June 30, 2015

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The moment...

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
/Elizabeth Cady Stanton/

Minna Antrim: The drama...

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
/Minna Antrim/

John D. Rockefeller: I can...

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
/John D. Rockefeller/

June 29, 2015

T. H. White: Please God,...

Please God, said the embryo, I think that You made me in the shape which I now have for reasons best known to Yourselves, and that it would be rude to change. If I am to have my choice I will stay as I am. I will not alter any of the parts which You have made for me, for other and doubtless inferior tools, and I will stay a defenceless embryo all my life, doing my best to make myself a few feeble implements out of the wood, iron, and other materials which You have seen fit to put before me. If I want a boat I will try to construct it out of trees, and if I want to fly, I will put together a chariot to do it for me.
/T. H. White/

June 28, 2015

Paul Graham: Great software,...

Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too. I'm not claiming I write great software, but I know that when it comes to code I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way. It drives me crazy to see code that's badly indented, or that uses ugly variable names.
/Paul Graham/

June 27, 2015

Denis Leary: What I've...

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
/Denis Leary/

June 25, 2015

Barbara Jordan: All my...

All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.
/Barbara Jordan/

Frederick Buechner: The life...

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
/Frederick Buechner/

June 21, 2015

Arthur Schopenhauer: There is...

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
/Arthur Schopenhauer/

John Muir: Thousands of...

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountian parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life!
/John Muir/

June 20, 2015

Alexander Haig: Practice rather...

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
/Alexander Haig/

June 18, 2015

John Dryden: When I...

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
/John Dryden/

June 16, 2015

Antonio Porchia: We tear...

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
/Antonio Porchia/

Lionel Poilane: Bread deals...

Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life.
/Lionel Poilane/

June 14, 2015

Samuel Butler: Life is...

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
/Samuel Butler/

June 12, 2015

Vladimir Nabokov: Life is...

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
/Vladimir Nabokov/

June 11, 2015

Morley Safer: I really...

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.
/Morley Safer/

June 10, 2015

June 06, 2015

Helen P. Blavatsky: We cut...

We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.
/Helen P. Blavatsky/

Henry Beston: We need...

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creatures through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
/Henry Beston/

John Constable: I never...

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
/John Constable/

June 05, 2015

Albert Camus: I would...

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
/Albert Camus/

Garrison Keillor: This is...

This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger.Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning.
/Garrison Keillor/

June 03, 2015

Martin H. Fischer: Life preys...

Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.
/Martin H. Fischer/