Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
- Gladys Browyn Stern, writer (1890-1973)


It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
-Rollo May, psychologist (1909-1994)


I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)


The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
-Lao Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)