Here are the quotes for August of 2004. We hope you enjoy them!

“I have done my best.” That is about all the philosophy of living that one needs.
–Lin Yutang

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
–Gloria Steinem

But if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.
–Carl Jung

i found god in myself & i loved her
i loved her fiercely
–Ntozake Shange

Expect nothing; live frugally on surprise.
–Alice Walker

Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of
emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves
the highest peak and the deepest reach in his or her search for
self-fulfillment.
–Arthur Jersild

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
–Ambrose Redmoon

Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there.
–William Commanda

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.
–Barbara Holland

Modern industrial society destroys, with its relentless pursuit of continuous growth of goods and money, the ability of nature to regenerate herself, until she is totally exhausted.
–Maria Mies

In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.
–Mandy Aftel

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
–Erich Fromm

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
–Antonio Machado