“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns,
oblivious of the rose.” — Kahlil Gibran
Inspiration
How did it happen that their lips came together?
How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds,
that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill?
A kiss, and all was said.”
— Victor Hugo
“When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
“We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood.” — New York Times, 1937 December 25th
“Dear Lord/ Lest I continue/ My complacent way/ Help me to remember
Somehow out there/ A man died for me today./ As long as there be war
I then must/ Ask and answer/ Am I worth dying for?”
A poem Eleanor Roosevelt kept in her wallet during WWII.
“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia
” The sun of every vision,
Thy beauty be,
More beautiful than the beauty,
Thy beautiful face be. “
– Hafiz
Maverick Mist 