ANON

All things are like the river. We never enter the same river twice.

from "The Golden Age of Zen"

Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its moon,
Summer has its cooling breezes,
Winter its snow.
If you allow no idle concerns
To weigh on your heart,
Your whole life will be one
Perennial good season.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find a thousand regions of your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them and be expert in home-cosmography.

SHENG-YEN

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.
Follow the stream, have faith in its course.
It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there.
It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices.
Just follow it.
Never let it out of your sight.
It will take you.

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

LOY CHING-YUEN

An inch of time is an inch of gold. Treasure it.
Appreciate its fleeting nature.
Misplaced gold is easily found.
Misspent time is lost forever.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five

ANON

Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
After dinner sit awhile,
After supper walk a mile.

WALT WHITMAN

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, and so on, and have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear, what remains? Nature remains.

GEORGE ORWELL

If man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia?

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Joy is everywhere.
It is in the Earth's green covering of grass,
In the blue serenity of the sky,
In the reckless exuberance of Spring,
In the severe abstinence of grey Winter,
In the living flesh that animates our bodily frame,
In the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright,
In living,
In the exercise of all our powers,
In the acquisition of knowledge,
in fighting evils.
Joy is there -
Everywhere.

LYDIA M. CHILD

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

MAX BEERBOHM

Nobody ever died of laughter.

MAYA ANGELOU

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

BUDDHA

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape
before me. I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich
river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness
and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

SIGURD OLSON

In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.

Chinese Proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Dr SEUSS

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

SOCRATES

Every person has full knowledge of ultimate truth contained within. The soul needs only to be spurred to conscious reflection in order to become aware of it.

RACHEL CARSON

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something
infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance
that dawn comes after night and spring after winter.

J.M. BARRIE

Shall we make a new rule of life from today? Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.

OSHO

You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced.

RICHARD BACH

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished - if you're alive, it isn't.

THICH NHAT HANH

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between them. If we do, peace will have a chance.

ANON

Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

OG MANDINO

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labour.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.

CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK

Let us be respectfully reminded - life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by, and with it our only chance. Each of us must aspire to awaken. Be aware. Do not squander our life.

ALAN WATTS

Normally we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

HENRY DRUMMOND

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!