“I think the world would be a better place, if everybody played in their front yard more” – me
“how did our oil get under their sand?” -Dylan Ratigan
“when in doubt, leave it out” -sage advice by unknown and told to me by Elizabeth Courtier
“remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.” -marcus aurelius
“i have decided to stick with love. hate is too great a burden to bear.” -martin luther king, jr.
“ring the bells that can still ring forget your perfect offering. there is a crack in everything — that’s how the light gets in.” -leonard cohen
“the good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos.” -alicia randall
“out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. i will meet you there.” -rumi
“she discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.” -gabriel garcia marquez
“the master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. he hardly knows which is which. he simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. to him he’s always doing both.” -james michener
“the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” -bertrand russell
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” -author unknown
“When you change the way you look at things–The things you look at change.”
‘I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family’s, and my country’s past, holding in my hands these truths: that loves grows from the rich loam of forgiveness, that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.’ -wally lamb