"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly"


- Bobby Kennedy

“Today, like every day, we wake up empty. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

Rumi

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

-Plato

"I never thought my dreams could come true until I tried as hard as I could from my the crown of my head to the SOLES of my feet. So stop complaining and keep trying harder."

- Leo Johnson 2010

Salutation To The Dawn

Look to this day!

For it is life, the very life of life.

In its brief course

Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:

The bliss of growth,

The glory of action,

The splendor of achievement,

For yesterday is but a dream

And tomorrow is just a vision,

And today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness

And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day!

Such is the salutation to the dawn.

~ Kalidasa

‎"To love chocolate is human, to choose Fair Trade is Divine." 

~ Kojo Aduhene-Tano, Cocoa Farmer, Kuapa Kokoo Fair Trade Cooperative, Ghana

"An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.." 


Jack Shadbolt, 1909-1998

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone...Whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something." 


- Sandra Day O'Connor

"He who has never seen himself surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of his relation to it." 


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."


~ Mark Twain

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

~ Mark Twain

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice. 


Lao Tzu

"I wish America had more engineers than lawyers" 


 Barrack Obama

‎"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." 

--Albert Pike

‎"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." 

~ Joseph Campbell

"Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.” 

- Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

"Fear came knocking on the door. Faith answered; no one was there."

"Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation." 

 Thomas Keating

“The world is my country, all mankind are my bethren, and to do good is my religion.”
_  Thomas Paine

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.     

-- Confucius (551-479 BC)