“As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.”
—Benjamin Franklin
January 2009
142 posts
“What color is a chameleon on a mirror?”
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“When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.”
—The Dalai Lama
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.”
—Dennis Waitley
“Be guided by feelings alone. Before any site and any object, abandon yourself to your first impression. If you have really been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion. I noticed that everything that was done correctly on the first attempt was more true, and the forms more beautiful.”
—Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
“If man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Sex is currency. What’s the use of being beautiful if you can’t profit from it?”
—Lili St. Cyr
“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.”
—Aristotle
“I’m not confused, I’m just well-mixed.”
—Robert Frost
“Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.”
—Fritz Kreisler
“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.”
—Germaine Greer
“Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.”
—William Butler Yeats
“Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”
—William Allen White
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
—Joseph Campbell
“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
—Joseph Campbell
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
—Joseph Campbell
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
—Tao Te Ching
“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The reverse side also has a reverse side.”
—A Japanese proverb
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.”
—Mae West
