2010 quotes

Be the change
You want to see
In the world
                 -Gandhi


I long for man to repent
And be saved from his own immortality
                -T.F. Powys

All change is miraculous to contemplate
              -Walden

It is often said that my heart
Is too open for my own good
              -Henri Rousseau

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone,  you may still exist
But you have ceased to live.
            -Mark Twain

You ask the embryo
Why he, or she,
Stays cooped up in the dark
With eyes closed.
           -Rumi

He who knows others is clever;
He who knows himself is enlightened.
          -Lao Tzu

I am defeated all the time;
Yet to victory I am born.
            -Emerson

We spend our time searching
For security
And hate it when we get it
           -Steinbeck


There's no safety in numbers
Nor in anything else
              -Thurber

What you are
Comes to you
            -Emerson

Sky is the daily bread of the soul
          -Emerson


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