Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
My cock doesn't talk politics. ~Stephal Sachs
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. ~Daniel Berrigan
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Grammar stops at love, and at art. ~Terri Guillemets
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. ~Gloria Steinem A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank. ~Author Unknown
If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish. ~Marian Anderson
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere
You know what they say: You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks. ~Trey Parker & Matt Stone, South Park
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. ~Henry David Thoreau
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant is alone enough to upset Darwin. ~Henry Adams, Education, 1907
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.
Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yiheng
There was a boyishness about Mr. Clemens sometimes that found different modes of expression. Once, when the long corridor of the second floor of the hotel presented a temptingly empty avenue, he hopped, skipped, and ran, and then gave a delicious suggestion of a cake-walk. As soon as a door opened, however, he stopped and assumed a supernaturally grave aspect. ~Elizabeth Wallace, Mark Twain and the Happy Island, 1914
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. ~Thomas Carlyle
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. ~W. Somerset Maugham
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies (screenplay)
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~Thomas Szasz
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. ~Henry David Thoreau
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