"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

Hannah Arendt

"For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babes should never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall."
- William Blake (1757–1827)

"A wonderful painting is the result of the feeling in your fingers. If you have the feeling of the thickness of the ink in your brush, the painting is already there before you paint. When you dip your brush into the ink you already know the result of your drawing, or else you cannot paint. So before you do something, "being" is there, the result is there. Even though you look as if you were sitting quietly, all your activity, past and present, is included, and the result of your sitting is also already there."

- D.T. Suzuki...

" It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

-- Chinese proverb

" Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the
person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something
about it that makes a difference."

-- Nolan Bushnell

" If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."

-- David Viscott

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an
invincible summer."

-- Albert Camus (1913-1960) French Writer

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree..."

~ Albert Einstein

"Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

-- Harvey Fierstein

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
~ Georgia O'Keefe

"I am now quite cured of society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
(Emily Bronte)

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man."
(Rabindranath Tagore)

"Put out the trash and wash the car. Those who do so are performing miracles. Miracles are feats no one can successfully explain. Miracles are everything you do."
--David K. Reynolds

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

"Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what
makes it permanent."
-- Marilyn vos Savant 1946-

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
Langston Hughes

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance
of things, but their inward significance, and this, and not the
external manner and detail, is true reality."
(Aristotle)

"Angels whisper when we walk."
(Raymond Inmon)

"Girls must be encouraged to get on (after college), to make a life
plan. It has been shown that girls with this kind of commitment are
less eager to rush into early marriage....Most of them marry, of
course, but on a much more mature basis. their marriages then are not
an escape but a commitment shared by two people that becomes part of
their commitment to themselves and society."
~ Betty Friedan

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft
might win by fearing to attempt."
(William Shakespeare)