posted May 11, 2006 12:58 AM         

What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. ~Emerson

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination and adds spirit to sense is useful. ~Shelley

Our thoughts are the epochs in our lives; all else is but a journal of the winds that blew while we were here. ~Thoreau

Far away there in the sunshine
are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them,
but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them,
and try to follow where they lead.
~Alcott

Philosophy becomes poetry
and science imagination,
in the enthusiasm of genius.
~Disraeli

There is stillness
oft a magic power
To calm the breast
when struggling passions lower,
Touched by its influence,
in the soul arise
Diviner feelings,
kindred with the skies.
~Cardinal Newman

Nothing can compare in beauty,
and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity
itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings
of faithful women bringing their children
to honor and virtue and piety.
~Beecher

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have
within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
~Phillips Brooks

Who does best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts
nobly-- angels could do no more. ~Young

Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:--
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in our own.
~Gordon

An honest heart possesses a Kingdom. ~Seneca

The wisest man could ask no more of fate
Than to be simple, modest, manly, true,
Safe from the many,
honored by the few;
Nothing to court in Church,
or World or State,
But inwardly in secret
to be great.
~Lowell

Music is love in search of a word.
~Lanier

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows,
which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call
a man cold, when he is only sad.
~Longfellow

Intend honestly and leave the event to God. ~Aesop

There are two freedoms-- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes;
the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
~Kingsley

True sincerity sends for no witnesses. ~Anonymous

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited,
but in adversity they come without invitation.
~Theopheastus

No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And faith shines equal,
arming me from fear.
~Bronte

Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
Nothing is so gentle as real strength. ~DeSales

All our Dignity consists in thought.
Let us labor, then, to think well.
That is the principle of morality. ~Pascal

Great thoughts come from the heart.
~DeMusset

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves,
it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
~LaRochefoucauld

Whatever you cannot understand,
you cannot possess. ~Goethe

Great souls suffer in silence. ~Schiller

Life is beautiful when one sees beyond it. ~Bonnat

Do that which you judge to be beautiful and honest, though you should acquire no glory from the performance.
~Pythagoras

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
~Macdonald

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. ~Colton

Doubt whom you will,
but never yourself. ~Bovee

New thought is new life.
~Mulford

posted May 12, 2006 02:46 AM         

This has helped me crystalize the teachings from the Lyricus discourses I have been studying, mainly, 'The Energetic Heart.'