Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The Shadow

Always it is our own shadow standing in the way.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Great Things

Small things through love become great things.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Chasing The Rainbow

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

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Sweet Uses Of Adversity

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

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

A Serious Subject

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

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

A Reason To Be Thankful

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

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Making Things Better

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

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The News I Need

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

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

One Acre Of Land

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

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Innocence

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

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

War & Peace

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

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Spirit Of Adventure

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

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The Difference Between Living And Dying

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

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Test

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

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

The Power of Appreciation

Works of art survive through appreciation.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Peeling The Orange

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

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

My True Opinion

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

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Do Your Best

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

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Improving The World

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

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

A Bad Teacher

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

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

What I've Learned

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

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Power Of Choice

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

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Pretense Of Knowledge

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

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Realist

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

Monday, July 4, 2011

The Highest Purpose

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

Monday, June 27, 2011

We All Get Wet

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

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Friendship

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

Monday, June 13, 2011

The Wine Of Life

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

Monday, June 6, 2011

Confidence

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

Monday, May 30, 2011

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

Monday, May 23, 2011

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

Monday, May 16, 2011

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

Friday, May 13, 2011

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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

Monday, May 9, 2011

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

Friday, May 6, 2011

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

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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

Monday, May 2, 2011

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

Friday, April 29, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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

Monday, April 25, 2011

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

Friday, April 22, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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

Monday, April 18, 2011

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

Friday, April 15, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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

Monday, April 11, 2011

In the sky there's room for every star.

Friday, April 8, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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

Monday, April 4, 2011

Every day you live is a holiday from death.

Friday, April 1, 2011

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

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Life is worth living but not worth thinking about.

Monday, March 28, 2011

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

Friday, March 25, 2011

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

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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

Monday, March 21, 2011

In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.

Friday, March 18, 2011

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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

Monday, March 14, 2011

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

Friday, March 11, 2011

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

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life.

Monday, March 7, 2011

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

Friday, March 4, 2011

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

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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

Monday, February 28, 2011

Contentment is a richer treasure than what Monte Cristo found.

Friday, February 25, 2011

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

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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

Monday, February 21, 2011

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

Friday, February 18, 2011

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

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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

Monday, February 14, 2011

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

Friday, February 11, 2011

Walking with a crutch is still walking on your own.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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

Monday, February 7, 2011

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

Friday, February 4, 2011

Optimists think badly, but live well.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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

Monday, January 31, 2011

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

Friday, January 28, 2011

The heart like a lamp must lead the way.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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

Monday, January 24, 2011

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

Friday, January 21, 2011

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

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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

Monday, January 17, 2011

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

Friday, January 14, 2011

The best advice is what the skylark gives by singing.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

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

Monday, January 10, 2011

The deep roots never doubt spring will come.

Friday, January 7, 2011

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

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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

Monday, January 3, 2011

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