I appreciated the quote that they are using to cancel letters with right now.
“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.” John Adams 1768
Let’s not forget what can happen to a society when its members neglect to do so.
Read on.
Favorite Quotes
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February 10, 2008
Each of us nurtures secret dreams and aspirations. The “what if”, the “when everything else settles down”, the “when the kids get older”, the “when I have the money.”
And those dreams are good. They give us hope, energy, a place to escape, the power to visualize something other than our current choices. Our secret dreams sustain us and enrich us. For a while…
Over time, and without warning, the lack of action, failure to take one step in their direction, the loss of faith to make them real, secret dreams and aspirations slip into missed opportunities, or even worse, embarrasment and regret.
A dream become regret is a heavy chain binding the spirit, always waiting at the edge of consciousness to wrap another length of chain around your heart.
Nothing in your live is beyond redemption. Not even regrets. And certainly not dreams.
Have you let them out lately? Written them down or told a friend or lover? Giving voice to those dreams is a first step…The confidence to express your dreams is a step toward making them real. Scary? You bet. Worth it? Absolutely.
Need a way to recapture a dream become regret?
Be thankful for it.
Be thankful that you had the ability to imagine, to hope, and to feel it in the first place. Reach back and find — it’s still in there — the joy it brought you. Dust it off, roll it around in your mind a while, let it out, and visualize what could be, if you only take the chance.
January 27, 2008
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness & let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the sotyr you are telling is true. I want to know if you can dissapoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it is not pretty, every day; and if you can source you own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours & mine, & still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “yes”!
It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and doo what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you are or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
January 4, 2008
“I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it.”
Maya Angelou
January 1, 2008
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become bitter or vain, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful, strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann
December 29, 2007
“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can’t imagine.” (Another Anonymous Quote)
December 28, 2007
“We each have the potential to do something beyond our wildest imagination, as long as we’re prepared to make it happen at any given moment of our lives.”
This quote is on my bulletin board at work, and I don’t know who the author is, but I find it inspiring.
December 27, 2007
“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one.” Alfred D. Souza
