quotes

“You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” Navajo Proverb

“The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.” Carl Sandburg

“We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.” Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

“Your world is as big as you make it.” Georgia Douglas Johnson

“The best thing about music is that when it hits, you feel no pain.” Bob Marley

“There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

“The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.” Bishop Mandell Creighton

“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.” Montaigne

“Alleged ‘impossibilities’ are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.” Charles R. Swindoll (Living Above the Level of Mediocrity)

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” Pablo Picasso

“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” Isak Dinesen

“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.” David Allen

“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.” Mark Twain

“Misuse or neglect the senses only at grave peril to every possibility of wisdom and well-being. The busiest and most abundant of the senses is that of sight.” James Agee

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” M. C. Escher

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” Buddha

“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time. The approach must involve getting something down on the page: something good, mediocre or even bad. It is essential to the writing process that we unlearn all those seductive high school maxims about waiting for inspiration. The wait is simply too long.” Leonard S. Bernstein

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

“The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.” Chinese proverb

“If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.” Unknown

“Two great talkers will not travel far together.” Spanish Proverb