It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier US essayist (1855 - 1950) If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, how ever measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) ....it is better to succeed with success than failure. George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech The price of seeing is silence. Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding" Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch British novelist (1919 - 1999) We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. Anais Nin US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977) Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. Muhammed Ali, in a television interview Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. Ivan Pavlov Russian physiologist (1849 - 1936) |