Harleywoman50's Wisdom Page

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here and right now. Don't miss it.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass unter the trees on a spring day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement … look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted: everything is phenomenal - to be spiritual is to be amazed.

In today's rush we all think too much - seek too much - want too much - and forget about the joy of just being.