They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Wise Words: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.
Wise Words: Dr. Robert Anthony
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Wise Words: Ella Frances Sanders
The carbon inside you could have existed in any number of creatures or natural disasters before finding you. That particular atom residing somewhere above your left eyebrow? It could well have been a smooth riverbed pebble before deciding to call you home. You are rock and wave and the peeling bark of trees, you are ladybirds and the smell of a garden after the rain.
Wise Words: Learned Hand
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
Wise Words: Andrea Barrett
I think science and writing are utterly the same thing. They are completely rooted in passion and desire, if they are any good at all. You can fall in love with the natural world in the same way you fall in love with a person. There’s that same sense of helplessness, of lacking control over how much of your life you want to devote to it.
Wise Words: R. Buckminster Fuller: beauty
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Wise Words: Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
Wise Words: Eleanor Roosevelt: mature person
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
Wise Words: Thomas Carlyle: do what lies at hand
Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
