Here is a list of quotes I like. Right now they are just listed but I will be breaking them into sections as time permits.
Life, illness, love, and death -- together they continue to be my great Teachers.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~Albert Einstein
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer
Begin with the possible. Begin with one step.
There is always a limit; and you cannot do more than you can.
If you try to do too much, you will do nothing.
~Ouspensky & Gurdjieff
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire (1694-1778)
It is because of our attachment to things that we suffer. By letting go we find that we have not lost anything except our attachment. ~Sogyal Rinpoche
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.~ J. Jackson
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. ~C.S. Lewis
Today's happenings will have their impact. Sometime - in some way. All moments, all events are part of my sacred path. Granny Moon
"I will understand myself when I start to listen to myself."Granny Moon
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed. - Granny Moon
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ~Marilyn vos Savant
"Without a sacred center, no one knows right from wrong." ~Thomas Yellowtail, CROW
"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression." ~ Margaret Sanger
I notice and embrace the new opportunities that are now in my life. ~Mystiblu
"Good women - May we know them. May we be them, may we raise them." ~Anonymous
Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition Courage resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when we need it. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey. ~Cherie Carter-Scott
Change is constant in life. Mind should accord with changes. Do not use yesterday's mind to perceive today's happenings. ~Zhuang Zi
"It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you." ~ Lady Bird Johnson
When asked how the heart could be purified, Maharji said, "Always Speak the Truth" ~ Neem Karoli Baba from Miracle of Love
The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the dust and blood of our ancestors.
~Plenty-Coups - Crow Chief, 1909
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.~ Albert Einstein
Life can be as simple as love and prayer. Where the two mingle there can be no jealousy, resentment, or fear. From Granny Moon 5/8/06
"My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world." ~Maya Angelou
"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right." ~ Confucius
"Dead -- I Say? There is not death. Only a change of worlds." Chief Seattle, DWAMISH
Life, illness, love, and death -- together they continue to be my great Teachers. Granny Moon
I walk the path knowing that how I perceive the journey literally creates what's beyond the next bend. Granny Moon
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
~ Polly Tonybee
"I want to be a cultural force in my time.
I can think of no greater aim than to transmit to my generation
and those that follow some part of the ecstasy I have known, the beauty I have seen,
and the insights that have warmed my soul."
~Anne Rice (Thanks Moon!)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~Galileo Galilei
The problem with many things is the pre-conceived ideas we have about them! ~Shanti
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less. ~ Ken Blanchard
If we don't know where we are going, we will probably end up somewhere else. ~L. J. Peter
Those who take time to find pleasure in the ordinary DO live differently.
The simple difference is this: because they have learned to live simply, they have learned to live. Granny Moon
"Life Is Too Strong To Stop, Too Sweet To Lose" ~Willa Cather
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. ~Tennessee Williams
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. ~Frank A. Clark
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.~Peace Pilgrim
Life is like a wild tiger. You can either lie down and let it lay its paw on your head -- or sit on its back and ride it. GrannyMoon
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.~ D. Reardon
I am the artist of my own life. I paint with the colors of each moment.
I choose the colors of yesterday to blend with tomorrow's hues.
Will my tomorrows be brighter because of my yesterdays?
Today is the question. Shall I paint them with glorious yellows greens or blues...
or deep browns, grays and blacks?
Perhaps I will simply sit with my moment paint brush and
watch the page in its beautiful blankness.
I am the artist of my life.
~Marlana
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. ~Thomas Jefferson
*Granny's Note: Because it is!!!
"He who fears something gives it power over him." ~Moorish Proverb
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. -e.e. cummings
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong." ~Maya Angelou
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright,
knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." ~ Doris Lessing
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.~ Will Rogers
Out of every crisis comes the chance to be reborn ~Nena O'Neill
"Genius is childhood recaptured."
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's
love and concern for each other. ~ Millard Fuller
All respectability, all honor is meaningless if it drives you against your nature. What can you do if you are not a lotus flower, but just a marigold? Enjoy being a marigold. ~Osho
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Indira Gandhi
If We Are Facing in The Right Direction, All We Have To Do is To Keep On Walking.
"Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it." ~Emily Dickinson
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.
Then the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ~Buddha
Wake up Sleeping Beauty! Time to look around at you and find out what is really going on! ~GrannyMoon
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller
The fool sees difficulty in every opportunity; the intelligent sees opportunity in every difficulty. ~Nahsti Ruby Lavender
The creative man seeks companions, not corpses or herds or believers.
The creative man seeks fellow-creators, those who inscribe new values on new
tables. The creative man seeks companions and fellow-harvesters: for with
him everything is ripe for harvesting.
Zarathustra
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. ~Black Elk, Oglala Sioux
Quotes from GrannyMoon
We can't change anybody else. We can only change ourselves.
But in changing ourselves, often others will change as well.
Make the world a better place, one thought at a time.
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
The Divinity within you is like a stream of living water. Drink deeply.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber
