The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
May You Always Be Connected With Earth and Sky -
Drawing Energy From Both.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the Wizard. This world is mine.
I speak. It's done. My realm is fine.
My wand, my tongue. My sword, my voice.
It's good. It's bad. I speak my choice.
I say happy, or I say mad.
I say angry, or I say glad.
I name that drawing on the wall.
It's not graffiti after all.
The past has been broken. The prison's not real.
My word holds the magic - the power to heal.
Intent is my weapon - a sword from above.
Cruel hate, fear, and anger transmute into love.
This world's my joy. This mouth's my toy.
Reborn -I'm a brand new girl or boy.
I choose. I speak. My will is done.
Come join. Come play. This can be fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on
does not constitute so strong an attachment
as that from which they draw their gains.
- Thomas Jefferson
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
I am one of those who think like Nobel,
that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
- Marie Curie
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
That person did the very best they could,
given the knowledge, emotions, and prior experience
they had to draw upon at the time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pick up a stone that feels good to you
and is small enough to hold in one hand.
Consider how long that stone has been around
and what enormous pressure it has experienced.
Draw strength from its long history.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
I do not add "within the limits of the law"
because law is often but the tyrant's will,
and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson
Eternity:
I am drawn to the wild edge of the ocean of my being
My curiosity unbound, I test the limits
of the limitless and the boundaries of the timeless.
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end which is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Francesco Petrarch
From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother
rather than all major credit cards.
- Robert Orben
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with a smile,
for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones -
the ones at home.
- Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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