Civilization is what makes you sick. ~Paul Gauguin
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~Abraham Maslow
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. ~Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize 1915
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather. ~Martha Graham
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ~Henry Ford
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. ~Lou Holtz and John Heisler, The Fighting Spirit
Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. ~Jean Paul Richter
Things are only impossible until they're not. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw
Religion is a pill best swallowed without chewing. ~Author Unknown
A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history. ~Author Unknown
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. ~Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Treaties are like roses and young girls - they last while they last. ~Charles de Gaulle
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. ~Peter Mere Latham
Unfortunately, it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric hues. ~Wendell H. Stephenson
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Duty is what one expects from others. ~Oscar Wilde
For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward. ~Jay Leno
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~Aldous Huxley
Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about! ~Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long. ~Susan Scarf Merrell
