Your story, it's not boring and ordinary, by the way. We just get the one life, you know, just one; you can't live someone else's or think it's more important just because it's more dramatic. What happens matters, maybe only to us, but it matters.
-Ghost Town, (a must-watch movie)

"Life reduces us in size and increases us in dimensions"

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
~Adam Lindsay Gordon

Love in its depths is a contact of the Divine Possibility or Reality in onself with the Divine Possibility or Reality in the loved.

Nothing has to be rejected, only raised to the levels of divine consciousness.

-Sri Aurobindo.

'One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present: like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don't know, but it felt as if something that grew in the ground -- asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between root-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky -- had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.'
-Lord of the Rings, Tolkien

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes.

We should all plant some trees we never sit under.

According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumble bee cannot fly. I guess no one bothered to tell the bee.

There is no 'saint' without a past, no 'sinner' without a future.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

To see things in the seed, that is genius!

We build our future, thought by thought,
Or good or bad, and know it not,
Yet so the Universe is wrought.
Thought is another name for fate.
Choose, then, thy destiny and wait...
For love brings love, and hate brings hate.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He who knows much about others may be learned,
but he understands himself is more intelligent.
He who controls others is powerful,
but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

There is a saying... which many of us have heard since we were school children... "With the first link the chain is forged, the first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."
- Picard, The Drumhead, Star Trek, TNG

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
- Geoffrey Gaberino

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
- Mario Cuomo

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Anonymous