Tag: quote

When Is Time Really Wasted?

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective”

All is the Moon

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. – Matsuo Basho

Wednesday of Hope – Wait

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,  For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Wait”

What Happens Here, Happens There

Pick a flower and you move a farthest star. – Paul Dirac

Wednesday of Hope – Dance Anyway

No despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Indeed we are in the midst of it, and it is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Dance Anyway”

Enjoying the Spring

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. -Rainer Maria Rilke

Wednesday of Hope – Go and Create Something

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment. – Maxine Hong Kingston

Loving the Ordinary

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary. – Author Unknown

Wednesday of Hope – Trusting the Chaos

Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. – Septima Clark