Below are some of my favorite quotes and sayings,
borrowed from philosophers from all lands and times.

Some of them I have used in the newsletter cartoons I do for my workplace.
I have included those cartoons in here as well, marked by the Yin and Yang symbol:

Hope you enjoy.

"When in argument, those who call upon authority use not their intellect,
but rather their memory."
----Leonardo da Vinci

"Stress should be like rain.
It can beat against you, wet your clothes and run all along your body,
but it should never soak into your skin."

"Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive."
----Elbert Hubbard

"There is no place but HERE. There is no time but NOW."
----age-old Zen proverb

"If you cannot talk your way out of a fight, walk your way out of a fight.
If you cannot walk your way out of a fight, run your way out of a fight.
If you cannot run your way out of a fight, kill him."

"A rat is a cat is a dog is a boy.
Of course this means that a life is a life is a life is a life.
All living things are equally as important as any other."

"Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after."
----Henry David Thoreau

"The world is a dificult place for everyone in it--and you are not the only one in it."
----Aristotle

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
----Mahatma Gandhi

“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
----Katherine Paterson

"In the end, people will conserve only what
they love, love only what they understand, and
understand only what they are taught."
----taken from Senegalese Ecologist Baba Dioum

After we have conquered disease and aging, mastered weather and the tides, and solved the riddles of the stars, we may one day learn to harness the powers of love.
Then for the second time in the history of Man, we will have discovered fire."
----unknown

"Whilst there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles,
I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it.
If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate
you will have been cheerful."
----H. G. Wells

I forever see him there
standing knee deep in snow
this beautiful boy
my precious
arms stretched out
lighted on
by the fluttering bodies
of the chickadees

and he smiles
----A poem by Dayna N. Singer
(Yes, it is about me)