"Do not fear
to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once
eccentric." ~Bertrand Russell
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." ~Aristotle
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think
aloud." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Difficult, difficult, difficult . . . easy, easy, easy . . . neither
difficult nor easy." ~Zen Buddhism
"Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider." ~Platenus
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think
we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." ~Arthur C. Clarke
"Curiosity has its own reason for existence." ~Albert Einstein
"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons
afterwards." ~Anonymous
"There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And
I am unsure about the universe." ~Albert Einstein
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"For this I bless you most, you give much and know not that you give at
all." ~Kahlil Gibran
"Listen to everyone. Follow no one." ~Anonymous
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it
enkindles the great." ~Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
"I value my garden more for being full blackbirds than of cherries, and
very frankly give them fruit for their songs." ~Joseph Addison
"My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to
the house, and not the house to the owner." ~Cicero
"Respect is love in plain clothes." ~Frankie Byrne
"The surest plan to make a man is, think him so." ~JR Lowell
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them
all." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect." ~Mark Twain
"We are the ones who make us who we are." ~Anonymous
"The beautiful thing about writing is that you don't have to get right the
first time--unlike, say, brainsurgery." ~Robert Cormier
"Man's youth is a wonderful thing. It is so full of anguish and of magic
and he never comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him
forever." ~Thomas Wolfe
"Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive unceasingly."
~Gotama Buddha
"So long as we live, they too shall live, for they are now a part of us,
as we remember them." ~Jewish Prayer
"Life is mystical and supernatural. Beautiful and ugly. Life is a poets
dream and a scientist's nightmare. We can say a lot but never really solve the
question. We are who we are and that is as far as we can go." ~Alton Stein
"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul." ~Edward Abbey
“We
do not see things as they are, we see things as we are" ~Talmud
"...Grieve not, nor
speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you... I
loved you so - 'twas Heaven here with you." ~Isla Paschal Richardson
"The longest journey is
the journey inward" ~Dag Hammarskjold
"From this hour I
ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, going
where I list, my own master total and absolute" ~ Walt Whitman
"Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!" ~Mark
Twain
"The real voyage of
discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes" ~
Marcel Proust
"The beginning is always
today" ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
"Under the wide and
starry sky, Dig me a grave and let me lie; Glad did I live and gladly die, And
I laid me down with a will."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life requires no future
to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is
finished." ~ Alan W. Watts
“A man should never be
ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words,
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” ~Alexander Pope
"With age comes the
inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in
externals?" ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Every culture has
devised its own way of responding to the riddle of the Cosmos...There
are many different ways of being human." ~Carl Sagan
"One arrives at
simplicity...as one approaches the real meaning of things." ~Constantin
Brancusi
"Upon an ever expansive
horizon, Life reveals her mystery; To live is a gift, to feel is a blessing,
and to take part in Her beauty is a miracle renewed each day."
~Francisco
"We must be willing to
get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for
us." ~Joseph Campbell
"I expect to pass
through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show...let me
do it now." ~ William Penn
"Truth is revealed by
removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture in which
the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away." ~Alan
W Watts
"I pack my trunk, embrace my
friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me
is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We spend most of our
time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of
things...[but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in
a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world
begin to whisper." ~ James Carroll
"Besides the noble art
of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone...The
wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." ~Lin Yutang
“There is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." ~William Shakespeare
"You must be
the change you wish to see in the world." ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
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