Apple Seeds...
by Barb Erickson
Every morning Barb/MI posts an inspiring or thought-provoking quotation we refer to as an "Apple Seed" on the main chatboard http://teachers.net/chatboard.
October 2002
Tu, 10-01:
It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.
~ Charles Ramuz
We, 10-02:
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
~ David Hume
Th, 10-03:
Joys are our wings.
~ Jean Paul Richter
Fr, 10-04:
Earth's crammed with heaven.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sa, 10-05:
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
~ Colette
Su, 10-06:
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mo, 10-07:
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
~ Chinese proverb
Tu, 10-08:
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
~ Ason Rose
We, 10-09:
Who can tell the range of joy? Or set the bounds of beauty?
~ Sara Teasdale
Th, 10-10:
Let me be glad the kettle gently sings. Let me be glad for little things.
~ Edna Jacques
Fr, 10-11:
Happily may I walk.
~ Navajo chant
Sa, 10-12:
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
Su, 10-13:
The soul should always stand ajar.
~ Emily Dickinson
Mo, 10-14:
People miss a great deal by being sensible.
~ Martha Gelhorn
Tu, 10-15:
Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
~ William Shakespeare
We, 10-16:
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
~ Chinese proverb
Th, 10-17:
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
~ Heraclitus
Fr, 10-18:
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sa, 10-19:
Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Su, 10-20:
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mo, 10-21:
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.
~ Sydney Smith
Tu, 10-22:
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
~ Sir Isaac Newton
We, 10-23:
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
~ Unknown
Th, 10-24:
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
~ Anne Frank
Fr, 10-25:
Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.
~ Julia Cameron
Sa, 10-26:
Clouds are so beautiful I could bite my toes!
~ Matthew Howe (age 4)
Su, 10-27:
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
~ Maya Angelou
Mo, 10-28:
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious, you might never come home.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Tu, 10-29:
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
We, 10-30:
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.
~ Bertrand Russell
Th, 10-31:
You've chosen a career that embraces the lives of children, and if you stop to think about it, you're in mighty good company.
~ Unknown
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