"The 'great' commitment is so much easier
than the ordinary everyday one--and can all to easily shut our
hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice
can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of
heart."
By Dag Hammarskjöld
"Money is human happiness in the abstract:
one, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness
in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
By Arthur Schopenhauer
"I will yield to popular demands only insofar
as they do not betray my own convictions."
By Clara Schumann
"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus
10,000 times is skill."
By Shinichi Suzuki
"The sun does not shine for a few trees
and flowers, but for the wide world's joy" By Henry Ward
Beecher
"While there is a chance of the world getting
through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave
as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness
is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
By H. G. Wells
"Nothing, no experience, good or bad, no
belief, no cause, is in itself momentous enough to monopolize
the whole of life to the exclusion of laughter."
By Alfred North Whitehead
"You can discover more about a person in
an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
By Plato
"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable
perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding
of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this
unavailing star."
By Logan Pearsall Smith
"Stress is basically a disconnection from
the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state.
It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Just lie down."
By Natalie Goldberg
" May the warp be the white light of
morning, May the weft be the red light of evening, May the fringe
be the falling rain, May the border be the standing rainbow, Thus
weave for us a garment of brightness. "
By Native American song
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times."
By Everett McKinley Dirksen
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to
be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up
to what light I have."
By Abraham Lincoln
"Responsibility's like a string we can only
see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight."
By William McFee
"The automobile has not merely taken over
the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its
appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked,
it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of
habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic."
By James Marston Fitch
"It takes little talent to see what is under
one's nose, a great deal to know in what direction to point that
organ."
By W. H. Auden
"I conclude that there is as much sense
in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense." By Anthony
Burgess
"People often say that this or that person
has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that
one finds. It is something that one creates."
By Thomas Szaz
"What makes a multitude of individuals a society rather than a
crowd is a commonly held ideal."
By Melvin Lyon
"Tis not the dying for a faith that's so
hard, ... every man of every nation has done that--'tis the living
up to it that's difficult."
By William Makepeace Thackeray
"Traveling is not just seeing the new; it
is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them
behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever
is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes."
By Jan Myrdal
"Viewed from the distance
of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth...is that it
is alive... Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane
of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing
in this part of the cosmos... It has the organized, self-contained
look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled
in handling the sun."
By Lewis Thomas **
