When we talk with children about things that matter we are also dealing with our own childhood. We look back to injustices we experienced -- the times when we told the truth and it was not believed, the times we were blamed and were not responsible, the many occasions on which we were humiliated and resolved never to inflict this upon anyone else. We remember the positive experiences, too -- being free to explore in the countryside or play hopscotch and ball games in the street, for example, belonging to a close-knit extended family and celebrating family festivals with aunts, uncles and grandparents -- and we feel sad that we can offer these things to our children only as our own treasured memories. We sift through the values we learned, or those we felt were inflicted upon us, as children, reinterpreting them in terms of our adult priorities and changing world.
The speed of change -- new technology, new diseases, new threats and new opportunities -- must make us reflect carefully on everything we are trying to teach our children. For one thing is sure: they will not inhabit a society identical to that into which we were born, and by the time they are into their twenties or thirties, it may have changed beyond recognition. They will need the flexibility, courage and the strong personal values both to see and to adapt to new challenges, and to strive with others to find solutions to environmental and human problems that may appear overwhelming.
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. ~Seneca
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~ Oscar Wilde
Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ~ Aeschylus
Every man's memory is his private literature. ~ Aldous Leonard Huxley
A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The true art of memory is the art of attention. ~ Dr Samuel Johnson
The heart that truly loves never forgets. ~ Proverb quotes
Memory is the library of the mind. ~ Francis Fauvel
Liars need good memories. ~ French Proverb quotes
Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not. ~ Susan Spano
Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~ Kevin Arnold
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ~ Cardinal John Henry Newman
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ~Diane Ackerman
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. ~ Anna Mary Robertson Moses
A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
As none can see the wind but in its effects on the trees, neither can we see the emotions but in their effects on the face and body. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. ~ William James
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini
Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined. ~ Thomas Tutko
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. ~Andre Gide
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. ~ Charlotte Bronte
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh
When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently. ~ Bhagavad Gita
Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. ~ Robert Cialdini
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ~John Sterling
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others. ~ Stephen R. Covey
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein
Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy. ~Jareb Teague
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. ~ Charles Kingsley
School tests what's in your head. Life tests what's in your heart.
When you measure a person, put your tape around the heart -- not the head. ~ Rebecca Kaufman
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generation. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do not know: that people are here for the sake of other people. ~ Albert Einstein
Our task must be to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ~ Albert Einstein
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness, there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ~ Gene Tunney
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not becomes dirty. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have delved so deeply into right and wrong, and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we did not notice the absolute immorality of our own oppression of animals. ~ Brigid Brophy
It is not enough merely to exist. You must do something more. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the priviledge of doing it. For you do not live in a world all your own. Your brothers and sisters are here too. ~ Albert Schweitzer
This is true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as mighty; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~ George Bernard Shaw
You will seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you have not done that will torment you. ~ Wayne Dyer
The moment one commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help. A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of incidents and meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would come his or her way. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness; thinking of others first. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Life can be hard. Help another person take it easy. I am here for you. You are here for me. We are here for others.
I know from experience all the dark sides of religions -- the Christian religion and others. Even today, religions have often had a disastrous effect on many conflicts all over the world. But I also know the bright side of religions: as doctrines and ways of salvation and liberation, they can make sense; they can promote peace and reconciliation; and today they can still give men and women ethical standards and personal guidelines.
People of all religions know far too little about one another; above all, they know far too little about what all religious and ethical traditions have in common.
I am evangelical and am for a continual reform of the Church, which was affirmed by the Second Vatican Council.
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
I like most that I belong to the whole universal comprehensive Catholic church and that it is not just a national church.
I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
I prefer everything that the Jews themselves call the Torah, the five books of Moses.
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Because of the compromises made in the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Curia has done everything to get control of the Church again in a preconciliar way.
But from the point of view of the hierarchy, they do everything to hinder, for instance, Eucharistic Communion.
But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
First, the importance of the Bible being valued highly in the liturgy, in theology, and in the whole life of the Church.
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
In the question of homosexuality, the Vatican was rather permissive or lenient, with regard to all these crimes of sexual abuse.
It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
Popes going to Fatima and preaching there - the Gospel of Fatima is exaggerated.
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
That is an offense for all the other religions, and it's arrogance on the side of the Catholic Church to think that we are not at all deficient.
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
The Council's decree Nostra Aetate - On World Religions - is a very open decree which does not offend anybody but which estimates highly all the other religions.
The Gospel has to be the norm.
First, the importance of the Bible being valued highly in the liturgy, in theology, and in the whole life of the Church.
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal. ~ Honore de Balzac
Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each. ~ Robert Browning
Nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. ~ Philip James Bailey
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. ~ Oscar Wilde
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. ~ John Webster
Whatever, below God, is the object of our love, will, at some time or other, be the matter of our sorrow. ~ Richard Cecil
It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of heaven. ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
It is with sorrows, as with countries, each man has his own. ~ Francois August Rene de Chateaubriand
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. ~ Philip James Bailey
Past sorrows, let us moderately lament them; For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them. ~ John Webster
Thou canst not tell how rich a dowry sorrow gives the soul, how firm a faith and eagle sight of God. ~ Henry Alford
Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Sorrow makes men sincere. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. ~ William Cowper
Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease. ~ Philip James Bailey
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm do terrify us more than men in steel with woody purpose. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been and may be again. ~ William Wordsworth
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears. ~ Lord Byron
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break. ~ William Shakespeare
Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain. ~ William Goffe
Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini
We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys. ~ Owen Felltham
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. ~ Dante
Great sorrows cannot speak. ~ Dr. John Donne
The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur, and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest sympathies, because they have had the profoundest sorrows. ~ Henry Giles
As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase. ~ George Horace Lorimer
Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow! ~ Madame Guyon
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. ~ George Eliot
To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair. ~ George Eliot
Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well. ~ Leigh Hunt
From the very summit of his sorrows, where he had gone to die, Moses, for the first time in his life, caught a view of the land of Canaan. He did not know, as he went over the rocks, torn and weary, how lovely the prospect was from the top. In this world, it frequently happens that when man has reached the place of anguish, God rolls away the mist from his eyes, and the very spot selected as the receptacle of his tears, becomes the place of his highest rapture. ~ Joel Tyler Headley
In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about By the sullen winds which blow From the desolate shores of doubt. ~ Washington Gladden
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not cheat thy Heart and tell her, "Grief will pass away, Hope for fairer times in future, And forget to-day." Tell her, if you will, that sorrow Need not come in vain; Tell her that the lesson taught her Far outweighs the pain. ~ Adelaide Anne Procter
I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me! ~ Robert Browning Hamilton
There's no way to make sorrow light But in the noble bearing; be content; Blows given from heaven are our due punishment; All shipwrecks are not drownings; you see buildings Made fairer from their ruins. ~ William Rowley
Sorrow treads heavily, and leaves behind A deep impression, e'en when she departs: While joy trips by with steps light as the wind, And scarcely leaves a trace upon our hearts Of her faint foot-falls: only this is sure, In this world nought, save misery, can endure. ~ Emma Catherine Embury
When the cold breath of sorrow is sweeping O'er the chords of the youthful heart, And the earnest eye, dimm'd with strange weeping, Sees the visions of fancy depart; When the bloom of young feeling is dying, And the heart throbs with passion's fierce strife, When our sad days are wasted in sighing, Who then can find sweetness in life? ~ Emma Catherine Embury
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain; Next, your son gone, and he most violent author Of his own just remove; the people muddied, Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia Divided from herself and her fair judgment, Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts; Last, and as much containing as all these, Her brother is in secret come from France, Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds, And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death, Wherein necessity, of matter beggared, Will nothing stick our person to arraign In ear and ear. ~ William Shakespeare
By George Washington Doane (27 May 1799 - 27 April 1859)
Chisel in hand stood a sculptor boy With his marble block before him, And his eyes lit up with a smile of joy, As an angel-dream passed o'er him.
He carved the dream on that shapeless stone, With many a sharp incision; With heaven's own flight the sculpture shone, He'd caught that angel-vision.
Children of life are we, as we stand With our lives uncarved before us, Waiting the hour when, at God's command, Our life-dream shall pass o'er us.
If we carve it then on the yielding stone, With many a sharp incision, Its heavenly beauty shall be our own, Our lives, that angel-vision.
The Heart of The Tree
What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants a friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high; He plants a home to heaven anigh For song and mother-croon of bird In hushed and happy twilight heard The treble of heaven's harmony These things he plants who plants a tree.
What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants cool shade and tender rain, And seed and bud of days to be, And years that fade and flush again; He plants the glory of the plain; He plants the forest's heritage; The harvest of a coming age; The joy that unborn eyes shall see These things he plants who plants a tree.
What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants, in sap and leaf and wood, In love of home and loyalty And far-cast thought of civic good His blessings on the neighbourhood Who in the hollow of His hand Holds all the growth of all our land A nation's growth from sea to sea Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.
By Henry Cuyler Bunner (3 August 1855 - 11 May 1896)
Plant A Tree By Lucy Larcom (5 March 1826 - 27 April 1893)
He who plants a tree Plants a hope. Rootlets up through fibres blindly grope; Leaves unfold into horizons free. So man's life must climb From the clods of time Unto heavens sublime. Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?
He who plants a tree Plants a joy; Plants a comfort that will never cloy; Every day a fresh reality, Beautiful and strong, To whose shelter throng Creatures blithe with song. If thou couldst but know, thou happy tree, Of the bliss that shall inhabit thee!
He who plants a tree, He plants peace. Under its green curtains jargons cease. Leaf and zephyr murmur soothingly; Shadows soft with sleep Down tired eyelids creep, Balm of slumber deep. Never hast thou dreamed, thou blessed tree, Of the benediction thou shalt be.
He who plants a tree, He plants youth; Vigor won for centuries in sooth; Life of time, that hints eternity!
A Psalm of Life By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882)
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, | And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, however pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
Solitude By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (5 November 1855 - 30 October 1919) "The Golden Girl"
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain.
Be Strong By Maltbie Davenport Babcock (3 August 1858 - 18May 1901)
Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do, and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle -- face it; 'tis God's gift.
Be strong! Say not,"The days are evil. Who's to blame?" And fold the hands and acquiesce -- oh shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name.
Be strong! It matters not how deep intrenched the wrong, How hard the battle goes, the day how long; Faint not -- fight on! Tomorrow comes the song!
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. ~ Tryon Edwards
One of the hardest lessons we learn in this life, and one that many people never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand -- to see that heaven lies about us here in this world. ~ John Burroughs
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. ~ Michelangelo
Faith strips the mask from the world and reveals God in everything. It makes nothing impossible and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger, and fear, so that the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy -- like a child, hand in hand with his mother. ~ Charles De Foucauld
Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence. ~ Freya Stark
As we begin to sense the divine in the 'ordinary', our 'ordinary' lives will become quite extraordinary. ~ Richard Carlson
We are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul. ~ Anna Howard Shaw
Love...puts you in a right relation with God and others, reciprocal rather than heirarchical... But the great commandment is extralegal. Love cannot be forced. It must be chosen. You love not out of dread but out of your own fullness. It's what you were made for. When you fail at it, you aren't sent to prison, or to the electric chair, or to hell. You are commanded again: Love. ~ Nancy Mairs
When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes. ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
When you can see what everybody else has seen but be thinking what nobody else has thought, you will have discovered your creativity.
The world's wisdom and the experience of the ages has been preserved through man's creativity.
If you are going to make a living on the proceeds of your creativity it's better to grow a thick skin than to buy an expensive suit.
In creativity, there is as much, if not more, to be gained from the journey as there is from reaching the destination.
Whenever possible, encourage creativity in others, not with the aim of developing everyone as inventors and artists, but ensuring a continued balance in this world of critical thinkers.
Creativity can only survive desperation when it is prepared to leave behind everything it ever believed in .
If necessity is the mother of invention, its opposite is the father of creativity.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to select and hide your sources.
Artists are rarely satisfied people. They like it this way. Their creativity is fueled by unrest and dissatisfaction, which makes them stand out from everybody else, and which is why they appear to be more alive than all the rest.
Caution in creativity is often fatal.
Knowledge and integrity give creativity its strength and usefulness.
Integrity is vital, for creativity without integrity is often dreadful and potentially dangerous.
One may establish one's creativity by being prepared not only to experiment with ideas but also to take as many of them as possible through to their solutions before presenting them to others.
Creativity is fluid -- it runs from moment to moment, a river of possibilities running into a sea of potential.
The best place to begin the quest for creativity is the moment you wake on a new day. Tell yourself that anything is possible, then get up and see what is.
With tension and skepticism, creativity would be far less appealing -- and far more predictable.
Creativity generates mistakes. True art is knowing which one are worth correcting.
True creativity illuminates what, without it, would never have been.
Creativity not only invigorates, it rebalances and energizes mankind.
For creativity to flourish one should try to look at everything as though it were being seen for the first or the last time.
True creativity procures the greatest happiness, inspiration, or motivation for the greatest numbers.
Go into the garden of creativity with praise and encouragement and it will bloom all around you. But enter with criticism and discouragement and it will wither before your eyes.
God is great, and therefore he will be sought: he is good, and therefore he will be found. ~ John Jay
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. There is a divine purpose behind everything -- and therefore a divine presence in everything. ~ Neale Donald Walsch
Those without love have known nothing of God, for God is love. ~ 1 John 4:8
The whole meaning of our existence and the one consuming desire of the heart of God is that we should let ourselves be loved. ~ Ruth Burrows
All emotions, all human activities, and all spheres of life have deep roots in the mysteries of the soul, and therefore are holy. ~ Thomas Moore
To receive the love of God is to recognize it is all around us, above us, and beneath us; speaking to us through every person, every flower, every trial and situation. Stop knocking on the door: You are already inside! ~ Richard Rohr
I believe in God, who is for me spirit, love, the principle of all things. ... I believe that the reason for life is for each of us simply to grow in love. I believe that this growth in love will contribute more than any other force to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. ~ Leo Tolstoy
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God. ~ Hannah More
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are. ~ Meister Eckhart
We could not seek God unless He were seeking us. ~ Thomas Merton
To accept the responsibility of being a child of God is to accept the best that life has to offer you. ~ Stella Terril Mann
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. ~ Eileen Caddy
The starting point in the religious experience is wonder. ~ Seymour Cohen
Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness. ~ Julian of Norwich
The highest point a man can attain is not knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Awe precedes faith; it is at the root of faith. We must grow in awe in order to reach faith. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
God is present in the confusion and dislocation of the world. One encounters God not by turning one's back on that world but by plunging into it with the faith that the divine-human encounter occurs in teh midst of the encounter of human with human, especially in the struggle to create signs of the coming of God's reign of peace and justice. ~ Harvey Cox
God is greater than my mind and my heart, and what is really happening in the house of prayer is not measurable in terms of human success and failure. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Far beyond your intellect, far beyond your understanding, lies inexhaustible knowledge and wealth, strength and power, peace and joy. Do not use your intellect to find the answers for God and his manifestations. Everything is God. ~ Swami Vishnu-Devananda
When one finds himself, one finds God. You find God and you find yourself. ~ The Artist Formerly known as Prince
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. ~ George Santayana
God, so approachable by him who knows how to love, is hidden from him who knows only how to understand. ~ Alexis Carrel
God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! It is not easy for God to make himself known to us! ~ Louis Evely
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy and with righteous indignation, God's compassion and God's anger working through us, maybe the surest proof of all God's reality. ~ Harold S. Kushner
I myself believe that the evidence of God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. ~ William James
You should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God." ~ Kahlil Gibran
God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress. ~ Psalms 46:1
God is at home. It is we who have gone out for a walk. ~ Meister Eckhart
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. ~ Joseph Roux
He is the first and the last, the manifest and the hidden: and He Knoweth all things. ~ Al'Quran
God does not ask anything else of you except that you let yourself go and let God be God in you. ~ Meister Eckhart
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ~ St. Augustine
God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped he would not be God. ~ Evagrius Ponticus
The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to his inpouring. ~ Meister Eckhart
Nothing is stranger, more disconcerting, more misleading than a manifestation of God. We always take God to be different from what he is. ~ Louis Evely
