quotes

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."George Bernard Shaw

"Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness,
but not by means of ruse." Albert Einstein

"Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret." Leo Rangell

"There will never be another now -
I'll make the most of today.
There will never be another me -
I'll make the most of myself." Helen Keller

"Take the time to come home to yourself every day." Robin Casarjean

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." Albert Einstein

"Time is the stealthy ghost that hides the wisps of change." Robert Genn

"Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us." Roy Adzak

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

"For as the body is only as healthy as its individual cells, the world is only as healthy as its individual souls." Mark Nepo

"A fair realization of the incredible degree of diversity of linguistic system that ranges over the globe leaves one with an inescapable feeling that the human spirit is inconceivably old; that the few thousand years of history covered by our written records are no more than the thickness of a pencil mark on the scale that measures our past experience on this planet." Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist and anthropologist, Science and Linguistics, 1940

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." Gloria Anzaldua

"The act of describing a horrid, ruined, confused day, if you describe it accurately, purges the sensation of it." Hannah Hinchman

"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

"The psychological mechanism that transforms energy is the symbol." C. G. Jung

"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."
George M. Adams

"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding." Jacob Brownowski

"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." Elizabeth Murray

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying...I will try again tomorrow." Mary Anne Radmacher

"Journalists do not believe the lies of politicians, but they do repeat them -- which is even worse!" Michel Colucci, comedian and actor (1944-1986)

"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves." Edwin Way Teale

"Given an equal amount of intelligence, timidity will cause a thousand times more problems than audacity." Carl von Clausewitz