“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”
JOHN UPDIKE
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
CZESLAW MILOSZ
“If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
BISHOP DESMOND TUTU
“I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day very difficult.”
E.B. WHITE
“I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.”
STEVEN WRIGHT
“Talk doesn't cook rice.”
CHINESE PROVERB
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
MARY OLIVER
“And now let us welcome the New Year full of things that have never been.”
RILKE
“Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
MAX EHRMANN'S "Desiderata"
“Don’t fight forces, use them.”
BUCKY FULLER
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
BUCKY FULLER
“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”
BUCKY FULLER
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
BUCKY FULLER
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
FRED ROGERS
“To love one another doesn't mean we sit and look at each other, it means we both look in the same direction.”
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
“If a wave has faith in its nature as water it will never be disappointed.”
THICH NHAT HANH
“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere... They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.”
CARLOS CASTANEDA – THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN
“After ecstacy, the laundry.”
ZEN SAYING
“Whenever you get there, there's no there there.”
GERTRUDE STEIN
“When men dream, each has his own world.
When they are awake, they have a common world.”
HERACLITUS
“Since everything is but an apparition
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection,
One may well burst out in laughter.”
LONGCHENPA
“He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the wild elephant goes.”
RANDOLPH BORNE
“I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as making a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
MAYA ANGELOU
“Men argue, nature acts.”
FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE
“How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.”
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”
CHINESE PROVERB
“The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
“You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.”
GERMAINE GREER
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
“It’s a good thing I had a bag of marijuana. If I had a bag of spinach, I’d be dead by now.”
WILLIE NELSON
“All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.”
STEVEN WRIGHT
“We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures … Take a risk a day – one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.”
SUSAN JEFFERS
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.”
LES BROWNN
“To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards.”
FRANCES WICKES
“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”
LINUS PAULING
'“OK, so what's the speed of dark?”
STEVEN WRIGHT
“Art? You just do it.”
MARTIN RITT
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
ANAIS NIN
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
EDGAR DEGAS
“How often – even before we began – have we declared a task “impossible”? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate? … A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.”
PIERO FERRUCCI
“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.”
STEVEN WRIGHT
“You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.”
JUAN GRIS
“Do not fear mistakes – there are none.”
MILES DAVIS
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
ANDRE GIDE
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
STEVEN WRIGHT
