Bathroom Wall quotes.
Suggestions are welcomed for consideration.
Follow the grain in your own wood.
-Howard Thurman
Our piece of the puzzle
fits into the Big Picture.
You cannot put your foot into the same stream of consciousness twice.
 Hereclites & William James
Life is a verb.
Act always as if the future of the Universe
depended on you, while laughing at yourself for
thinking that your action makes any difference. Buddhist saying
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but
rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting “holy moly...what a ride!”
-John Mann, FL Public Service Commission
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire
Goals are dreams with
deadlines Diana Scharf Hunt
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost . . .
put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
We may learn & grow & profit from the wisdom of
those called the opposition.
 Nobel Peace Laureate Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Every moment we are happy is a gift to humanity. - Harry Palmer
Great composers do not work because they are inspired;
they become inspired because they work
 Ernest Newman
The world keeps ending but new people keep showing
up as if the fun has just begun.
-John Updike
God is love.  I John 4: 7-8
In this age, nonconformity is a noble service  John Stuart Mill
Compassion abides within us like tinder,
waiting only for a spark.
 Nobel Peace Laureate Albert
Schweitzer
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
Feelings are facts.
Thoughts are impressions.
Jon Bon Jovi
Actions are choices.
It is never too late to be who you might have been  George Eliot
Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb
Honor all beings.
 Thessalonians
One planet, one people.
Our conscience is delicate and easy to stifle but clear
and impossible to mistake.
 Madame de Staël
Procrastinate now!
The interconnectedness of ALL
is too big to be encompassed by a single theory.
God is too big to fit into any one religion.
Peace is unity in diversity.  Nobel Peace Laureate Mikhail
Gorbachev
Kindred
spirits
all.
Making war makes war; to achieve peace, make peace.
-War Resisters League
If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in our hearts.
-Lao Tsu
Green blessings
Heal the PAST
Love the PRESENT
Envision the FUTURE
Happiness is an inside job.
Art is the attention we
give
to the wholeness of life.
Infinity is time on an ego trip.
-Lily Tomlin
Reality is a collective hunch.
-Lily Tomlin
It’s
never too late to
have a happy childhood.
“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” -Maggie Kuhn, Gray Panthers
You must live with yourself so be sure you are in good company
- Charles Hughes
The world’s greatest feats are accomplished by those unable to
comprehend impossibility.
-Doug Larson
May your troubles be less, your blessings more,
& may nothing but happiness come through your door.
The best things in life aren’t things.
The clearest way into the Universe
is through a forest wilderness.  John Muir
Life is like a roll of toilet paper;
the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
Savor life’s “Holy Moley” moments
Facts are the fibers that weave reality.
Facts flux.
Reality is a powerful illusion.
Reality clothes Truth.
The longing for naked Truth is the desire for
spiritual essence, stripped of its concealing attire.
Reality is for THOSE who lack imagination.
Every step we take we walk on sacred Ground.
Every camp of human or beast has this glorious
starry firmament for a roof
-John Muir
No words ever written can compare with the sound of wind in pine trees.
 Thomas Merton
We need not know the meaning of life
to appreciate all we have for the time being.
War is costly; peace is priceless.
We must be stewards to our own hearts
and to one another as well as to the earth.
Harnomize with the Universal Rhythm.
“Justice doesn’t roll in on the wheels of inevitability.”-MLK,Jr.
Forgiveness is a miracle by which
what is broken is made whole again,
what is soiled is made clean again.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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War will end when soldiers refuse
to fight. -Tolstoy
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I have a dream, not a complaint.
Life is filled with many misfortunes,
most of which never happen. -Samuel Clemens
Love’s Paradox: “If I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
-Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“We must not only give what we have,
we must also give what we are.” Desire-Joseph Mercier
“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”
-
George Iles
“If the simple things in nature have a message that you
understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” Eleonora Duse
Courage is to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
-
Euripedes
Integrity is the only path upon which one never gets lost.
M.H. McKee
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear & the blind can see.”
-Samuel Clemens
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Your past is not who you are; it is part of who you are becoming.
The worth of a life is not indicated by a single failure or success,
no matter how momentous.
Green Collar Workers unite!
Behind your eyes, a unique point in the universe looks out.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
Life is too important to be taken seriously. -Oscar Wilde
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery
Today is a gift
-Eleanor Roosevelt
That’s why it’s called “the present.”
May the beauty we love be what we
do. - Rumi
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful & committed people can change the world;
indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
“I am a verb.” -Buckminster
Fuller
Everything will be fine in the end; if it isn’t fine, it isn’t the end.
-Martha Colameco
The only constant is change.
Life f lux.
"Outside of a dog, books are man's best
friend;
inside of a dog, of course, it's too
dark to read."
~ Groucho Marx ~
A journey of ten thousand miles begins with a single step.
-Lao Tze
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow . . .
with the help of forgetful squirrels
-HD
Thoreau
What would the world look like if we took
seriously God’s love for all? -The Reverend Rod Debs
If essential liberty is given up to obtain safety, liberty is lost and
safety is only temporary.
-Benjamin Franklin
"My life is my message."
-Gandhi
Catch a Leaf
“We need not think alike to love alike.” -Francis David
Grace Happens
“Around the block in 80 days”
-
Pat Cummins
My Beloved disarmed my Loyal Soldier.
-Trebbe Johnson
ALERT to POSSIBILITIES
Enthralled with Life
I’m happy to have been here -and
better for it. -Roger Vaughan
“All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.”
-Albert Einstein
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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
I pledge allegiance to the world
of the planet Earth of the universe
and to the web of life to which I belong
EVERY nation, under God indivisible,
with liberty and justice for ALL.
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Lead, follow, or go your own way.
Live as though everything is a miracle - Albert Einstein
We search for Truth as if concealed,
but in common things Truth stands revealed.
Vision becomes clear only when we look into our own hearts.
-Carl Jung
We have so little time,we must proceed very
slowly.
-Buddhist
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Within everyone lies the pure, honest
heart of the child they once were.
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Through faith, hope becomes deed.
Opportunities are not found; they are created.
Enthusiasm precedes every great achievement.
Life is like acting lessons received during the on-stage performance.
We’d free the incarcerate human race that loneliness endures
could only you unlock my skull, or I creep into yours. - Ogden Nash
“Reality is what refuses to go away even when we stop believing in it.”
-Stephanie Kauffman
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
-Antoine de Sanit Exupery
Judge not each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert
Louis
Stephenson
Strangers are friends yet to be known.
Longing for what we want can sabotage what we
have.
Joy forms when thrills of the past meet hope for the future.
In nature, sunsets replace
TV
sets
Why vacation when you can have an experience ?
Only when the power of love is stronger than the love of power
will there be peace.
-Jimi Hendrix
We are a much nobler country than our narrowest minds
and loudest mouths suggest.
-Barbara Kingsolver
Do unto future generations as you would have had
previous
generations do to your own.
-Environmental Golden Rule
If a person falls in the forest, do the trees hear?
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek p 94
There’s no time like the pleasant.
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“We are not separate beings, you and I.
We are different strands of the same Being."
(Leonard Peltier, 1999, Prison Writings)
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Every stumbling block is a potential stepping
stone.
“Hear me four quarters of the world, relative are we.” - Black
Elk
Another planetary patriot.
The way we treat children defines the shape of the world tomorrow.
Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson, pg. 105
Gasp & feel lucky. Make mountains out of nature’s exquisite molehills.
Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson, pg. 105
Be it ever so humble,
there’s no face like your own.
My face, I don’t mind it
because I’m behind it.” ---Anna
Martin
According to a recent survey by the
Academy of Incomplete Research, 9 out of 10.
“Worry gives a small thing a BIG shadow.”
Swedish Proverb
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing
but you mean your mother.
When all you have is a hammer,
every problem looks like a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Life
is
too
short
to
be little.
-Benjamin
Disraeli
Courtesy is love shown in common, everyday acts.
Friendship multiplies joy, divides sorrow.
"Stand for peace," rather than "fight against war," -Mother Teresa
Children mirror their nation’s character.