The trumpet of a prophecy! O wind, if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Come to the edge

We might fall

Come to the edge

It’s too high!

COME TO THE EDGE !

So they came

And he pushed

And they flew

~ Christopher Logue

"Once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that that it falls an easy pretty to that other scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."

~ Virginia Woolf

A blessing

Suddenly I realize that if I stepped out of my body I would break into blossom.

~ James Wright

"The one thing all nations on the earth share is the fear that a member of the family will want to be an artist."

~ Robert Frost

~ joan didion

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”

~ Rabbi Hillel

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”

~ Confucius

“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”

~ St. Francis of Assisi

Do You Need Me? I Am There

Do you need Me? I am there.

You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by

You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.

You cannot feel Me, Yet I am the power at work in your hands

I am at work, though you do not understand My ways.

I am at work, though you do not recognize My works

I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries.

Only in absolute stillness, beyond self,

Can you know Me as I am,

And then but as a feeling and a faith.

Yet I am there. Yet I am here. Yet I answer.

When you need Me, I am there.

Even if you deny Me, I am there.

Even when you feel most alone, I am there.

Even in your fears, I am there.

Even in your pain, I am there.

I am there when you pray and when you do not pray

Though your faith In Me is unsure,

My faith in you never wavers,

Because I know you, because I love you.

Beloved I am there.

~ James Dillet Freeman

Source: I Am With You Always: A Treasury of Inspirational Quotations, Poems and Devotional Prayers; Author: Douglas Bloch; ISBN .. 0-553-35404-3

Dimensions of Love

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.

Some people move our souls to dance.

They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.

Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.

They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same.

~ by Flavia Weedn


Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.

For love is the beauty of the soul.

~ St. Augustine


True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

~ by Antoine De Saint-Exupery


Source: http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/lovequotes.shtml

Strength & Perseverance

When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of.

~ Greenland proverb


Nothing is so strong as gentleness; Nothing so gentle as real strength.

~ St. Francis De Sales


Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertion and passionate concerns of dedicated individuals.

~ Martin Luther King



Source: Words on Strength and Perseverance; A Helen Exley Giftbook

Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration -- of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.

~ Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98

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Till we are called to rise.

And then, if we are true to plan,

Our statures touch the skies.

~ Emily Dickinson

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