quotes

“It’s not what you make, it’s what you keep.” Unknown

“There is usually one small step we can take in the direction of a dream. When we do the universe often takes several more.” Julia Cameron

“Historical Fact: people stopped being human in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.” Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” John Steinbeck

“Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.” Charles Schulz, cartoonist (1922-2000)

“You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.” John Davis

“The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.” Grace Speare

“You can borrow all the trouble you want, but you still have to bake your own bread.” Unknown

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” Oprah Winfrey

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.”
Chief Seattle

“Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.” African Proverb

“If you want to think outside the box, be outside the box.” David Levin

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” W.R. Wallace

“There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.” Rusty Berkus

“You cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening your own.” Rumi

“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.” Christopher Morley

“Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year olds.” JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmers Wisdom

“Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.” Todd L. Bradbury

“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth—don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.” Meryl Streep

“We could learn a lot from crayons: Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors . . . but they all have to learn to live in the same box.” unknown