Before writing an article or my monthly column on the fascinating cycles in astrology, I search for a quote that somehow relates to the theme I am about to write about. One day with Mercury retrograde I decided to put all these quotes on one page. These say so so much with such a few words. The links take you to the columns or articles where this quote was used. All of the monthly columns are archived, the cycles repeat and sometimes we need to go back and review in order to understand what is to be. Many of the beautiful nature photographs on this site are taken by Dagmar von Hahn. I also find an image for each column and article. It is the web and I like the aesthetics of it all. So here are the quotes in no particular order, enjoy.
"Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow." — Unknown — Appears on the weekly column page.
"Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room, every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person." —Indian Proverb — appears on the index page.
"We make ourselves rich by making our wants few." Henry David Thoreau — Read Article on the 2nd house
"Our only security is our ability to change." — John Lilly
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." — Kahlil Gibran
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. — General Omar Bradley
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for". — William Shedd — Week of August 11, 2004
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." — Thomas Alva Edison. Week of August 25, 2004
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. — — Rebecca Falls
"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach." — Lin Yutang — Read Article on the 6th house
"Don't Believe in Miracles, Depend on them!" — Lawrence J. Peters
"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue." —— Buddha — Read April 2002 column — addresses Venus, Vesta and the houses in the astrological chart.
"People are like stained—glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the Sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." —— Elizabeth Kübler—Ross — Uranus into Pisces until 2010
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." ——Bryan, William Jennings — the Aquarius 2003 Column address the Essence of the zodiacal sign
"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete." —— Lao—Tzu — Classes and Events page
"We tend to see our own experiences as the normal process, so we are often amazed that anyone could have taken a different path. But when we do meet up, it's always fascinating to compare notes about the different ways to get there." — Daniel Gilly — Read about the relating style of Aquarius.
"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. —— Hare & Charles" — Aries 2003 column talks about the essence of Aries the cycle of the Sun and the Nodes of the Moon.
"This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.". —— Euripides — Read about the relating style of Aries.
"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying." —— Jeremy Taylor" — Appears on the page, which lists articles on this site and on my bio page.
"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. " Benjamin Disraeli — Aspects in Astrology Introductory Article.
"When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange — my youth." —— Sara Teasdale
"Knowledge is not achieved until shared." — Unknown — Page lists astrological conferences.
"I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it." Oscar Hammerstein II — Bad Transits
"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the sacred writings. " — John Frederick Herschel — Lists basic introductory articles on this site.
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates."—— Henry David Thoreau — Introduction to Astrology
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." —Friedrich Nietzsche " — An Essay "I don't Believe in Astrology"
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods." — Ralph Waldo Emerson"— Cancer 2002 Column — The Moon, Eclipses and Nodes.
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."— M. Gandhi — Cancer 2003 Column — the Essence of Cancer
"The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this 'itself' is the real 'myself.' From this standpoint here language reveals its limitations with a vengeance I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is always 'right,' in the sense that the stars are always in their 'right' places." — Alan Wilson Watson — Read about the relating style of Cancer.
You are young at any age if you're planning for tomorrow." — Anonymous and "Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals". — Denham — Read about the relating style of Capricorn
"Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow." — Unknown — Leo 2003 column — the Essence of Leo, and about the cycles of the inner planets.
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will." —George Bernard Shaw" — Read about the relating style of Leo.
"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man." —— Joseph Addison — Libra 2002 Column about the cycles.
"Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his image". — Goethe — Read about the relating style of Libra.
"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." — Robert Schuller" — March 2002 Column
"Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. —Unknown — Mars 2003 article, the astronomy and astrology of this exceptional phenomenom.
"Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good." —— Buddha — The Mercury Retrograde cycles in the element of Air 2001—02 and the 2003—04 Mercury Retrogrades in Earth cycles.
"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases." — William Hazlitt — An article about the Moon in astrology.
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551—478 BCE) — November 2001 Column the cycles and Yod.
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. —— Marcus Aurelius" — Palmistry and Astrology.
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." — George Orwell — Pisces 2003 column — Uranus into Pisces and the cycles.
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." — John Updike. " Read about the relating style of Pisces.
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." — Baba Dioum — Relating from an astrological perspective.
"The horoscope is a manuscript for life, you have the leading role." — Anne Massey — Order Reports on line.
"To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom." Ralph Waldo Emerson — Sagittarius 2002 Pluto and Venus.
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates."—— Henry David Thoreau — Read about the relating style of Sagittarius.
"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres..." — I Ching — Scorpio 2002 — Pluto, Venus, Nodal Axis and Scorpio in intimate detail.
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life...Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality." —— The Divine Pymander — Read about the relating style of Scorpio.
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."—— Henry Ward Beecher — Taurus 2002 Edition — How the Sun influences us.
"The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole". —— Albert Pike
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." —— Calvin Coolidge — Taurus 2003 Edition about the Essence of Taurus.
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. —— Henry Ward Beecher — Read about the relating style of Taurus.
"People are like stained—glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." —— Elizabeth Kübler—Ross — Uranus into Pisces until 2010.
"Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder." —— Samuel Johnson" — Virgo 2002 Column
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. — Tom Clancy and "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit." ~ Aristotle — Virgo 2003 the Essence of Virgo and the Cycles
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." — Thomas Alva Edison — Read about the relating style of Virgo
"Memory is the cabinet of imagination,the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought." — Saint Basil — The Moon Void of Course Article
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." —— William Shakespeare — The Day of the Week calculator and the Signs of the Zodiac.
"I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer."— Dan Quisenberry — weekly column
"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." — Charles A. Dana
"Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much". — John Wayne
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." — Albert Einstein
"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." — Martha Washington
"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." — Charles A. Dana
"Words have a longer life than deeds." — Pindar (Greek Poet)
"The self is not something ready—made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." — John Dewey
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without
trials" — Chinese Proverb
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief"
— Gerry Spence (Mercury conjunct Pluto)
" If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative." — Arthur C. Clarke
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." — Demosthenes — January 5—11, 2005
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever—lengthening, ever—ascending, ever—improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." — Sir Winston Churchill — January 12—18, 2005
"What worries you masters you". — Haddon W. Robinson — January
19—25, 2005
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond
with them." — Abigail Adams — January 25—February 1, 2005
"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." — Carl Schurz — February 2—8, 2005
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." — Franklin D. Roosevelt — February 9—15, 2005
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong — because someday you will have been all of these." — George Washington Carver — February 26—22, 2005
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." — Norman Vincent Peale, February 23— March 1, 2005
"A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go." —Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider — March 2—8, 2005
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." — Robert Fritz — March 9—15, 2005
"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"—Peter McWilliams March 16—22, 2005
"Pale ink is better than the best memory." — Chinese proverb — March 23—30, 2005
"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today." —Rotarian, March 31—April 5, 2005
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." —Joseph Addison April 6—12, 2005
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." —Agnes de Mille, April 13—19, 2005
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans" —Peter Drucker, April 20—26, 2005
"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention" —Anonymous
"An optimist is the human personification of spring." —Susan J. Bissonette
"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness." — Maya Angelou
"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us." — Max Frisch
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." — Shakti Gawain
"Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set on fire."— George Matthew Adams
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." — Thomas Jefferson
© Anne Massey 2004—05
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