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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H. L. Mencken
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
-Lord Byron
We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing. - Charles Bukowski
“As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.” — Charlie Chaplin
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. – Henry David Thoreau
Wolf is the Grand Teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share new knowledge with the tribe.-unknown
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ~~ Plutarch
Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow. -Mahatma Gandhi
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe
. “She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.” ? R.M. Drake
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -Herman Melville
“Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” – Ralph Marston
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it. - Fred Hampton
Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.—Will Rogers
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. - Leo Buscaglia
“the First Fall Of Snow Is Not Only An Event But It Is A Magical Event. You Go To Bed In One Kind Of World And Wake Up To Find Yourself In Another Quite Different, And If This Is Not Enchantment, Where Is It To Be Found?” – J. B. Priestley
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be. - Christopher Marlowe
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. -Rumi
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. Art Buchwald
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita
“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ”
― Leo Tolstoy
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton
“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.” — Elbert Hubbard
If you can't convince them, confuse them. - Harry S Truman
The moon was crying too, but the wolf never knew. (Ron Israel)
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.-Albert Einstein