Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ~Ikkyu Sojun
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau
Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned. ~Chauncey M. Depew
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. ~David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, 1739
I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl. ~A.C. Van Cherub
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown
Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success. ~Garrett Hazel
Your body is built for walking. ~Gary Yanker
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. ~Weston H. Agor
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ~Albert Einstein
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
Anger and folly walk cheek by jole. ~Benjamin Franklin
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ~Thomas de Quincey
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland
The really nice breezes blow through my body and into my soul. ~Astrid Alauda
The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ~Yves Saint Laurent
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda
At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy. ~Jessamyn West
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ~Jack Handey
What is stronger than a mother's love? The smell of spring onions on your girl's breath. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892
Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. ~Sven Nykvist
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm
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