This is my boast that I have no school & no follower. I should account it a measure of the impurity of insight, if it did not create independence
Emerson
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself
Emerson
(days) Come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away
Emerson
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow
Albert Einstein
There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase "to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy." The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution
Stephen Covey
He should write that which cannot be ommited, every sentance a cube, standing on its bottom like a die, essential & immortal.
Emerson
I am not unfamiliar with horror, my memory is a faithful wife and my imagination, unlike myself, a diligent maid who sits quietly all day at her work and in the evening can speak so prettily for me that I just have to look at it even if..
Søren Kierkegaard writing as Johannes de silentio
They say time will change things, but actually you have to change them yourself
Andy Warhol
When you want something the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it
Paulo Coelho
I'm only good at being young
John Mayer
The question is not who is going to let me, its who is going to stop me
Ayn Rand
I never took drugs because I am drugs
Salvador Dali
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Vilfredo Pareto
Imagine a building like a tree, a city like a forest
Michael Braungart & William McDonough - Cradle2Cradle
A man who asks a foolish question is foolish for a minute, a man who doesn't ask a question will remain foolish for a life-time
Unknown
Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
A classical education teaches you to despise the wealth it prevents you from earning
Lord Taverne
Shallow brooks are noisy. Still waters run deep
Robert Frost
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills
Khalil Gibran
A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing to add but when there is nothing to take away
Antoine de Saint Exuprey
You can't have 5 north stars
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The spirit does not dwell in concepts, but in deeds and in facts. Words butter no parsnips; nevertheless, this futile procedure is repeated ad infinitium.
C.G.Jung
The way I am and the way I write are a unity. All my ideas and all my endeavours are myself. Thus, the autobiography is merely the dot on the i.
C.G.Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house.
C.G.Jung
Here stands the mean uncomely stone,
'Tis very cheap in price!
The more it is despised by fools,
The more loved by the wise.
'Tis very cheap in price!
The more it is despised by fools,
The more loved by the wise.
Arnaldus de villanova