The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
--Voltaire, French Philosopher (1694-1778)

You do not have to be good, you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft warm animal of your body love what it loves.
~Mary Oliver

"When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn."
--Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
--Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac
thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the
total discrediting of the world of reality. -- Salvador Dali

Let your Wit rather serve you for a buckler to defend yourself, by a handsome reply, than the Sword to wound others, though with never so facetious a Reproach, remembering that a Word cuts deeper than a sharper weapon, and the Wound it makes is longer curing. -- Osborn


The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
-- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil"

There’s a trick to the graceful exit. It begins with a vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over – and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry....
--Ellen Goodman
Columnist - Boston Globe

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath
of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs
across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
--Crowfoot, Native American warrior and orator (1821-1890)

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to
do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-Susan B Anthony (1820-1906)

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
--Paul Valery, poet and philosopher (1871-1945)

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.¨
- Paulo Coelho

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
And that no heart has ever suffered when
it goes in search of its dreams..."
- Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist"

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy" --Rumi

"It's been so long since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties up whom."
Joan Rivers

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
--G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)

”The world is within you and the whole world is springing up from it.” --Rumi

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
-- Leo Tolstoy

"Security is mostly superstition, it doesn't exist in nature, nor do the children of men, taken 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 (1880-1968)

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
-Kahil Gibran

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel...
--(Polonius to Laertes, his son.) from Hamlet.

"Never shake the bucket of nuts before you're tied to the yak rope."
-Peter Dorje
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

“Only when you are in the flow of your dreaming, can you experience real power.”
- Tibetan proverb
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