too much." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who does good to others does good to himself." ~R. Emerson

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they made me." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the woods is perpetual youth.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the woods we return to reason and faith.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let the bird sing without deciphering the song." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live in the sunshine,  swim the sea, drink the wild air." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection. The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought or happy expression; but it is necessary to write a letter to a friend, and, forthwith, troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original  dimensions." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only person you destined to become is  the person you decide to be." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." ~Ralph Waldo

"The salvation of mankind depends upon independent thinkers, directing their thoughts rightly." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The wise person in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endanger us, not the storm without." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The years teach us what the days never knew." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”"~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to man but through the toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be great is to be misunderstood." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To clothe the fiery thought in simple words succeeds, for still the craft of genius is to mask a king in weeds." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day . . . is too dear with its hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Travel is a fools paradise." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are all inventors...guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We cannot part with our friends; we cannot let our angels go." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We change, whether we like it or not." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must be our own before we can be another's." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We never touch but at points." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is the one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions , as when, being thirsty, I drink water, or go to the fire, being cold: no! but I am first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself, as it were in flashes of light, in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals, and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base, whereon flocks graze, and shepherds pipe and dance." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I discover who I am, I'll be free." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When it is darkest, men see the stars.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. (Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay), you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You have just dined, and however the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

VERSES

"God, who gave to him the lyre,
Of all mortals the desire,
For all breathing men's behoof,
Straitly charged him, "Sit aloof;"
Annexed a warning, poets say,
To the bright premium,--
Ever, when twain together play,
Shall the harp be dumb." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Men consort in camp and town
But the poet dwells alone." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"There is no architect
Can build as the Muse can;
She is skilful to select
Materials for her plan." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Barbarella - cause and effect

"A life without cause is a life without effect." ~Barbarella

Sara Moss-Wolfe - medicine

"Nature is my medicine." ~Sara Moss-Wolfe

Joyce Meyer Quotes

"Don't be afraid of change because it is leading you to a new beginning." ~Joyce Meyer

"Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life." ~Joyce Meyer

"Everyone is like a pot that carries life. But not everyone carries a presence that blesses others. Religion tries to force people to follow laws to make them perfect, like pots without cracks. But if a light is put within a flawless pot and then covered, no one is able to see the light inside the pot. Perfect pots are not able to reveal internal light to illumine the way for others. God chooses to shine through imperfect, cracked pots." ~Joyce Meyer

"God is not looking for ability but for availability. Offer what you do have to Him, and He will provide what you don’t have. The two of you can do something amazing." ~Joyce Meyer

"God will give me strength to do what I need to do and to do it with joy." ~Joyce Meyer

"I'm not where I need to be, but thank God I'm not where I used to be." ~Joyce Meyer

"If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth, and your mouth affects your mind." ~Joyce Meyer

 “It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.” ~Joyce Meyer

"Patience is not the ability to wait.  Waiting is a fact of life.  Patience is the ability to keep a good attitude  while waiting." ~Joyce Meyer 

"Remain calm in every situation because peace equals power." ~Joyce Meyer

"Stop blaming people, circumstances, the devil or even God for things that go wrong and start being the person God intended you to be." ~Joyce Meyer

"The Holy Spirit works with our conscience to make sure we know how to live each day with God." ~Joyce Meyer

"The word of God, spoken out loud and in faith, is the most powerful weapon you have against the enemy." ~Joyce Meyer

"We don't really know anything until we know we know nothing". ~Joyce Meyer

"When we face our fears, we can find our freedom." ~Joyce Meyer

"When we fill our thoughts with the right things, the wrong things have no room to enter." ~ Joyce Meyer

"When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner." ~Joyce Meyer

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Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

"All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name "evolution." And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement. Therefore, when change visits your life, you can be sure things are turning for the better. It may not look that way in the very moment change arrives, but if you will wait a while and have faith in the process, you will see that this is true." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"All things are filled with wonder, for wonder is the Nature of God, the essence of Divinity, and your natural state of being. Enter into the wonder that you are, and from that place of wonder, imagine your future, your life, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about Who You Are." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, you can be the light which truly lights the world." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Be quick to smile, and quick to share your smile with others. A smile actually changes the vibe of your body. It alters, physiologically, the chemistry of your being. Did you know that?" ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Be the source. Whatever you want to experience in yourself, be the source of it in the lives of others. This is the great secret. This is sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Breathe. Breathe in the soft, sweet nothingness of life, so full of energy, so full of love. It is God's love that you are breathing." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Bring yourself to the present moment by just listening to your breath. Then quietly, give yourself permission to make a new choice if you wish." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Consciousness is everything. Consciousness - that of which you are truly aware - is the basis of all truth and thus of all true spirituality." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Divine inspiration is the birthright of every human being." ~Neale David Walsch

"Don't stand still. Keep the energy coursing through your body. Don't stand still for anything. Fill your life with Movement and you will fill your life with loveliness, joyfulness, and happiness. And if that isn't Godliness, I don't know what is." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Do not wonder why things are 'taking so long.' In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more than perfection requires. Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working magic even as you take your very next breath." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Every human being is as special as every other human being who has ever lived, lives now, or ever will live." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Every human thought, word, or deed is based on fear or love. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, reveals, shares, heals. You have free choice about which of these to select." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Every time I look closely at life I am reminded that it exists in all moments on two levels (at least): the human level and the spiritual level. It would be an enormous miscalculation to imagine that this is not true, or that the second is not as important to your daily experience as the first." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Forgiveness is a great healer. You can forgive your way to health. You can forgive your way to happiness." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Give the universe a chance. Do not try to solve all the mysteries. They will unfold in due course." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow. " ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Go into the heart of love, and come from that place in all your choices and decisions, and you will find peace." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"God is talking to you every minute of every hour of every day. You are never alone, or without help or guidance, counsel, or advice. You need but purely and earnestly ask a question and God will answer you, directly and immediately." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"God’s love, God’s acceptance, and God’s joy in us is not dependent upon what words we say in prayer, or what faith we embrace in hopefulness." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Gratitude eliminates negativity, disappointment, resentment, and anger. And when those emotions disappear, room is made for the energy of love for God, for life, and for yourself to reappear—now more fully than ever." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease. It is the fastest way to dissolve anxiety, to heal disappointment, to replace negativity with positivity. It is the connecting energy to God." ~Donald Neale Walsch

"Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"I believe we are attracted to each other inherently, out of a deep knowing that in each other we will find our Selves. I believe we know at the highest level that We Are All One." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best." ~Neale Donald

"If you're going to do something, do it with gusto. Don't do anything half-heartedly. That dishonors the doing and the doer. So go for it. Hold nothing back. In life. Or love. Or anything at all." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"In the stillness, you will find your true being. In the silence you will hear the breathing of your soul - and of God." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Intimacy means more than sex, as you know. It's about the connection of souls. You are intimate when you are fully with another, no matter what. In fact, this has very little to do with that which is physical." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who You are, not who another has been, or has failed to be." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn’t struggle is the one who doesn’t grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign — celebrate your struggle.” -Neale Donald Walsch

"It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy. Or choosing to be sad. Or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing. YOU." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Learn what is the soul's desire, and go with that. Go with the soul. What the soul is after is - the highest feeling of love you can imagine. This is the soul's desire. This is its purpose." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Love is that which is without condition, it requires nothing in order to be expressed. It asks nothing in return. And it is free. Love is that which is free, for freedom is the essence of what God is, and love is God, expressed." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Meditate every day. In the stillness, you will find your true being, you will hear the breathing of your soul - and of God." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up," not what part of another you can capture and hold. The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on
the previous experience of yourself and others." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Negative passions may run high, but they do not have to rule you. Your inner peace, and the sanctity of your being, are not worth trashing because of some negative feeling you have about something. Just let it go, and return to the knowing and experiencing of who you really are. Try not to abandon the self. Try very hard. In the end, your soul will be so grateful." ~Neale Donald Walsch from The Art of BLISS

"Never, ever, ever think that your life is over, but know always that each day, each hour, each moment is another beginning, another opportunity, another chance to re-create yourself anew." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Nobody who sits in the seat of Compassion finds themselves focused on irrelevant things. Compassion generates clarity." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Nothing happens in life by accident, nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Our first job in life is to give our Self back to our Self. That is, to come to know who we really are. Only then can we swiftly and easily see who someone else really is, for we cannot clearly see in another what we fail utterly to see in ourselves." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Our most personal interactions with each other mark the core of our experience as humans. This is where the real growth is, this is where the real opportunity for true soul work begins." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Patience, above all else, is what is needed right now. Do not let anxiousness or frustration take over. Conditions on the exterior of your experience will change, but your highest benefit will be achieved when conditions in your interior remain the same. Hold to your inner peace. Reclaim your identity. Trust your higher wisdom. Look to the grander vision." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Prayer is nothing more than God’s energy, focused. God’s energy lives in us, as us, and manifests through us every hour of every day, whether we know it or not—and whether we want it to or not." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Smiling can be a deliberate, intentioned act. When it is that, it becomes an act of creation, and a powerful tool. Be quick to smile, and quick to share your smile with others. You will light up your heart and light up the room." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Souls who walk in awareness choose a different path. They seek to experience all the peace, joy, wisdom and love that Oneness brings." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Stopping, even just for a moment, can be blessed. This is the state of true wakefulness." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Struggle ends when gratitude begins." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Suddenly, when the heart opens, the Mind opens. It can hear things it could not hear before, like the soft voice of the Soul." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Take a look today at what sweet, simple things of life you may be looking past, or right over, and neither seeing nor enjoying. Look closely. They are likely to be right in front of your face - something you're looking through every day." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The gift of pure love allows you to bless others and accept them without condition, granting them the freedom to make their own choices and live with them, and giving your Divine Self the freedom to do the same." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The greatest kindness is often shown in letting things go. None of us is perfect, but we can all be perfect friends and perfect partners by allowing those that we love to be imperfect." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The heart is the bridge between the mind and the soul. First get out of your mind and into your heart space. From there it is a quick jump into your soul." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The next time you are with someone, try to gauge what they are feeling. Don’t just listen to their words, look deep inside to see if you can get a handle on what they are feeling. Read between the lines. Look past the words. Practice Active Listening. It can work miracles" ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The peace and safety for which you yearn is not a matter of food, clothing, and shelter. It is a matter of love. Love and be loved, and all else will be added unto you." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The purpose of relationship may not be what you think. If you are excited about forming a relationship based on what it looks like you can get, rather than what you can give, you have started off on the wrong foot entirely, and you could be heading for a big disappointment. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The secret is to move from the mind to the soul in one’s consideration of every moment; to see it from the soul’s perspective." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The tiniest gesture - a smile, a gentle look, a simple pat on the arm, a soft word - can change a person's life." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The world is so much brighter, so much better, because you are in it. If only you knew all the gifts that you bring to others. You would never feel sad again, but only rejoice in how wonderful God has made you!" ~Neale Donald Walsch

"There is always something to celebrate, so long as life is being lived. If you take an honest look, you will notice that in almost every instance life is showing up right now with everything you need to be content and at peace." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"There is no condition, no circumstance, no problem that love cannot solve. Love, for yourself and others, is always the solution." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"There is only one place where goodness is born, and that is the human heart. There is only one place where love can be experienced truly, and that is in the human soul. Because the human soul is love." -Neale Donald Walsch

"This is not a journey from nowhere to nowhere. This is a process. Life is a process. It is a process with purpose and meaning. It is a function of the Universe. It is the Present Action of an Eternal Activity." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"What a joy this life is, with all its sadness and pain, its strife and travail, its tests and its obstacles. What a joy to be alive and experiencing all of it, and to be able to choose which part of it to internalize and call my own." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"When change visits your life, you can be sure things are turning for the better. It may not look that way in the very moment change arrives, but if you will wait a while and have faith in the process, you will see that this is true." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, wisdom fills your mind. Let gratitude replace judgment and your whole experience of life will take a turn for the better." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"When you love something for the sheer beauty of it, for the sheer wonder of it, for the sheer joy of it, for the happiness it brings you to feel that energy glowing inside of you and sent out from you, you are loving purely." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"When you understand that you are your soul, then you will experience Life as an expression of the soul." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never, ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important. Like God, for instance. Or love. Or what is true about another." ~Neale Dpnald Walsch

"You are the angel for whom someone is waiting today." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"You are goodness, mercy, compassion and understanding. You are peace, joy, and light. Choose to know yourself as these things always." ~Donald Walsch

"You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself as these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the truth you've found is in harmony with the truth you find in your heart." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"You begin on the road to your own glory when you begin on the road to your own truth. This path is taken when you declare that you will tell the truth all the time, about everything, to everyone. And that you will live your truth." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"You can talk about Compassion, you can imagine Compassion, you can think about Compassion, you can hold Compassion as an idea conceptually, but until you express it, you cannot experience it." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path — and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us...or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"You must be good to yourself if you are ever going to be any good for others. This means take a day off once in a while when it's not scheduled. Eat of piece of chocolate when it's not recommended. Take a nap when it's just not possible. Get your face into a good book for an hour when you can't afford to. Soak in a tub when there's no time to. Stop everything when you're not supposed to. Do this now, right now, for goodness sake." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"You will return to Heaven whether you have loved God in the right way or not. There is no place else to go." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Your job on Earth, therefore, is not only to learn , but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is —For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone else’s old thoughts. It’s important now, it’s time now, to change your mind about some t*hings. This is what evolution is all about." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Your mind knows nothing but the past. It imagines the future will be just like yesterday, so it makes it decisions based on that. Only your heart can see beyond memory's horizon." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Your moment of awakening can come to you at any time, and through any person. Therefore, honor all times and all people." ~Neale Donald Walsch

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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it" ~Maurice Maeterlinck

"If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live." ~Maurice Maeterlinck

"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough." ~Maurice Maeterlinck

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Lord George Gordon Noel Byron Quotes

"A drop of ink may make a million think." ~Lord Byron

"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant." ~Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet.

"Alas! The love of women! It is known to be a lovely and a fearful thing." ~George Gordon

"All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin." ~Lord Byron

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." ~Lord Byron

“And I have loved thee, Ocean! And my joy of youthful sports was on thy breast to be borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers. They to me were a delight; and if the freshening sea made them a terror, ‘twas a pleasing fear.” ~Lord Byron

“Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.” ~Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron on Proverbs

“Exhausting thought, And having wisdom with each studious year.” ~Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

"Friendship is love without his wings!" ~George Gordon, Lord Byron

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." ~Lord Byron

"I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day." ~Lord Byron

“If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.” ~Lord Byron  

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad." ~Lord Byron on Writing

“My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea.” ~George Gordon Byron

"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce." ~Lord Byron

"Prolonged endurance tames the bold." ~Lord Byron

"Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die." ~Lord Byron

“The dew of compassion is a tear.” ~Lord Byron

"The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul. ~Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)on Soul

"There is no instinct like that of the heart." ~Lord Byron

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore..." ~ Lord Byron

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
~George Gordon Byron on Inspirational

"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive." ~Lord Byron

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Sir Francis Bacon Quotes

"A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swelling of the heart." ~Francs Bacon

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." ~Sir Francis Bacon

"Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink,  old friends to trust, and old authors to read." ~Francis Bacon 

"Ambition is like choler, which is a humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped; but if it be stopped, and cannot have its way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.” ~Francis Bacon

"By indignities men come to dignities." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order." ~Francis Bacon

"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

“For knowledge, too, is itself a power."
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
~Francis Bacon on Knowledge

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils." ~Francis Bacon on Change

"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper." ~Francis Bacon

"Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule." ~Francis Bacon

"I have taken all knowledge to be my province." ~Sir Francis Bacon

"I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." ~Francis Bacon

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." ~Francis Bacon

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." ~Francis Bacon

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." ~Francis Bacon

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.” ~Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is power." (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)~Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. (1597)

"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study." ~Sir Francis Bacon

“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.” ~Francis Bacon

"Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time." ~Francis Bacon Sr.

"Read not to contradict and confute,
nor to believe and take for granted,
nor to find talk and discourse,
but to weigh and consider." ~Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Artist: Anon 

"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." ~Sir Francis Bacon

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." ~Francis Bacon

"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested." ~Francis Bacon

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common dis-

tilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a

ready man; and writing an exact man." 

~Francis Bacon, Essays of Francis 

Bacon

"States, as great engines, move slowly." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"That which is past is irrevocable; wise men have enough to do with things present and to come." ~Francis Bacon  

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express." ~Sir Francis Bacon

"The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?" ~Sir Francis Bacon,English essayist, philosopher, and statesman

"The remedy is worse than the disease." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." ~Sir Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." ~Sir Francis Bacon

"Truth is a naked and open daylight." ~Francis Bacon

"We cannot command nature except by obeying her." ~Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
A prominent English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, is known for his profound insights and eloquent writing. 
1. "Knowledge is power." - This is perhaps Bacon's most famous quote, emphasizing the importance of knowledge in empowering individuals.
2. "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." - Bacon believed that in order to understand and harness the power of nature, one must first respect its laws and principles.
3. "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - This line suggests that while hope is important, relying solely on hope without taking action can lead to disappointment.
4. "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Bacon valued the acquisition of knowledge through reading, discussion, and writing, highlighting the different aspects of intellectual growth.
5. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." - This quote reflects Bacon's view on the role of artists and creators in exploring and unveiling the hidden aspects of life and human experience.5

Lao Te Ching - break and prevail

Thought for Today - Tread Lightly

"Tread lightly upon this earth, seeing, understanding but never imposing. Thoughtful, independent, be gracious in victory and defeat. Free of possessiveness, so ease of mind sweetens relationships. Like the scent of a rose the untroubled spirit imparts a lasting fragrance." ~Thought for Today-UK

Randal Worley - forgiveness

"Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision." ~Randal Worley

Thought for Today - Cheerfulness

"The one who possesses cheerfulness becomes like a magnet of goodwill." ~Thought for Today-UK

THOMAS CARLYLE Quotes

"A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats  little men." ~Thomas Carlyle 

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." ~Thomas Carlyle

“Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.” ~Thomas Carlyle

"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Every noble work is at first impossible." ~Thomas Carlyle on Diligence

"Genius means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble." ~Thomas Carlyle

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.” ~Thomas Carlyle on Reading

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can." ~Thomas Carlyle

"My books are friends that never fail me." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realised by man ever dies, or can die." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Speech is of time, silence is of eternity." ~Thomas Carlyle

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong" ~Thomas Carlyle

"The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. " ~Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder–a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you." ~Carlyle

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better." ~Thomas Carlyle, English philosopher

"The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something; whereas the strongest, by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything." ~Thomas Carlyle

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” ~Thomas Carlyle on Influence

"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." ~Thomas Carlyle

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Alan Cohen Quotes

"Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson." ~Alan Cohen

"Do not wait until all the conditions are perfect for you to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect." ~Alan Cohen

"Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand." ~Alan Cohen

"Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening in our life." ~Alan Cohen

"Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on." ~Alan H. Cohen

"Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality." -Alan Cohen

"If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace." ~Alan Cohen

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." ~Alan Cohen

"The notion of something coming into existence without a thought preceding it is as preposterous as a flower growing without a seed to start it." ~Alan Cohen

"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold of yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your whole ness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused" ~Alan Cohen

“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” ~Alan Cohen

"Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities." ~Alan Cohen

"We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening." ~Alan Cohen

"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside." ~Alan Cohen

"You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal." ~Alan Cohen

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A.H. Almaas - universal love

"UNIVERSAL LOVE is both conscious and loving at the same time. When you experience universal love you understand the action of love. A loving action is a gentle action when gentleness is needed, a firm action when firmness is needed, a compassionate action when compassion is needed, yielding when yielding is needed. Whatever is needed is present — and in the correct balance — depending on the situation... Universal love is an expression of the harmony of the totality. Everything is in harmony with everything else. Nothing is excluded. Your will is in harmony with your compassion. Your compassion is in harmony with your joy. Your joy is in harmony with your anger. Your anger is in harmony with your body. Your body is in harmony with your ego. Your ego is in harmony with other people. There is no conflict anywhere. Everything fits and functions as a togetherness, as a oneness. That oneness is you." ~A.H. Almaas

Caroline Myss Quotes

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"Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems. It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas, flowing through dreams and illuminations.
Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however, it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it" ~Caroline Myss

"Enjoy your inward travels. May they be extraordinary. Collect each jewel. Bless each day of your life-for no day in your life will ever come again." ~Caroline Myss

"Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction." ~Caroline Myss

"Grace is like a blanket of hope that covers you at night when you think you don't have what it takes to get up in the morning." ~Caroline Myss

"Guide me through this darkness, Lord. Hover over me especially when I cannot seem to hold on for another moment. Flood me with the graces of hope and fortitude. Send your angels to watch over me as I sleep through the night. Remind me during the day that from this small dark cocoon, I will emerge a butterfly." ~Caroline Myss

"I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill – a skill based in self-esteem." ~Caroline Myss

"If you want your situation to change, then set change in motion. If you want to improve your health, then do something that supports that intention. Work with the laws of the universe." ~Caroline Myss

"Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness." ~Caroline Myss

"Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering." ~Caroline Myss

"Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!" ~Caroline Myss

"My prayer today is to become more mindful of my personal actions. What motivates me to do what I do and to say the things I do to others? I often dismiss my actions because of stress or anger but the people I hurt along the way do not dismiss what I've said or done. Every action and every word carries a consequence. Every person has stress and every person has anger. I would not like to be someone's target and I ask for the grace to become more mindful not to harm others just because I am having a bad day." ~Caroline Myss

"My prayer today is to be silent, still. I want to dwell in trust - that all things are as they should be in my life. I do not want chaos or confusion to have authority over me, or difficulties or problems. Let them wait for me tomorrow. Today I suspend worry and choose to dwell in trust. Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own." ~Caroline Myss

"Never blame another person for your personal choices — you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices." ~Caroline Myss

"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind." ~Caroline Myss

"There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences." ~Caroline Myss

"We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds — the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise." ~Caroline Myss

"We weave our spirits into everything we do and everyone we meet." ~Caroline Myss

“You are not born knowing how great an artist you could be in this lifetime. In order to discover your potential you have to learn to act with courage, self-confidence and faith. These are potentials you need to discover within yourself. These are spiritual qualities that must be earned. ... Our creative potential calls us to rise above the self's basic need for survival in the physical world. We're called to grow beyond our self.” ~Caroline Myss

"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless." ~Caroline Myss

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SAMUEL JOHNSON Quotes

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language." ~Samuel Johnson

"A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out." ~Samuel Johnson

 "A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson

"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything." ~Samuel Johnson

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. A young man should read five hours in a day, and so may acquire a great deal of knowledge." ~SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Boswell's Life

"Actions are visible though motives are secret." ~Samuel Johnson

"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they ever find?" ~Samuel Johnson

"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men." ~Samuel Johnson

"Clear your mind of can't." ~Samuel Johnson

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." ~Samuel Johnson

"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters." ~Samuel Johnson

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language." ~Samuel Johnson

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." ~Samuel Johnson

"Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond of virtue." ~Samuel Johnson

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." ~Samuel Johnson

"He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood." ~Samuel Johnson

“He threatens many that hath injured one.” ~Samuel Johnson on Proverbs

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he purposes to remove." ~Samuel Johnson

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." ~Samuel Johnson

"Hope is necessary in every condition." ~Samuel Johnson

"I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made." ~from "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" (1785) by Samuel Johnson

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." ~Samuel Johnson

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle." ~Samuel Johnson

"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it." ~Samuel Johnson

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." ~Samuel Johnson 

"It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility." ~Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time." ~Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) English lexicographer, critic and writer

"It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present." ~Samuel Johnson

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." ~Samuel Johnson

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy.To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity." ~Samuel Johnson

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions." ~Samuel Johnson

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." ~Samuel Johnson

"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." ~Samuel Johnson

"Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way." ~Samuel Johnson

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little." ~Samuel Johnson

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." ~Samuel Johnson

"Of all the griefs that harass the distress, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." ~Samuel Johnson

"Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content." ~Samuel Johnson

"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts." ~Samuel Johnson

"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed." ~Samuel Johnson

"Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult." ~Samuel Johnson

"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity." ~Samuel Johnson

"Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument." ~Samuel Johnson

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." ~Samuel Johnson

"The joy of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are." ~ Samuel Johnson

"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends." ~Samuel Johnson on Value

"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." ~Samuel Johnson

"The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." ~Samuel Johnson

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down." ~Samuel Johnson

"The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before." ~Samuel Johnson

“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” ~Dr Samuel Johnson

"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed." ~Samuel Johnson

"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow." ~Samuel Johnson

"Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms." ~Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"To a poet nothing can be useless." ~Samuel Johnson

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." ~Samuel Johnson

"To hear complaints with patience even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship." ~Samuel Johnson

"To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living." ~Samuel Johnson

"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly." ~Samuel Johnson

"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well." ~Samuel Johnson

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." ~Samuel Johnston

"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us." ~Samuel Johnson

"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence." ~Samuel Johnson

"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live." ~Samuel Johnson

"You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets, and wonder when they have done that they do not delight in your company." ~Samuel Johnson

"Your aspirations are your possibilities." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson died in London, England on this day (December 16) in 1784 (aged 75)

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James Magary - computers

"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." ~James Magary

Henry Seidel Canby - writing

"Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping the turf so as to get at what is fertile beneath." ~Henry Seidel Canby

EDITH SITWELL Quotes

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music and silence." ~Edith Sitwell

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." ~Edith Sitwell

Terri Guillemets Quotes

"All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden." ~Terri Guillemets

"Dreams are free, so free your dreams." ~Terri Guillemets

"Give your stress wings and let it fly away." ~Terri Guillemets

"Hot coffee and cold winter mornings are two of the best soul mates who ever did find each other." ~Terri Guillemets

"How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?" ~Terri Guillemets

"I love the sweet smell of dawn - our unique daily opportunity to smell time,to smell opportunity - each morning being, a new beginning." ~Terri Guillemets

"I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings." ~Terri Guillemets

"If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful." ~Terri Guillemets

"If trouble hearing angels' song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart." ~Terri Guillemets

"It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into." ~Terri Guillemets

"Just before dawn I have the world all to myself." ~Terri Guillemets

"Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow." ~Terri Guillemets

"Love burns across the infinitude." ~Terri Guillemets

"My favorite weather is bird chirping weather." ~Terri Guillemets

"Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves." ~Terri Guillemets

"The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us." ~Terri Guillemets

"Skin is a covering for our immortality." ~Terri Guillemets

"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination." ~Terri Guillemets

"When we pray, our hearts glow a glorious joy that lights our souls and all the world around us." ~Terri Guillemets

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HERMAN MELVILLE Quotes

"A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come to us as effects." ~Herman Melville

"Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none." ~from "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) by Herman Melville (1819-91)

"Art is the objectification of feeling." ~Herman Melville

“For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.” ~Herman Melville on Literature

"Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way?" ~Herman Melville, MOBY DICK from Everyman's Library

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." ~Herman Melville

"It is not down in any map, true places never are." ~Herman Melville

"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses,—for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it." Herman Melville (1819-1891)

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." ~Herman Melville 

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke." ~Herman Melville (1819-1891)

“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” ~Herman Melville

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living." ~Herman Melville

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." ~Heman Melville

"You were with me all day; stood with me, sat with me, talked with me, looked at me, ate with me, drank with me; and yet, your last act was to clutch for a monster, not only an innocent man, but the most pitiable of all men. So far may even the best man err, in judging the conduct of one with the recesses of whose condition he is not acquainted." ~Herman Melville

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JOHN BURROUGHS Quotes

"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did." ~John Burroughs

"Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one's heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her." ~John Burroughs

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice." ~John Burroughs

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

"I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey." ~John Burroughs  

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." ~John Burroughs

‎"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." ~John Burroughs

“If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart.” ~John Burroughs

"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it." ~John Burroughs, "Winter Sunshine"

"Leap, and the net will appear." ~John Burroughs

"Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution." ~John Burroughs

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." ~John Burroughs

“The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape."  ~John Burroughs

"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind." ~John Burroughs

"The tendonous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood." ~John Burroughs

"To find the universal elements enough;
to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter;
to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring —
these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
~John Burroughs

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday." ~John Burroughs

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