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