Random Thoughts

"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful." -- The Dalai Lama

“Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Current Mood: contemplative

If you were a Tetley tea, which tea would you be ?

http://www.tetley.ca/English/Fun/WhatTeaAreYou.cfm

Apparently, I would be Peppermint Tea

Current Mood: amused

"In the deepest desire of our hearts, we long ... for our lives to matter, for beauty, for love, and for life to have purpose and meaning"
-- C.S. Lewis

Current Mood: tired

1. Life is what happens when you're busy making plans.

2. If you wait for the perfect time to do something, you never will.

3. Don't spend so much time planning your future that you forget to live your present.

Current Mood: bouncy

Here's my first orchid in bloom. It's a Phaelenopsis Orchid.

Current Mood: ecstatic

These quotes are from a cute book that I re-discovered on one of our bookshelves. It's called "The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff:

"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

"Those who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes; cleverness, maybe; wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care. Wisdom does."

"When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong."

Current Mood: cheerful

Rhodie seeds have been germinating for ten days. A few of the pots are starting to show the first tiny hints of germination.

NEW PLANT: Safflower. So pretty that I couldn't resist trying them. Good germination after a week. There are half a dozen little sprouts in the pot already.

Spring is just around the corner, and we couldn't resist some potted purple hyacinths. They fill the house with such a wonderful scent. And we even managed to find a spot where the cats won't come into contact with them.

This is also the season where seedling flats start taking over more of the sewing room. I LOVE seed-starting time. It's so full of bright promises of beauty (and tasty things to be eaten this summer).

Current Mood: energetic

It's never too late to be who you might have been.
-George Eliot

Tosach eólais imchomarc. - (translation: "Questioning is the beginning of knowledge")
-Irish proverb

Pride makes us do things well, but it is love, that makes us do them to perfection.
-H. Jackson Brown

I found this quote rather appropriate for the holiday season:

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving".
-- Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Current Mood: cheerful

"Pardon my utopian visions (a little too much Thoreau in my literature courses), but wouldn’t it be great if we could basically be who we are, do our best, get rewarded for merit and effort, yet still practice such fundamentals as fairness, kindness, unselfishness and patience?"
-- Mark Swartz (www.careeractivist.com)

Current Mood: thoughtful

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
--- Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Current Mood: contemplative

I tried out the angry goat haiku generator, and it produced a haiku about my cats:

"always typing well
let's see you ignore my
sitting on your hands"

Current Mood: amused

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." -- Book of Galations 5:22-23 (New International Version of the Bible)

It seems to me that the world would be a better place if more people followed this concept. It's one of my cousin Sandi's favourite quotes.

Current Mood: thoughtful

I discovered Wikiquote (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page) and found the "random page" link to be rather entertaining.

Here's a few random quotes:

[Latin]
* Amicus optima vitae possessio.
o Translation: "A friend is the biggest treasure in life"

[Danish Proverbs]
* "Lige ved og næsten slår ingen mand af hesten."
o Translation: "'Almost' and 'nearly' do not throw a man from his horse".
o English Equivalent: "Close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades"

[Abraham Maslow]
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life".

Current Mood: amused