quotes

"The five senses are the ministers of the soul." Leonardo da Vinci

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Richard Steele

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." Moshe Dayan

"For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria." Richard Dawkins

"You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.... Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves." Black Elk Oglala Sioux Holy Man, 1863-1950

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."Henry Ford, industrialist (1863-1947)

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." William J. Clinton

"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

“God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.” Swedish proverb

“Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing.” Cicero

"Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink." Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.” Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

"Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness." Kahlil Gibran

“Perfection is the enemy of done.” Sark

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” Thoreau

"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." George Burns (1896 - 1996)

“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture - that is immortality enough for me.” Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” Robert Orben

“To fly, we have to have resistance." Maya Lin

"A man grows most tired while standing still." Chinese proverb

"Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, everyone in the first half of his time, comes to see the top side, but in the second half, the reverse side. The latter is not so beautiful, but is more instructive because it enables one to see how the threads are connected together." Irvin Yalom, the Schopenhauer Cure : A Novel

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." Sam Keen

"Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is." Leonardo da Vinci