03/29/19

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow. -Friedrich Nietzsche

03/28/19

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. -Mahatma Gandhi

03/27/19

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. -Steven Brust

03/26/19

No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson

03/25/19

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. -Andy Warhol

03/22/19

If you can't convince them, confuse them. -Harry S. Truman

03/21/19

If the going is easy, beware! You may be going downhill. -Greg Taunt

03/20/19

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. -Carl Sagan

03/19/19

It is not how old you are, but how you are old. -Jules Renard

03/18/19

I have to act the way I am now before I can become something else. -Hugh Prather

03/15/19

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. -Thomas Paine

03/14/19

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. -Ben Okri

03/13/19

Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become pages in someone else's survival guide. -Morgan Harper Nichols

03/12/19

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged. -Norman Mailer

03/11/19

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. -Lao Tzu

03/08/19

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. -Alan Kay

03/07/19

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. -Samuel Johnson

03/06/19

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. -J.B.S. Haldane

03/05/19

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. -John Galsworthy

03/04/19

When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. -Clifton Fadiman

03/01/19

Walking is also an ambulation of mind. -Gretel Ehrlich