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  • #1
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #2
    “This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:

    Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    W.H. Murray

  • #3
    “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
    Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!”
    William Hutchison Murray

  • #4
    Walt Whitman
    “In the faces of men and women, I see God.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #5
    Walt Whitman
    “And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #6
    Walt Whitman
    “Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
    Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
    You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
    and of every moment of your life”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #7
    Walt Whitman
    “If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #8
    Walt Whitman
    “A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #9
    Walt Whitman
    “Your very flesh shall be a great poem...”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #10
    Walt Whitman
    “My words itch at your ears till you understand them”
    Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

  • #11
    Walt Whitman
    “Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love;
    But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another;
    (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd;
    Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

    Walt Whitman

  • #12
    Walt Whitman
    “The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #13
    Walt Whitman
    “Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."



    walt whitman

  • #14
    Virginia Woolf
    “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #16
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #17
    Naomi Shihab Nye
    “Kindness

    Before you know what kindness really is
    you must lose things,
    feel the future dissolve in a moment
    like salt in a weakened broth.
    What you held in your hand,
    what you counted and carefully saved,
    all this must go so you know
    how desolate the landscape can be
    between the regions of kindness.
    How you ride and ride
    thinking the bus will never stop,
    the passengers eating maize and chicken
    will stare out the window forever.

    Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
    you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
    lies dead by the side of the road.
    You must see how this could be you,
    how he too was someone
    who journeyed through the night with plans
    and the simple breath that kept him alive.

    Before you know kindness as the deepest thing
    inside,
    you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
    You must wake up with sorrow.
    You must speak to it till your voice
    catches the thread of all sorrows
    and you see the size of the cloth.

    Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
    only kindness that ties your shoes
    and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
    purchase bread,
    only kindness that raises its head
    from the crowd of the world to say
    It is I you have been looking for,
    and then goes with you everywhere
    like a shadow or a friend.”
    Naomi Shihab Nye, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

  • #18
    Pearl S. Buck
    “I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #19
    William Penn
    “I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
    William Penn

  • #20
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #21
    “Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?”
    Lily Tomlin

  • #22
    Jan Karon
    “Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.”
    Jan Karon, At Home in Mitford

  • #23
    Paulo Coelho
    “A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.”
    Paulo Coelho, Brida

  • #24
    Franz Kafka
    “Writing is prayer.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #25
    Janis Joplin
    “Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”
    Janis Joplin

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”

    “In prayer all are equal.”
    Rumi

  • #27
    Francis of Assisi
    “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
    where there is hatred, let me sow love;
    when there is injury, pardon;
    where there is doubt, faith;
    where there is despair, hope;
    where there is darkness, light;
    and where there is sadness, joy.
    Grant that I may not so much seek
    to be consoled as to console;
    to be understood, as to understand,
    to be loved as to love;
    for it is in giving that we receive,
    it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
    and it is in dying [to ourselves] that we are born to eternal life.”
    Francis Of Assisi

  • #28
    Julia Cameron
    “Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.”
    Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

  • #29
    Steve Maraboli
    “The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #30
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
    Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion



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