quotes

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." Gladys Browyn Stern, writer (1890-1973)

"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life." Chris Evert (1954 - )

"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. " George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied often to prayer." Mark Twain

"Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien

"Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money." Anonymous

"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.  It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
 Oscar Wilde

"Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit." Rudolf Arnheim, psychologist and author (1904-2007)

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author (1936-2005)

"A Clever person solves a problem. A Wise person avoids it." Albert Einstein

"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts." Madame de Stael,writer (1766-1817)

"I am the connections that I weave." African proverb

"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises." Emily Carr

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." General Peyton C. March (1864-1955)

"No man has ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination." George Henry Lewes

"Creativity is the ability to move from one failure to another with no loss of Enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

"A tree is our most intimate contact with nature." George Nakashima, woodworker

"All fruits do not ripen in one season." Laurie Junot (Memoires Historiques)

"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." Robert Fulghum (1937 - ), It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." Lord Byron

"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." Joseph Priestly