Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

–Josh Billings

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
— Elise Boulding

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

–Paul Tillich

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
–Oscar Wilde

Remembering my father on his birthday today…

Tanka is one of the oldest Japanese poetry forms. There are five lines in a Tanka poem. Tanks poems are written about nature, seasons, love, sadness and other strong emotions.

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”

–Augustus Hare

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

–Bertrand Russell

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

–Vera Nazarian