Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ~John Steinbeck

The best way to know life is to love many things. ~Vincent Van Gogh

Chaos often breeds life, while order breeds habit. ~Henry Adams

People occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened. ~Winston Churchill

The spirituality of imperfection begins with the recognition that trying to be perfect is the most tragic of human mistakes. ~Ernest Kurtz

The trick is in what one emphasizes...We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Carlos Castaneda

Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life; and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties. ~Benjamin Franklin

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, i am ungrateful to those teachers. ~Kahlil Gibran

It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' ~Aldous Huxley

Then and there I invented this rule for myself to be applied to every decision I might have to make in the future. I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness, and other things being equal I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. I think it must be a rule something like this that makes jonquils and crocuses come pushing through the cold mud. ~Katherine Butler Hathaway




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