December 31, 2011

David McCullough: Once upon...

Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down the Little Missouri River in pursuit of a couple of thieves who had stolen his prized rowboat. After several days on the river, he caught up and got the draw on them with his trusty Winchester, at which point they surrendered. Then Roosevelt set off in a borrowed wagon to haul the thieves cross-country to justice. They headed across the snow-covered wastes of the Badlands to the railhead at Dickinson, and Roosevelt walked the whole way, the entire 40 miles. It was an astonishing feat, what might be called a defining moment in Roosevelt's eventful life. But what makes it especially memorable is that during that time, he managed to read all of Anna Karenina.I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.
/David McCullough/

Leif Garrett: I've always...

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
/Leif Garrett/

December 30, 2011

Helen Keller: Security is...

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
/Helen Keller/

Eric Hoffer: When you...

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
/Eric Hoffer/

December 28, 2011

Joseph Addison: What sunshine...

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
/Joseph Addison/

December 27, 2011

December 26, 2011

Gaylord Nelson: Teddy Roosevelt...

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.
/Gaylord Nelson/

December 24, 2011

Corin Nemec: I have...

I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.
/Corin Nemec/

December 23, 2011

Carol Kane: Work is...

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.
/Carol Kane/

December 22, 2011

Marcus Aurelius: Mark how...

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
/Marcus Aurelius/

William Hazlitt: Good temper...

Good temper is an estate for life.
/William Hazlitt/

December 21, 2011

Henri-Frédéric Amiel: The best...

The best path through life is the highway.
/Henri-Frédéric Amiel/

December 19, 2011

Muriel Spark: When a...

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
/Muriel Spark/

December 18, 2011

Friedrich Schlegel: In actual...

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
/Friedrich Schlegel/

John Berger: A man's...

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.
/John Berger/

December 17, 2011

Carl Friedrich Gauss: Life stands...

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
/Carl Friedrich Gauss/

December 16, 2011

Albert Einstein: Your imagination...

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
/Albert Einstein/

Bishop Butler: To us...

To us probability is the very guide of life.
/Bishop Butler/

December 14, 2011

Alan Dean Foster: Living gives...

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
/Alan Dean Foster/

Adrian Edmondson: Even though...

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
/Adrian Edmondson/

December 13, 2011

Jean Anouilh: Oh, love...

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
/Jean Anouilh/

December 12, 2011

Ernest Holmes: Prepare your...

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
/Ernest Holmes/

December 11, 2011

Lech Walesa: What until...

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
/Lech Walesa/

December 10, 2011

Mark Helprin: The universe...

The universe is still and complete. Everything that ever was, is; everything that ever will be, is - and so on, in all possible combinations. Though in perceiving it we imagine that it is in motion, and unfinished, it is quite finished and quite astonishingly beautiful. In the end, or rather, as things really are, any event, no matter how small, is intimately and sensibly tied to all others. All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but as something that is.
/Mark Helprin/

Ali MacGraw: I fully...

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.
/Ali MacGraw/

Greg Lake: I feel...

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.
/Greg Lake/

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Those who...

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
/Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe/

December 09, 2011

Eileen Caddy: Cease trying...

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
/Eileen Caddy/

December 05, 2011

Jack Youngblood: You learnt...

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
/Jack Youngblood/

December 04, 2011

John Ruskin: The best...

The best thing in life aren't things.
/John Ruskin/

Berthold Auerbach: Music washes...

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
/Berthold Auerbach/

December 02, 2011

T. S. Eliot: Where is...

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
/T. S. Eliot/

December 01, 2011

Haim Ginott: I have...

I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom.It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized orde-humanized.
/Haim Ginott/