leap.

faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.
{carter heyward}

paradise.

venus&mars.

women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
{jean kerr}

animals.

in dwelling, live close to the ground.  in thinking, keep to the simple.  in conflict, be fair and generous.  in governing, don't try to control.  in work, do what you enjoy.  in family life, be completely present.
{lao tzu}

sister.

both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

{elizabeth fishel}

flag.

a thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the nation that sets it forth.
{henry ward beecher}

pda.

your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

{jalal ad-din rumi}

chain bridge.

bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
{bruce jackson}

doors.

follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

{joseph campbell}

alone.

our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone.  it has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone.  and it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
{paul tillich}

reflect.

how we think shows through in how we act.  attitudes are mirrors of the mind.
{david joseph schwartz}

boat.

we may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
{martin luther king, jr.}

free ride.

life is uncharted territory.  it reveals its story one moment at a time.
{leo f. buscaglia}

passions.

absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
{francois de la rochefoucauld}

climb.

it is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
{edmund hillary}

swing, swing.

i still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...i play with leaves. i skip down the street and run against the wind.
{leo f. buscaglia}

joined.

and truly, what do we have left
but moments of this gazing, pulling
at each other, at ourselves,
the shells ground finer and finer
under our feet
making a kind of jagged sand..."
{ruth l. schwartz}

fire (& ice)

some say the world will end in fire,
some say in ice.
from what I've tasted of desire
i hold with those who favor fire.
{robert frost}

a point.

i was on acid and i looked at the trees and i realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to a point.  i thought, 'oh! everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'
{harry nilsson}

no difference.

america has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.  it acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
{louis d. brandeis}

breaking through.

there are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
{ronald reagan}