Abigail Adams Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Douglas Adams In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea. There is a theory that states: 'If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.' There is another theory that states: 'This has already happened....'
John Adams Where do we find a precept in the Bible for creeds, confessions, doctrines & oaths & whole cartloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered within these days? The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!"
Aeschylus When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.
Alan Alda You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring out false pride in place and blood, the civic slander and the spite; ring in the love of truth and right, ring in the common love of good.
Mohammed Ali Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths.
James Allen Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
Woody Allen I was thrown out of college for cheating on a metaphysical exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
Mario Andretti Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Hannah Arendt The sad truth is most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.
Aristotle In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. The actuality of thought is life. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Louis Armstrong There are some people, that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Fred Astaire Do it big, do it right and do it with style.
Auntie Mame Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Richard Bach Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try. As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time we're all one. Boredom between two people...doesn't come from being together, physically. It comes from being apart, mentally and spiritually. Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideals without being sure they'll work. Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is before you can meet again, and meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends. Every angry person is a frightened one, dreading some loss. If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel. Intuition whispers true: We're not dust, we're magic! I've got the answers you need, but there's not a prayer you'll listen before you get yourself flattened by the Great Steamroller of Experience. Look in a mirror and one thing's sure; what we see is not who we are. Never doubt what you know. No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. Real lovestories never have endings. The only life worth living is the magical one. The only thing that lasts, is love! The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love? The sum of one and one, if they're the right ones, can be infinity! The truth waits for anyone who wishes to find it. There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. ...this world is not remotely what it seems...whatever we hold in our thought comes true in our lives...miracles aren't miraculous. To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. ...we shall forever return to the arms of those we love, whether our parting be overnight or over-death. ...what you love will find a way to sweep you up from the earth, high into its joyful scary answers for every question you can ask. Whatever enchants, also guides and protects. Passionately obsessed by anything we love...an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
Joan Baez Action is the antidote to despair.
Walter Bagehot The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Alice Bailey One soul of pure intent is of far greater potency than that of many souls who follow the tendencies of the personality.
Baron Munchausen And that was only one of the many occassions on which I met my death, an experience which I don’t hesitate strongly to recommend. Go away, I’m trying to die...because I’m tired of the world, & the world is evidenly tired of me...Why? Because it’s all logic & reason now, science, progress, laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this that & the other. No place for 3-legged cyclops from the south seas, no place for cucumber trees and oceans of wine. No place for me. I’ve just been expelled from a state of bliss & it’s all your fault. To be in a minority of one doesn’t make you mad. Your reality, sir, is lies & balderdash & I’m delighted to say I have no grasp of it whatsoever.
Clive Barker Memory, prophecy and fantasy--the past, the future and the dreaming moment between--are all in one country, living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
Elizabeth Barrington Meditate and do and you shall know.
Clive Barnes Television is the first truly democratic culture; the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Dave Barry In Los Angeles, the jury in the Reginald Denny beating trial, after much thinking, concludes that Person A is not necessarily trying to kill Person B just because Person A happens to very deliberately bash Person B's skull in with a brick. The verdict is applauded by scientists at the Tobacco Institute. You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, "My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"
Willard Barth Wherever your challenges lead you, as you look around you will find that there is something you can learn there.
Balki Bartokomous What a wonderful day we've had. You have learned something and I have learned something. Too bad we didn't learn it sooner. We could have gone to the movies instead.
Dr. Julian Bashir He's still dead, if that's what you mean. I'm a doctor, not a botanist. I'm sorry, Commander, but I've learned we can't afford to die here--not even once. In my expert medical opinion, I'd say...it's sick. Is it just me, or do the stars shine a little brighter in the Gamma Quadrant? Nothing makes them happy! They are dedicated to being unhappy, and to spreading that unhappiness to others! They are the Ambassadors of Unhappy! This is not a synthale kind of night.
Henri Bergson To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
George Bernanos Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capapcity for pain, humiliation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of neccessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.
Yogi Berra Ninety percent of the game is half mental. We made too many wrong mistakes. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. You can observe a lot just by watchin'.
Wendell Berry The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
Josh Billings I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so. The best way to convince a fool he is wrong is to let him have his way. Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
Blood of the Martyr The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Elwood Blues Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now!
Steve Bluestone Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you, but when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window?
Jon Bon Jovi Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
The Bowman Sing your music and dance your dance, let the world be blind. Then teach us how to hear your music and how to dance your dance.
Ray Bradbury The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn is you’re the same fool. Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
Claude M. Bristol It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Mel Brooks Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. Let’s have a merry journey and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves more. ‘Now thyself’ is more important than ‘Know thyself.’ Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It’s crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of the future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.
Dan Brown Genesis was the beginning of the end for the goddess.
Les Brown The good times we put in our pocket. The hard times we put into our heart.
Buddha The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire Universe, deserve your love and affection. People with opinions just go around bothering one another.
Buddhist Texts & Sayings Awakening is not something newly discovered; it has always existed. There is no need to seek or follow the advice of others. Learn to listen to that voice within yourself just here and now. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. Do not doubt the possibilities because of the simplicity of these teachings. If you can't find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it? Better not to begin. Once you begin, better to finish it. When confusion ceases, tranquility comes; when tranquility comes, wisdom appears, and when wisdom appears, reality is seen.
Carl W. Buechner They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Ferris Bueller Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around, you could miss it.
Charles Bukowski
[America is] not a free country--everything is bought and sold and owned.
Bugs Bunny Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.
Warren Burger I have visited some of the best and the worst prisons and have never seen signs of coddling, but I have seen the terrible results of the boredom and frustration of empty hours and pointless existence.
Edmund Burke Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
William Burnham The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
G.W. Bush There ought to be limits to freedom. I'm the commander--see, I don't need to explain--I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being President.
I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job. One of the great things about this country is a lot of people pray. And I just--I cannot speak strongly enough about how we must collectively get after those who kill in the name of--in the name of some kind of false religion. America is a nation that is--a nation that values our relationship with an Almighty. Declaration of God in the Pledge of Allegiance doesn't violate rights. As a matter of fact, it's a confirmation of the fact that we received our rights from God, as proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence. I--I believe that it points up the fact that we need common-sense judges who understand that our rights were derived from God. And those are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench. I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah. There's no such thing as being too closely aligned with the oil industry in West Texas. All of us here in America should believe, and I think we do, that we should be, as I mentioned, a nation of owners. Owning something is freedom, as far as I'm concerned. It's part of a free society...It's a part of--it's of being a--it's a part of--an important part of America. In order to defeat evil, you can do so by loving your neighbor like you'd like to be loved yourself. There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all...I can't think of anything more deep than that right. I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness. I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating. The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case. They have miscalculated me as a leader. We got attacked by a bunch of cold-blooded killers. And the attack hurt. It hurt our psyche because we thought oceans could protect us. It hurt the fact--we lost a million jobs after September the 11th. I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war. The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money. Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of "Hop on Pop." Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better. You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. Probably the best reason to put me back in there is so that Laura has got four more years as the First Lady. A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier... just so long as I'm the dictator. There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead. I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them. I'm going to be a president who hails success as well as failure. If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders. Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is -- I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president. Marriage ought to be defined by the people, not by the courts. We're allowing our forests to grow up like giant piles of kindling... If you want to keep the peace, you've got to have the authorization to use force. Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace. Skeptics say, "Governor, if you take away our licenses, we won't be able to earn a living to pay child support." To those parents, I have a simple response: "Pay up." No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
Samuel Butler Fear is the static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Red Buttons Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Albert Camus Autumn--a second spring when every leaf is a flower. In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
George Carlin Have you ever noticed; anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. You can't fight city hall, but you can for God damn sure blow it up!
Dale Carnegie The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus and I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Jimmy Carter Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Ben Cartwright ...never feel guilty about having warm, human feelings toward anyone.
Carlos Castaneda Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, at an arm’s length. It has always been watching you. It always will until the day it taps you. The thing to do when you’re impatient is...to turn to your left and aks advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just catch the feeling that your companion is there watching you.
Earl of Chesterfield Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Achaan Chah Just go into the center of the room, and put one chair in the center. Take the one seat in the center of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit. You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable. Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
Deepak Chopra As the turmoil of your soul settles, you will see the heavens in your own being. Don’t consider any desire useless or wrong--someday each one will be fulfilled. God does not judge, only the mind does. I am a witness to all that is, and as a spectacle, I can assure you, nothing is more surprising or beautiful or satisfying. If you find things growing tired or stale or predictable, perhaps it is you who have lost the capacity to be interested. In deep silence we return to the ultimate cause, pure Being. There you come face-to-face with the womb of creation, the source of all that was, is, or will be, which is simply yourself. In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved. Knowledge and intention are forces. What you intend changes the field in your favor. Lose everything, and the real will still remain. Love is more than an emotion. It is a force of nature and therefore must contain truth. Respect your mystery. Nothing is more profound. The uncertainty you feel inside is the doorway to wisdom. When an electron vibrates the universe shakes. Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. Your body is just the place your memories call home.
Heart Warrior Chosa In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
Winston Churchill An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Never turn your back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Ramsey Clark Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Arthur C. Clarke Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Ward Cleaver When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
J. Clegg We are the prisoners of the prisoners we have taken.
Paulo Coelho When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Learn to recognize omens, and follow them. We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way. You must always know what it is that you want. Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river. If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence. It's with those words that the universal language is written. ...intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life... ...people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. Everyone has his or her own way of learning things... God revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures. The dunes are changed by the wind but the desert never changes. When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed. The eyes show the strength of your soul.
William Sloan Coffin We have learned to soar through the air like birds, to swim through the seas like fish, to soar through space like comets, now it is high time we learned to walk the earth as the children of our God.
Confucius Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. One joy dispels a hundred cares. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. When we see men of a contrary character we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Bill Cosby I don't know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Melba Cosgrove Be brave enough to accept the help of others.
Norman Cousins Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Stephen Covey Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
A. J. Cronin Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.
e. e. cummings To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest human battle ever and to never stop fighting.
Roald Dahl A little nonsense now & then is cherished by the wisest men.
Daito If your ears see and your eyes hear, not a doubt you’ll cherish how naturally the rain drips from the eaves!
Dandemis Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Daniel D'Ambrosio Evil’s not good. I am seduced by life. I can't wait to be that trivial. I don't wanna go back to being just human. I'm better than the Sun. Lupus happens. Seduction is one of the most noble acts. Stop stealing my knowledge and making it your own. Thanks. Does that mean something to you? You goad me into saying these stupid things!
Data 'Better' is a highly subjective term. Captain, I believe I speak for everyone here, sir, when I say, 'to hell with our orders.' Commander Riker, you have anticipated my denouement. However, the sentiment is appreciated. I will continue. Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing. Early bird...? I believe Commander Shelby erred. There is no evidence of avian or crawling vermicular lifeforms on Jure IV. I am afraid we cannot allow you to warn your guards. I can safely say that to know Ira Graves was to love him. And to love him was to know him. Those who knew him loved him. While those who did not know him loved him from afar... I do not perceive your skills to be in doubt, Q. The captain is merely concerned with your ability to successfully interact with his 'little, trained minions.' I have good news. Keiko has made a decision designed to increase her happiness. She has cancelled the wedding! I would gladly risk
feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could taste my dessert. If you prick me, do I not...leak? Most interesting. Could this be Human Joke Number Six-Hundred and Sixty-Three? Sorry, sir. I seem to be commenting on everything. Take my Worf...please! There may be a relationship between humor and sex which I am not aware of. There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a... This is a thing. And things can be replaced. Lives cannot. This is yet another example of how our actions produce random results. Throughout the ages, from Keats to Giorchamo, poets have composed 'odes' to individuals who have had a profound effect upon their lives. In keeping with that tradition, I have written my next poem...in honor of my cat. I call it, 'Ode...to Spot'."
Rene Daumal You cannot stay on the summit forever. You have to come down again...One climbs and sees; one descends and one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself...by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one no longer sees, one can at least still know.
Dave Matthews Band If you don't step in line we'll lock you away. It's a typical situation in these typical times. Hey, reckless mind, don't throw away your playful beginnings. Every man and woman--get alive!
Miles Davis Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
Comte de Bussy-Rabutin Absense is to love what wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small, in enkindles the great.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Eugene Deb While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Demosthenes There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all...What is it? Distrust.
Ruth Denison Karma means you don't get away with nothin'.
John Denver You know he'd be a poor man if he never saw an eagle fly. Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy...Sunshine almost always makes me high. The children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers. Their laughter and their loveliness could clear a cloudy day, like the music of the mountains and the colors of the rainbow they're a promise of the future and a blessing for today, and the song that I am singing is a prayer to nonbelievers; Come and stand beside us--we can find a better way.
Depeche Mode I give in to sin ‘cuz you have to make this life liveable. Let me hear you make decisions without your television. Let me hear you speaking just for free.
Richard M. DeVos It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
Walt Disney All our dreams can come true--if we have the courage to pursue them.
Dogen This life of one day is a life to rejoice in. Because of this, even though you live for just one day, if you can be awakened to the truth, that one day is vastly superior to an eternal life...If this one day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever get your hands on it again? Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
Durken I will have to say that this morning, I was the leader of the universe as I knew it. This afternoon, I am only a voice in a chorus. But I think it was a good day.
Bob Dylan Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, and don't criticize what you can't understand.
Amelia Earhart It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
David Eddings ...there’s a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible? Don't be too surprised if that other world someday chooses you to do something that must be done--some great and noble thing. Greed is bad, but fear is worse, and the world is dangerous enough without cluttering it with imaginary hobgoblins. If we sit around saying "what if," we'll never do anything. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again. "Hardly ever" has an uncomfortable ring of frequency to it. I don't object to fulfilling prophecies...as long as it doesn't inconvenience me too much. It's only a book...It doesn't have any power unless it's permitted to. You simply will something to happen...and then speak the word. If your will’s strong enough, it happens. When you get right down to it, nothing--or at least very little--is actually impossible. Sorcerer is a misleading term...It's a convenient term for people who don't really understand what it's all about. ...we can behave as if we believed that we aren't, can't we? Let's not start worrying about what could have been. This discomfort of thine is an illusion. Thy mind can put it to rest if thou wouldst have it so. ...strong, courageous, not too bright--the qualities that make a good knight. It must be a sad thing to believe so little. ...a little affliction now and then teaches them humility. The land, indifferent to human boundaries, flowed on unchanged. The more we suffer, the greater the rewards in the end. He just came down with a bad case of dead. The canary spoke in a tiny, piping voice "...we're much more perceptive than you things that creep on the ground--why do you do that? If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly..." Like a complex melody that had been faintly out of tune, the sudden merging of the two seemed right somehow. The knowledge clicked in his mind like a key in a lock. I’m pleased to have met you--though I still don’t believe in you... Wealth and position sometimes need the reassurance of proximity to the seat of power. By ostentation and propinquity to the throne, small men are able to avoid facing their own inadequacy. We have our own titles, so we know how empty they are. There’s a kind of reaching-out in a horse’s mind, a sort of inclusiveness. A horse seems to think "we" instead of "I." I suppose it's because in their natural condition they're members of a herd. After they get to know you, they think of you as a herd mate. Sometimes they even forget you're not a horse. I've never been anything but an
ordinary person...so I wouldn't know what to compare it to. Learning of any kind is useful, and you have a great deal to learn. He had called her a monster, but it was the monster within himself he hated. Their decent into absurdity had cleared his head. Quite obviously, there was no way to evade his own responsibility. Having accepted that, he seemed for some reason to feel better. The shapes we assume begin to dominate our thinking after a while. ...a line of possibility has a kind of purpose. To have a purpose, there has to be awareness of that purpose. The universe has been waiting for you for more millions of years than you could even imagine. You’ve been hurtling toward this event since before the beginning of time. It’s yours alone. You’re the only one who can do what needs to be done, and it’s the most important thing that will ever happen--not just in this world but in all the worlds in all the universe. You have enormous power. It’s been given to you so that you can do what
you have to do, but you’ve got to learn how to use it. The ghosts come at you through your greed. If you think about gold, you’ll go mad. ...a reality that was in no way dependent upon the mind of the observer for its existence. Don’t be sorry. Just don’t do it anymore. ...simple things are always the hardest to explain. What you have to decide is whether you should do something, not whether you can do it. The universe doesn’t make any distinction between a pebble and a man. You’re not going to change him, so why excite yourself about it? We only know that it’s the oldest living thing in the world. Maybe that’s its purpose. Maybe it’s here to demonstrate the continuity of life. Quite obviously, it can’t do something that can’t be imagined by the mind that focuses it. That was the purpose of our studies--to expand our minds so that we could use the power more fully. You seem to be able to do certain things quite easily that I wouldn’t even attempt. Maybe it’s because you don’t realize how difficult they are. ...men who spend all their time congratulating themselves on their sanctity tend to be very poor companions. What we see as solid isn’t really all that impenetrable. A man ought to know what he’s talking about before he makes judgments. The word ‘religion’ means different things to different people... The strong do what they like; the weak submit.
Dave Edison I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
Thomas Edison So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.
Albert Einstein If "A" equals success, then the formula is: "A=X+Y+Z." X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. Imagination is more important than knowledge. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. 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. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer stand in rapt and awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. To know that what is inpenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull facilities can comprehend only in their most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong in the ranks of devoutly religious men. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. God is subtle, but He is not malicious...I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world. Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The important thing is not to stop questioning. A human being is part of the whole called by us "the universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection of a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Eloise Getting bored is not allowed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. I hate quotations. No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Euripides I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
W.C. Fields If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
Doug Firebaugh Everyday do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future.
Malcolm Forbes Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Henry Ford Don't find fault. Find a remedy. Whether you think you can or you think you can't--you are right.
Jeff Foxworthy The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld The confidence we have in others stems directly from our confidence in ourselves.
Anne Frank How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. Any man willing to give up any part of his liberty for a false sense of safety deserves neither.
As to Jesus of Nazareth...I think the System of Morals & his Religion...has received various corrupting changes, & I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, & think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the Truth with less trouble.
Patricia Fripp You can't be too kind or too generous.
Peter Gabriel All you people in TV land, I will wake up your empty shells. You can keep my things, they’ve come to take me home. I hold the light--the light of strength that pulls me through the fear. You function like a dummy with a new ventriloquist--do you say nothing yourself? How can we be "in" if there is no outside? I have no identification, I have no papers showing what I am. You'll have to take me just the way that you find me.
Galileo You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.
Eugene P. Gallagher
I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's one called brightness, but it doesn't work.
Jack Gannon The only way to say it is "bull$h!t."
David Lloyd George Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
M.K. Ghandi There is more to life than increasing its speed. There is no god higher than truth. We must be the change we want to see in the world. Where the choice is between only violence and cowardice, I would advise violence. Almost anything that you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore I believe that if one person gains spiritually the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the world falls to that extent.
Charles J. Givens Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Bernie Glassman Every day is a special day, every place is a special place as it is.
Goethe Not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Herb Goldberg Man's conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self aware.
The Goo Goo Dolls I don't want the world to see me, 'cuz I don't think that they'd understand. I'd give up forever to touch you. Is it pain that makes you real? Cut me off before it kills me. You bleed just to know you're alive. A television war between the cynics and the saints--flip the dial and that's whose side you're on. Sleeping on the White House lawn ain't never changed a thing, just look at all the washed out hippie dreams. Conscience keeps us quiet while the crooked love to speak. There's knowledge wrapped in blankets on the street. A visionary coward says that anger can be power as long as there's a victim on TV. And my dirty dreams all come alive on my TV screen, and assasination plots show me what I haven't got, show me what I love, and who I'm s'posed to be. Show me everything I need. Show it all to me. I'll open up my head awhile--its been dead for years. Musta been a victim of my peers.
Ellen Goodman We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Charles Gramlich Poetry is too uncommon a thing to ever regret it. Two dumbs don't make a bright.
Graham Greene When we are not sure, we are alive.
W. T. Grenfell Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Jeff Guay A fallen enemy’s your friend. Bitten by the vampyre whore of life. I kept fires in the science lab to a minimum. What a sexy little tree. Hamlet was big on worms.
Guns 'n' Roses I don't need one more war. Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway? Sometimes we're so far off the beaten track we'll get taken for a ride. ...if someone really cared, well they'd take the time to spare a moment and try to understand another one's despair.
Manly P. Hall To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.
Jack Handy As I sit at the traffic light watching it change from green to yellow to red to green again..I often sit and ponder about life...was it always filled with honking and screaming?
Mark Victor Hansen If we don't have what we want, it's because we haven't asked for it. You will become as small as your controlling desire or as great as your dominant aspiration.
Heinrich Heine Of course God will forgive me; that's his business.
Mark Helprin A benevolent act is like a locust; it sleeps until it is called. A dream is not a tool for this world, but a gateway to the next. All great discoveries are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvellous accidents. ...all secrets worth knowing come clear in good time. Anyone who consents to using his body (without pay) as a walking billboard is a fool who hopes to participate in the disgusting phenomena of mass suggestion and coercion, and I want no part of it. ...being a horse, she knew how bright the moon was going to be. He seemed to be readying himself to shed the world. I have been to another world, and come back. Listen to me. If you won't take a chance, then the powers you refuse because you cannot explain them, will, as they say, make a monkey out of you. I'm just like you...I come from another age. In the smallest part of a second, she traveled from one to another, spanning light years. Velocity and time, it seemed, were a matter of perspective. ...into a soul grown so deep it must soon leave life. ...she remembered what her father had said about those who bide too much of their time and keep too much council. He had told her, "God is not fooled by silence." He had told her always to have courage, and sometimes to step into the breach. The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too. ...they shuddered the way one does when one discovers or reconfirms higher and purposeful forces brazenly and unconvincingly masquerading as coincidence. Though people readily understood that a line was imaginary, and a point, too, they were true believers in seconds. ...those whom one has loved do not simply disappear forever. With all that I've seen...I've seen nothing.
Hindu Sage I have to let go of the need to know so much. What we can know is so small--the holiness around is so large. Now I trust in simplicity, simplicity and love.
Adolf Hitler What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Tom Hopkins Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly. Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.
Rear Adm. Grace Hopper A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.
H.L. Hunt Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
Lana Jackman Accept blessings, friends, and wisdom from wherever they come. Adulthood comes when you can see just how screwed your parents are. America--the land of the fee & the home of the slave. "Artist" is not a title to be grasped, but an honor to be given. ...as naturally as humanly possible. Awaken your music and you awaken your magic. Boycott reality. Don't be afraid to suprise yourself. Follow your own path. ‘God’ is figurative. He lost his sense of spell. How much we can accomplish with a simple pat on the back. I am faced not with adversity, but with challenge. I can overcome any problem, any obstacle, if I only have faith in myself and the courage to try. I could believe in a chocolate God. I have naturally Klingon hair. I like to think that a dolphin's smile evolved from years of doing what comes naturally. I need not wish if I KNOW. I put the ‘pro’ in 'procrastination.' I quit quitting 'cuz no one likes a quitter. "I told you so" is a dual edged sword that offers no comfort. If you seek only to win, you’ve already lost. Ignorance is agony. I'm stoned, man, don't make me go back in the conversation. Just imagine, for a minute, a world without roads. How would you get there? Learn to recognize the tests in your life. Ace 'em all. Life affects everyone differently. Magnets have nothing on fate. Money is not the root of all evil--insecurity is. Most people are stunned silent by powerful difference from what they think they know as the norm. Timidity in life only maintains the status quo. Be heard when you speak. Be seen when you act. Bravery can invoke just enough time to escape unscathed and wouldn't you rather live bravely? Nature's lessons are so harshly real. We are a part of her. How dare we presume to bind her and shape her to our will? Never give up on yourself. Use the precious gift of time to follow your heart. No, yet yes. Now is all the time we have--now lasts forever. A second ago you were an imperfect being. What are you now? Our biggest fear is to look foolish, even for a moment, but what if one foolish act invoked peace among all people? Please don't beg. Pry if you would know me. Regret is proof of learning from experience. See it to be it. Sometimes things don’t hit you with a sledgehammer, they hit you with a feather. Spontenaity is being true to your desires. Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words cut to the heart. The guise of our human-ness makes all things relative. Human-ness splits the Unity of all things primarily into opposites (and sometimes more) which human senses and "sensibilities" find easier to grasp. We think we feel good today by comparing it to our bad yesterday, but there IS no yesterday. Thusly do we deceive ourselves in the Now. The pen is mightier than the sword and I come well armed. The ripples start here. There's a gene in my code shaped like a treble clef, without which I couldn't live. Time is no object. Want to get intimate with someone? Go to head with them. We drugged you for your own good. Welcome to the beginning of your future. Whatever you believe, you're right. When all you can firmly believe is "maybe," sometimes it's enough. When in doubt remember the 3rd natural law; there is no darkness, only light. When you follow the right road you reach your destination. (It’s okay to stop for directions, and a little faith never hurts, either.) Where money rules there's no such thing as "justice." Where the past is blamed or the future is anticipated the NOW is wasted. Where there is no doubt there just is. You can pay me to invent a new truth. You’ll never be any less than what you are right now. You’re a temporal anomaly. You’re always in my future & I’m always in your past; we have to meet somewhere in the present.
Randy Jackman I don't know how people lived in Florida before air conditioning.
Andrew Jackson One man with courage makes a majority.
William James To change one's life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
Gerald Jampolsky Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others.
Captain Janeway You're a Starfleet officer. Weird is part of the job.
Thomas Jefferson Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I have examined all the known superstitions of the world & I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables & mythology. Millions of innocent men, women & children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, & imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools & the other half hypocrites; to support roguery & error all over the earth. Christianity...(has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man...Rogueries, absurdities & untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes & imposters led by Paul, the first great corruptor of the teachings of Jesus. The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind & adulturated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves...these clergy in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ. Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of gov’t reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate w/sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. [T]o compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful & tyrannical; that even the forcing of him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern, & whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness....Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess & by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, & that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities. I do not believe it is for the interest of religion to invite the civil magistrate to direct its exercises, its discipline, or its doctrines; nor of the religious societies, that the General gov’t should be invested w/the power of effecting any uniformity of time or matter among them. Fasting & prayer are religious exercises; the enjoining them an act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the times for these exercises, & the objects proper for them, according to their own particular tenets; & the right can never be safer than in their hands, where the Constitution has deposited it. The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ levelled to every understanding & too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticisms of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from its indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order & introduce it to profit, power, & pre-eminence. The doctrines which flowed from the lips of Jesus himself are within the comprehension of a child; but thousands of volumes have not yet explained the Platonisms engrafted on them: & for this obvious reason that nonsense can never be explained.
Elton John You should never take more than you give.
Joseph Joubert To teach is to learn twice.
Carl Jung Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Ju-Ching You can only succeed by just sitting, without need to make use of burning incense, prostrations, remembrance of Buddha names, repentance ceremonies, reading scriptures or ritual recitations.
Kabir Friend, hope for the truth while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! What you call ‘salvation’ belongs to the time before death. If you don’t break your ropes while you are alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
Philip Kapleau You yourself are time--your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.
Helen Keller Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. I am only one; still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Keep your face in the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
James W Kennedy What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.
Robert F. Kennedy Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Jewel Kilcher Do you hate him ‘cause he’s pieces of you? People living their lives for you on TV, they say they’re better than you and you agree. Who will save your soul if you don’t save your own? Such an injustice, as children we are told that from God we fell. I was thinking I might fly today, just to disprove all the things that you say. I have this theory that if we're told we're bad that's the only idea we'll ever have, but maybe if we are surrounded in beauty someday we will become what we see... ...anyone can start a conflict, it's harder yet to disregard it.
Jack Kornfield The wisdom of the heart is here, just now, at any moment. It has always been here, and it is never too late to find it. The wholeness and freedom we seek is our own true nature, who we really are. Whenever we start a spiritual practice, read a spiritual book or contemplate what it means to live well, we have begun the inevitable process of opening to this truth, the truth of life itself.
Martin Luther Peace, if possible, but truth at any rate.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions...But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance, and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. The time is always right to do what is right.
The Kinks In man's evolution he's created the city and the motor traffic rumble, but give me half a chance and I'd be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle, 'cuz the only time that I feel at ease is swinging up and down in the coconut trees--oh what a life of luxury, to be like an apeman.
Capt. James T. Kirk I don't care what it takes or costs, just help him. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. If Spock were here, he'd say that I was an irrational, illlogical human being for going on a mission like this...Sounds like fun! Man or woman, it makes no difference, we're both human. Mister Spock, do you know anyone on this ship who even remotely resembles Satan? No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space. Spock, the women on your planet are logical. It is the only planet that can make that claim. The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. Vulcan biology--meaning the biology of Vulcans? We put on a pretty poor show, didn't we? You look quite well for a man that's been 'utterly destroyed', Mr. Spock.
Henry Kissinger Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
A.L. Kitselman The words "I am..." are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
Ernie Kovacs
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Geordie LaForge Don't tell me, their rubber band broke, right? I never lie when I've got sand in my shoes, Commodore. Just because something's old doesn't mean you throw it away.
Lame Deer, Lakota Sage What you see with your eyes closed is what counts.
Lao Tzu The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms. To lead the people, walk behind them.
Stephen Leacock Advertising: The science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
John Lehman Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
Lenin A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
John Lennon Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Jay Leno In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women's breasts?
Abraham Lincoln Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. I will prepare and someday my chance with come. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Tact: The ability to describe others as they see themselves. The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. When the occasion is piled high with difficulty, that's when we must rise with the occasion. Prohibition goes beyond reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite through legislation. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles this country was founded upon. I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
Henry Link While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Vince Lombardi In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Inches make champions. I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline...I firmly believe that any man's finest hour--this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Long Chen Pa Since everything is none other than exactly as it is, one may well just break out in laughter.
