Seeking the Mind with the mind, --is not this the greatest of all mistakes?
--Seng-T'san
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
--Friedrich Nietzsche
We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure--the eternal present, for it is always now.
--William Phelps
If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.
--Katharine Hepburn
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
--T. S. Eliot
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.
--Loren Klein
Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
--David Russell
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
--Helen Keller
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discovery consists in seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
--Albert Camus
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
--Cicero
Every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every society honors its live conformists and it's dead troublemakers.
--Mignon McLaughlin
This then, is the human problem; there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
--Alan Watts
The worst fear is the fear of living.
--Theodore Roosevelt
The idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
--Elbert Hubbard
Resolve to be thyself, and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
--Coventry Patmore
The whole world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel.
--Horace Walpole
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
--Song of Solomon 8:7
If the mind makes no discriminations, all things are as they really are.
--Seng-T'San
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in mon and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
--Isaac Newton
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
--John Donne
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
--Henry David Thoreau
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
--Lao-Tzu
He who Knows what he is Told, must know a Lot of Things that Are Not So.
--Arthur Guiterman
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self distruction.
--J. Krishnamurti
The tragedy of a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
--Henry David Thoreau
Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it.
--Huang-Po
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
--William James
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
A man with outward courage dares to die.
A man with inward courage dares to live.
--Lao-Tzu
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
--William James
If I am not I, who will be?
--Henry David Thoreau
One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
--Mark Twain
Life can be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
--Soren Kierkegaard
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
--Albert Einstein
NOT I--NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.
--Walt Whitman