Quotes

I love to use quotes as a springboard for my posts.  Here are some that I've used and links to the posts they're used with.

It's so much friendlier with two. ~Winnie-the-Pooh via A. A. Milne

If it's not fun, why do it? ~Ben and Jerry

Suffering is not a virtue.  Joy is not a sin. ~Paulo Coelho

Not all who wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. ~Albert Einstein

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~Joseph Campbell

The unexamined life is not worth living. ~Socrates

I have found that if you love life, life will love you right back. ~Arthur Rubinstein

The book of your heart is where your answers reside.  Learn to be still and to listen inside. ~Christy Marek

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves. ~Mary Oliver

Who can predict the wind? ~Nicolas Cage (as character David Spritz)

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. ~Dar Williams


I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did.  I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do. ~Oliver North

Every dog must have his day. ~Jonathan Swift

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. ~Smiley Blanton

Sometimes to see life clearly, you need to open more than your eyes. ~from the movie Local Color

You've given me the best of you, now I need the rest of you. ~Billy Joel

How nice to be inconsequential.  How pleasant to know that there is nothing to be done. ~Chris Cleave

I want to free your heart.  I want to see your heart.  Please don't keep your heart hidden away.  ~Josh Groban

When we meditate, we center ourselves and listen to that still small voice within.  We are tapping into the silence of being.  It is in the golden silence of our own selves that the divine is found. ~James Van Praagh

It seems the gift of being present is actually wanting to take care of myself on all levels. ~Christy Marek

Ask the question, feel the answer.  Ask, feel.  Ask, feel.  Ask, feel.  OK? ~The Universe

If you choose to be present, then gradually the hidden treasures will be revealed. ~Leonard Jacobson

The Universe is naturally abundant.  The things you truly need or want are here for the asking. ~Shakti Gawain