Word Trips

Bells Hooks Quote on Freedom

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:14:00 +0000

"The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom." ~Bell Hooks

Eleanor Roosevelt Quote on Courage

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:56:00 +0000

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Julia Sorel Quote on Taking Chances

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:16:00 +0000

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." ~Julia Sorel, writer

Anna Jameson Quote on Aspiration

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:49:00 +0000

"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself." ~Anna Jameson

George Eliot Quote on Possibilities

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:41:00 +0000

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot

John Townsend Trowbridge Quote on Strength

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:46:00 +0000

"Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies." ~John Townsend Trowbridge

Arthur Miller Quote on Strength

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:37:00 +0000

"Once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less." ~Arthur Miller

Booker T. Washington Quote On Success

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:49:00 +0000

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." ~Booker T. Washington

J.R.R. Tolkien Quote On Life's Journey

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:15:00 +0000

"Little by little, one travels far." ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Maya Angelou Quote on Change

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:47:00 +0000

"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." ~Maya Angelou

Seneca the Younger Quote on Courage

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:05:00 +0000

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." ~Seneca the Younger

John Lancaster Spalding Quote on Courage

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:27:00 +0000

"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is." ~John Lancaster Spalding

Zen Poem on Silver Linings

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:03:00 +0000

"Since my house burned down, I now have a better view of the rising moon." ~Zen poem

Poem on Nature by R.H. Grenville

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:57:00 +0000

"Sweet smelling earth,
sun overhead;
orchards in bloom:
pink, white, and red.
Water free flowing,
light breeze from the west:
birds singing, busily
building a nest.
Plowed fields seeded,
green leaves in the wood.
Everything working together
for good."

~ "Together for Good," R. H. Grenville

Dilys Laing Quote on Zen

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:50:00 +0000

"I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it. She looks up and gives me her full gaze. Don't be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it."~ from "Miao" by Dilys Laing

Eric Hoffer Quote on Priorities

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:41:00 +0000

"When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else -- we are the busiest people in the world." ~Eric Hoffer

Marva Collins Quote on Originality

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:12:00 +0000

"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide." ~Marva Collins

Quote on Spirit

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:19:00 +0000

"People turn to Spirit when their foundations are shaking, only to discover that it is Spirit that is shaking them." ~Author Unknown

Lao-Tzu Quote on Direction

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:07:00 +0000

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." ~Lao Tzu

Albert Einstein Quote on Imagination

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:48:00 +0000

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." ~Albert Einstein

Henry David Thoreau Quote on Writing

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:10:00 +0000

"If one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground." ~Henry David Thoreau

Robert Cecil Day Lewis Quote on Writing

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:15:00 +0000

"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." ~Robert Cecil Day Lewis

Henry David Thoreau Quote on Truth

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:35:00 +0000

"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy." ~Henry David Thoreau

Katherine Mansfield Quote on Risk

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:13:00 +0000

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." ~Katherine Mansfield

Charlotte Bronte Quote on Writing

noreply@blogger.com (Meredith Simonds) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:45:00 +0000

"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself.... If the result be attractive, the world will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same world will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame." ~Charlotte Bronte