Joseph Conrad
“Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life.” ~.~
Gautama Buddha
“We are what we think. All that we are, arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.” ~.~
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and Creation) there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid…
James Earl Carter
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children….
Jackson Pollock
~.~ Art is coming face to face with yourself. ~.~
Stephen King
In his book, On Writing – A Memoir Of The Craft, Stephen King writes, “… I stopped in the lobby to thank the concierge again for letting me use Mr. Kipling’s beautiful desk. “I’m so…
Bagger Vance
Now play the game … your game … the one that only you was meant to play … the one that was given to you when you come into this world. ~.~
Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown…
Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. ~.~
Aristotle
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love. ~.~ Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~.~ The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in…
Hunter S. Thompson
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ~.~ The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone…
A Buddhist Monk
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven: the same key opens the gates of hell.” Wisdom of a Buddhist Monk ~.~
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
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. ~.~
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything. ~.~