The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people are full of doubts.
~ Bertrand Russell

It’s so hard to be a father when your son is in his rebellious stage.
~ Darth Vader

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
~ Will Rogers

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~ Joseph Addison

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
~ Diane Ackerman

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin.
~ Stephen Bayne

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~ Maria Robinson

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
~ Moliere

The ferry Yakima has Spring Break this week.
~ Eileen Drath

But enough about me. Let’s talk about you – What do you think about me?
~ Unknown

Having a two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon

It’s not “having what you want” – It’s “wanting what you’ve got”.
~ Sheryl Crow

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts, you’ll start having positive results.
~ Unknown

What you do today is important because you exchange a day of your life for it.
~ Anonymous

Some days, the best thing about my job is that the chair spins.

Doing what you like is Freedom -

Liking what you do is Happiness.

The secret to success is to go from mistake to mistake without ever losing your enthusiasm.
~ Anonymous

“Do you know why we still have wars?
Because all men are brothers.”
~ A mother of three squabbling teen-age boys

Sometimes you’re the windshield; Sometimes you’re the bug
~ Mark Knopfler

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
~ Alexander Graham Bell

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

“Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
Wendell Berry

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London

To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem. Douglas P. Wheeler

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln, 1864

A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
John Sawhill, former president/CEO of The Nature Conservancy

We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth’s functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.
Father Thomas Berry

Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Cicero

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God’s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.
George Washington Carver

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
Rachel Carson, (1907-1964) The Sea Around Us, 1951

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
Jesus, the Christ

As a human, the only weapon you have is kindness. Sacrifice, patience and forgiveness are the tripod on which kindness rests.
Yogi Bhajan

Try in thine own experience, each; that ye speak not for one whole day unkindly of any; that ye say not a harsh word to any, about any; and see what such a day would bring to you . . .
Edgar Cayce

Not knowing means to be open to all eventualities, to not prejudge a person or situation. If your mind is full of preconceived notions, there is no room for an unbiased view. It is like when your hands are full of objects – you cannot pick up anything new. A closed mind causes separation and suspicion. Like an umbrella, a mind is only useful when it is open.
From “Zen in the Workplace: Approach to Mindful Management”

Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. 
Helen Keller