Seven Wonders....

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff

Little men already..

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. ~Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688

Everything in Nothing..

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto

I am the King...

I am,
indeed,
a king,
because I know how
to rule myself.
~Pietro Aretino, 10 May 1537

Temptation...

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. ~Tom Wilson

Listen...

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Unity..

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Teach...

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt

Teach...

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt

Sugar and Spice..

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap. ~Author Unknown

Kids...

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~William Stafford

Learn...

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

Everything in Nothing..

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto

We worry...

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

Celebrate it...

Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Darkness to Light...

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato

Your name...

Someone remembers, someone cares;
Your name is whispered in someone’s prayers.
~Author Unknown

Unity....

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~Bahá'u'lláh

Color..

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ~Claude Monet

Blazing torches...

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. ~Felix Adler

Happy Diwali...!!!

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld

The family....

We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

Binding..

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras

Yesterday and Today...

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Start a thing...

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt

Alone....

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane

In my garden..

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban

Secrets of life...

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn

Changing Seasons...

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana

Fruits...

Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens.
~Sepal Felicivant

War..

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ~Francis Meehan

My Heart...

My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders

I love...

I love your hills and I love your dales,
And I love your flocks a-bleating;
but oh, on the heather to lie together,
With both our hearts a-beating!
~John Keats

May you Always...

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~Irish Blessing

May the....

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing

Simply Happy...!!!

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho

I Thank you God....

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings

Who will tell...

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm

Art is...

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning. ~Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Teamwork...

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. ~Babe Ruth

Nostalgia

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy

Happiness

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg

Forgiveness....

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Light....

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld

Peace...

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~William Ewart Gladstone

Patience...

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams

Butterfly..

May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sunAnd find your shoulder to light on,To bring you luck, happiness and richesToday, tomorrow and beyond.~Irish Blessing