So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

J. R. R. Tolkien

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.

The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

James Allen

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."

Lucy Larcom

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

Autumn

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spring

when every leaf is a flower.


Albert Camus

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Henry David Thoreau

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.

Kevyn Aucoin

May the stars carry your darkness away.
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty.
May hope forever wipe away your tears.
And above all, may silence make you strong.

Chief Dan George 1899 - 1981

"Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it." Tom Hopkins

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you." - John E. Southard

Black Elk 1863 - 1950

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

Behold this day. It is yours to make.

Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Grown men can learn from very little children, for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

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"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

Willie Nelson

"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." Albert Schweitzeron

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them." John F. Kennedy

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." Robert Brault

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." G.K. Chesterton

"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life." - Yoko Ono

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." — Alice Walker

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know.
It's all wrong
By rights we shouldn't even be here.
But we are.
It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo.
The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger they were,
and sometimes you didn't want to know the end.
Because how could the end be happy.
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened.
But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow.
Even darkness must pass.
A new day will come.
And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you.
That meant something.
Even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand.
I know now.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t.
Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'"

"Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space."

"A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing."

"You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention."

"My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world."

"Tang sucks."

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"It is when you have a crack in your heart that the light will come in." - Gabriela Rodil

"Let go of who you are today to become who you want to be." - Paloma Greer

"The most wonderful thing about life is that you can always begin again. No matter what ups and downs you are handed in life today, you can always begin again tomorrow." - Raiza Mendoza

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“To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.”
∼ Chuang Tzu (c. 360 BC - c. 275 BC)

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

– Buddha –

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
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"Is not life a hundred times too short for us— to bore ourselves?"
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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.”
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“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
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“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
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“Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours. When you finally recognize that truth then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others. From this point you will finally be free.”

― Shannon L. Alder