Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. – Aesop
I am a part of all that I have met. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. – Edward R. Murrow
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. – Polish Proverb
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. РLudwig B̦rne
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. РAlbert Szent-Gy̦rgyi
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. – Henry David Thoreau
Before enlightenment — chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment — chop wood, carry water. – Zen Buddhist Proverb
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. – Zen Saying
By daily dying I have come to be. – Theodore Roethke
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. – William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. – John L. McClenahan
What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. – Henry David Thoreau
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. – Henri Louis Bergson
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. – Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. – John Burroughs
