September 28, 2014

Martin Buber: There are...

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
/Martin Buber/

September 26, 2014

Les Brown: Your goals...

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
/Les Brown/

Henry L. Stimson: The chief...

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
/Henry L. Stimson/

September 24, 2014

Doug Horton: We are...

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
/Doug Horton/

September 23, 2014

Colin Wilson: It is...

It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the bounds of acceptation. But these are relatively unimportant. The real problem is that we are trapped in misconceptions that always deceive us, as the matador's cape deceives the bull; that continue to deceive us a million times over the course of a lifetime. Wittgenstein once said that traditional philosophy causes a form of mental cramp, and that the aim of his philosophy was to remove this mental cramp, or to 'show the fly the way out of the bottle'. Our misconceptions involve the passive fallacy and notion that consciousness is a plane mirror that cannot lie about the world it reflects.
/Colin Wilson/

September 22, 2014

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Sleep lingers...

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Knut Hamsun: Heaven knows...

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
/Knut Hamsun/

September 21, 2014

Earl R. Beck: No one...

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.
/Earl R. Beck/

September 16, 2014

Albert Schweitzer: There are...

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
/Albert Schweitzer/

George Sewell: When the...

When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.
/George Sewell/

September 15, 2014

Henry Van Dyke: No amount...

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
/Henry Van Dyke/

September 14, 2014

Molly Ivins: Although a...

Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.
/Molly Ivins/

September 13, 2014

J. P. Mcevoy: Life is...

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.
/J. P. Mcevoy/

Blaise Pascal: Most of...

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
/Blaise Pascal/

September 12, 2014

Mahatma Gandhi: My life...

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
/Mahatma Gandhi/

September 11, 2014

Joseph Campbell: It seems...

It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely accidental when they happened turn out to be the main elements in a consistent plot. Who composed this plot? Just as your dreams are composed, so your whole life has been composed by the will within you. Just as the people who you met by chance became effective agents in the structuring of your life, so you have been the agent in the structuring of other lives. And the whole thing gears together like one big symphony, everything influencing and structuring everything else. It's as though our lives were the dream of a single dreamer in which all of the dream characters are dreaming too. And so everything links to everything else moved out of the will in nature...It is as though there were an intention behind it yet it is all by chance. None of us lives the life that he had intended.
/Joseph Campbell/

September 07, 2014

Emily Dickinson: That it...

That it will never come again<BR>Is what makes life so sweet.
/Emily Dickinson/

Martin Luther: Christian life...

Christian life consists of faith and charity.
/Martin Luther/

Leon Kass: The technical...

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
/Leon Kass/

September 06, 2014

Lucille Ball: One of...

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
/Lucille Ball/

September 05, 2014

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: Life finds...

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
/Maharishi Mahesh Yogi/

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We lay...

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.
/Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/

September 04, 2014

Georges Rouault: Painting is...

Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
/Georges Rouault/

September 03, 2014

Bill Gates: I actually...

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
/Bill Gates/

September 01, 2014

Lydia Maria Child: The cure...

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
/Lydia Maria Child/

John Kenneth Galbraith: In all...

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
/John Kenneth Galbraith/

Lynn Davies: It's about...

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.
/Lynn Davies/