Tuesday, January 31, 2006

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Saturday, January 28, 2006

"It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Friday, January 27, 2006

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, 25 January, 2006

"L’impossible, nous le l’atteignons pas, mais il sert de lanterne."
"We will never attain the impossible, but it serves as a guiding light."
-René Char

Monday, January 23, 2006

"The best things in life aren't things."
-Seen on a church sign in Kohimarama, Auckland, NZ

Sunday, January 22, 2005

"To forgive oneself"? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven.
- Dag Hammarskjöld

Friday, January 20, 2006

"Most people, I am convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first."
- Philip Larkin

Wednesday, January 18. 2006

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
- Martin Luther King, jr.

Monday, January 16, 2006

"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practising an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
- Kurt Vonnegut

Friday, January 13, 2005

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London

Thursday, January 12, 2005

"If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wednesday, January 11, 2005

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
- William James

Tuesday, January 10, 2005

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
- Confucius

Monday, January 9, 2005

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
- Stephen Hawking

Sunday, January 8, 2005

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
- Thomas S. Szasz

Saturday, January 7, 2006

"Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
- Carl Sandburg

Friday, January 6, 2006

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
- Mitch Albom

Thursday, January 5, 2006

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, January 4, 2005

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
- Albert Camus

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Monday, January 2, 2006

"A new year is unfolding - like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within."
- Anonymous

Sunday, January 1, 2006

"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."
- G.K. Chesterton