"Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults
your Soul."
- Walt Whitman
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of
himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
- Abraham Lincoln
"God never made His work for man to mend."
- John Dryden
"Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added
one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity."
- Chief Luther Standing Bear (Oglala Sioux)
"We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must
be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
- Judith Martin
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of
civilization."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because
it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it
has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
- Tom Robbins
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have
guided missiles and misguided men."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
- Groucho Marx
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that
we belong to each other."
- Mother Teresa
"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind
brought about by a serenity of soul. Lasting peace can come
only to peaceful people."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he
spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more
time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
- E.B. White
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all
the other alternatives."
- Abba Eban
"Wisdom is a life that knows it is living."
- Moravian prayer book
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
- Colette
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the
overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller
"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be
glad in it."
- Psalm 118:24
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
- Charlie Chaplin
"Don't worry... be happy."
- Bobby McFerrin
"I want to know God's thoughts.....the rest are details."
- Albert Einstein
"The best way to know God is to love many things."
- Vincent van Gogh
"Knock,
And He'll open the door
Vanish,
And He'll make you shine like the sun.
Fall,
And He'll raise you to the heavens.
Become nothing,
And He'll turn you into everything."
- Rumi
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
- Muriel Rukeyser
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein
"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, and a dark
side, and it holds the universe together."
- Carl Zwanzig
"Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no
science can match."
- Ingrid Bengis
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has,
of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
- Albert Einstein
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to
embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of
every cup."
- Boris Pasternak
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand
bleed that uses it."
- Rabindranath Tagore
"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human
knowledge is moonshine."
- H. L. Mencken
"The heart has it's reasons, of which reason knows nothing."
- Pascal
"I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's
affections and the Truth of the Imagination."
- John Keats
"I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.
- Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
"When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand
books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized
understanding, even one word is too much."
- Fen-Yang
"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
- Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)
"No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing."
- Alan Watts
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
- Dan Quayle
"Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking
off your shoes."
- Mickey Mouse
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein
"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and
lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."
- Winnie-the-Pooh
"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it
doth know."
- William Shakespeare
"When your heart speaks, take good notes."
- Judith Campbell
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by
the caravan of thinking."
- Kahlil Gibran
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is
essential is invisible to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway."
- Anonymous
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your
heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside,
awakens."
- Carl Jung
"Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost
lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can
do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The beginning is always today."
- Mary Wollstonecraft
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at
midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself
in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from
yesterday."
- John Wayne
"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
- Anatole France
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
- Colette
"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul."
- Samuel Ullman
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore
they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after
generation."
- Pearl S. Buck
"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of
imagination."
- Lionel Stander
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
- Albert Einstein
"In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get
out and make some."
- Anonymous
"A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a
deadline."
- Rheta Grimsley Johnson
"We're on a mission from God."
- The Blues Brothers
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is
constantly making exciting discoveries."
- A.A. Milne
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth
to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Neitzsche
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out
of focus."
- Mark Twain
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the
painter do good things."
- Edgar Degas
"Ideas run wild without discussion."
- Serge Kahili King
"Without deviation, progress is not possible."
- Frank Zappa
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post."
- Thomas Holcroft
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones."
- John Cage
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
- Thomas Edison
"Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!"
- George Luks
"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."
- John Coltrane
"I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later."
- Miles Davis
"Art is running away without ever leaving home."
- Twyla Tharp
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist
once he grows up."
- Pablo Picasso
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
- e. e. cummings
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"
- Satchel Paige
"It takes one a long time to become young."
- Pablo Picasso
"Things do not change: we change."
- Henry David Thoreau
"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it
flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
- William James
"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get
the urge to throw a snowball."
- Doug Larson
"If you never did, you should.
These things are fun, and fun is good."
- Dr. Seuss
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
- Tom Robbins, from Still Life with Woodpecker
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
in a year of conversation."
- Plato
"Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth
you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I
never worked a day in my life."
- Dr. Leila Denmark, 100, USA's oldest practicing physician.
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it
is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining
things to them."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince)
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at
yourself."
- Ethel Barrymore
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."
- Agnes Repplier
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart
don't know how to laugh either."
- Golda Meir
"Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself
-
he'll never cease to be amused."
- Anonymous
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
- Oscar Wilde
"It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too
much life. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, you're
bound to live it fully."
- Maude (from Harold & Maude)
"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his
hands at the trough."
- Diogenes
"Water which is too pure has no fish."
- Ts'ai Ken T'an
"Where there are humans
you'll find flies,
and Buddhas."
- Issa
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few."
- Emily Dickinson
"Unthinking, idle, wild, and young,
I laugh'd and danc'd and talk'd and sung."
Princess Amelia (1783-1810)
"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis
of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must
somewhere rest on pure joy!"
- Louise Bogan
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable
... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be
alive is a grand thing."
- Agatha Christie
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
- Seneca
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
- Emily Dickenson
"Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life."
- From the Sanskrit Salutation of the Dawn
"Isn't it wonderful? All around us, living things!"
- Maude (from Harold & Maude)
"People need joy. Quite as much as clothing. Some of them
need it far more."
- Margaret Collier Graham
"From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and
think of what it was like to be alive."
- Wilbur the Pig (Charlotte's Web by E.B. White)
"So you see, imagination needs moodling-long, inefficient,
happy idling, dawdling and puttering."
- Brenda Ueland
"All of the animals except man know that the principal business
of life is to enjoy it."
- Anonymous
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all
different and yet the same."
- Anne Frank
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
- The 14th Dalai Lama
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly
useless manner, you have learned how to live."
- Lin Yutang
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be
lazy."
- Charlie McCarthy
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
- Oscar Wilde
"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up."
- Anonymous
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
- Bertrand Russell
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop."
- Ovid
"I take a nap
making the mountain water
pound the rice."
- Issa
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward."
- Spanish proverb
"Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows
by itself."
- Zen saying
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good
thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
- Will Durant
"The good and the wise lead quiet lives."
- Euripides
"Patience is the key to paradise."
- Turkish proverb
"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is
knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
- Goethe
"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."
- Teresa of Avila
"Who says the eternal being does not exist?
Who says the sun has gone out?
Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight,
and says, I don't see anything."
- Rumi
"As I walk, As I walk / The Universe is walking with me."
- From the Navajo rain dance ceremony
"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do
not necessarily require happiness."
- William Saroyan
"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's
self, but the point is not only to get out-you must stay out;
and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
- Henry James
"Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase.
That's what wild geese are for."
- Anonymous
"Geese are friends to no one, they badmouth everybody and
everything. But they are companionable once you get used to
their ingratitude and false accusations."
- E. B. White
"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens"
- Grandma Moses
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs
treat us as equals."
- Winston Churchill
"I have an Egyptian cat. He leaves a pyramid in every room."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they
become its visible soul."
- Jean Cocteau
"Every creature is a word of God."
- Meister Eckhart
"Every animal knows more than you do.
- Native American Proverb
"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away."
- Ben Hecht
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
- Henry David Thoreau
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life,
there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
- Doug Larson
"If you're too busy to go fishin', you're too busy."
- Jed Clampett
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
- Unknown
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were
before."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tom Seaver: "Hey, Yogi, what time is it?"
Yogi Berra: "You mean now?"
"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the
rest of your life."
- George Burns
"The future will be better tomorrow."
- Dan Quayle
"Life is so short we must move very slowly."
- Thai saying
"God knows no distance."
- Charleszetta Waddles
"If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer."
- Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
- Stephen Wright
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"May you live all the days of your life."
- Jonathan Swift
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear
never beginning to live."
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
- D.H. Lawrence
"TODAY."
- (word carved on a stone on John Ruskin's desk)
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most
important that you do it."
- M. Gandhi
"Old age was simply a delightful time, when the old people sat
on the sunny doorsteps, playing in the sun with the children,
until they fell asleep. At last they failed to wake up."
- James Paytiamo (Acoma Peublo)
"A painting is never finished-it simply stops in interesting
places."
- Paul Gardner
"I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done
and I am satisfied with it."
- Grandma Moses
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the
first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with
glory."
- Betty Smith
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,'
that would suffice."
- Meister Eckhart
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for
the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished
your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
- Victor Hugo
"Now comes the mystery."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"It is time now for us to rise from sleep."
- Saint Benedict
"Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is
in this place."
- Genesis 28:16-17
"...the fog is rising."
- Emily Dickinson's last words
"More light!"
- Goethe's last words
"Ring the bell that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen
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