Nature hates calculators.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tao Teh Ching

He who knows men is clever;
He who knows himself has insight.
He who conquers men has force;
He who conquers himself is truly strong.
He who knows when he has got enough is rich,
And he who adheres assiduously to the path of Tao is a man of steady purpose.
He who stays where he has found his true home endures long,
And he who dies but perishes not enjoys real longevity.
:: Lao Tzu

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
:: William James

So, we'll go no more a-roving

So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.

:: Lord Byron

As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!
:: Henry David Thoreau

No salt, no sugar.
:: G.I. Gurdjieff

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
:: Henry David Thoreau

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
:: Don Juan

We are the night ocean filled
with glints of light. We are the
space
between the fish and the moon,
while we sit here together.
:: Rumi

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
:: Winston Churchill

I fear you will not reach Mecca, oh Nomad! For the road you are following leads to Turkestan.
:: Ibn El-Arabi

The Art of War

Military action is important to the nation -
it is the ground of death and life,
the path of survival and destruction,
so it is imperative to examine it.
:: Sun Tzu

Cold Mountain

Have I a body or have I none?
Am I who I am or am I not?
Pondering these questions,
I sit leaning against the cliff while the years go by,
till the green grass grows between my feet
and the red dust settles on my head,
and the men of the world, thinking me dead,
come with offerings of wine and fruit to lay by my corpse.
:: Han Shan

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
:: Aesop

Every artist was first an amateur.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Carry On

Impossible to carry, but once you shoulder it, it's the lightest thing in the world.
:: G.I. Gurdjieff

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage.
:: Robert Louis Stevenson

Divine Insipiration

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
:: George Santayana

Hitchcock Movies about my Dog

• The 39 Pets
• The Turds
• Dial S for Supper
• Smellbound
• Who Ate My Fourth Vest?
• Frenzy
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Buster
• The Dog Who Ate Too Much
• The Food Vanishes
• Psycho

You Decide

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

:: William James