Words to Live By

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
-- Henry Van Dyke

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
-- Eleanora Duse

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
--Og Mandino

My moments of keenest satisfaction and most complete mental peace have been those when the grandeur of nature's artistry has cast its spell over me.
-- Clarence Mills

For in the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we have been taught.
-- Baba Dioum

You see things and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw