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Here is a list of my favorite quotes from many different people:
"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart,
the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest
thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment;
of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built."
-James Allen
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"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces
and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy.
So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl."
-James Matthew Barrie "Peter Pan"
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"The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a
dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars."
-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living
thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the
circumstances and the time in which it is used."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, opinion, Towne v. Eisner, January 7, 1918
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.
When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness
and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art
establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment."
-John F. Kennedy- Address, Amherst College, October 26, 1963
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"The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop
in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two,
a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers
planted by the mind."
-Katherine Mansfield
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"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has
enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of
small children; who has filled his niche, and accomplished his task; who
has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty ,
or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others, and
given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction."
-Bessie Anderson Stanley (Prize-winning definition in a contest sponsored by Brown Book Magazine, Boston, 1904)
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"When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at
noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap
shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities
shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the
last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on
the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its
antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on
this our earth -- a melancholy bug."
-William Jacob Holland "The Moth Book" 1903
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"For someone who has taken this journey to the realm of death,
itself, there is a coming back to the world with gift-bestowing hands.
There is a real understanding of oneself, not as a small separate struggling
person, but as a part of this whole mystery."
- Jack Kornfield
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"We don't need someone to show us the ropes.
We are the ones we've been
waiting for.
Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us.
Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing."
- Sonia Johnson
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"...Thou cannot stir a flower without troubling of a star."
- Francis Thompson
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"Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite.
Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which
is the main river."
- Cyril Connolly
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"There is no birth of consciousness without pain"
- Carl Jung
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"In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from
comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often
did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future"
- Andre Gide
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