quotes

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”
- Charles Lindbergh

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.
,,,,,,,,,,Antontio Machado

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me learn from you, love you, savor you, bless you before you depart.Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so.One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow,
or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky,
and want more than all the world for your return.
by Mary Jean Irion

In my own experience, the period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life. ...Through a difficult period, you can learn, you can develop inner strength, determination, and courage to face the problem.
Who gives you this chance? Your enemy.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Louise Carson

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1) First, allow everything to be exactly as it is.
2) Learn to respond, not react.
3) Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing.
4) Don’t die with your music still in you.
5) You can’t give away what you don’t have.
6) Embrace Silence.
7) Give up your personal history.
8) You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.
9) There are no justified resentments.
10) Treat yourself as if you already are what you most want to be.
11) Treasure your divinity.
12) Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
~Carol Matthau

“If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”
- Johnny Carson

“The music I have written is as nothing compared with the music I have heard.”
- Ludwig von Beethoven