Sea

I look at the sea with trepidity

from the safeness of its shores

I am too little, too stupid

to understand the vastness, the complexity

of nature

Trees

I wonder about the trees.


Why do we wish to bear


Forever the noise of these


More than another noise


So close to our dwelling place?


We suffer them by the day


Till we lose all measure of pace,


And fixity in our joys,


And acquire a listening air.


They are that that talks of going


But never gets away;


And that talks no less for knowing,


As it grows wiser and older,


That now it means to stay.


My feet tug at the floor


And my head sways to my shoulder


Sometimes when I watch trees sway,


From the window or the door.


I shall set forth for somewhere,


I shall make the reckless choice


Some day when they are in voice


And tossing so as to scare


The white clouds over them on.


I shall have less to say,


But I shall be gone.

-- Robert Frost

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures
and go on to the next challenge. It's OK. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
-H. Stanley Judd

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
-Syndey J. Harris

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
-Henry David Thoreau

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
-Samuel Johnson

Integrity is one of several paths, it distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path,
and the only one upon which you will never get lost.
-M. H. McKee

Believe the best of everybody.
-Rudyard Kipling

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.
-Bill Copeland

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
-John Keats

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work: the last half.
-Cyrus Curtis

Ruthlessly compete with your own best self.
-Apollo 13 engineers

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
-Abigail Adams

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
-Shakespeare

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
-Chinese Proverb 

Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein

The cost of a thing is the amount of life that must be exchanged for it.
-Henry David Thoreau

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley

And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
-Leo Tolstoy

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
-William Feather

Into each life some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Only those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
-Robert Kennedy

Mountains

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
- Erik H. Erikson

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Oscar Wilde


What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama


It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
- Dorothy Thompson

People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
- Isaac Asimov


Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
- Omar N. Bradley


Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
- John Dewey

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
- Germaine Greer

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

People do not live nowadays - they get about ten percent out of life.
- Isadora Duncan

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death
- James F. Bymes

A useless life is an early death.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
- Maria Mitchell

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Live your life and forget your age.
- Norman Vincent Peale

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
- Theodore Rubin


What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
- Blaise Pascal

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
- Linda Hogan

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A flower is an educated weed.
- Luther Burbank

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
- Joan Rivers

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
- Oscar Wilde

Take it easy -- but take it.
- Woody Guthrie

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
- Ramona L. Anderson