'I remembered that the real world was wide...'
- Charlotte Bronte
n. the desire to hold on to time as it passes, like trying to keep your grip on a rock in the middle of a river, feeling the weight of the current against your chest while your elders float on downstream, calling over the roar of the rapids, “Just let go—it’s okay—let go."
- John Koenig, Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
'Out with the cold, in with the woo'
- E. Marshall
'All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.'
- Toni Morrison
'I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.'
― Ani DiFranco
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children'
- Chief Seattle
“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.”
- Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
'One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.'
-Napoleon Bonaparte
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
- Robert Frost
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
― Charlotte Brontë
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
– Henry Miller
Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.
- William Butler
Takin care of business, every day
Takin care of business , every way
Takin care of business , all the time
Takin care of business and working overtime.
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive
My desolation does begin to make a better life.
- William Shakespeare
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
-Ronald Reagan
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building. Posterity discovers it in the bricks which he built and which are then used again for better building. In the fact, that is to say that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
– Jeff Smith
We're tougher than we think.
- Niobe Thompson
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gie me a spark o' nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.
- Robert Burns
The endeavor doesn’t matter as much as it is meaningful to you.
- Hugh MacLeod