quotes

“Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.” Muriel Rukeyser

“In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.” Tom Nolan

“Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? You should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been a child like you. And look at your body--what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may be a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel.” Pablo Casals (1876-1973) Spanish cellist, conductor, composer

“Youth is a quality and if you have it, you never lose it.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Unknown

“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.” Alexander Penney

“To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.” Robert Pirsig (b. 1928) American philosopher, writer

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.” Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French scientist and philosopher On Mind and On Style

“You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way.” Stephen C. Paul (contemp.) psychologist, writer

“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.” Robert Anthony, American psychologist, author

“Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.” Andrew V. Mason MD

“Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other,
It is fed with the necessity of seeing each other,
And is concluded with the impossibility of separation.” Unknown

“I can well understand why children love sand.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The point of all this is to be able to spend more time at the beach!” Nils Nilsson

“Choose well; your choice is brief and yet endless.” Ella Winter

“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.” Pablo Picasso

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” Edward Morgan Forster

“The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.” Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Self control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.” George Bernard Shaw

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.” Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)