05/30/08

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. -Isaac Asimov

05/29/08

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Lives, like money are spent. What are you buying with yours? Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. -Oscar Wilde

05/28/08

Do not keep the alabaster box of your friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind of things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go. -George W. Childs

05/27/08

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. -Roger Miller

05/26/08

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. -Jose Narosky

05/23/08

If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your wife, your husband, or even (heaven forbid) your job. It doesn't matter if it's wild to anyone else: if it's what makes your heart sing, if it's what makes your days soar like a hawk in the summertime, then focus on it. Because for sure, it's wild, and if it's wild, it'll mean you're still free. No matter where you are. -Rick Bass

05/22/08

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

05/20/08

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. -Nicholas Sparks

05/15/08

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James

05/14/08

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. -Barack Obama

05/13/08

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

05/09/08

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit. -Rudolf Arnheim

05/08/08

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? -Ray Bradury

05/07/08

I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander. -Yehuda Bauer

05/06/08

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust

05/05/08

A real individual has a spark of danger in him, a menace to society. Quench this spark and you quench the individuality, you obtain a social unit, not an integral man. All modern progress has tended, and still tends, to the production of quenched social units: dangerless beings, ideal creatures! -D.H Lawrence

05/02/08

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. -Samuel Beckett

05/01/08

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy the rest of your life. -Abraham Maslow