Thanksgiving

 Elbert Hubbard
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Howl

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~George Carlin

Quiet loudly

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.  The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Contemplation

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.  ~Lorraine Hansberry

 

Relax

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.  ~Spanish Proverb

Bacchus

"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine."
St. Thomas Aquinas

Right, hear

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are.  When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.  ~Lao Tzu

Walk this way

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Here today. . .

 And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in your years.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Lessons

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.  

~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Thin line

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Strength

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.  ~Annie Dillard

Solo 

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.  

~Leo Buscaglia

Growth

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.  ~Confucius

Lying lie

We all know that Art is not truth.  Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.  The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.  

~Pablo Picasso

 A sonnet

The poetry of the earth is never dead.  ~John Keats

Gathering

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.  ~John Burroughs

                  Existence

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.  ~Marya Mannes

Reality

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.  ~Alan Watts

Human spirit

 Let your inner sunshine overcome the passing haze of discontent.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Calm

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Easter

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

The Light

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us,
and then we'll need no other light. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who knew?

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Andersen

Harmony

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn - "An Easter Hymn"

Togetherness

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.~Johann Schiller

Awakening

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Impermanence

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
~Shunryu Suzuki