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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
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir
Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground
as you reach for the stars.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The crops were planted, tended, and harvested -
now the ground lies fallow, awaiting the new planting.
Did the year fail? I think not.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
- Douglas Adams
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson
To say that authority, whether secular or religious,
supplies no ground for morality
is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- The Buddha
To the Master's honor all must turn,
each in its track, without a sound,
forever tracing Newton's ground.
- Albert Einstein
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
- John Lennon
Organic buildings are the strength
and lightness of the spiders' spinning,
buildings qualified by light,
bred by native character to environment,
married to the ground.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
There is a natural aristocracy among men.
The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ
in color for a full hour,
there would be a considerable number of stations
which would decline to carry it on the grounds
that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
- Edward R. Murrow
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon
One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
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