The Divine Mystery

"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Loving Cup

"To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right shut up."
- Ogden Nash

Be The Change

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Follow Your Bliss

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls" - Joseph Campbell

Golf Encounters

"Golf is a good walk spoiled" - Mark Twain

Man's Obligation

"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."
- Albert Einstein

See Yourself

"And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of."
- William Shakespeare

Plant Vines

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

Two Beliefs

"I find myself always torn between two beliefs: the belief that life should be better than it is and the belief that when it appears better it really is worse." - Graham Greene, Journey Without Maps

Reality

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Golf Hits

"It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
- Hank Aaron

Better Looking

""A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
- Gore Vidal

Everyday Life

"But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life." - Benjamin Hoff

Simply Yourself

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
- Lao Tzu

Easter

"And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here." ~St Augustine

Tolerance

"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." - Voltaire

A Right to Study

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." - John Adams

Little Jokes

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

- Robert Frost

Love Each Other

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all." - Lord Byron

Sunflower

"Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done;

Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sunflower wishes to go!"

- William Blake

Implicit Forms of the Soul

"The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth." - Joseph Campbell

The Value of Life

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

Loving Chicago

"“Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.” - Nelson Algren

How Wonderful Life

"It's ironic that we forget so often how wonderful life really is. We have more time than ever to remember it."

- Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

The Winding Stair

"My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
Upon the breathless starlit air,
'Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;
Fix every wandering thought upon
That quarter where all thought is done:
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul."

- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)