Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.
– Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Jun 142013
Jun 132013
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
– John Locke (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – Book IV, 1689)
http://iperceptive.com/authors/john_locke_quotes.html
This quote, explained in the context of Berkeley’s philosophy.
Jun 122013
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
– Ray Bradbury
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/66803-you-have-to-know-how-to-accept-rejection-and-reject
Jun 112013
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
– Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
Jun 102013
How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free.
– John Donne, Elegy 20, To his mistress going to bed
Jun 092013
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Jun 082013
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
– Although often attributed to Margaret Mead, the origin of this quote and it’s many variants is unclear.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead