Quotes

With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul? ~Thoreau

Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~Einstein

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.   ~Roger Miller

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.   ~Mel Brooks

When I grow up, I want to be a little boy. ~Joseph Heller

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. --Goethe

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. --Tao Te Ching

If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.
--Bulgarian Proverb

Men argue, nature acts. --Voltaire

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. --Anonymous (proably a woman ;))

Laughter is inner jogging. --Unknown

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
--Oscar Wilde   (is it really?) ;)

The world does not know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. --W. Somerset Maugham

that stone Buddha deserves
all the birdshit it gets

I wave my skinny arms like
a tall flower in the wind

~IKKYU

Boozing does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with being a writer, as seems to be the concept in America. I therefore solemnly declare to all young men trying to become writers that they do not actually have to become drunkards first. --Nelson Aldrich

Competition is for horses, not artists. --Bela Bartok

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
--Walter Bagehot

There is no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish. --Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Wear your learning,
like your watch,
in a private pocket:
and do not pull it out and strike it
merely to show that you have one.
--Earl of Chesterfield

The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.
--Teilhard De Chardin

When hungry, eat your rice. When tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. --Lin Chi

A man has many skins in himself, covering the depths of his heart. Man knows so many things; he does not know himself. Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, just like an ox's or a bears, so thick and hard, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. --Meister Eckhart

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
~Tao Te Ching

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. ~John Cage

Ten years' searching in
the deep forest
Today great laughter
at the edge of the lake.
~Soen

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