Kaleidoscope

Joy

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

RESPONSIBILITY

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

- Thanks to Joan Didion and to www.quotegarden.com

RESPONSIBILITY

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”

- Thanks to Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thanks to wikipedia for the image and to thinkexist.com for the online version of the quote.

Life

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

- Thanks to A. Powell Davies and to www.wisdomquotes.com

Society

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.- Thanks to John W.Gardner

Thanks to www.wisdomquotes.com for the online version of the quote and to http://en.wikipedia.org for the photo of John W.Gardner.

Responsibility

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility. - Albert Einstein

Friend

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. - Aristotle

GOAL

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.-Thanks to Aristotle

Thanks to http://quotations.about.com for the online version

Mistakes

“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” - Thanks to Alfred Adler

Thanks to wikipedia for the image and to thinkexist.com for the online version of the quote

The Sun

One of the best poems I have ever read; Thanks to Mary Oliver. Thanks to www.poetseers.org for the online version.

The Sun

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone--
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance--
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love--
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed--
or have you too
turned from this world--

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?