Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.How Love burns through the Putting in the SeedOn through the watching for that early birthWhen, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,The sturdy seedling with arched body comesShouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Juliana Hatfield

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Karl Kraus

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Lance Armstrong

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.Gratitude arises in that in-between space where the inner and outer worlds meet and touch and encompass each other. Authentic spirituality, genuine politics, and good economics arise from a spirit of radical gratitude.

Ellen Vaughn, Radical Gratitude

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

John Motson

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

John Mason Brown

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing

Jane Austen

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering

Ma la virilit? si è tutta smammolata in coccolette; il coraggio svaporato in complimenti, e gli uomini sono diventati tutti lingua, come dei pappagalli ammaestrati. Oggi è più valente di un Ercole chi sa meglio mentire e spergiurare. Non posso diventare uomo di mia volont? , e allora morirò donna per disperazione.

William Shakespeare

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Gertrude Stein

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Denis Waitley