Archives - March 2007

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Getters don't get --- givers get.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is...the higher achievement.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

To err is human --- and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

May you live all the days of your life.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time --- beautiful?

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee -