Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. (Sextus Propertius)
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. (David Letterman)
The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity. (G Gaia)
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. (Francis Bacon)
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. (Dag Hammarskjld)
The love of nature is consolation against failure. (Berthe Morisot)
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. (Rudyard Kipling)
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Hellen Keller)
As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable---until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. (Laurence J. Peter)
Be of love a little more careful than of anything. (e e cummings)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true. (Demosthenes)
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. (Ecclesiastes 911 Bible)
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. (Paul Goodman)
Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn. (Kalidasa)
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. (Brenda Ueland)
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. (William Pitt)
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger. (Thomas Huxley)