The Two Big Assumptions: 1) Things will always be permanent and remain the same. 2) The Moment or Opportunity will still be there tomorrow and requires no action or choice in the here-and-now.
–Richard Davies
Money is not needed to buy one necessity of the soul.
–Henry David Thoreau
When money speaks, the truth is silent.
–Russian Proverb
I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
–Albert Einstein
We have met the enemy and he is us.
–‘Pogo’/Walt Kelly
Common sense is very uncommon.
-Horace Greeley
Shallowness spreads.
-Daniel Liebert
I shop, therefore I am.
-Barbara Kruger
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
–Proverbs
I have to protect myself from the toxicity of this culture.
–Kate Braverman
Man’s inhumanity to man/Makes countless thousands mourn.
–Robert Burns
Violence is suicide.
–Mahatma Gandhi
An unexamined life is not worth living.
–Socrates
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
–Henry David Thoreau
Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
–George Orwell
Most people would rather die than think and many of them do.
–Bertrand Russell
The quality of your happiness depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
–Marcus Aurelius
Irony is wasted on the stupid.
–Oscar Wilde
The goal of the journey is to discover yourself as consciousness.
–Joseph Campbell
Be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
–Buddha
The last of human freedoms: to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
–Viktor Frankl
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
–Joseph Campbell
In delay, there lies no plenty.
–William Shakespeare
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
–George Eliot
A man can do all things if he will.
–Leon Battista Alberti
Follow your bliss. Live from your own center.
–Joseph Campbell
Be yourself.; everybody else is already taken.
–Oscar Wilde
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.
–William Blake
The proper study of mankind is books.
–Aldous Huxley
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug of mankind.
–Rudyard Kipling
Music is the best means of digesting time.
–W.H. Auden
Art serves to rinse out our eyes.
–Karl Kraus
Genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
–Matthew Arnold
We all live in the hope that authentic meeting between human beings can still occur.
–R.D. Laing
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
–Jean Anouilh
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it’s a very deep matter.
–Alice Childress
Touch is the meaning of being human.
–Andrea Dworkin
Enthusiasm is life.
–Paul Scofield
The stars are in one’s brain.
–Bertrand Russell
I am large….I contain multitudes.
–Walt Whitman
That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great.
–Willa Cather
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
–Jean de La Bruyere
Happiness can only exist in acceptance.
–George Orwell
I am an optimist. It doesn’t seem too much use being anything else.
–Winston Churchill
If you want to be happy, be.
–Leo Tolstoy