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  • #1
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #2
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #3
    Al Gore
    “Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.”
    Al Gore

  • #4
    Peter Ustinov
    “If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”
    Peter Ustinov
    tags: humor

  • #5
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #6
    Ann B. Ross
    “Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.”
    Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

  • #7
    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #8
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #9
    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    Hal Borland

  • #10
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
    Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

  • #11
    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #12
    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    Confucius

  • #13
    James Herriot
    “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
    James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

  • #14
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #15
    John Cowper Powys
    “One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
    John Cowper Powys

  • #16
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #17
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #18
    Nadine Gordimer
    “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
    Nadine Gordimer

  • #19
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #20
    Laurence Sterne
    “What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”
    Laurence Sterne

  • #21
    William Blake
    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    William Blake

  • #22
    Carlo Levi
    “The future has an ancient heart.”
    Carlo Levi

  • #23
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
    Ashleigh Brilliant

  • #25
    Chris Abani
    “What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
    Chris Abani

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #27
    Elizabeth Strout
    “I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
    Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

  • #28
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #29
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    Haruki Marukami

  • #30
    Colette
    “I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
    Colette

  • #31
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes



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