“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.”
- Albert Einstein
“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”
- Erich Fromm
“You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.”
- Anonymous
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
- Ellen Parr
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
- Sophocles
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“Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.”
- Steven Wright
“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”
- Winston Churchill
“When you really want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Always obey your superiors. If you have any.”
- Mark Twain
“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”
- Cicero
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“No matter how cynical I get, it’s hard to keep up.”
- Lily Tomlin
“Am I a man dreaming I’m a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I’m a man.”
- Chinese saying
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
- Aristotle
“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
- Max de Pree
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door & just visit now and then.”
- Katharine Hepburn
Aug 17, 2008, 07:00PM PDT | 0 comments
“A hanging concentrates the mind.”
- Samuel Johnson
“Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.”
- Jackie Mason
“The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.”
- Ortega Y Gasset
“Only connect!”
- E. M. Forster
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aug 06, 2008, 08:58PM PDT | 2 cheers | 1 comment
“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.â€
- David Hare
“If you would take, you first must give.â€
- Lao-tzu
“Uni-verse, one song.â€
- Deepak Chopra
“I have not lost my mind; it’s backed up on disk somewhere.â€
- Bill Gates
“Happiness is having something to do, something to hope for, and someone to love.â€
- Ancient Chinese saying
Jul 05, 2008, 10:18PM PDT | 0 comments
“It’s always something.”
- Gilda Radner
“I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
- E. B. White
“The past is prologue.”
- William Shakespeare
“What affects one directly affects us all indirectly.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To find our mission in the world, to arrive at that place where our lives make sense as part of an elegant pattern of purpose, is probably the underlying quest of all human endeavor.”
- Pythia Peay
Jun 18, 2008, 10:18AM PDT | 0 comments
“Our deep desire is to be truly loved for who we are, and we are all searching for a context to make ourselves known.”
- C. S. Lewis
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
- Bertrand Russell
“First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.”
- Greek Proverb
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.”
- Winston Churchill
“The eyes of my eyes are opened.”
- e.e. cummings
Apr 21, 2008, 02:31PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments
“Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.”
- Bernado Houssay, Nobel Laureate in Medicine
“There are no facts, only interpretation.”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
- Lily Tomlin
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every hill has its valley.”
- Italy
Apr 21, 2008, 02:31PM PDT | 0 comments
“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.â€
- Will Rogers
“Look how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.â€
- Anne Frank
“It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?â€
- Henry David Thoreau
“Love each other or perish.â€
- W.H. Auden
“Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.â€
- Harry S. Truman, former U.S. President
Apr 16, 2008, 07:17AM PDT | 0 comments
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
- Norman Vincent Peale
“Lose your wealth, you lose nothing. Lose your health, you lose something. Lose your integrity, you lose everything.”
- Stew Leonard
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
“The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men.”
- Zen saying
“I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle for me. It is sort of a splendid torch.”
- George Bernard Shaw
Mar 25, 2008, 07:19PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments