| Often, in the still night, ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. -- Thomas Moore |
| It is the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you should stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. If you do nothing, there will be no result. -- Gandhi |
| To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight. -- e. e. cummings |
| ~ Other Days ~ |
| It occurs to me that there are too many people and too few human beings. -- Robert Zend ~ ~ ~ Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli |
| All the knowledge I possess, everyone else can acquire ...but my heart is all my own. -- Johann von Goethe ~ ~ ~ If you cannot be a poet, be a poem. -- David Carradine |
| Serenity comes not just by removing the outward causes of fear, but by the discovery of inner reservoirs of strength to draw upon. -- Rufus M. Jones ~ ~ ~ Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz |
| Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over the finer senses of the soul. -- Michel de Montaigne ~ ~ ~ One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. -- Mark Twain |
| What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art which might be, for every mental worker, a comfortable armchair...to rest from physical fatigue. -- Henri Matisse |
| We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good. -- P. T. Barnum ~ ~ ~ Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. -- Bradley Miller |
| There is no such thing as a "self-made man." We are made up of many others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character. -- George Adams |
| The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. -- Mark Twain ~ ~ ~ Man is rated the highest animal...at least, among all animals who returned the questionnaire. -- Robert Brault |
| The power of the spoken and written word is real, whether or not you are conscious of it. Behind every word flows either positive or negative energy. -- Sonia Choquette ~ ~ ~ I don't tell the truth anymore to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me. -- Anais Nin |
| Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. -- Albert Einstein Wherever you go, go with all your heart. -- Confucius |
| Just a little trivia: This barn is located in rural Christian County, Illinois, home of my Matthews-Sharp-Hanon ancestors, who were early pioneers of that area. |
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