Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angle stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
~James Allen~
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
~Jack Kerouac~
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
~Haida saying~
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
~Louis Kronenberger~
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye~
I never met a wild thing sorry for itself.
~D.H. Lawrence~
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
~Erica Mann Jong~
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
~William Blake~
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
~Bill Vaughan~
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
~Bill Beattie~
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.
~Bill Chickering~
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
~Henry David Thoreau~
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
~Ken S. Keyes, Jr.~
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.
~Mitch Radcliffe~
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
~David McIntosh~
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
~Buddha~
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
~Muhammed Ali~
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
~Rosalynn Smith Carter~
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
~Robert Anson Heinlein~
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
~Thomas Woodrow Wilson~
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.~
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
~George Baker~
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.
~New England Proverb~
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
~John Stuart~
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~Henry Alfred Kissinger~
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
~Frank H. Crane~
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
~Mark Twain~
The great thing about getting older is that You don't lose all the other ages you've been.
~Madeleine L'Engle~
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
~Plutarch~
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~H.L. Mencken~
The greatest part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent anything it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man... I hear an irrisistible voice which calls me away from all that.
~Henry David Thoreau~
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
You cannot escape the age you live in: you are a product of it. You have to stand back from time to time and get your perspectives right. But then you have to come back and resume the task of contributing in your own way to your own age.
~Colin Fletcher~
They may have guns and knives and missiles and bombs, but we’re armed with the knowledge that what we’re doing is right. Sometimes you just have to trust in that.
~Stanley Stupid (Tom Arnold), THE STUPIDS~
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: You cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.
~Sean O'Casey~
If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously
committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn~
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
~Ovid~
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go.
~Dr. Dale E. Turner~
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