Poetry

Winter Solstice 2008

The tree lights glow bright: they’re a beacon this night that brings hope and delight and gives flight to dark’s blight. By this simplest scene: […]

May 16th, 2014 | Posted in General, Poetry

Winter Solstice 2009

As I walk toward my car, on this year’s shortest day, Comes a craving for shelter from shopping’s mad fray. Though the lights, trees, and […]

May 16th, 2014 | Posted in General, Poetry

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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits."

- Don Ward

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

- Benjamin Franklin

"In Compassion lies the world's true strength."

- Buddha

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself."

- Erich Fromm

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

- Blaise Pascal

"To see a World in a grain of sand, and a Heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."

- William Blake

"I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."

- Eudora Welty

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end."

- Krishnamurti

"Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you, live as though heaven is on earth."

- Souza

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

- Carl Jung