Fertile Ground - Inspiration

Seeds for Thought

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
-Kahlil Gibran

Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid
and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
-Walt Whitman

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't. 
-Richard Bach

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
-Alexander Woollcott

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
-St. Augustine,

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
-Jack London

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!
-Buddha

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
-Dawna Markova

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
-Cherokee expression

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.' 
-The Talmud

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
-Henry Van Dyke

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
-David Carradine

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
-William Henry Channing

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-Harold Whitman

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.
-Mary Jean Iron

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, 
is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, 'Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory! 
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy,
confront it.
Life is an adventure,
dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
-Mother Teresa

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as if everthing is. 
-Albert Einstein

All my life I've wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.
-Jane Wagner  

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
-Luciano de Crescenzo

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. 
-Mark Twain

Carpe Diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.  
-Horace

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