Recognize

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours. We don't need to learn how to let things go; we just need to learn to recognize when they've already gone.
--Shunryu Suzuki

With Love

If your life is a leaf
that the seasons tear off and condemn,
they will bind you with love
that is graceful and green as a stem.
--Leonard Cohen

The Holidays

The holidays are upon us again--it sounds vaguely aggressive, as if the holidays were some sort of mugger, or overly enthusiastic lover.
--Eric Weiner

The Word

Is the human word truly powerful enough to change the world and influence history?
--Václav Havel

To See

To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
--William Blake

Adjectives

I truly, truly hate it when technocrats extol "efficient" and "cheap" as if these things were inherent virtues rather than simply...adjectives. Masturbation may be the most efficient, least expensive (no dinners or anniversary gifts required!) way to achieve an orgasm. Doesn't make it the best way.
--Lisa K.

Patience

Patience joins time to eternity.
--Wendell Berry

The Time

Can you taste
what I'm saying? It is onions or potatoes, a pinch
of simple salt, the wealth of melting butter, it is obvious,
it stays in the back of your throat like a truth
you never uttered because the time was always wrong...
--Philip Levine

Truth

Truth is one. It doesn't change.
--William Faulkner

Glimpse

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
--Karen Sunde

Simplest Answer

Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate.
(Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.)
(The mind should not multiply entities beyond necessity.)
(What can be done with fewer...is done in vain with more.)
(The simplest answer is usually the correct one.)
--William of Ockham (aka, Occam's Razor)

Control

You who must leave everything that you cannot control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes 'round to your soul.
--Leonard Cohen

The Valleys

No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally--for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.
--Arthur Gordon

Who You Are

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
--Dr. Seuss

Whole

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
--Roger Caras

Dogs

No one is a saying that dogs or any animals are human. They are saying that dogs are sentient beings with a rich and complex life of their own, and that they deserve to be allowed to live that life or as close to it as possible.
--Fara Field

Stories

It is said that babies learn language in order to tell the stories already in them.
--Roger Rosenblatt