Time heals what reason cannot.
(Seneca - Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

"Echoing the Sun"

"The marigold, whose courtier's face
Echoes the sun, and doth unlace
Her at his rise, at his full stop
Packs and shuts up her gaudy shop".
(John Cleveland - English poet, 16131658)

"The Silent Song"

"Poetry is the language of the soul.
Silence is the song."
(From "The Starlight Crystal" by Christopher Pike)

Higher Purpose"

"We all have something that we are meant to do.
Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and then direct all your energies towards it."
(From "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" by Robin Sharma)

“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.”
(Hal Boyle - American reporter & writer, 1911-1974)

The Zen of Laundry:
“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.”
(E. B. White - American writer, 1899-1985)

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
(Franois de la Rochefoucauld - French classical author, 1613-1680)

"Being a Butterfly"

“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke.
Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
(Chuang Tzu - The most significant of China's early interpreters of Taoism, 389-286 BC)

alling in Love Many Times

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
(Mignon McLaughlin - American journalist and author, 1913-1983)

Magnificence and Rats"

"Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Poet and Essayist, 1803-1882)

“Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
(Kahlil Gibran - Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1883-1931)

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.
This is the ultimate.”
(Chuang Tzu - The most significant of China's early interpreters of Taoism, 389-286 BC)

“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”
(Kahlil Gibran - Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer, 1883 – 1931)

"Free from Attachments"

"We should worship lord Shiva so that we are freed from our worldly attachments just like a fruit falls from a tree after ripening.
Once we are successful in doing this we are liberated from this vicious cycles of life and death."
(Quotes from the Yajurveda, the third of the four canonical texts of Hinduism)

A poem by Sri Chinmoy (from Thirteen Teardrops):
"Lifeless Is The Seed Of Time In Me"

Lifeless is the seed of Time in me.
Goalless is my eyeless journey's start.
Although I cry, although I sigh,
Within, without looms large death-dart.

a Mirror"

“A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
(Kahlil Gibran - Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1883-1931)

“And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.”
(From the Bible)

“Whenever the mind unsteady and restless strays away from the spirit, let him ever and for ever lead it again to the spirit”.
(from the Bhagavad Gita)

“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”
(Samuel Smiles - Scottish author, 1812-1904)

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
(Kahlil Gibran - Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer, 1883 – 1931)

“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
(Swami Shivananda - Indian Yoga master, Physician, Monk and Founder of The Divine Life Society, 1887-1963)

“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects.
We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
(Charles Baudelaire - French poet, 1821-1867)

"Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically"
(Rabindranath Tagore - Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)

“I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.”
(Charles Baudelaire - French poet, 1821-1867)

Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.
(Aimé Césaire - French poet, author and politician, 19132008)