Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface; he, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. -Washington Irving
Friday, May 27, 2016
Thursday, May 26, 2016
05/26/16
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. -Daniel J. Boorstin
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
05/25/16
The church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta. -Eduardo Galeano
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
05/24/16
The Golden Rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you. -David Augsburger
Monday, May 23, 2016
05/23/16
There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. -Joe Ryan
Friday, May 20, 2016
05/20/16
Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. -Harriet Lerner
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
05/18/16
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. -Thornton Wilder
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
05/17/16
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. -Billie Holiday
Monday, May 16, 2016
05/16/16
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. -Albert Schweitzer
Friday, May 13, 2016
05/13/16
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
05/12/16
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall. -Bernard Malamud
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
05/11/16
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -George Santayana
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Monday, May 9, 2016
05/09/16
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -R. Buckminster Fuller
Thursday, May 5, 2016
05/05/16
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. -Phil Jackson
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
05/04/16
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
05/03/16
That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow. -Saadi Shirazi
Monday, May 2, 2016
05/02/16
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. -Laurence Sterne
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