* mateja *:
“What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?”
* mateja *:
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
* mateja *:
“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
* mateja *:
“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
* mateja *:
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
* mateja *:
Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant, to the leaping antelope.
* mateja *:
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
* mateja *:
I just want one little kiss when we get high up on the ridge.
* mateja *:
“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile.”
* mateja *:
Life's not about all the steps you've taken, or all the places you have been, it's about the footprints you leave behind.
* mateja *:
Without stones there is no arch.
* mateja *:
“My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.”
* mateja *:
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
* mateja *:
I want to be the bridge to the next generation.
* mateja *:
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
* mateja *:
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
* mateja *:
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
* mateja *:
“You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.”
* mateja *:
Pluto, we've got chipmunks in our tree! Cute little fellas.
* mateja *:
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
* mateja *:
Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit.
* mateja *:
It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not understand a syllable of it.
* mateja *:
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
* mateja *:
The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look
* mateja *:
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
* mateja *:
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
* mateja *:
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
* mateja *:
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
* mateja *:
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes
* mateja *:
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
