Words to Grow On
Here are some samples from my collection of phrases.
Hope it Leaves a Rustle in your thoughts!

Please read through some of these -- you may find ones you like too! You will find more in store, once you have completed these "verses", by clicking at the bottom of this page.


  • Happiness is as a butterfly which,
    when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,
    but which if you will sit down quietly,
    may alight upon you.
    -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • The masters in the art of living make little distinction between
    their work and their play, their labor and their leisure,
    their minds and their bodies, their information, their recreation,
    their love, and their religion. They hardly know which is which.
    They simply pursue their vision of excellence at whatever they do,
    leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing.
    -- James Michener

  • To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path,
    and don't worry about the darkness,
    for that is when stars shine brightest!

  • If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old.
    You will just keep growing.
    -- Gail Sheehy

  • There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.
    You seek problems because you need their gifts.

  • The universe is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
    -- fortune cookie

  • Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto.
    [I am man; I consider nothing human foreign to me.]
    -- Alfred David Burnett

  • Don't allow experience to harden your heart;
    rather use it to become more aware and sensitive.

  • If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
    -- Mother Teresa

  • We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
    -- Gandhi

  • Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,
    a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the
    smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to
    turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the
    continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt.
    -- Leo Buscaglia

  • Once you strip the humanity of another,
    you strip part of your own humanity.

  • How far you go in life depends on your being tender.
    Therefore, resolve to be tender with the young,
    compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,
    and tolerant of the weak and the wrong.
    Sometime in life you will have been all of these.
    -- George Washington Carver

  • A lot of what passes for depression these days is
    nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
    -- Geoffrey Norman

  • We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
    -- Winston Churchill

  • I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder...
    and I felt that I was more distinguished than by any
    epaulet I could have worn.
    -- Henry Thoreau

  • Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
    And try to love the questions themselves.
    -- Rainer Maria Rilke

  • He is a man whom it is impossible to please
    because he is never pleased with himself.
    -- Goethe

  • It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
    -- George F. Will

  • We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

  • When we are mirrored in the eyes of someone who loves us
    and accepts us in our essence, our soul is released.
    -- Marion Woodman

  • Injustice anywhere is a threat of justice everywhere.
    -- Martin L. King, Jr.

  • If you can't hold children in your arms,
    please hold them in your heart.
    -- Mother Clara Hale

  • Expect what is reasonable, not what is perfect.

  • Rather than climb over the fence into greener pastures
    why not just water the grass on your side?


  • Do not squander time, for that is the very stuff life is made of.
    -- Benjamin Franklin

  • If you're always judging the other person,
    you'll never have time to love them.
    -- Mother Teresa

  • Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present
    and not giving it.
    -- William Arthur Ward

  • If you don't have enough time to accomplish something,
    consider the work finished once it's begun.
    -- John Cage

  • It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
    -- Sophocles



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