Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. (Peter Minard)
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well. (John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.)
There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number. (Jerry Coleman)
I am at two with nature. (Woody Allen)
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. (Sylvia Ashton-Warner)
What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. (Diane Frolov)
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth. (Quincy Jones)
I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you. (Grace Fallow Norton)
Mire Hacia Las Estrellas. Look At The Stars. (Raul E. Sanchez)
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. (Unknown)
Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all. (William Ashley)
There are many victories worse than a defeat. (George Eliot)
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. (Ruth Benedict)
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. (James Rippe)
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. (Douglas Adams)
Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. (Frederick Wilcox)
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. (Horace Mann)
Only the little people pay taxes. (Leona Helmsly)