Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence — a surprise.
Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name? to respond when called.Ever wonder why?.
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours.
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
I am happy.I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.I am happy.
Hope is the last thing that dies.Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.
The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river’s flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God… or an artist and a writer.
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let’s keep it in perspective.
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.
Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to “season” people.
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exult
In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
Relief is a great feeling.It’s the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the neg
Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called “earth mot
A woman is human.She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.Likewise, she is never less.Equality is a given.A woman is human.
Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures.
Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer.
A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.
If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
Money is like fire. It is only good when there’s just the right amount of it, when it’s properly contained and under your control.
In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.
It’s a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all “sisters” and “brot
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it — in our own small ways — by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c
A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.
One of the strangest things is the act of creation.You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instr
Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that’s where the point lies.
A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.A foolish sage is one who forgets this.Remember, or come full circle.
Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.Is the glass part full or part empty?Take another sip.And now?
There is only Love — and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.
The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.
To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone tog
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.It is the one true and perfect symbol of the uni
Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true
Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror — its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.
Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all…
Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!
Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.
It’s easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.
Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.Don’t limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.
There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey.At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist real
The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale…
I’ll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.
Respect the young and chastise your elders. It’s about time the world was set aright.
I’ve just been bitten on the neck by a vampire… mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?
Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don’t be the one!
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.So does gossip.