If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
-Epicurus
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
-Marcus Aurelius
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
God Himself told me that the most basic and central truth of the universe is that God is the Father and we are His children. We are all created as children of God.