"Never journey without something to eat in your pocket. If only to throw to dogs when attacked." --E.S. Bates
"The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood."-- Sir Richard Burton - African Explorer
"Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing whatever went wrong, she at least liked her clothes." -- Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
"I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see." -- Jimi Hendrix
"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. "-- Muhammad Ali
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -- Muhammad Ali
"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing." -- Muhammad Ali
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- Alan Kay
"The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but a creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Sympony until he created it. Now we could not live without it." Louis Kahl
"Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something." -- Thomas Edison
"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." -- Charlie Parker
"Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered pot holder." --Raymond Chandler
"Less is more" -- Mies Van der Rohe
"Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption." -- William Saroyan, Preface to The Time of Your Life
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens." Carl Jung
"Would you rather sell sugar water to kids for the rest of your life or would you like a chance to change the world."" -- Steve Jobs to John Scully of Pepsi
"He who things he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisuputable law." Pablo Picasso
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." Pablo Picasso
"The details are not the details. They make the design." -- Charles Eames
"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." -- William Gibson
"I can't understnad why people are frightedn of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old one." -- John Cage
"It's better to be a pirate than join the navy." - Steve Jobs
"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing." — Philip K. Dick, 1977
“I’m an insect who dreamt he was a man — and loved it! But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.” from David Cronenberg’s “The Fly,”
“You would have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood.” — Philip K. Dick, 1980
“I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.” — Philip K. Dick, 1977
"It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men." -- Jean de la Bruyere
"Depending on the circumstance, you should be hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth flowing like water, or as empty as space." -- Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba
"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends." -- Author Pearl Buck
"There are no facts, ony interpretations." -- Fredeerich Nietzsche
"Almost two thousand years, and no new god!" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Atoms are not things." -- Werner Heisenberg
"With God dead, there remains only history and power." -- Albert Camus
"I would believe only in a god who could dance." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law." -- Zen Master Hakuin
"God has no religion." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Who is it that is dragging this corpse around?" -- Zen Koan, A Spiritual Exercise
"At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe." -- George Leonard
"If you are depressed, you are too high up in your mind." -- Carl Jung
"In the end, everything is a gag." Charlie Chaplin
"In the beginning of the world, Coyote was more foolish than he is now." -- Yaqui Legend
"Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time." -- John L. Castri
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
'The real magic lies not in seein gnew landscapes, but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust
"Live the questions." -- Rainer Maria Rilke
"One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art." -- Oscar Wilde
"A muscician must make his music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to ultimately be at peace with himself." -- Abraham Maslow
"DADA is the voluntary destruction of the bourgeois world of ideas." DADAist Slogan
"The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black, the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair." -- Xenophanes
"If you have not lived through something, it is not true." Kabir, 15c poet (quoted by Philip K. Dick in "Introduction to the Golden Man', 1980)
"There are two kinds of truth: small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth." Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr
"there are two kinds of people: those who put everything into two groups and those who don't." Economist Kenneth Boulding
"The simplest surrealist act consists of going down into the streets revolver in hand and shooting at random." Andre Breton
"My work is a matter of fundamental sounds. If people get headaches among the overtones, they'll have to furnish their own aspirin." -- Samuel Beckett
"The meaning of life is that it stops." -- Franz Kafka
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." -- Andre Gide
"Life is a disease of matter." Gerald Fineberg
"To see truth, contemplate all phenomena as a lie," -- Thaganapa
"Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body." -- James Joyce Ulysses
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims." -- Goethe
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." -- Confucius
"Scatter Joy." -- Emerson
"Image creates desire. You wil want what you imagine." -- J.G. Gallimore
"You must push yourself beyond your limits, all the time." Carlos Castaneda (Don Juan)
"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present." Albert Camus
"All that we behond is full of blessings." Wordsworth
"If the only prayer you say in your who life is "thank you," that would suffice." Meister Eckhart
"Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world." Arthur Schopenhauer
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived life of their parents." -- Carl Jung
"Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose."j -- Leonardo da Vinci
"All human beings, by nature, desire to know." -- Aristotle
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." -- Alan Watts
"Learning is movement from moment to moment." -- J. Krishnamurti
"There is no security in life, only opportunity." -- Mark Twain
"The worst fear is the fear of living." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"If a rich man is proud of his weath, he should not be praise until it is known how he employs it." -- Socrates
"Great works are performed not be strength, but by perserverance." -- Samuel Johnson
"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." -- Albert Camus
"What you see is what you get." -- Flip Wilson
"Fortune favors the audacious." -- Desiderius Erasmus
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -- Abraham Lincoln
"One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect." -- Mark Twain
"He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"Once the game is over, the kin and pawn go back into the same box." -- Italian Proverb
"Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?" -- Joseph Campbell
"We know what we are, not what we may become." -- Shakespeare
"In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high." -- Henry David Thoreau
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference." -- William James
"We are free up to the point of choice. Then the choice controls the chooser." -- Mary Crowley
"If I keep a bough in my heart, the singing bird will come." -- Chinese Proverb
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical midgets. We know more about war than we know of peace, more about killing than we know about living." -- Gen. Omar Bradley, 1948
"A man never tells you anything until he contradicts you." George Bernard Shaw
"If you want to be loved, be lovable." Ovid
"Moral indignation is merely jealousy with a halo." H.G. Wells
"Few people have the imagination for reality." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything." Wyatt Earp
"Totally mad. Utter nonsenese. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense." -- Douglas Adams
"Stories are signposts to help the world choose between the darkness and the light." -- Arago, "The Secret Adventures fo Jules Verne"
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered." -- G.K. Chesterton
"Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now." -- Steven Wright
"The road to ruin is always kept in good repair." Anonymous
"I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority." -- A. C. Benson
"Because television can make so much money doing its worst, it often cannot afford to do its best." -- Fred W. Friendly
"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"No one becomes depraved all at once."-- Juvenal
"We are not hypocrites in our sleep." -- William Hazlitt
"We still dream what Adam dreamt." -- Victor Hugo
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." -- Edward Hopper
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." -- Henry Ward Beecher
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way. "-- Mark Twain
"... We shrink from touching our power,
we shrink away, we starve ourselves
and each other, we're scared shitless
of what it could be to take and use our love,
hose it on a city, on a world,
to wield and guide its spray, destroying
poisons, parasites, rats, viruses –
like the terrible mothers we long and dread to be."-- Adrienne Rich, "Hunger" in The Dream of A Common Language
Nostalgia
"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it." -- George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past." -- Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic
"Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had...." -- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
"God gave us memories that we might have roses in December." -- J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant." -- Salvador Dali