CB169. Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her seas; rest your soul in her solitary places. Henry Beston.

CB165. Come away from the din, come away to the quiet fields, over which the great sky stretches, and where, between us and the stars, there lies a quiet silence;..... Jerome K. Jerome.

CB175. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson.

CB174. When I first open my eyes upom the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

CB164. Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but the number of moments that take your breath away. Author Unknown.

CB168. And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran.

CB176. Ah. that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we love, That they might tell us What & where they be. Alfred Lord Tennyson.

CB170. May peace and peace and peace be everywhere. The Upanishads.

CB177. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. Helen Keller.

CB166. I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau.

CB179. Here we will sit and let the sounds of music creep into our ears: soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony. William Shakespeare.

CB178. What would yo do if you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller

CB181. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to stay in and places to pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike. John Muir.

CB180. I add my breath to your breath that our days be long upon the Earth, that the days of our people be long, that we shall be as one person, that we may finish our road together. Pueblo Wedding Prayer.

CB172. Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. Serbian Proverb.

CB182. If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. Katherine Hepburn.

CB162. A true friend stands by your side in the storm and reminds you that there are sweet and sunny days to come. Kathryn T. Shaw.

CB163. Your life will no doubt find its own paths. That they will be good ones, and rich and expansive, that I wish for you more than I can say. Rainer Maria Rilke.