"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."

- William Godwin

“It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?”  - Carl Sandburg

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."


- Lou Holtz

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."  

-Ludwig Börne

 "This above all:  to thine own self be true." - Shakespeare

"Music is a delight because of its rhythm and flow.  Yet the moment you arrest the flow and prolong a note or chord beyond its time, the rhythm is destroyed.  Because life is likewise a flowing process, change and death are its necessary parts.  To work for their exclusion is to work against life."

- Alan Watts

"The wound in your heart is not a wound, it is an opening." - Terri Daniel

“Expectation is the mother of all frustration.”

– Antonio Banderas

The late John Lennon said: 

When the real music comes to me—the music of the spheres, the music that surpasseth understanding—that has nothing to do with me ‘cause I’m just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me and transcribe it. Like a medium. Those moments are what I live for.

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” 

- Sophia Loren

"Creative artists—be they writers, composers, or painters—often feel that information is sometimes given to them from an invisible source. They often claim to sense the earth’s pain and feel the need to do something about it."

- Gary  Schwartz, PhD

“Beware the fury of a patient man.” 

 - John Dryden

GUILT

You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.
Tell me now, who among us is guilty and who is unguilty?

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

- Khalil Gibran

 "The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings." 

- Kakuzo Okakaura

“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” – Robert Henri

“Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.” 

- Thomas Merton

"If you want to be happy, practice compassion."  - Dali Lama

Peace comes from remembering that only Love is real.  - Chamuel 

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you.”  

- Lewis B. Smedes

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. - Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

— Mary Oliver, Thirst

"How lovely when a rainy day gives you permission to be as quiet as you need to be"...

"If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death." 

- Alan Watts

A Good Resolution:   Complain less, stop interrupting and to accept things just as they are.

"The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you've come."