August 31, 2006
“At the very least, experience furnishes the houses of our lives -- but we choose whether to live in them.”
I. Marc Carlson
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1:28 AM
August 30, 2006
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001)
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1:21 AM
August 29, 2006
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
Lao-Tzu
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1:19 AM
August 28, 2006
"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"
J. Paul Getty
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1:17 AM
August 25, 2006
“Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.”
Thich Nhat Hahn
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12:53 AM
August 24, 2006
“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”
Henri Matisse
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12:48 AM
August 23, 2006
“Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is the dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human sprit—which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time and throughout the whole length of your days.”
Joseph Campbell
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12:47 AM
August 22, 2006
"Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it."
Erich Fromm
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12:44 AM
August 21, 2006
"If I don't practice for one day, I know it; if I don't practice for two days, the critics know it; if I don't practice for three days, the audience knows it."
Ignace Paderewski
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12:31 AM
August 18, 2006
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1:46 AM
August 17, 2006
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
Ivan Illich, (1926-2002)
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1:41 AM
August 16, 2006
“Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction.”
Wendell Berry
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1:38 AM
August 15, 2006
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. “
Jimi Hendrix
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1:33 AM
August 14, 2006
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson
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1:12 AM
August 11, 2006
"The most merciful thing in the world. . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
H.P. Lovecraft
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6:52 AM
August 10, 2006
“The secret of man's being is not only to live, but to have something to live for” Feodor M. Dostoevski
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1:51 AM
August 9, 2006
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
Barry Commoner (1917-) US biologist, environmentalist
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1:46 AM
August 8, 2006
"Toss in a stone and begin your own ripples of influence."
Joy Cooper
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1:44 AM
August 7, 2006
"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."
Warren Beatty
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1:41 AM
August 4, 2006
“Humans alone among animals habitually alter their natural appearances, through costume or cosmetic, ornament, tattoo, scarification, filing teeth, or cutting and shaping hair.”
Peter Steinhart
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12:12 AM
August 3, 2006
“Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, nineteen pounds; result, happiness. Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, twenty-one pounds; results, misery.”
Charles Dickens
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12:06 AM
August 2, 2006
"Happy are the painters for they shall not be bored,"
Winston Churchill
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1:05 AM
August 1, 2006
“You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.”
Frank Sinatra
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12:00 AM