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Bathroom Wall quotes.

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Follow the grain in your own wood. -Howard Thurman

Our piece of the puzzle

fits into the Big Picture.

You cannot put your foot into the same stream of consciousness twice.

( Hereclites & William James

Life is a verb.

Act always as if the future of the Universe depended on you, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your action makes any difference. -Buddhist saying

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting “holy moly...what a ride!”

-John Mann, FL Public Service Commission

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire

Goals are dreams with deadlines (Diana Scharf Hunt

If you have built castles in the air,

your work need not be lost . . .

put foundations under them.

(Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

We may learn & grow & profit from the wisdom of those called the opposition.

( Nobel Peace Laureate Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every moment we are happy is a gift to humanity. - Harry Palmer

Great composers do not work because they are inspired;

they become inspired because they work ( Ernest Newman

The world keeps ending but new people keep showing up as if the fun has just begun. -John Updike

God is love. ( I John 4: 7-8

In this age, nonconformity is a noble service ( John Stuart Mill

Compassion abides within us like tinder, waiting only for a spark. ( Nobel Peace Laureate Albert Schweitzer

Map out your future, but do it in pencil. (Jon Bon Jovi

Feelings are facts. Thoughts are impressions. Actions are choices.

It is never too late to be who you might have been ( George Eliot

Vision without action is a daydream.

Action without vision is a nightmare. (Japanese Proverb

Honor all beings. ( Thessalonians

One planet, one people.

Our conscience is delicate and easy to stifle but clear and impossible to mistake. ( Madame de Staël

Procrastinate now!

The interconnectedness of ALL

is too big to be encompassed by a single theory.

God is too big to fit into any one religion.

Peace is unity in diversity. ( Nobel Peace Laureate Mikhail Gorbachev

Kindred spirits all.

Making war makes war; to achieve peace, make peace.

-War Resisters League

If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in our hearts.

-Lao Tsu 

Green blessings

Heal the PAST

Love the PRESENT

Envision the FUTURE

Happiness is an inside job.

Art is the attention we give

to the wholeness of life.

Infinity is time on an ego trip.

-Lily Tomlin

Reality is a collective hunch.

-Lily Tomlin

It’s never too late to

have a happy childhood.

“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” -Maggie Kuhn, Gray Panthers

You must live with yourself so be sure you are in good company

- Charles Hughes

The world’s greatest feats are accomplished by those unable to comprehend impossibility. -Doug Larson

May your troubles be less, your blessings more,

& may nothing but happiness come through your door.

The best things in life aren’t things.

The clearest way into the Universe

is through a forest wilderness. ( John Muir

Life is like a roll of toilet paper;

the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

Savor life’s “Holy Moley” moments

Facts are the fibers that weave reality.

Facts flux.

Reality is a powerful illusion.

Reality clothes Truth.

The longing for naked Truth is the desire for spiritual essence, stripped of its concealing attire.

Reality is for THOSE who lack imagination.

Every step we take we walk on sacred Ground.

Every camp of human or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof -John Muir

No words ever written can compare with the sound of wind in pine trees.

( Thomas Merton

We need not know the meaning of life

to appreciate all we have for the time being.

War is costly; peace is priceless.

We must be stewards to our own hearts

and to one another as well as to the earth.

Harnomize with the Universal Rhythm.

“Justice doesn’t roll in on the wheels of inevitability.”-MLK,Jr.

Forgiveness is a miracle by which

what is broken is made whole again,

what is soiled is made clean again. -Dag Hammarskjold

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War will end when soldiers refuse to fight. -Tolstoy

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I have a dream, not a complaint.

Life is filled with many misfortunes,

most of which never happen. -Samuel Clemens

Love’s Paradox: “If I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”

-Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“We must not only give what we have,

we must also give what we are.” Desire-Joseph Mercier

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” -George Iles

“If the simple things in nature have a message that you

understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” -Eleonora Duse

Courage is to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. -Euripedes

Integrity is the only path upon which one never gets lost. -M.H. McKee

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear & the blind can see.”

-Samuel Clemens

Your past is not who you are; it is part of who you are becoming.

The worth of a life is not indicated by a single failure or success,

no matter how momentous.

Green Collar Workers unite!

Behind your eyes, a unique point in the universe looks out.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

Life is too important to be taken seriously. -Oscar Wilde

Yesterday is history.

Tomorrow is mystery

Today is a gift -Eleanor Roosevelt

That’s why it’s called “the present.”

May the beauty we love be what we do. - Rumi

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful & committed people can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

“I am a verb.” -Buckminster Fuller

Everything will be fine in the end; if it isn’t fine, it isn’t the end.

-Martha Colameco

The only constant is change.

Life f lux.

"Outside of a dog, books are man's best friend;

inside of a dog, of course, it's too dark to read."  

~ Groucho Marx ~

A journey of ten thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao Tze

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow . . .

with the help of forgetful squirrels -HD Thoreau

What would the world look like if we took seriously God’s love for all? -The Reverend Rod Debs

If essential liberty is given up to obtain safety, liberty is lost and safety is only temporary. -Benjamin Franklin

"My life is my message." -Gandhi

Catch a Leaf

“We need not think alike to love alike.” -Francis David

Grace Happens

“Around the block in 80 days” -Pat Cummins

My Beloved disarmed my Loyal Soldier. -Trebbe Johnson

ALERT to POSSIBILITIES

Enthralled with Life

I’m happy to have been here -and better for it. -Roger Vaughan

“All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.”

-Albert Einstein

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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

I pledge allegiance to the world

of the planet Earth of the universe

and to the web of life to which I belong

EVERY nation, under God indivisible,

with liberty and justice for ALL.

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Lead, follow, or go your own way.

Live as though everything is a miracle - Albert Einstein

We search for Truth as if concealed,

but in common things Truth stands revealed.

Vision becomes clear only when we look into our own hearts.

-Carl Jung

We have so little time,we must proceed very slowly.

-Buddhist

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Within everyone lies the pure, honest

heart of the child they once were.

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Through faith, hope becomes deed.

Opportunities are not found; they are created.

Enthusiasm precedes every great achievement.

Life is like acting lessons received during the on-stage performance.

We’d free the incarcerate human race that loneliness endures

could only you unlock my skull, or I creep into yours. - Ogden Nash

“Reality is what refuses to go away even when we stop believing in it.”

-Stephanie Kauffman

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“What is essential is invisible to the eye.” -Antoine de Sanit Exupery

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Judge not each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stephenson

Strangers are friends yet to be known.

Longing for what we want can sabotage what we have.

Joy forms when thrills of the past meet hope for the future.

In nature, sunsets replace TV sets

Why vacation when you can have an experience ?

Only when the power of love is stronger than the love of power

will there be peace. -Jimi Hendrix

We are a much nobler country than our narrowest minds and loudest mouths suggest. -Barbara Kingsolver

Do unto future generations as you would have had previous

generations do to your own. -Environmental Golden Rule

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If a person falls in the forest, do the trees hear?

- Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek p 94

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There’s no time like the pleasant.

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“We are not separate beings, you and I.

We are different strands of the same Being."

(Leonard Peltier, 1999, Prison Writings)

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Every stumbling block is a potential stepping stone.

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“Hear me four quarters of the world, relative are we.” - Black Elk

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Another planetary patriot.

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The way we treat children defines the shape of the world tomorrow. Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson, pg. 105

Gasp & feel lucky. Make mountains out of nature’s exquisite molehills. Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson, pg. 105

Be it ever so humble,

there’s no face like your own.

My face, I don’t mind it

because I’m behind it.” ---Anna Martin

According to a recent survey by the

Academy of Incomplete Research, 9 out of 10.

“Worry gives a small thing a BIG shadow.” Swedish Proverb

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing

but you mean your mother.

When all you have is a hammer,

every problem looks like a nail.

- Abraham Maslow

Life is too short to be little. -Benjamin Disraeli

Courtesy is love shown in common, everyday acts.

Friendship multiplies joy, divides sorrow.

"Stand for peace," rather than "fight against war," -Mother Teresa 

Children mirror their nation’s character.

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