When We Should Speak ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”

― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

More at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton

It's Yours ~ Ayn Rand

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” 


― Ayn Rand

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

The Task Will Never be Done ~ Sydney Bailey

"Peace begins within ourselves. It is to be implemented within the family, in our meetings, in our work and leisure, in our own localities, and internationally. The task will never be done. Peace is a process to engage in, not a goal to be reached."

Sydney Bailey 1993

More at  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sydney-bailey-1584332.html

Turn off the Computer ~ Michelle Everett Wilbert

"If you love and enjoy your children, you are a good parent. If you love and enjoy your own life and ideas, then relax and get on with it. Don't let this machine keep you from the hard work of sorting out life's mysteries and predicaments. A computer is a tool to be used wisely, but it's a very seductive tool that can start using you.

Now, shut me off, turn off the computer, stand and stretch, and go outside!"


~ Michelle Everett Wilbert

More at http://closetotheroot.blogspot.com/2009/10/escaping-from-ghetto-of-like-minded.html

Artwork from Di Oliver http://www.dioliver.co.uk/

Being Useful ~ Leo Tolstoy

"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbour — such is my idea of happiness."

— Leo Tolstoy

More at  http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Religions-Leo-Tolstoy-True-Religion.htm

Silence and Detachment ~ John Burroughs

"Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night."

~ John Burroughs

More at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burroughs

Digging ~ Edward Thomas

"To-day I think
Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield,
And bracken, and wild carrot's seed,
And the square mustard field;

Odours that rise
When the spade wounds the root of tree,
Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed,
Rhubarb or celery;

The smoke's smell, too,
Flowing from where a bonfire burns
The dead, the waste, the dangerous,
And all to sweetness turns.

It is enough
To smell, to crumble the dark earth,
While the robin sings over again
Sad songs of Autumn mirth."

More at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thomas_(poet)