Quote Wall

I am always writing quotes in my journal or squirreling away the little pieces of advice on Yogi tea bags. I realized the other day how often my favorite words of wisdom tend to circulate through my head, and what a source of inspiration they truly are. Below is a running list of my favorites:







"Vocation is where your heart's deep gladness meets the world's great need."-unknown

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." -Albert Camus
 

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."  -Anais Nin

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." -Georgia O'Keefe

"All that is solid melts into air.."  -Karl Marx

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."--Ghandi

"If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!" -Shel Silverstein


"Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes"
-Pablo Neruda

“It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.”
-G. K. Chesterton

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
-Albert Einstein

"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep it 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."
-Tao Te Ching

"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