Reference, Resources & Recommendations: The Chandrian Order

Contents:

I. Moon and Night Verses
 A. The Twinkling Stars
 B. Soft Moon Shining
 C. Some Kiss We Want
 D. from The Cloud
 E. from To a Skylark
 F. A Sonnet of the Moon
 G. from Ode on Intimations of Immortality
 H. from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
 I. from Each in His Own Tongue
 J. from The Golden Legend
 K. Love in Exile
 L. She Comes Not
 M. from Fireflies
 N. She Walks In Beauty
 O. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
 P. Acquainted with the Night
 Q. Phases of the Moon
II. Other Lines and Verses
 A. The Road Not Taken
 B. My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
 C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 
 D. from Ulysses
 E. One Swaying Being 
 F. Lives of Great Men All Remind Us
 G. Love After Love
 H. Love’s Philosophy
 I. from The Prophet 
 J. The Invitation
 K. Sea Rose
 L. The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis
 M. The Time Before Death
 N. To See a World in a Grain of Sand
 O. Today
 P. Alchemy
 Q. A Prayer in Spring
 R. A Phantom of Delight
 S. The Symbolic and the Real
III. Book Recommendations
IV. Quotations
 A. Beauty
 B. Change
 C. Courage
 D. Determination
 E. Dreams
 F. Faith
 G. Friendship
 H. Focus
 I. Goals
 J. Hope
 K. Joy
 L. Life
 M. Love
 N. Notice
 O. Passion
 P. Power
 Q. Perseverance
 R. Spirit
 S. Success
 T. Truth
 U. Wisdom
 V. Writing

I. Moon and Night Verses

-The Twinkling Stars
-Soft Moon Shining
-Some Kiss We Want
-from The Cloud
-from To a Skylark
-A Sonnet of the Moon
-from Ode on Intimations of Immortality
-from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
-from Each in His Own Tongue
-from The Golden Legend
-Love in Exile
-She Comes Not
-from Fireflies
-She Walks In Beauty
-The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
-Acquainted with the Night
-Phases of the Moon

I.A. The Twinkling Stars

The Twinkling Stars
by R. Watson

The twinkling stars,
The moon’s pale light;
Such beauty fills
The sky at night.

I.B. Soft Moon Shining

Soft Moon Shining
by Ethan Walker III

My beloved Divine Mother
Dance with me
under the soft moon shining
in the wide open fields
far beyond the toil and trouble
of my busy mind

Dance with me
before the night grows old
while the winds of love
still bow the grasses
and the coyotes howl for you
to step their way

Dance with me my beloved
while the Mystery's Edge
still flirts in the shadow
of your radiant light

I.C. Some Kiss We Want

Some Kiss We Want
by Rumi

There is some kiss we want with
Our whole lives, the touch of

spirit on the body. Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately
It needs some wild darling! At

night, I open the window and ask
The moon to come and press its

face against mine. Breathe into
me. Close the language-door and

open the love-window. The moon
won’t use the door, only the window.

I.D. from The Cloud

from The Cloud 
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

That orbed maiden with white fire laiden
Whom mortals call the moon
Glides glimmering o’er my fleece-like floor
By the midnight breezes strewn

I.E. from To a Skylark

from To a Skylark 
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

All the earth and air
With thy voice is loud
As when night is bare
From one lonely cloud
The moon rains out her beams, 
and heaven is overflowed

I.F. A Sonnet of the Moon

A Sonnet of the Moon 
by Charles Best 

Look how the pale queen of the silent night 
Doth cause the ocean to attend upon her, 
And he, as long as she is in his sight, 
With her full tide is ready her to honor. 
But when the silver wagon of the moon 
Is mounted up so high he cannot follow, 
The sea calls home his crystal waves to moan, 
And with low ebb doth manifest his sorrow. 
So you that are the sovereign of my heart 
Have all my joys attending on your will; 
My joys low-ebbing when you do depart, 
When you return their tide my heart doth fill. 
So as you come and as you do depart, 
Joys ebb and flow within my tender heart.

I.G. from Ode on Intimations of Immortality

from Ode on Intimations of Immortality
by William Wordsworth

The Moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare,
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair

I.H. from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The moving moon went up the sky, 
And nowhere did abide. 
Softly she was going up, 
And a star or two beside.

I.I. from Each in His Own Tongue

from Each in His Own Tongue 
by William Herbert Carruth

Like tides on a crescent sea-beach,
When the moon is new and thin, 
Into our hearts high yearnings
(Come welling and surging in--
Come from the mystic ocean
Whose rim no foot has trod,--
Some of us call it Longing.
Others call it God.)

I.J. from The Golden Legend

from The Golden Legend
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

See yonder fire! It is the moon
Slow rising o'er the eastern hill.
It glimmers on the forest tips,
And through the dewy foliage drips
In little rivulets of light,
And makes the heart in love with night.

I.K. Love in Exile

Love In Exile
by Mathilde Blind 

I took your face into my dreams, 
It floated round me like a light; 
Your beauty's consecrating beams 
Lay mirrored in my heart all night. 
As in a lonely mountain mere, 
Unvisited of any streams, 
Supremely bright and still and clear, 
The solitary moonlight gleams, 
Your face was shining in my dreams.

I.L. She Comes Not

She Comes Not
by Herbert Trench

She comes not when Noon is on the roses--
Too bright is Day.
She comes not to the Soul till it reposes
From work and play. 

But when Night is on the hills, and the great Voices
Roll in from Sea,
By starlight and candle-light and dreamlight
She comes to me.

I.M. from Fireflies

from Fireflies
by Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that is is a fragment
awaiting perfection.

I.N. She Walks In Beauty

She Walks In Beauty
by Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

I.O. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
by Francis William Bourdillon

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousands eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

I.P. Acquainted with the Night

Acquainted with the Night
by Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

I.Q. Phases of the Moon

Phases of the Moon
Literary Review, Summer, 1999, by Ron De Maris

1
Nothing of the milk pitcher foreshadows
the dark scut of the night, stars
spread like plankton,
no moon but the promise of moon
in the white china jug. And when
you pour the milk it is
the moon itself
flowing into your glass. Where have
your hands touched a white
as pure as the moon's white, a blackness
as pure as its absence?
Everything you do is locked
in earth's motion; we wait, ceremoniously,
through the darkness--
which is beyond our imagining.

2
Profiles and shadows
are the quarter moon's
progeny. Magritte's mysterious
men always turn away
to the corners of the scene, even in
daylight, forced to face the sun,
they hide behind apples, roses, a woman's
flowered skirt. On the horizon
a pale light, a film of mother of pearl
closes over your hands
like a muff.
Tomorrow is a thought on the edge
of the moon.
A hundred men rise and dress in suits
when the bell rings.

3
Who would meet
by the full moon best inquires
of the hind
where came this light without heat, how
can such darkness sustain
so much illumination? No wonder the full
moon is a cliche of love;
low in the sky it is
a warm egg rising, it is the fertile 0
of a day yet to come. Alternate
sun, chiaroscuro
of infinite space, masque of action
in the land of no action, it is eternal
dust on the bright plain
where swift Diana rides.

II. Other Lines and Verses

-The Road Not Taken
-My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
-I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 
-from Ulysses
-One Swaying Being 
-Lives of Great Men All Remind Us
-Love After Love
-Love’s Philosophy
-from The Prophet 
-The Invitation
-Sea Rose
-The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis
-The Time Before Death
-To See a World in a Grain of Sand
-Today
-Alchemy
-A Prayer in Spring
-A Phantom of Delight
-The Symbolic and the Real

II.A. The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 
And sorry I could not travel both 
And be one traveler, long I stood 
And looked down one as far as I could 
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 

Then took the other, as just as fair, 
And having perhaps the better claim, 
Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 
Though as for that the passing there 
Had worn them really about the same, 

And both that morning equally lay 
In leaves no step had trodden black. 
Oh, I kept the first for another day! 
Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 
I doubted if I should ever come back. 

I shall be telling this with a sigh 
Somewhere ages and ages hence: 
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- 
I took the one less traveled by, 
And that has made all the difference.

II.B. My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold

My Heart Leaps Up When I behold
by William Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

II.C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 
by William Wordsworth 
I wandered lonely as a cloud 
That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 
When all at once I saw a crowd, 
A host, of golden daffodils; 
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 
Continuous as the stars that shine 
And twinkle on the milky way, 
The stretched in never-ending line 
Along the margin of a bay: 
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, 
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. 
The waves beside them danced; but they 
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee; 
A poet could not but be gay, 
In such a jocund company; 
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought 
What wealth to me the show had brought: 
For oft, when on my couch I lie 
In vacant or in pensive mood, 
They flash upon that inward eye 
Which is the bliss of solitude; 
And then my heart with pleasure fills, 
And dances with the daffodils.

II.D. from Ulysses

from Ulysses
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal-temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

II.E. One Swaying Being

One Swaying Being
by Rumi

Love is not condescension, never
that, nor books, nor any marking

on paper, nor what people say of
each other. Love is a tree with

branches reaching into eternity
and roots set deep in eternity,

and no trunk! Haven't you seen it?
The mind cannot. Your desiring

cannot. The longing you feel for
This love comes from inside you.

When you become the Friend, your
Longing will be as the man in the

ocean who holds to a piece of 
wood. Eventually wood, man, and

ocean become one swaying being,
Shams Tabriz, the secret of God.

II.F. Lives of Great Men All Remind Us

Lives of Great Men All Remind Us 
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time.

II.G. Love After Love

Love After Love
by Derek Walcott

The time will come 
when, with elation 
you will greet yourself arriving 
at your own door, in your own mirror 
and each will smile at the other's welcome, 

and say, sit here. Eat. 
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart 
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you 

all your life, whom you ignored 
for another, who knows you by heart. 
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, 

the photographs, the desperate notes, 
peel your own image from the mirror. 
Sit. Feast on your life.

II.H. Love’s Philosophy

Love’s Philosophy 
by Percy Bysshe Shelley 

The fountains mingle with the river 
And the rivers with the Ocean, 
The winds of Heaven mix for ever 
With a sweet emotion; 
Nothing in the world is single; 
All things by a law divine 
In one spirit meet and mingle. 
Why not I with thine? - 
See the mountains kiss high Heaven 
And the waves clasp one another; 
No sister-flower would be forgiven 
If it disdained its brother; 
And the sunlight clasps the earth 
And the moonbeams kiss the sea: 
What is all this sweet work worth 
If thou kiss not me?

II.I. from The Prophet 

from The Prophet 
by Kahlil Gibran

Then a woman said, "Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow." 
And he answered: 
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. 
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. 
And how else can it be? 
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. 
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? 
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? 
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." 
But I say unto you, they are inseparable. 
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. 

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. 
Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced. 
When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.

II.J. The Invitation

The Invitation 
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for 
a living. I want to know what you ache 
for, and if you dare to dream of meeting 
your heart's longing. 

It doesn't interest me how old you 
are. I want to know if you will risk 
looking like a fool for love, for 
your dream, for the adventure of 
being alive. 

It doesn't interest me what planets 
are squaring your moon. I want to 
know if you have touched the 
center of your own sorrow, if you 
have been opened by life's 
betrayals or have become 
shriveled and closed from fear of 
further pain! I want to know if you 
can sit with pain, mine or your 
own, without moving to hide it or 
fade it, or fix it. I want to know
if you can be with JOY, mine or your 
own; if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the 
tips of your fingers and toes without
cautioning us to be careful, be 
realistic, or to remember the limitations 
of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you 
are telling me is true. I want to 
know if you can disappoint another to 
be true to yourself; if you can 
bear the accusation of betrayal and 
not betray your own soul. I want to 
know if you can be faithful and 
therefore be trustworthy. I want to 
know if you can see beauty even when 
it is not pretty everyday, and if 
you can source your life on the edge 
of the lake and shout to the silver 
of the full moon.

It doesn't interest me to know where 
you live or how much money you 
have. I want to know if you can get 
up after a night of grief and despair, 
weary and bruised to the bone, and 
do what needs to be done for the 
children.

It doesn't interest me who you know 
or how you came to be here. I 
want to know if you will stand in 
the center of the fire with me and not 
shrink back. 

It doesn't interest me where or what 
or with whom you have studied. I 
want to know what sustains you 
from the inside when all else falls 
away. I want to know if you can be 
alone with yourself and if you truly 
like the company you keep in the 
empty moments.

II.K. Sea Rose

Sea Rose
-H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Rose, harsh rose
marred and with stint of petals,
meagre flower, thin,
sparse of leaf,
more precious
than a wet rose
single on a stem --
you are caught in the drift.
Stunted, with small leaf,
you are flung on the sand,
you are lifted
in the crisp sand
that drives in the wind.
Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened in a leaf?

II.L. The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis
attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi

O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is discord, harmony.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sorrow, joy.

Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not 
so much seek to be consoled as to console; 
to be understood as to understand; 
to be loved as to love; 
for it is in giving that we receive; 
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; 
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

II.M. The Time Before Death

The Time Before Death
by Kabir

Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive 
Jump into experience while you are alive 
Think and think while you are alive! 
What you call salvation belongs to the time before death.
If you don't break your ropes while you are alive, do you 
Think ghosts will do it after?
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just 
Because the body is rotten 
That is all fantasy. 
What is found now is found then. 
If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the 
City of Death. 
If you make love with the divine now, during the next moment you will have 
the face of satisfied desire. 
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, 
Believe in the Great Sound!
Kabir says: when the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of 
the longing for the Guest that does all the work. 
Take a look at me, you will see a slave of that intensity.

II.N. To See a World in a Grain of Sand

To See a World in a Grain of Sand
by William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wildflower
To hold infinity in your hand
And eternity in an hour

II.O. Today

Today
by Thomas Carlyle

So here hath been dawning
Another blue day:
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

Out of Eternity
this new day is born
Into Eternity
At night will return.

Behold it afore time,
No eye ever did:
So soon it forever
From all eyes is hid.

Here hath been dawning
Another blue day
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

II.P. Alchemy

Alchemy
by Sara Teasdale

I lift my heart as spring lifts up
A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup
Although it holds but pain.

For I shall learn from every flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.

II.Q. A Prayer in Spring

A Prayer in Spring
by Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid-air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify for what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.

II.R. A Phantom of Delight

A Phantom of Delight
by William Wordsworth

She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment’s ornament;
Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;
Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful Dawn;
A dancing Shape, an Image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.

I saw her upon nearer view,
A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A Creature not too bright or good
For human nature’s daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A Being breathing thoughtful breath,
A Traveller between life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;

A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light.

II.S. The Symbolic and the Real

The Symbolic and the Real
by Carl Japikse

I am the Symbolic and the Real,
A fragment of heaven come to earth;
The image of the Great One’s seal,
I am the Symbolic and the Real.

Through tests and triumphs I reveal
Humanity’s destiny and worth;
I am the Symbolic and the Real,
A fragment of heaven come to earth.

III. Book Recommendations

-Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
-Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain
-Four Agreements, The by Don Miguel Ruiz
-How to Be, Do, or Have Anything by Boldt
-Intimacy by Osho
-Lessons from the Light by George Anderson
-Life Strategies for Teens by Jay McGraw
-Manifest Your Destiny by Dr. Wayne Dyer
-Mastery of Love, The by Don Miguel Ruiz
-Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
-Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler
-Please Understand Me II by David Kearsey
-Prophet, The by Kahlil Gibran
-Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach
-Succulent Wild Woman by Sark
-Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
-You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
-A Woman’s Worth by Marianne Williamson

IV. Quotations

-Beauty
-Change
-Courage
-Determination
-Dreams
-Faith
-Friendship
-Focus
-Goals
-Hope
-Joy
-Life
-Love
-Notice
-Passion
-Power
-Perseverance
-Spirit
-Success
-Truth
-Wisdom
-Writing

IV.A. Beauty

"Let the beauty you love be what you do." 
-Unknown

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." -Richard Bach

"A clear breeze has no price; the bright moon no owner." -Song Hun 

"Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have." -Richard Bach

IV.B. Change

"Be the change you want to see in the world." -Ghandhi

"Change your thought and you change your world." -Wayne Dyer 

"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around." -from the movie Vanilla Sky

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting change." -Unknown 

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot 

"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." -William James 

"There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly." -Brian Adams 

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." -Ethel Barrymore

IV.C. Courage

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." –Muriel Strode 

"Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore." -Unknown

"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death." -Betty Bender

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." –Sarah Williams

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." -Jim Morrison

"I am not afraid of storms for I have learned how to sail my ship." -Louisa May Alcott

IV.D. Determination

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog." -Mark Twain

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -Walter Bagehot 

"Just do it." -Nike slogan

IV.E. Dreams

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hitch your wagon to a star." -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Whatever you can do, or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments." -Napoleon Hill 

"There is no dream too big and no dreamer too small." -Unknown

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." -Robert H. Goddard 

"The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high." -Henry David Thoreau

IV.F. Faith

"Whatsoever things you desire, believe and you shall have them." -Jesus 

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!" -Swami Vivekananda

"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself." -Swami Vivekananda

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." -Henry Ford

"Say yes to yourself." -Unknown

IV.G. Friendship

"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend." -William Rotsler 

"Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship." -Woodrow Wilson 

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." –Plautus

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." -Richard Bach

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friends cherish each other’s hopes--they are kind to each other’s dreams." -Henry David Thoreau

IV.H. Focus

"You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." 
-Abraham Lincoln

"You get what you concentrate on; your mental images bring about their own fulfillment." -Seth

IV.I. Goals

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding." -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 

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

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." -Les Brown 

"Be unreasonable in your expectations for yourself." -Anthony Robbins

"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." 
-Buddha

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." 
-Henry Ford

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp; else what's a heaven for?" -Robert Browning

IV.J. Hope

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." -Samuel Smiles

"It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come." -African Proverb

"The universe grants the earnest wishes of your heart." -Unknown

IV.K. Joy

"Follow your bliss." -Joseph Campbell 

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln 

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." -Kahlil Gibran

"The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one’s powers towards some great end." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Helen Keller

"Your success and happiness lie in you." 
-Helen Keller

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." -Emily Dickinson

IV.L. Life

"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." -Helen Keller 

"I'm not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." -William Allen White 

"Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream." -Unknown

"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." -Benjamin Franklin

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." -Richard Bach

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." -George Bernard Shaw

IV.M. Love

"From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love." -Mother Teresa 

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -from The Little Prince

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

"What is love, and what is lust? Lust is what happens between bodies. Love is what happens between souls." -Rob E. Geraghty

"Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart." -Charles Dickens

"To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person." -Eric Fromm

"To be loved, be lovable." -Ovid

IV.N. Notice

"It’s like a finger pointing at the moon. If you stare at the finger, you miss all the heavenly glory." -Bruce Lee

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." -Charles A. Beard

"To see only what is there is to be as blind as the night." -Annalyn Joie Tran

"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin

"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point." -Harold B. Melchart

IV.O. Passion

"Sometimes things become possible if we want them enough." -T.S. Eliot

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." -Norman Vincent Peale 

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

IV.P. Power

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps --we must step up the stairs." -Vance Havner

"Concentrated power is silence. Diffused power is noise.....When you reach the place of silence in mind, you have reached the place of power, the place where all is one." -Baird Spalding 

"Power is the ability to make change." 
-Geneva Overholser

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." -Richard Bach

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." -Chinese proverb 

"The ancestor to every action is a thought." 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"The great end in life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley

IV.Q. Perseverance

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb

"What does not destroy me, makes me strong." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Even monkeys fall out of trees." -Japanese Proverb

"No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm." -Charles Kettering 

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." 
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." 
-Benjamin Franklin

IV.R. Spirit

"You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self." -Richard Bach

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; but spiritual beings having a human experience." -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside awakes." -Carl Jung 

"While the body perishes the Spirit is immortal. We are here to realize we are Spirit." -Papa Ramdas

"From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all." 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

IV.S. Success

"The most glowing succeses are but reflections of the inner fire." -Kenneth Hildebrant 

"Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk." -The Dalai Lama 

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it." -The Dalai Lama 

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryant 

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie 

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." -Richard Bach

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." -Richard Bach

IV.T. Truth

"This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." -Shakespeare

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." -Mohandas K. Gandhi 

"Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." -Friedrich Wilhem Nietzsche

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true." -Swami Vivekananda

"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true." -Richard Bach

"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; and never stop fighting." -e. e. cummings

IV.U. Wisdom

"Knowing others is Wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment." -Lao Tzu 

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." -Richard Bach

"Only the still pool reflects the stars." 
-Chinese proverb

"A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion." 
-Chinese proverb

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." -Basho 

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." -Confucius 

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." -Naguib Mahfouz

"Wisdom begin in wonder." -Socrates

IV.W. Writing

"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." -Plato

"Writing is a struggle against silence." -Carlos Fuentes