Inspiration

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. ~Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. ~Pablo Picasso

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost

I go to Nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more. ~John Burroughs

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Basho

Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise. ~Alan Watts

When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Gertrude Stein

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. ~Charles Bukowski

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy. ~Charles Manson

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. ~Hunter S. Thompson

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it. ~Marshall McLuhan

People only see what they are prepared to see. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A word to the wise is infuriating. ~Hunter S. Thompson

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ~Robert Frost

A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. ~Thomas Jefferson

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ~Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad peace. ~Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin

Don't just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough each morning to decide what is really important during the day ahead. ~Richard Eyre

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ~Henry David Thoreau

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost

Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify. ~Henry David Thoreau

What we need is to use what we have. ~Susan Sontag

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. ~Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. ~Henry David Thoreau

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. ~Swedish Proverb

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order. ~Katherine Paterson

If a home doesn't make sense, nothing does. ~Henrietta Ripperger

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. ~Thomas Moore

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,and the labors of life reduce themselves. ~Edwin Teale

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go ... ~T.S. Eliot

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ~Hunter S. Thompson

I know I'm in my own little world but that's okay, they know me here. ~Unknown

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. ~Gandhi

To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning. ~Unknown

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. ~Robert Southey

People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments. ~Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death. ~Wendy Wasserstein

Don't agonize. Organize. ~Florence Kennedy

Good order is the foundation of all things. ~Edmund Burke

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up. ~A.A. Milne

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ~Eliphas Levi

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. ~George Horace Lorimer

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. ~George Cukor

There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Unknown

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones

Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. ~Henry David Thoreau

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. ~Vincent Van Gogh

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ~Federico Fellini

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. ~Winston Churchill

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit. ~Charles Swindoll

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal. ~Horace

Time in the wild reminds me how much of what I ordinarily do is mere dithering, how much of what I own is mere encumbrance. The opposite of simplicity, as I understand it, is not complexity but clutter. ~Scott Sander

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. ~Plato

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. ~Peace Pilgrim

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. ~E.F. Schumacker

Foul linen should be washed at home. ~French Proverb

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain. ~Unknown

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~Unknown

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes. ~Unknown

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~Calvin Coolidge

The greatest success we'll know, is helping OTHERS succeed and grow. ~Gregory Scott Reid

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else. ~Gregory Scott Reid

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true. ~Gregory Scott Reid