Day 309 … October 4th (the Good Man)
“Nothing deters a Good Man from doing the Honorable Deed that is available.” ~ Seneca (Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret)
“Nothing deters a Good Man from doing the Honorable Deed that is available.” ~ Seneca (Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones that you did. So throw off the bowlines and sail away from your safe harbor … Explore — Dream — Discover.” ~ Mark Twain
“If you enter the Temple for no other purpose than asking, you shall not receive anything.” ~ K. Gibran Regardless of your religion, praying for your personal “salvation” is the ultimate blasphemy.
“The River is famous to the fish. The loud voice is famous to Silence, which knew it would inherit the Earth. The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek … I want to be famous to shuffling men who smile while crossing streets, to sticky children in grocery lines; famous as the one who smiled […]
“All I can do is stand with my arms stretched wide — wider than that … It is the Love and the pain; the hurt and the conflict; the warmth and the laughter that I make room for … So stretch them wider — even wider than that.” ~ Emily J. Williams
“Material things are not gifts but rather apologies for gifts. The only true Gift is a portion of thyself … One of the beautiful compensations of life is that no man can sincerely give to another without simultaneously helping to free his Self … There is nothing stronger than such gentleness.” ~ unknown
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a Miracle. The other is as though everything is a Miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein LOVE is the miracle!
“One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and the setting of his own Sun, and the brightness of Its shining.” ~ John Muir The Sun is always shining, & true Happiness thrives within every Heart.
“Little by little, you will turn into stars. Even then, my dear, you will only be a crawling infant, still skinning your knees on God. Little by little, you will turn into the whole, sweet, amorous Universe – in heat on a wild, Spring night – and become so free … In a wonderful, secret […]
“Let your adornment be the Inner Self; the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet Spirit.” ~ unknown (1 Peter 3:4) Only the quiet Spirit can be Heard by others, and the quiet Spirit speaks loudest when it speaks with acts of Love.
“If we Love one another, God lives in us, and His Love is perfected in us.” ~ unknown (1 John 4:12) Love is a verb, or it is nothing.