Tranquility

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace.
You will find that deep place of silence right in your room,
your garden or even your bathtub.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Reflection

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business.
A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
~Robert Brault

On technology

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history;
it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities
made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man -
if man is not enslaved by it.
~Jonas Salk

Duality

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe
and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
~Blaise Pascal

Bloooooo!

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tree popcicles

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn.
~Marche Blumenberg

Yuletide blessings

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin

On Christmas

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~Mary Ellen Chase

On sadness

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
~Lamartine

I love mine!

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
~Author Unknown

Home

Peace - that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris

A blessing

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
~Irish Blessing

On believing

Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom.
~Author Unknown

Quiet beauty

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful -
and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
~Pam Brown

Melancholy

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
~Jean Rhys

Autumn mist

Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad,
and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.
~Pepper Giardino

Respite

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~Elizabeth Lawrence

Breathe it in

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering,
I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!
~Henri Rousseau

Cloud art

Nature is my medicine.
~Sara Moss-Wolfe

Yay or neigh

If you want a stable friendship, get a horse.
~Author Unknown