I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future – the timelessness of the rocks and the hills – all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show (Andrew Wyeth)
You don’t have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love (Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection)
My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities. (Raif Badawi, 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think)
Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal. (Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place)
When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE (Sun Tzu, The Art of War)
A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center (Joseph Bottum)
Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart (George Herbert)
This put me very close to Jay and it was as uncomfortable as it was mystifying. It was uncomfortable because I still wasn’t sure I liked him all that much. It was mystifying because his intense stares were unlike anything I’d ever experienced; they were hard but soft at the same time, commanding but beautiful. (Amanda Kelly, Shifting Shadows)
Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851 – Benjamin Disraeli.
There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action. (Henry Miller)