"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." A. A. Milne February 08, 2010
"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger." Saint Basil February 05, 2010
"Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world." William James February 04, 2010
"The ultimate challenge in life is to neither allow our fantasies to bring us too much suffering nor to prevent us from living fully." Earon Davis February 03, 2010
"If your body is tired, seek out some fluidly moving part of nature: a fireplace, a river, a field of wind-blown wheat, a thundering surf. Watching and listening to the patterned disorder of the universe is one of the deep soul's favorite pastimes." Martha Beck, The Joy Diet February 02, 2010
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“Total physical and mental
inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves
to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it,
thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only
place in our overly active world that does.”
John Kenneth Galbraith |