quotes

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your 
enemies." Nelson Mandela

"The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about." Norman Augustine

"Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here." Patty Mitchell, founder and director of Passionworks Studio in Ohio

"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it." Mark Twain

"For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money." Arne Garborg, writer (1851-1924)

"Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch." George Carlin

"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." Rabindranath Tagore

"Bliss is the same in subject and in king."  Alexander Pope

"Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism." Bob LaFollette, congressman, senator, governor (1855-1925)

"One of the greatest things in the world is to train ourselves to see beauty in the commonplace." Charles Hawthorne

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." Thomas Carlyle, writer (1795-1881)

"Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?" James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works, if from the head almost nothing." Marc Chagall


"Anger controlled is a power that can move the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about." Angela Schwindt

"You can only be as good as you dare to be bad." John Barrymore

"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash." Louis Aragon

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." Sir Cecil Beaton, portrait photographer

"Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out." E. Joseph Cossman

"Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences,
not simply in the enjoyment of similarities." James Fredericks