The Shadow

Always it is our own shadow standing in the way.

Great Things

Small things through love become great things.

Chasing The Rainbow

Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone.

The Sweet Uses Of Adversity

It's during a storm that the best songs get written.

A Serious Subject

There are no serious subjects, only people who take themselves too seriously.

A Reason To Be Thankful

One is not truly thankful if one needs a reason to be thankful.

Making Things Better

The Earth turns all by itself, so I don't try to improve on it.

The News I Need

The sun rising every morning brings me all the news I need.

Equality: A New Perspective

Equality: the right to be different.

One Acre Of Land

A hundred lifetimes wouldn't suffice to see all the beauty in one acre of land.

Innocence

The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having.

War & Peace

We wage war on others when we're not at peace with ourselves.

The Spirit Of Adventure

Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

The Difference Between Living And Dying

Leaves, while they live, hang together; dying, they fall one by one.

The Test

Life isn't a test. You can't fail.

The Power of Appreciation

Works of art survive through appreciation.

Peeling The Orange

I learned long ago to peel an orange rather than wait for it to happen.

My True Opinion

There is no true opinion. Difference of opinion is the truth.

Do Your Best

Do your best, and laugh when it all goes wrong.

Improving The World

The only way to improve the world is by loving it.

A Bad Teacher

Experience is a bad teacher if it teaches you to be afraid.

What I've Learned

Here's what I've learned: there's more than one way to live.

The Power Of Choice

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them.

The Pretense Of Knowledge

Humanity's favorite pastime: pretending to know what it doesn't know.

The Realist

I'm a realist. I think the world is beautiful.

The Highest Purpose

When something is done for nothing it's done with the highest purpose in mind.

We All Get Wet

The cop, the bartender, the poet! When it rains they all get wet.

Friendship

Nothing is enough for the person for whom friendship is not enough.

The Wine Of Life

Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill.

Confidence

When I walk toward the sea I know the sea is there waiting for me.

The tragedy of war can only be measured in human terms, and by that measure it's incalculable.

I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics.

There is only one sin-to turn this magnificent life into a burden.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

I know where my little car is headed. So I'm going to enjoy the ride.

I used to be a gloomy seeker of gloomy truths until tragedy made me light-hearted.

What you do today means a great deal, though it may mean nothing tomorrow.

Spring, love, travel are a new beginning. Everybody loves a new beginning.

Peace is in the house of the enemy where one has been forbidden to go.

All creativity begins as play. The fancy theories come later.

The sparrows flying from tree to tree: not a single one doubts its freedom.

When the wings are too heavy the bird can't fly.

If God handed me Truth on a silver platter, it would still be Truth from my point of view.

Sailing wouldn't be much fun if we controlled the wind and the waves.

Do everything as if it's nothing; that's how to get the most out of life.

Genius is not what you do, but the fun you have doing it.

What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight.

In the sky there's room for every star.

Thunder makes a loud noise but it's the quiet sky that lasts.

Taste your food before you swallow it. Therein lies the whole enjoyment of living.

Every day you live is a holiday from death.

The power to judge becomes a substitute for the power to love.

Life is worth living but not worth thinking about.

My philosophy? I'm just happy to be here.

Praise, like happiness, is a form of wealth. Spread it all around.

Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.

In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

I found all my prayers answered in the silence of the stone.

Like Adam and Eve we have to find out everything for ourselves.

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life.

What we have in common is also part of our uniqueness.

Success is no guarantee of happiness. The only guarantee of happiness is happiness.

Like you and me: the birds, the clouds, the flowers. They just live to live and dance to the beat of their own music.

Contentment is a richer treasure than what Monte Cristo found.

Forgive my foolish beliefs, as I forgive your foolish beliefs.

There's one fast rule concerning death: save it for the end.

Disappointments pile up. And then you have to throw them out with the rest of the trash.

Happiness is contagious. The more I think about it, the happier I am.

The only tame lion is the one that has tamed itself.

I used to think love was the most important thing. Now I think everything is.

Walking with a crutch is still walking on your own.

Always expecting to get what you want is expecting too little of life.

Does the road make the traveler, or the traveler the road?

Optimists think badly, but live well.

The future can't be seen even with the most powerful telescopes.

The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.

The heart like a lamp must lead the way.

Like Noah I built my ark, but the floods never came.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The mountain is there, and not because you see it.

Beware of those who aren't content with soup and bread.

When the train stays on the tracks you don't ask why.

The best advice is what the skylark gives by singing.

The feeling of being unappreciated is a failure to appreciate others.

The deep roots never doubt spring will come.

Everything in life is a surprise, starting with being born.

Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.

For every locked door one encounters, another opens all by itself.