I Am Grateful
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. — Henry David Thoreau • See this smart saying in our shop.
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. — Henry David Thoreau • See this smart saying in our shop.
Attention is energy. What you put your attention on, you get more of. Each one of us is a fountain of energy, a valve through which universal life energy is metered into the world, and we can each point our self at whatever we want to. We add life force to our surroundings—to everything we pay attention to. — Stephen Gaskin • See this smart saying in our shop.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. — Michel de Montaigne • See this smart saying in our shop.
“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
Asked whether he had made his peace with God, Henry David Thoreau, the famous essayist and author of Walden, replied calmly that he was not aware that they had ever quarreled. When a remark was made about the fast-approaching hereafter, he remarked: “One world at a time.” His last words have a kind of lovely mysticism that only he knew the answer to: “Moose … Indian …” He is buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, and his grave is marked, curiously, with only the one word: “Henry”.
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Have the courage to act instead of react. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. • See this smart saying in our shop.
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe • “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” — Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams • “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing. — Mark Twain • See this smart saying in our shop.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The solutions all are simple – after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are. — Robert Pirsig
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. — Saint Augustine • See this smart saying in our shop.
People say law but they mean wealth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson • See this smart saying in our shop.
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. — Maimonides • See this smart saying in our shop.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. — Henry David Thoreau • See this smart saying in our shop.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying. — Ralph Waldo Emerson • See this smart saying in our shop.