“Nuance is overrated; clarity is the thing.”
~ Mary McGrory
"The meaning of these words is not that mountains are mountains, but that mountains are mountains."
~ Dogen, Mountains and Rivers Sutra
"I aten't dead."
~ Granny Weatherwax
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
~ Theodore Rubin
"My body is mine."
~ Melissa McEwan
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
~ Dr Kailash Chand
"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind I will never die."
~ Bill Watterson
"To be mature you have to realize what you value most. It is extraordinary to discover that comparatively few people reach this level of maturity. They seem never to have paused to consider what has value for them. They spend great effort and sometimes make great sacrifices for values that, fundamentally, meet no real needs of their own. Perhaps they have imbibed the values of their particular profession or job, of their community or their neighbors, of their parents or family. Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"The most important thing is that first step. But once you take it, the next one is easier, and the one after that is easier still. Just make sure that you're going in the direction you want to go. And don't stress if at first you don't succeed, because you'll have tried, and you can try again, and again. So long as you draw breath you can keep trying until you have life by the neck asking what it can do for you today."
~ TheSecond (Shannon Kleiser)
"Didn't say [raising children] wasn't hard .... Digging ditches and busting concrete are hard too. So is passing a kidney stone. Something simply being difficult does not necessarily merit note. But the fact is that millions and millions of people have raised large families. Relative to that, a very small sample of human beings are able to apply the talent, work, and rigor necessary to being a professional phycisist. Beef Strognaoff never put anyone on the moon."
~ Patrick Simon, re: the NYT obituary of Yvonne Brill, rocket scientist
"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."
~ Leonardo da Vinci
"Delusions abound. Make sure yours harm as few people as possible. We all have at least one, mostly harmless. Choose wisely."
~ Vivienne Tuffnell
"The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
~ Julia Cameron
“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example."
~ Seneca
"Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel."
~ Boris Pasternak
"Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"...look carefully after the words you write, the thoughts and publications you create, and how you love others. For these are the only things that will remain."
~ Susan Niebur
"What aspect of life about which you have yet to be made sad will make you sad today? That is the question posed by each glorious new dawn."
~ David Javerbaum
"These are great tools for communication, but one must first have something worth communicating."
~ Sr. Catherine Wybourne, regarding Facebook and Twitter
"A man must be an idiot or else an angel who, after the age of forty, shall attempt to be just to his neighbours."
~ Anthony Trollope
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 - 180 AD)
"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"If you keep waiting for someone to tell you that it's ok to try something, you'll never start. And the only person waiting and sitting in disappointment is yourself. There's no permission needed. Just start creating."
~ Lisa Factora-Borcher
"Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win."
~ Robert A. Heinlein
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
~ Lily Tomlin
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
"I was [...] so worried that I would arse it up, that I actually managed to demoralize myself while simultaneously overachieving. (Story of my life, actually.)"
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... pursue those."
~ Michael Nolan
"When in doubt, add more cheese."
~ Julia Molskin
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
~ Oscar Wilde
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
~ William Morris
"Complain not of thy woes to the public: they will no more pity thee than birds of prey pity the wounded deer."
~ Montenebi
"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
~ Sam Levenson
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