Master Hsuan Hua
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly.”
Jeffrey Eugenides
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
Kofi Annan (Ghanaian diplomat, seventh secretary-general of the United Nations, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.)
“In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.”
~Alex Grey
“This is love, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”
Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
“Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed, but still, you find reasons to keep living.”
Osa, Princess Mononoke
“Language, that most human invention, can enable what in principle should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.”
“The Mind’s Eye” by Oliver Sacks.
“Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.”
Jules Romains