quotes

“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.” James Baldwin, writer, (1924-1987)

"The best way to realize the pleasure of being rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have." Edward Clarke

“Look deep into nature, and you will find the answer to everything.” Albert Einstein

“When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything.” Mehmet Karagoz

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.” Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917- )

“In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum

“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.” Winston Churchill

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” Alex Haley

“Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.” John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Jacob M. Braude

“The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.” Bertrand Russell

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” Galileo Galilei

“We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.” Beaumont Newhall

“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thus interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness. The most subtle level of material phenomena is also governed by interdependence. All phenomena, from the planet we inhabit to the oceans, clouds, forests, and flowers that surround us, arise in dependence upon subtle patterns of energy. Without their proper interaction, they dissolve and decay.” The Compassionate Life, Tnzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

“If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

“Humans are the only animals that draw. While showmen and hucksters have gotten elephants and chimpanzees to drag paint brushes across paper and canvas, so far as we know the animals are simply manipulating materials and not making representations of things. As rare as the ability in other species, drawing is almost universal among humans; it is as human a quality as speech and bipedal locomotion. Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood. As adults, we draw maps to direct people to our houses, diagram schemes for eating guests at a dinner, party. Sketch plans for bookshelves we intend to build, make graphs of corporate performance.” Peter Steinhart, The Undressed Art: Why We Draw

“Fail often to succeed sooner.” Anonymous

“An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.” Confucius