Calm and creative
Inspiration
Gong xi fa cai! Wishing you great happiness and prosperity in the Year of the Rat!
Cascade Feng Shui
All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
William Butler Yeats
So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.
Neil Gaiman
Some mornings out in the misty ranges the world looks like it means something, some simple thing just out of my reach, but there anyway. That’s why I go.
Tim Winton
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
Søren Kierkegaard
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart).
E.E. Cummings
We must stop wishing and simply start the building of the life we want.
Tyler Knott Gregson
If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L. M. Montgomery
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing by degree of presence.
Alan Watts
The true story, the one that resonates most, is that I stand on good ground, on solid ground. I stand rooted in truth and love and light and wellness. May I hold my arms out wide and my head up high and stand tall like a tree upon this earth while the stories of fear and false beliefs flow past me like leaves being carried in the wind.
E.G. Wise, We’Moon
A day of laughter is a lot better than a day of anguish and suffering.
Testino
In a society that profits from your self-doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.
Caroline Caldwell
No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.
Han Fei
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Rainer Maria Rilke
No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest.
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Ken Kesey
Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.
Pema Chodron
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Robert Sexton
The pleasures of friendship are exquisite, how pleasant to go to a friend on a visit! I go my friend, we walk on the grass, and the hours and moments like minutes pass.
Stevie Smith
You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like you, that’s great. If they don’t, that’s their problems.
Sting
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
Charlotte Brontë
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
The pleasures of friendship are exquisite, how pleasant to go to a friend on a visit! I go my friend, we walk on the grass, and the hours and moments like minutes pass.”
Stevie Smith
If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer . . . If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!
Shel Silverstein
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Lao Tzu
Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh.
William Butler Yeats
If space is love, Professor, then is love space? Or is love something we use to fill space? If time eats the doughnut, does love eat the hole?