08/15/11

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; someone strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. -Winston Churchill

08/10/11

It's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. -Paulo Coelho

08/09/11

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey. -Fitzhugh Mullan

08/08/11

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. -Rabindranath Tagore

08/04/11

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like to be taught. -Winston Churchill

08/03/11

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -Will Durant

08/02/11

No one imagines that symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them. -Alan Watts

08/01/11

There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind. -Hannah Senesh

06/28/11

An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. -Bertrand Russell

06/24/11

Where I was born and where and how I lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. -Georgia O'Keeffe