“They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast,
And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Caution: Power
“Power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love.
It seems easier to be God than to love God,
easier to control people than to love people,
easier to own life than to love life.”
Henri Nouwen
Irritation
“Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Jung, 1875-1961
End of the World
“It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.”
R.E.M.
Together
“What I do you cannot do;
but what you do, I cannot do. . .
together we can do something wonderful.”
Mother Theresa
Advantage
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you
that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius
Don’t Look Down
“May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow
because I am looking down.”
Sara June Parker
Youth
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world,
except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Tiny Surrenders
“You do not wake up one morning a bad person.
It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders
of self-respect to self-interest.”
Something For Me
View from Blue Ridge Parkway
“In a world where there is so much to be done.
I felt strongly impressed that
there must be something for me to do.”
Dorothea Dix, 1802-1887
Catch It
“If you want to catch something,
running after it isn’t always the best way.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, b. 1949
Happy Mother’s Day
Collecting shells at OBX with my mom (right) and aunt (left)
“I remember my mother’s prayers
and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.”
Abraham Lincoln
Deserve
“The supply of good women far exceeds
that of the men that deserve them.”
Robert Graves, 1896-1985
English poet
Create
“I do believe it is possible to create,
even without ever writing a word or painting a picture,
by simply molding one’s inner life.
And that too is a deed.”
Etty Hillesum, 1914-1943
Show Up
“I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.”
Anna Quindlen, b. 1953
A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
