Seeds

Seeds

Never allow the perfect to ruin the good!
-Bill Clinton

We are not merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand.
- Woodrow Wilson

No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted.
- Buddha

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
- Winston Churchill

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.
- Author Unknown

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
- Thomas Carlyle

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Own Stories

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
- Henry James

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
- Aurelius, Marcus

Great necessities call out great virtues.
- Abigail Adams

Little by little does the trick.
- Aesop

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
-Aesop

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
- Louisa May Alcott

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.
- Amy Alcott

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Mark Twain

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
- Mark Twain

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
- Mark Twain

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

From little acorns
mighty oaks do grow.
- American Proverb

Flowers are a proud assertion
that a ray of beauty out-values
all the utilities of the world.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

-Marcel Proust 1871-1922

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Art by Marty Hicks © 2008

Photograph by Jan. Gillen © 2007

Photograph by Jan. Gillen © 2007

Photograph by Jan. Gillen © 2007