T. S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

from "Four Quartets"

Henry David Thoreau

The true harvest of my life is intangible-- little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Helen Hunt Jackson

By all these lovely tokens

September days are here,

With summer's best of weather

And autumn's best of cheer.

William James

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

William James

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Abraham Linclon

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

John Muir

We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

Rachel Carson

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Aldo Leopold

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

William Blake

If the Doors of Perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it truly is - infinite.

Jean Paul Sartre

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Albert Camus

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

William Carlos Williams

In summer, the song sings itself.

W. H. Auden

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

Abigail Adams

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Theodore Parker

Be ours a religion which, like sunshine, goes everywhere;

its temple, all space;

its shrine, the good heart;

its creed, all truth;

its ritual, works of love;

its profession of faith, divine living.