Our main problem is words and the way words and thoughts are formed - and then once they are formed they become a kind of concrete in the mind.

-ARTelevision

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

~ Brendan Francis

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

- Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.

-- Isaac Asimov

Did he who made the lamb make thee?

From "Tyger Tyger"

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

~ Confucius

"Get busy livin, or get busy dyin." - The Shawshank Redemption

In the presence of eternity,
the mountains are as transient
as the clouds.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

-- Albert Einstein

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Even in the driest hole one can sometimes find water.

- zen saying

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

~ Robert Frost

Once you seep under my skin...

There is nothing in this world that can wash you away.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

-- T.S. Eliot

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

~ Federico Fellini

I wonder if tongues get bored, there's teeth and lips but nothing to really do stuff with; I guess they have fun with food and drinks.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

-- William James

The art of being wise
is the art of knowing
what to overlook.

-William James

Never mistake motion for action.

~ Ernest Hemingway

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

-Andy Warhol

Don't just do something. Sit there.

-Sylvia Boorstein

Common sense is not so common.

~Voltaire

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

Madness is the first sign of dandruff.

-unknown

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

~ William James

How the hell did I get here and why am I still alive?


- Dano -

Winter sucks.

Private faces in public places
Are wiser and nicer
Than public faces in private places.

- W.H. Auden

Too much talk will include errors.

-Burmese Proverb

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.

~ Edgar F. Roberts

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

- Henry David Thoreau

A man is not what he thinks he is.
But what he thinks, he is.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

- John Constable

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

~ Aristotle

There is no solution, for there is no problem.

- Marcel Duchamp

Youth has vision. Old age, dreams.

~ Melvin Tolson

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

- Aesop