Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing
Helen Keller
The Moving Finger Writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, nor all of your Tears wash out a single Word of it.
Omar Khayyam
The heart has its reasons that reason does not understand.
Blaise Pascal
Reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
David Hume
When reason turns against the deeper needs of people, people will turn against reason.
David Hume
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial. Who, squatting upon the ground, held his heart in his hands, and ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
It is bitter—bitter,” he answered. “But I like it because it is bitter, and because it is my heart.” Stephen Crane
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Friedrich, Freiherr von Logau (1604-1655)
So, after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.
René Descartes
"This is all the heaven we've got, right here where we are..."
Mark Knopfler, Our Shangri-La
What we have never had remains; It is the things we have that go.
Sara Teasdale
Quips donated by Bob Freese!
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
War doesn't determine who's right...just who's left.
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us.
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
It isn't enough to be forgiven by others. You also have to forgive yourself.
Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
Snowmen fall from heaven unassembled.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably
worth it.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
If it's the tourist season, why can't we shoot them?