Wandering Musings

This page contains a few of my favorite quotes and excerpts. They’re a bit jumbled and unorganized at the moment, but feel free to peruse at your leisure. Enjoy!

If you have a favorite quote or personal mantra of your own, please, add it under Comments! The more the merrier.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
~Ursula K. Le Guin

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
~Crowfoot

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
~Alan Watts

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
~Lao Tzu

All things are dear that disappear.
~June Jorden

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
~James Branch Cabell

A picture is a poem without words.
~Horace

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
~Mark Twain

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
~Leonardo Da Vinci

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life – so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
~Matt Cartmill

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~Susan Ertz

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
~Henry Miller

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
~Anton Chekhov

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.
~Gail Sheehy

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never let the world within assert itself.
~Hermann Hesse

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

One thought fills immensity.
~William Blake

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
~Alan Watts

I think, therefore I am.
~René Descartes

Sometimes I think; and sometimes I am.
~Paul Valéry

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree, but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.
~The Talmud

Forever is composed of nows.
~Emily Dickinson

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~Rabindranath Tagore

I wiped away the weeds and foam,
I fetched my sea-born treasures home;
But the poor, unsightly, noisome things
Had left their beauty on the shore,
With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson