quotes

“Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, nineteen pounds; result, happiness. Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, twenty-one pounds; results, misery.” Charles Dickens

“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.” Henri B. Stendhal

"Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace.... Great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart." Jeanne Marie Laskas

“Hunches are often the way that the Universe leads us, and we need to be willing to follow such leadings a step at a time.” Julia Cameron

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive and do not forget." Thomas Stephen Szasz

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.” Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965)

"The soul never thinks without an image." Aristotle

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work." Doug Larson, Olympic Gold Medalist (1902-1981)

"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated." Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)

"I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind." May Sarton

"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies." Cesare Pavese

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" Ursula K. Le Guin, author (1929- )

"The soul is healed by being with children." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, novelist (1821-1881)

“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.” Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988)

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character." James Russell Lowell

“Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.” Hal Boyle

“Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.” Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman and reformer (1829-1906)

“There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.” Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)

"There are people who get exactly what they want. You think they're the lucky ones, but they're not. The lucky ones are those who do what they are meant to do." Neem Karoli Baba

"Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding." Stephen Nachmanovich

"The only hell is being unable to love." Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." Hal Borland, Countryman: A Summary of Belief